Sharon Vonne Stone
Born :
March 10, 1958 (age 50), Meadville, Pennsylvania, US.
Spouse :
George Englund, Jr., Michael Greenburg (1984-1987), Phil Bronstein (1998-2004)
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Sharon Vonne Stone is an American Golden Globe and Emmy winning actress, producer, and former fashion model. She came to international attention for her performance in the 1992 Holluwood blockbuster film Basic Instict. She was nominated for an Academy Award for best actress for her role in Casino, won a Golden Globe for her role in Casino, and has won an Emmy Award.
1970s
Stone won Miss Crawford County in Meadville.
Quitted school to become a fashion model.
1980-1990
Stone quitted modeling and become an actress.
1990-2004
Stone in Total Recall (1990) with Arnold Schwarzenegger gave her career a push.
She posed nude for Playboy magazine.
Her role in Basic Instict in 1992 as Catherine Tramell, a brilliant, bisexual serial killer made her a star. Following this film she was listed by People magazine as one of the 50 most beautiful people in the world.
Stone's stardom was such that she received top billing over Gene Hackman, Russell Crowe and Leonardo DiCaprio when cast as a gunslinger for Sam Raimi's 1995 western The Quick and the Dead.
1995, She received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, located at 6925 Hollywood Blvd. She also chosen by Empire magazine as one of the 100 sexiest stars in film history.
1997 October, she was ranked among top 100 movie stars of all time by Empire.
1996, she received a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Dramatic Motion Picture for her role as "Ginger". She also earned an Academy Award nomination for Best Actress for the role.
1999, she was rated among the 25 sexist stars of the century by Playboy.
2001, she was hospitalized for a subarachnoid hemmorrhage, initially reported as a brain aneuryism, according to USA Today.
2001, she starred in the HBO movie If These Wall Could Talk 2, she played a lesbian trying to start a family.
2003, she appeared in 3 episodes from the 8th season of The Practice as Sheila Carlisle. In this she received an Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series.
2004 - present
Stone attempted a return to the mainstream with a role in the film Catwoman (2004), however, the film was a critical and commercial flop.
2007, Stone found her role as a clinically depressed woman in her latest film, When a Man Falls in the Forest. She said it was a 'watershed experience' 'I think that we live in a ... Prozac society where we're always told we're supposed to have this kind of equilibrium of emotion. We have all there assignments about how we're supposed to feel about something".
In 2007, she appeared in a television commercial demonstrating the symptoms of a stroke.
May 25, 2005
Chinese earthquake controversy
Stone sparked criticism for her comments made in an exchange on the red carpet with Hong Kong's "Cable Entertainment News" during the the 61st Annual
Cannes Film Festival on May 25, 2008. When asked about the
2008 Sichuan earthquake she remarked;
"I'm not happy about the way the Chinese are treating the Tibetans because I don't think anyone should be unkind to anyone else,"..."And then this earthquake and all this stuff happened, and then I thought, is that karma? When you're not nice that the bad things happen to you?"
According to the Hollywood Reporter, after her comments, one of China's biggest cinema chains released statements stating its company would not show her films in its theaters. The founder of the UME Cineplex chain and the chairman of the Federation of Hong Kong Filmmakers, Ng See-Yuen called Stone's comments "inappropriate" and said the UME Cineplex chain would not be releasing her films in the future. Christian Dior advertisements featuring Stone's image were also dropped from all ads in China amidst the public outroar.
Stone later apologized for her comments, saying in a statement issued by Dior China "My erroneous words and deeds angered and saddened the Chinese people, and I sincerely apologise for this," adding "I'm willing to participate in any earthquake relief activity and to do my utmost to help Chinese people affected by the disaster."
Tanzania controversy
On January 28, 2005, Stone helped solicit pledges for $1million in five minutes for mosquito nets in Tanzania, turning a panel on African poverty into an impromptu fund-raiser at the
World Economic Forum in
Davos,
Switzerland. Many observers, including
UNICEF, criticized her actions by claiming that Stone had reacted instinctively to the words of
Tanzanian President Benjamin Mkapa, because she had not done her research on the causes, consequences and methods of preventing
malaria; if she had done so, she would have found out that most African governments already distribute free bed nets through public hospitals.
Of the $1 million pledged, only $250,000 was actually raised. In order to fulfill the promise to send $1 million worth of bed nets to Tanzania, UNICEF contributed $750,000. This diverted funds from other UNICEF projects. According to prominent economist
Xavier Sala-i-Martín, officials are largely unaware of what happened with the bed nets. Some were delivered to the local airport. These reportedly were stolen and later resurfaced as wedding dresses on the local black market.
Stone hosted the 2006
Nobel Peace Prize Concert.
AIDS research support
In April 2004, she was awarded the
National Center for Lesbian Rights Spirit Award in
San Francisco for her support and involvement with organizations that serve the
lesbian,
gay and
HIV/
AIDS community and performed
Can't Get You Out of My Head with
Kylie Minogue in
Cannes for AIDS research. She was presented the award by
San Francisco Mayor
Gavin Newsom.
It has been said that her parents raised her with
feminist values. "My dad never raised me to believe that being a woman inhibited any of my choices or my possibilities to succeed. To be a feminist like Dad in that blue-collar,
middle-class world is a big stand."
Religion
In the early 1990s, Stone became a member of the
Church of Scientology. Stone remained with the religion until recently when she converted to
Buddhism, after fellow actor
Richard Gere introduced her to the
Dalai Lama. She is an ordained minister with the
Universal Life Church.
Mensa controversy
For many years it was believed that Sharon Stone was a member of
Mensa, but in April 2002, she admitted she was not, and had never been, a member of the high-IQ society. Jim Blackmore of Mensa said, "It's delightful to finally see Ms. Stone admit that she's not and never has been a member of our society. But then she goes on to say, 'I went to a Mensa school.' Not so." Blackmore said that would not have been possible as there have been no Mensa schools since the early 1960s.
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