SHARON STONE

Actress

Sharon Stone is regarded as one of the most beautiful movie stars in Hollywood. Recently, she has taken roles to try to emphasize her acting instead of just her beauty.

Stone was born on March 10, 1958, in Meadville, PA, one of four children of Dorothy and Joseph Stone, graduated from nearby Saegertown High School. She was very interested in creative writing and other fine arts. She attended Edinboro University of Pennsylvania until some friends convinced her to try a career in modeling. She went to New York and quickly became a model in the Eileen Ford Agency. Her work included representing Diet Coke, Clairol, and Revlon.

She had been taking acting lessons, and finally decided to turn her attention to a movie career. Her first movie was a very small part in Stardust Memories by Woody Allen. This was followed by many roles in movies and television, mostly all small and disappointing ones. Her first breakthrough film was Total Recall, which starred Arnold Schwarzenegger.

After that film her career began to take off. Basic Instinct, for which she received a Golden Globe nomination, was the film that made her a star. Other films in her resume include Sliver, Intersection, The Specialist, The Quick and the Dead, which she co-produced, Casino, for which she received an Oscar nomination for Best Actress, Diabolique, Sphere, and Gloria.

In 1984 she married Michael Greenburg, but that ended in divorce in 1987. In 1998 she married Phil Bronstein. In September, 2001, Stone was rushed to the hospital with a brain hemorrage. A small vein had ruptured and bled into the space around the membrane that covers the brain. Though life threatening, she recovered quickly and completely. She has resumed her acting career, including 2004's Cat Woman.

Stone also owns Chaos, her own production company. She is very involved in combating Aids and helping the homeless, and is resuming her acting career.