Sharon Stone
Birthdate: Mar 10, 1958
Birthplace: Meadville, Pennsylvania, USA
Sharon Stone (birthname: Sharon Vonne Stone) is one of her generation’s iconic sex symbol movie stars, most memorably associated with intelligent, wily femme fatales. Stone made her first mark in supporting roles in Wes Craven’s slasher movie, Deadly Blessing (1981); the Nancy Meyers/Charles Shyer comedy-drama, Irreconcilable Differences (1984), co-starring Ryan O’Neal, Shelley Long, and Drew Barrymore; in a co-starring role with Richard Chamberlain in the J. Lee Thompson-directed version of H. Rider Haggard’s King Solomon’s Mines (1985) and its sequel, Allan Quatermain and the Lost City of Gold (1986); in another sequel, Warner Bros.’ comedy hit, Police Academy 4: Citizens on Patrol (1987); opposite stars Steven Seagal and Pam Grier in the Andrew Davis-directed Above the Law (1988); and in the Joel Silver-produced cop movie, Action Jackson (1988), with Carl Weathers and Craig T. Nelson.
Stone’s early breakthrough arrived when she was cast by filmmaker Paul Verhoeven to play opposite Arnold Schwarzenegger in Total Recall (1990), grossing a strong $261.4 million return for Carolco Pictures/Tri-Star Pictures, followed by Stone getting her first starring role in director-writer Frank De Felitta’s psychological thriller, Scissors (1991).
Sharon Stone gained movie-star status by reuniting with director Paul Verhoeven as co-star with Michael Douglas of the blockbuster erotic thriller, Basic Instinct (1992), grossing $353 million (on $49 million costs). Stone solidified her status as the leading face of the erotic thriller when she starred in the Philip Noyce-directed version of Ira Levin’s book, Sliver (1993), with William Baldwin and Tom Berenger, eventually turning a profit for Paramount Pictures.
Stone then co-starred with Sylvester Stallone in producer Jerry Weintraub’s Warner Bros. action movie, The Specialist (1994), with James Woods, Rob Steiger, and Eric Roberts under Luis Llosa’s direction. Stone became one of the first female stars (and co-producer) of a revisionist Western with the Sam Raimi-directed The Quick and the Dead (1995), co-starring Gene Hackman, Russell Crowe, Leonardo DiCaprio, Lance Henriksen, and Gary Sinise, and released to poor box office by Sony Pictures Releasing.
Sharon Stone delivered her most dazzling performance in Martin Scorsese’s Vegas-based masterpiece, Casino (1995), earning Stone her first Oscar nomination and co-starring Robert De Niro, Joe Pesci, Don Rickles, Kevin Pollak, and James Woods, eliciting good box office ($116 million globally) and exultant reviews. Stone returned to psychological thriller mode as star opposite Isabelle Adjani in Warner Bros.’ pale remake of Henri-Georges Clouzot’s classic, Diabolique (1996), with Chazz Palminteri, Kathy Bates, Spalding Gray, and Allen Garfield.
Stone joined the voice cast for her first animated movie, DreamWorks Animation’s debut feature, Antz (1998), with Woody Allen, Dan Aykroyd, Anne Bancroft, Jane Curtin, Danny Glover, Gene Hackman, Jennifer Lopez, Paul Mazursky, Sylvester Stallone, and Christopher Walken, and then Stone starred in her second sci-fi movie, Sphere (1998), co-starring Dustin Hoffman, Samuel L. Jackson, Peter Coyote, and Liev Schreiber, but losing money for Warner Bros. Stone earned a Golden Globe supporting actress nomination for her performance in Miramax Films’ coming-of-age The Mighty (1998), with Gena Rowlands, Gillian Anderson, Harry Dean Stanton, Kieran Culkin, and James Gandolfini, under Peter Chelsom’s direction.
Sharon Stone was picked by director-writer-star Albert Brooks as one of his co-stars in his comedy, The Muse (1999), with Andie MacDowell and Jeff Bridges, with original music by Elton John, and released by October Films. Stone starred under Sidney Lumet’s direction in his solid but money-losing remake of John Cassavetes’ Gloria (1999), with George C. Scott, Jeremy Northam, and Cathy Moriarty, and then Stone co-starred with Dennis Quaid, Stephen Dorff, Juliette Lewis, Kristen Stewart and Christopher Plummer in producer-director Mike Figgis’ thriller, Cold Creek Manor (2003), for Disney/Touchstone Pictures.
Stone appeared in Warner Bros.’ widely lambasted DC Comics superhero movie, Catwoman (2004), starring Halle Berry, Benjamin Bratt, Lambert Wilson, and Frances Conroy, which Stone followed up with one of her few American indie movies, director-writer Jim Jarmusch’s comedy-drama, Broken Flowers (2005), with Bill Murray, Jeffrey Wright, Conroy, Jessica Lange, Tilda Swinton, Julie Delpy, and Chloë Sevigny, and which won the Grand Prix in the official competition of the Cannes film festival before its $47 million gross for Focus Features. Stone revived her role as serial killer novelist Catherine in the badly received sequel, Basic Instinct 2 (2006), with David Morrissey, Charlotte Rampling, and David Thewlis under Michael Caton-Jones’ direction for MGM.
Sharon Stone continued a busy year with a supporting role in director-writer Nick Cassavetes’ ensemble crime movie, Alpha Dog (2006), co-starring Ben Foster, Shawn Hatosy, Emile Hirsch, Bruce Willis, Justin Timberlake, and Anton Yelchin, and premiering at the Sundance film festival before a good $32 million release by Universal Pictures. Stone then jumped into another ensemble movie, director-writer-actor Emilio Estevez’s political biopic, Bobby (2006), about the events leading up to the 1968 assassination of Robert F. Kennedy, with Harry Belafonte, Nick Cannon, Laurence Fishburne, Heather Graham, Anthony Hopkins, Helen Hunt, Joshua Jackson, Ashton Kutcher, Shia LaBeouf, Lindsay Lohan, William H. Macy, Demi Moore, Martin Sheen, Christian Slater, and Elijah Wood, and released to poor business by MGM/Weinstein Company.
Stone was a major supporting actor in the biopic of porn star Linda Lovelace, Lovelace (2013), starring Amanda Seyfried, Peter Sarsgaard, Hank Azaria, Adam Brody, Bobby Cannavale, James Franco, Debi Mazar, Chris Noth, Chloë Sevigny, and Juno Temple, under Rob Epstein’s and Jeffrey Friedman’s co-direction, and which premiered at the Sundance film festival. Stone was cast by director/writer/star John Turturro in his indie comedy, Fading Gigolo (2013), starring Woody Allen, Vanessa Paradis, Liev Schreiber, and Sofia Vergara, and which premiered at the Toronto Film Festival and released by Millennium Entertainment.
Sharon Stone made her presence felt in director/producer/co-star James Franco’s striking, acclaimed biopic comedy, The Disaster Artist (2017), with Dave Franco, Seth Rogen, Alison Brie, and Jackie Weaver, and Oscar-nominated for best-adapted screenplay after premiering at the South by Southwest film festival and a good $30 million A24/Warner Bros. release. Stone made one of her strangest film appearances as herself in the fascinating concert movie by Martin Scorsese about a rollicking Bob Dylan concert tour, Rolling Thunder Revue (2019), in which Stone claims incorrectly that she had a flirtation with Bob Dylan when she was 19 (she was 17 at the time of Dylan’s Rolling Thunder Revue).
Stone was picked for a supporting role in the Steven Soderbergh-directed comedy-drama about “The Panama Papers,” The Laundromat (2019), starring Meryl Streep, Gary Oldman, Antonio Banderas, Jeffrey Wright, Robert Patrick, and David Schwimmer, and which premiered at the Venice film festival before a limited theatrical release before a streaming premiere by Netflix. Stone has been a producer on director-writer Justin Arana’s documentary, My Name Is Water (2014) and director-writer Susan Walter’s comedy-drama, All I Wish (2017), co-starring Stone, Tony Goldwyn, Famke Janssen, and Ellen Burstyn.
Sharon Stone has been an executive producer on several movies, beginning with filmmaker Larry Clark’s bold film about skateboarders, Wassup Rockers (2005); writer-director Ryan Eslinger’s drama, When a Man Falls (2007); co-writer-director Patrick Sisam’s comedy-drama, The Year of Getting to Know Us (2008), with Jimmy Fallon, Stone, Tom Arnold, Lucy Liu; co-writer/director Emmanuel Itier’s documentary, The Invocation (2010), narrated by Stone; the Gabriela Tagliavini-directed U.S./Mexico border drama, Border Run (2012), co-starring Billy Zane and Stone; Itier’s documentary, Femme (2013); the contemporary Western, Running Wild (2017), co-starring Stone and Tommy Flanagan; the Oliver McGarvey-directed documentary, Romantic Road (2017); Itier’s documentary, The Cure (2018), with Stone and Mark Wahlberg; and Itier’s documentary, We the People (2018), with Shohreh Aghdashloo, Deepak Chopra, and Jacques Attali.
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Personal Details
Sharon Stone was born and raised in Meadville, Pennsylvania by her mother Dorothy (accountant) and father Joseph (tool and die manufacturer, ex-factory worker). Stone has three siblings, including Michael, Kelly, and late brother Patrick. Stone attended and graduated from Saegertown High School, and then was admitted at age 15 to Edinboro University of Pennsylvania with a creative writing scholarship. Stone subsequently dropped out to pursue a modeling career in New York City.
Stone later returned to Edinboro to complete her studies and graduated in 2016. Stone married TV producer Michael Greenburg from 1984 to 1990 when the pair divorced. Stone was engaged to producer William J. MacDonald in 1993 and separated one year later. Stone was then briefly engaged to first assistant director Bob Wagner, and then separated. Stone married San Francisco Examiner and San Francisco Chronicle executive editor Phil Bronstein in 1998, and later divorced in 2004; the couple has one adopted son, Roan Bronstein. Stone adopted a second son, Laird, in 2005, and a third son, Quinn, in 2006. Stone’s height is 5’ 8”. Stone’s estimated net worth is $40 million.
Known For
Basic Instinct
(1992)
Casino
(1995)
The Quick and the Dead
(1995)
Sliver
(1993)
Awards
Nominee, Best Actress, Academy Awards (1996); Two-time Nominee, Best Actress, Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films Awards (1993, 1996); Winner, Best Guest Actress—Drama Series, Emmy Awards (2004); Winner, Best Actress, Golden Globe Awards (1996); Winner, Hollywood Star Walk of Fame (1995); Winner, Special Prize for Outstanding Contribution to World Cinema, Karlovy Vary Film Festival Awards (2005); Two-time Winner, Best Female Performance/Most Desirable Female, MTV Movie + TV Awards (1993); Winner, Officer of the Order of Arts and Letters (France) (2005); Nominee, Best Cast—Motion Picture, Screen Actors Guild Awards (2007); Winner, Golden Icon Award, Zurich Film Festival Awards (2021).
Golden Globe
Golden Globes, USA
Golden Globe
Golden Globes, USA
Filmography
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- 2024 | What About Love
What About Love
Two young lovers change the lives of their parents forever when the parents learn from the joyful experience of their kids, and allow themselves to again find their love.
- 2023 | Cannes Uncut
- 2023 | Commitment to Life
- 2022 | Beauty
- 2019 | House of Cardin
- 2018 | The Cure
- 2018 | Intersection
Intersection
A guilt-ridden man who blames himself for the accidental death of his only child meets a mysterious beautiful woman in the same remote town where the fateful car crash occurred. There is a spark between them. But she carries a dar...
- 2017 | All I Wish
- 2017 | Into the Night: Portraits of Life and Death
- 2017 | Running Wild
- 2016 | Verhoeven Versus Verhoeven
- 2016 | Harry Benson: Shoot First
- 2015 | Life on the Line
- 2015 | Mindfulness: Be Happy Now
- 2014 | A Golden Boy
- 2014 | My Name Is Water
- 2013 | Fading Gigolo
- 2013 | Gods Behaving Badly
- 2013 | Lovelace
- 2012 | Border Run
- 2012 | Total Recall
Total Recall
A factory worker, Douglas Quaid, begins to suspect that he is a spy after visiting Rekall - a company that provides its clients with implanted fake memories of a life they would like to have led - goes wrong and he finds himself on the run.
- 2011 | Largo Winch II
- 2011 | Making It in Hollywood
- 2010 | Bad Boy Kummer
- 2010 | The Clock
- 2010 | The Invocation
- 2008 | $5 a Day
- 2008 | The Year of Getting to Know Us
- 2007 | If I Had Known I Was a Genius
- 2007 | When a Man Falls
- 2006 | Bobby
- 2006 | Basic Instinct 2
- 2005 | Broken Flowers
- 2004 | A Different Loyalty
- 2004 | Catwoman
- 2003 | Cold Creek Manor
- 2000 | Beautiful Joe
- 2000 | Picking Up the Pieces
- 2000 | The Old Place
- 1999 | Simpatico
- 1999 | Forever Hollywood
- 1999 | The Muse
- 1999 | Gloria
- 1998 | The Mighty
- 1998 | Antz
- 1998 | Sphere
- 1996 | Last Dance
- 1996 | Diabolique
- 1995 | Casino
- 1995 | The Quick and the Dead
- 1994 | The Specialist
- 1993 | Sliver
- 1991 | Diary of a Hitman
- 1992 | Basic Instinct
- 1991 | Where Sleeping Dogs Lie
- 1991 | Year of the Gun
- 1991 | Scissors
- 1991 | He Said, She Said
- 1989 | Beyond the Stars
- 1989 | Blood and Sand
- 1988 | Above the Law
- 1988 | Action Jackson
- 1987 | Cold Steel
- 1987 | Police Academy 4: Citizens on Patrol
- 1986 | Allan Quatermain and the Lost City of Gold
- 1985 | King Solomon's Mines
- 1984 | Irreconcilable Differences
- 1981 | Deadly Blessing
Some Facts About Sharon Stone
The Greatest Speaks: When Muhammad Ali met Sharon Stone when she was 17 and offered her a role in his movie, The Greatest (1977), and her father refused, Ali told him, “You may think that she is not (going to be in the movies), but she is. You cannot hide that girl under a bushel basket. Her light is too bright.”
Conditions: Stone has suffered from asthma, diabetes, and was hospitalized in 2001 from a vertebral artery dissection, which is a tear in the vertebral artery.
Advocate: Sharon Stone received the 2013 Peace Summit Award for her efforts to aid people living with HIV/AIDS.
Author, Author: Stone is the author of a memoir, The Beauty of Living Twice, published in 2021.
