Kim Basinger
Birthdate: Dec 8, 1953
Birthplace: Athens, Georgia, USA
Kim Basinger was born December 8, 1953, in Athens, Georgia, the third of five children. Both her parents had been in entertainment, her dad had played big-band jazz, and her mother had performed water ballet in several Esther Williams movies. Kim was introspective, from her father's side. As a schoolgirl, she was very shy. To help her overcome this, her parents had Kim study ballet from an early age. By the time she reached sweet sixteen, the once-shy Kim entered the Athens Junior Miss contest. From there, she went on to win the Junior Miss Georgia title, and traveled to New York to compete in the national Junior Miss pageant. Kim, who had blossomed to a 5' 7" beauty, was offered a contract on the spot with the Ford Modeling Agency. At the age of 20, Kim was a top model commanding $1,000 a day. Throughout the early 1970s, she appeared on dozens of magazine covers and in hundreds of ads, most notably as the Breck girl. Kim took acting classes at the Neighborhood Playhouse, performed in various Greenwich Village clubs, and she sang under the stage name Chelsea. Kim moved to Los Angeles in 1976, ready to conquer Hollywood. Kim broke into television doing episodes of such hit series as Charlie's Angels (1976). In 1980, she married Ron Snyder (they divorced in 1989). In movies, she had roles like being a Bond girl in Never Say Never Again (1983) and playing a small-town Texan beauty in Nadine (1987). Her breakout role was as photojournalist Vicki Vale in the blockbuster hit Batman (1989). There was no long-orchestrated campaign on her part to snag this plum role, Kim was a last-minute replacement for Sean Young. This took her to a career high.
With perhaps too much disposable income, Kim headed up an investment group that purchased the entire town of Braselton, in her native Georgia, for $20 million (she would later have to sell it). In 1993, Kim married Alec Baldwin, and in 1995 they had a daughter, Ireland Eliesse. Kim took some time off to stay at home with her child. Kim, who loves animals and is a strict vegetarian, devoted energy to animal rights issues, and PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals), even posing for some ads. In 1997, Kim gave an Oscar-winning performance in the film noir classic L.A. Confidential (1997). Kim's salary for I Dreamed of Africa (2000) was $5,000,000, putting her firmly in the category of big-name movie star. And no doubt there are still many great things ahead, in the career of cover girl turned Oscar-winning actress Kim Basinger.
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- 2019 | Batman: 2019 Re-releaseasVicki Vale
Batman: 2019 Re-release
The Dark Knight of Gotham City begins his war on crime with his first major enemy being Jack Napier, a criminal who becomes the clownishly homicidal Joker.
- 2017 | Fifty Shades DarkerasElena Lincoln
Fifty Shades Darker
While Christian wrestles with his inner demons, Anastasia must confront the anger and envy of the women who came before her.
- 2016 | The Natural: The Best There Ever Was
- 2014 | 4 Minute Mile
- 2014 | The 11th Hour
- 2013 | Grudge Match
Grudge Match
A pair of aging boxing rivals are coaxed out of retirement to fight one final bout, thirty years after their last match.
- 2010 | Charlie St. Cloud
- 2008 | The Informers
- 2008 | While She Was Out
- 2006 | Even Money
- 2006 | The Sentinel
- 2004 | Cellularas Jessica Martin
- 2004 | Elvis Has Left the Building
- 2004 | The Door in the Floor
- 2002 | 8 Mile
- 2002 | People I Know
- 2000 | Bless the Child
- 2000 | Central Casting
- 2000 | I Dreamed of Africa
- 1997 | L.A. Confidentialas Lynn Bracken
- 1994 | A Century of Cinema
- 1994 | The Getaway
- 1993 | The Real McCoy
- 1993 | Wayne's World 2as Honey Horneé
- 1992 | Cool World
- 1992 | Final Analysis
- 1991 | The Marrying Man
- 1989 |
- 1988 | My Stepmother Is an Alien
- 1987 | Blind Date
- 1987 | Nadine
- 1986 | 9½ Weeks
- 1986 | No Mercy
- 1985 | Fool for Love
- 1984 | The Natural
- 1983 | Never Say Never Again
- 1983 | The Man Who Loved Women
- 1982 | Mother Lode
- 1981 | Hard Country
