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44. Sharon Stone was born and raised in Meadville, a small town in Pennsylvania. Her
strict father was a factory worker and her mother was a homemaker. She was the
second of four children. At the age of 15, she studied in Saegertown High School,
Pennsylvania and, at that same age, entered Edinboro State University of
Pennsylvania, and graduated with a degree in creative writing and fine arts. She
was a very smart girl, became a bookworm, and once was told that a suitable job
for her (and her brains) was to become a lawyer. However, her first love was still
the black-and-white movies, especially those featuring Fred Astaire and
Ginger Rogers. So, the 17-year-old Sharon got herself into the Miss Pennsylvania
beauty contest and won it. From working part-time as a McDonald's counter girl,
she worked her way up to become a successful Ford model, both in
TV commercials and print ads. Finally, in 1980, she made her debut in
Woody Allen's Stardust Memories (1980) as "pretty girl on train". Her first speaking
part, though, was in Wes Craven's horror movie, Deadly Blessing (1981

45. She struggled through many parts in B-movies, notably in King Solomon's Mines (1985), and
Action Jackson (1988). She was also married in 1984 to Michael Greenburg, the producer of
"MacGyver" (1985), but they divorced two years later. She finally received her big break with
Arnold Schwarzenegger in Total Recall (1990) and also posed nude for Playboy, a daring
move for a 32-year-old actress. But it worked; she accepted a breakthrough role as a
sociopath novelist, "Catherine Tramell", in Basic Instinct (1992) with Michael Douglas. Her
interrogation scene has become a classic in film history and her performance captivated
everyone, from MTV viewers, who honored her with Most Desirable Female and Best Female
Performance Awards, to a Golden Globe nomination for Best Actress. After she got famous,
she didn't want to be typecast, so she played a victim in Sliver (1993) and, in Intersection
(1994), she was the aloof, estranged wife of Richard Gere. These movies didn't "work", so
she got herself again into more aggressive roles, such as The Specialist (1994) with
Sylvester Stallone and The Quick and the Dead (1995) with Gene Hackman. But, it wasn't
until she played a beautiful but drug-crazy wife of Robert De Niro in Casino (1995) that she
got far more than just fame and fortune--she also received the acknowledgment of the movie
industry for her acting ability. She received her first Golden Globe and an Oscar nomination.
She did a couple of films after wards, teaming up with Isabelle Adjani in Diabolique (1996),
and as a woman waiting for her death penalty in Last Dance (1996). In 1998, she married a
newspaper editor, Phil Bronstein. She also received her third Golden Globe nomination for
Best Supporting Actress that year for The Mighty (1998), a film that her company, "Chaos",
also co-executive produced. The next year, she entered her first comedic role in The Muse
(1999), which starred and was directed by Albert Brooks and gave her another Golden Globe
nomination. Sharon Stone, a diva who thoroughly enjoys her hard-won stardom, is now a
mother of an adorable baby boy, Roan Joseph.

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