Sharon Vonne Stone was born on March 10,1958 and is an American actress.
61 Facts About Sharon Stone
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Sharon Stone is the recipient of various accolades, including a Primetime Emmy Award, a Golden Globe Award, and a nomination for an Academy Award.
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Sharon Stone received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1995 and was named Officer of the Order of Arts and Letters in France in 2005.
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On television, Sharon Stone has had leading and supporting roles in productions such as the ABC miniseries War and Remembrance, the HBO television film If These Walls Could Talk 2, Steven Soderbergh's Mosaic and Ryan Murphy's Ratched.
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Sharon Vonne Stone was born on March 10,1958, in Meadville, Pennsylvania, to Dorothy Marie, an accountant, and Joseph William Stone II, a tool and die manufacturer and former factory worker.
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Sharon Stone has three siblings: Michael, Kelly, and Patrick Joseph.
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Sharon Stone was considered academically gifted as a child and entered the second grade when she was five years old.
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Sharon Stone graduated from Saegertown High School in Saegertown, Pennsylvania, in 1975.
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Sharon Stone was admitted to Edinboro University of Pennsylvania on a creative writing scholarship at age 15, but quit college and moved to New York City to become a fashion model.
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Sharon Stone left Meadville and moved in with an aunt in New Jersey, and by 1977, she had been signed by Ford Modeling Agency in New York City.
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Sharon Stone soon moved to Europe, living for a year in Milan and then in Paris.
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At 20, Sharon Stone was cast for a brief role in Allen's dramedy Stardust Memories and had a speaking part a year later in the horror film Deadly Blessing.
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Sharon Stone obtained the role of Janice Henry in the ABC miniseries War and Remembrance, the sequel to the 1983 miniseries The Winds of War, based on the 1978 novel of the same name written by Herman Wouk.
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In Paul Verhoeven's Total Recall, a science fiction action film opposite Arnold Schwarzenegger, Sharon Stone played the seemingly loving wife of a construction worker.
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In 1993, Sharon Stone played a femme fatale in the erotic thriller Sliver, based on Ira Levin's eponymous novel about the mysterious occurrences in a privately owned New York City high-rise apartment building.
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Sharon Stone made a cameo appearance in the action film Last Action Hero, reuniting with Arnold Schwarzenegger.
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In 1994, Sharon Stone appeared as the wife of an architect opposite Richard Gere in the drama Intersection, and as a woman who entices a bomb expert she is involved with into destroying the criminal gang that killed her family, alongside Sylvester Stallone, in the action thriller The Specialist.
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Sharon Stone served as a producer on the film and had some creative control over the production; she chose director Sam Raimi, after being impressed by his work on Army of Darkness, and co-star Russell Crowe after watching Romper Stomper.
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Sharon Stone paid Leonardo DiCaprio's salary herself after a reluctance from Sony, the film's studio, over his casting.
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Sharon Stone starred opposite Robert De Niro in Martin Scorsese's epic crime drama Casino, where she took on the role of Ginger McKenna, the scheming, self-absorbed wife of a top gambling handicapper.
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In 1998, Sharon Stone lent her voice for the successful animated film Antz, and played the mother of a 13-year-old boy suffering from Morquio syndrome in the drama The Mighty, which garnered a positive critical response.
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Sharon Stone was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in the lattermost.
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Sharon Stone's turn as a street-wise, middle-aged moll in Gloria, a remake of the 1980 film of the same name, proved to be a critical and commercial misfire.
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In 2000, Sharon Stone played a lesbian trying to start a family, opposite Ellen DeGeneres, in the HBO television film If These Walls Could Talk 2 and starred as an exotic dancer, alongside Billy Connolly, in the comedy Beautiful Joe.
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Sharon Stone faced professional challenges as she was in the process of recovery.
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Sharon Stone attempted a return to the mainstream with roles in the films Cold Creek Manor, with Dennis Quaid, and Catwoman, with Halle Berry.
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Sharon Stone appeared in Nick Cassavetes's crime drama Alpha Dog, opposite Bruce Willis, playing Olivia Mazursky, the mother of a real-life murder victim; she wore a fatsuit for the role.
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Sharon Stone made part of an ensemble cast in Emilio Estevez's drama Bobby, about the hours leading up to the assassination of Robert F Kennedy.
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Sharon Stone received favorable comments for her performance, particularly a scene alongside Lindsay Lohan.
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Sharon Stone took on the role of a clinically depressed woman in the independent drama When a Man Falls in the Forest, which premiered in competition at the 57th Berlin International Film Festival where it was nominated for the Golden Bear.
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Sharon Stone took on the leading female role in the French action sequel Largo Winch II as a United Nations investigator named Diane Francken.
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Sharon Stone's first theatrical-released production since 2007, the film premiered on February 16,2011, in France, where it opened in second place at the box office.
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Sharon Stone next starred as a hard-hitting journalist in the thriller Border Run, which received a direct-to-DVD release.
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Sharon Stone next played an adoptive mother in the drama Mothers and Daughters, a "lineman widow" and the "alcoholic mom" of a high-wire worker in the action film Life on the Line, and a greedy billionaire in the drama Running Wild.
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James Franco's biographical comedy The Disaster Artist, which featured Sharon Stone as Iris Burton, the agent of actor Greg Sestero, was a critical and commercial success, and was chosen by the National Board of Review as one of the top ten films of 2017.
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In Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese, a pseudo-documentary film covering Bob Dylan's 1975 Rolling Thunder Revue concert tour, Sharon Stone played an exaggerated version of herself.
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Sharon Stone reunited with Soderbergh for The Laundromat, in which she played a harried realtor, opposite Meryl Streep.
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In Netflix's psychological thriller series Ratched, a prequel to Milos Forman's 1975 film One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest developed by Ryan Murphy, Sharon Stone portrayed a wealthy heiress who hires a hit man to kill a doctor for disfiguring her son.
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In 2020 Sharon Stone appeared as herself in an introduction to the fifth episode of The New Pope, where she had an audience with John Malkovich as Pope John Paul III.
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Sharon Stone has appeared on the covers and pictorials of over 300 celebrity and fashion magazines throughout her four-decade acting career.
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Sharon Stone, who was Hurrell's reportedly last sitting before his death in 1992, is a collector of the photographer's original prints and wrote the foreword to the book Hurrell's Hollywood.
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Sharon Stone has been the subject of four television documentary specials, and several biographies have been written about her.
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Many observers, including UNICEF, criticized her actions by claiming that Sharon 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.
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Sharon Stone was criticized over her comments in an exchange on the red carpet with Hong Kong's Cable Entertainment News during the 2008 Cannes Film Festival on May 25,2008.
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Dior advertisements featuring Sharon Stone's image were dropped from all ads in China amid the public uproar.
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Sharon Stone was removed from the 2008 Shanghai International Film Festival guest list, and the event's organizers considered banning the actress permanently.
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Sharon Stone is a Tibetan Buddhist, having been converted to Buddhism when Richard Gere introduced her to the Dalai Lama.
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On September 29,2001, Sharon Stone was hospitalized for a subarachnoid hemorrhage, which was diagnosed as a vertebral artery dissection rather than the more common ruptured aneurysm, and treated with an endovascular coil embolization.
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Sharon Stone appeared on his show The Larry Sanders Show in the episode "The Mr Sharon Stone Show".
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In 1993, Stone met William J MacDonald on the set of the film Sliver, which he co-produced.
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MacDonald left his wife Naomi Baca for Sharon Stone and became engaged to her.
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On February 14,1998, Sharon Stone married Phil Bronstein, executive editor of The San Francisco Examiner and later San Francisco Chronicle.
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Sharon Stone suffered several miscarriages due to an autoimmune disease and endometriosis and was unable to have biological children.
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The divorce became final in 2004, with a judge ruling that Roan would remain primarily with Bronstein and Sharon Stone would have visitation rights.
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Sharon Stone adopted her second son, Laird Vonne, in 2005 and her third son, Quinn Kelly Sharon Stone, in 2006.
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In March 2006, Sharon Stone traveled to Israel to promote peace in the Middle East through a press conference with Nobel Peace Prize winner Shimon Peres.
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In 2015, Sharon Stone was guest of honor at the Pilosio Building Peace Award in Milan.
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Sharon Stone began an impromptu auction on stage in front of a crowd of CEOs from the construction industry and other dignitaries.
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Sharon Stone gained enough pledges to build 28 schools in Africa.
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Sharon Stone has won 10 awards from 41 nominations, including one Golden Globe Award, one Primetime Emmy Award, and two MTV Movie Awards.
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Sharon Stone's top-billing roles and most notable films as of 2019 include:.