Sharon Stone

**Sharon Vonne Stone** (born March 10, 1958) is an American actress and movie producer. She received a Golden Globe Award for her part in the 1995 movie _Casino_. Her role in the movie _Basic Instinct_ was also notable.

Stone won the title of Miss Crawford County in Meadville.  She was a candidate for Miss Pennsylvania. One of the pageant judges said she should quit school and move to New York City to become a fashion model. In 1977, Stone left Meadville, moving in with an aunt in New Jersey. Within four days of her arrival in New Jersey, she was signed by Ford Modeling Agency in New York.

While living in Europe, she decided to quit modeling and become an actress. Stone was cast for a brief role in Allen's _Stardust Memories_ (1980).  She had many roles in movies in the 1980's.  Being in _Total Recall_ (1990) with Arnold Schwarzenegger helped her career.  To promote the movie, she posed nude for _Playboy_.

The movie that made her a star _Basic Instinct_ (1992).  She played a person thought to be a serial killer.  In the movie's most notorious scene, her character is being questioned by the police. She crosses and uncrosses her legs, exposing her genitalia, which are not covered by underwear.  After _Basic Instinct_, she was listed by _People magazine_ as one of the 50 most beautiful people in the world.

In November 1995, Stone received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, located at 6925 Hollywood Blvd.

In 2003, she appeared in three episodes from the eighth season of _The Practice_. For her performances, she received an Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series.

Stone tried a return to the mainstream with roles in the movies _Cold Creek Manor_ (2003) with Dennis Quaid and _Catwoman_ (2004) with Halle Berry.  Both movies were not well liked by either the public or critics.

## Personal life

Stone married Michael Greenburg in 1984.  They separated in 1987 and the divorce was finalized in 1990.

In 1993, Stone met William J. MacDonald (aka Bill MacDonald) on the set of the movie _Sliver_. MacDonald left his wife Naomi Baca for Stone and became engaged to her. They separated one year later in 1994.

While working on the movie _The Quick and the Dead_ in 1995, Stone met Bob Wagner and they became engaged.

On February 14, 1998, Stone married Phil Bronstein, executive editor of the _San Francisco Examiner_. They adopted a son, Roan Joseph Bronstein (born on May 22, 2000) in late May or early June 2000.  They divorced in 2004.  After her divorce she adopted another two boys, Laird Vonne Stone (born on May 7, 2005) and Quinn Kelly Stone
(born in June 2006).

Stone is a convert to Tibetan Buddhism. She is an ordained minister with the Universal Life Church.

## Filmography

|Year|Title|Role|Notes|
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
|1980|_Stardust Memories_|Pretty Girl on train||
|1981|_Les Uns et les autres_|Girl with Glenn Senior|Uncredited|
|_Deadly Blessing_|Lana Marcus|||
|1982|_Not Just Another Affair_|Lynette|television film|
|_Silver Spoons_|Debbie|(TV series)||
|1983|_Bay City Blues_|Cathy St. Marie|(TV series)|
|_Remington Steele_|Jillian Montague|(TV series)||
|1984|_The New Mike Hammer_|Julie Eland|(TV series)|
|_Magnum, P.I._|Diane Dupree and Diedra Dupree|(TV series)||
|_Calendar Girl Murders_|Cassie Bascomb|television film||
|_The Vegas Strip War_|Sarah Shipman|television film||
|_Irreconcilable Differences_|Blake Chandler|||
|1985|_T. J. Hooker_|Dani Starr|(TV series)|
|_King Solomon's Mines_|Jesse Huston|||
|1986|_Mr. and Mrs. Ryan_|Ashley Hamilton Ryan|Television pilot|
|_Allan Quatermain and the Lost City of Gold_|Jesse Huston|||
|1987|_Police Academy 4: Citizens on Patrol_|Claire Mattson||
|_Cold Steel_|Kathy Connors|||
|1988|_Above the Law_|Sara Toscani||
|_Action Jackson_|Patrice Dellaplane|||
|_Badlands 2005_|Alex Neil|television pilot||
|_War and Remembrance_|Janice Henry|television miniseries||
|_Tears in the Rain_|Casey Cantrell|television film||
|1989|_Beyond the Stars_|Laurie McCall||
|_Blood and Sand_|Doña Sol|||
|1990|_Total Recall_|Lori Quaid||
|1991|_He Said, She Said_|Linda Metzger||
|_Scissors_|Angie Anderson|||
|_Year of the Gun_|Alison King|||
|_Diary of a Hitman_|Kiki|Cameo||
|_Where Sleeping Dogs Lie_|Serena Black|||
|1992|_Basic Instinct_|Catherine Tramell|MTV Movie Award for Best Female Performance MTV Movie Award for Most Desirable Female Nominated – Chicago Film Critics Association Award for Best Actress Nominated – Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Drama Nominated – Saturn Award for Best Actress|
|1993|_Sliver_|Carly Norris|Nominated – MTV Movie Award for Most Desirable Female|
|_Last Action Hero_|Catherine Tramell|One-second walk on||
|_The Larry Sanders Show_|Herself|(TV series)||
|_Harlow: The Blonde Bombshell_|Host|documentary about Jean Harlow||
|1994|_Intersection_|Sally Eastman|Razzie Award for Worst Actress|
|_The Specialist_|May Muro (aka Adrian Hastings)|Razzie Award for Worst Actress Nominated – MTV Movie Award for Most Desirable Female||
|1995|_The Quick and the Dead_|Ellen 'The Lady'|Nominated – Saturn Award for Best Actress|
|_Roseanne_|Trailer Park Resident|(TV series)||
|_Casino_|Ginger McKenna|Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Drama Nominated – Academy Award for Best Actress Nominated – Chicago Film Critics Association Award for Best Actress Nominated – MTV Movie Award for Best Female Performance||
|1996|_Diabolique_|Nicole Horner||
|_Last Dance_|Cindy Liggett|||
|1998|_Sphere_|Dr. Elizabeth 'Beth' Halperin||
|_Antz_|Princess Bala|voice||
|_The Mighty_|Gwen Dillon|Nominated – Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture||
|1999|_Gloria_|Gloria||
|_The Muse_|Sarah Little|Nominated – Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy||
|_Simpatico_|Rosie Carter|||
|_Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child_|Henny Penny|voice||
|2000|_Picking Up the Pieces_|Candy Cowley||
|_If These Walls Could Talk 2_|Fran|made-for-cable film Women in Film Lucy Award||
|_Beautiful Joe_|Alice 'Hush' Mason|||
|2002|_Harold and the Purple Crayon_|Narrator|(TV series)|
|2003|_Cold Creek Manor_|Leah Tilson||
|_The Practice_|Sheila Carlisle|Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress – Drama Series (TV series)||
|2004|_A Different Loyalty_|Sally Cauffield||
|_Catwoman_|Laurel Hedare|||
|2005|_Higglytown Heroes_|Nicky – Blind Art Teacher|voice|
|_Kurtlar Vadisi_ (Eng. _Valley of the Wolves_) || Lisa || Turkish TV serial||||
|_Will & Grace_|Dr. Georgia Keller|(TV series)||
|_Broken Flowers_|Laura Daniels Miller|||
|2006|_Alpha Dog_|Olivia Mazursky||
|_Basic Instinct 2_|Catherine Tramell|Razzie Award for Worst Actress||
|_Huff_|Dauri Rathburn|(TV series)||
|_Bobby_|Miriam Ebbers|Hollywood Film Festival for Cast of the Year Nominated – Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture||
|_Democrazy_|Patricia Hill|short||
|2007|_When a Man Falls in the Forest_|Karen Fields||
|_If I Had Known I Was a Genius_|Gloria Fremont|||
|2008|_The Year of Getting to Know Us_|Jane Rocket||
|_Five Dollars a Day_|Dolores Jones|||
|2009|_Streets of Blood_|Nina Ferraro||
|2010|_Law & Order: Special Victims Unit_|Jo Marlowe|Four episodes(TV series)|
|2011|_The Burma Conspiracy_|Diane Francken||
|2012|_Gods Behaving Badly_|Aphrodite|post-production|
|_The Mule_|Sofie|post-production||
|_Lovelace_|Dorothy Boreman|filming||
|_Attachment_|TBA|Starts shooting in April 2012||

## Infobox (person)

- **name**: Sharon Stone
- **image**: Sharon Stone by Gage Skidmore 3.jpg
- **caption**: Stone in 2017
- **birth name**: Sharon Vonne Stone
- **birth place**: Meadville, Pennsylvania, USA
- **occupation**: Actress, model, producer
- **years active**: 1980–present
- **spouse**:

- **children**: 3