Sharon Stone
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Meadville, Pennsylvania
Screen siren, opinionated diva, and one of the few actresses in Hollywood who can claim to be both a Paul Verhoeven muse and a MENSA member, Sharon Stone is nothing if not a legend in her own right. Beginning with her notorious disinclination to wear underwear during a police interrogation in Basic Instinct, Stone went on to become one of the most talked about actresses of the '90s, earning both admiration and infamy for her on- and off-screen personae.Almost as famous as Stone's glamorous image are her working-class roots. Born in the Northwest Pennsylvania town of Meadville on March 10, 1958, Stone grew up a bookworm in a large family. Highly intelligent in addition to being a local beauty pageant queen, she won a scholarship to Pennsylvania's Edinboro University when she was 15 years old. After studying creative writing and fine arts, she decided to pursue a modeling career, and after moving to New York, she signed on with the Eileen Ford agency. Stone became a successful model by the late '70s, appearing in print and television ads for Clairol, Revlon, and Diet Coke.In 1980, Stone branched out into acting, making her screen debut as the "pretty girl on train" in Woody Allen's Stardust Memories. Following this role, she spent the '80s appearing in one forgettable film after another, often cast as the stereotypical blonde bimbo. She finally got a break in 1990, when she appeared as Arnold Schwarzenegger's kickboxing secret-agent wife in Verhoeven's Total Recall. Any recognition she gained for that role, however, was more than eclipsed by the notoriety she earned for her starring turn in her second Verhoeven feature, Basic Instinct. The 1992 film, in which Stone portrayed a bisexual author/sexual adventurer who may or may not be a serial killer, did her a huge favor by making her a star but also a sizable disservice by further typecasting her in blonde seductress roles. Stone's subsequent effort, the erotic thriller Sliver (1993), was an example of this: the actress attracted notice less for her acting than for her willingness to simulate masturbation. Her role in the following year's The Specialist was also fairly limiting -- an action flick co-starring Sylvester Stallone, it called for Stone to run around in a tight dress in heels when she wasn't seducing various characters.In 1995, Stone managed to break into the "serious actress" arena with her performance in Martin Scorsese's Casino. Cast as an ex-prostitute, she won an Oscar nomination and a Golden Globe for her work, as well as the general opinion that she was capable of dramatic acting. Stone branched out further that same year with The Quick and the Dead, a revisionist Western directed by Sam Raimi in which she starred as a tough-talking, hard-drinking broad bent on revenge. Unfortunately, the film was a relative flop, as were her subsequent 1996 films, Diabolique, a remake of the 1954 French film by Clouzot and Last Dance, a drama that featured Stone as a woman on death row. By this point winning more notice for her off-screen role as an arbiter of fashion and old-school Hollywood glamour than for her onscreen acting work, Stone next lent her voice to the animated Antz in 1998. The film proved to be a success, unlike the actress's other projects that year, the lackluster Barry Levinson sci-fi thriller Sphere and The Mighty. The latter film, which Stone produced as well as starred in, was a heartfelt story about two adolescent misfits; although it did win a number of positive reviews, audiences largely kept their distance. The same couldn't be said of Stone's next film, a 1999 remake of Gloria; not only did audiences stay away from it, critics savaged it with vituperative glee. Never one to let a bad review get her down, Stone soon rebounded, receiving a more positive reception for her performance in The Muse and then starring as Jeff Bridges' long-suffering wife in Simpatico. If her roles in the years that followed weren't as high profile, that's certainly not to sa
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Highest Rated Movies
Filmography
MOVIES
RATING | TITLE | CREDIT | BOX OFFICE | YEAR |
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No Score Yet | Here Today |
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— | 2021 |
92% | House of Cardin |
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— | 2020 |
No Score Yet | What About Love |
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— | 2020 |
41% | The Laundromat |
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— | 2019 |
No Score Yet | The Tale of the Allergist's Wife |
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— | 2019 |
18% | All I Wish (A Little Something for Your Birthday) |
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— | 2018 |
No Score Yet | The Invocation |
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— | 2018 |
No Score Yet | The Cure |
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— | 2018 |
No Score Yet | Running Wild |
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— | 2017 |
No Score Yet | Into the Night: Portraits of Life and Death |
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— | 2017 |
No Score Yet | Mosaic |
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— | 2017 |
85% | Harry Benson: Shoot First |
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$18.3k | 2016 |
0% | Life on the Line |
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— | 2016 |
18% | Mothers and Daughters |
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— | 2016 |
No Score Yet | Jewel's Catch One |
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— | 2016 |
53% | Fading Gigolo |
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$3.2M | 2014 |
No Score Yet | Femme |
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— | 2013 |
53% | Lovelace |
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$0.3M | 2013 |
No Score Yet | Border Run (The Mule) |
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— | 2012 |
No Score Yet | Sunset Strip |
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— | 2012 |
No Score Yet | Inferno |
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— | 2012 |
No Score Yet | Gods Behaving Badly |
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— | 2012 |
No Score Yet | The Burma Conspiracy (Largo Winch (Tome 2)) |
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— | 2011 |
40% | Streets of Blood |
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— | 2009 |
No Score Yet | No Subtitles Necessary: Laszlo & Vilmos |
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— | 2008 |
No Score Yet | $5 a Day (Five Dollars a Day) |
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— | 2008 |
No Score Yet | The Year of Getting to Know Us |
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— | 2008 |
No Score Yet | When a Man Falls in the Forest |
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— | 2007 |
No Score Yet | If I Had Known I Was a Genius |
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— | 2007 |
54% | Alpha Dog |
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$15.2M | 2007 |
No Score Yet | Harold and The Purple Crayon - Let Your Imagination Soar! |
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— | 2007 |
46% | Bobby |
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$11.1M | 2006 |
38% | Wassup Rockers |
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$0.2M | 2006 |
6% | Basic Instinct 2 |
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$5.9M | 2006 |
No Score Yet | Journey Into Buddhism: Prajna Earth |
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— | 2006 |
87% | Broken Flowers |
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$13.6M | 2005 |
No Score Yet | A Different Loyalty |
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— | 2005 |
22% | Jiminy Glick in Lalawood |
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$26.2k | 2005 |
No Score Yet | The Yatra Trilogy: Prajna Earth - Journey Into Sacred Nature |
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— | 2004 |
9% | Catwoman |
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$40.2M | 2004 |
No Score Yet | Special Thanks to Roy London |
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— | 2004 |
12% | Cold Creek Manor |
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— | 2003 |
80% | Searching for Debra Winger |
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— | 2002 |
60% | Beautiful Joe |
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— | 2000 |
No Score Yet | If These Walls Could Talk 2 |
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— | 2000 |
No Score Yet | Picking Up the Pieces |
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— | 2000 |
25% | Simpatico |
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— | 1999 |
53% | The Muse |
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— | 1999 |
14% | Gloria |
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— | 1999 |
No Score Yet | The Stars of Star Wars: Interviews from the Cast |
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— | 1999 |
75% | The Mighty |
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— | 1998 |
92% | Antz |
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— | 1998 |
11% | Sphere |
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— | 1998 |
No Score Yet | Off the Menu: The Last Days of Chasen's |
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— | 1997 |
32% | Last Dance |
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— | 1996 |
18% | Diabolique |
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— | 1996 |
97% | The Celluloid Closet |
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— | 1996 |
29% | Catwalk |
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— | 1996 |
80% | Casino |
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— | 1995 |
59% | The Quick and the Dead |
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— | 1995 |
7% | The Specialist |
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— | 1994 |
9% | Intersection |
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— | 1994 |
38% | Last Action Hero |
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— | 1993 |
11% | Sliver |
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— | 1993 |
No Score Yet | Harlow: The Blonde Bombshell |
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— | 1993 |
54% | Basic Instinct |
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— | 1992 |
No Score Yet | Diary of a Hitman |
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— | 1991 |
No Score Yet | Where Sleeping Dogs Lie |
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— | 1991 |
29% | Year of the Gun |
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— | 1991 |
No Score Yet | Scissors |
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— | 1991 |
31% | He Said, She Said |
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— | 1991 |
82% | Total Recall |
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$119M | 1990 |
No Score Yet | Blood and Sand |
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— | 1989 |
No Score Yet | Beyond the Stars |
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— | 1989 |
13% | Action Jackson |
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— | 1988 |
53% | Above the Law |
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— | 1988 |
No Score Yet | Tears in the Rain |
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— | 1988 |
No Score Yet | Cold Steel |
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— | 1987 |
0% | Police Academy 4 - Citizens on Patrol |
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— | 1987 |
40% | Allan Quatermain and the Lost City of Gold |
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— | 1986 |
8% | King Solomon's Mines |
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— | 1985 |
No Score Yet | The Vegas Strip Wars |
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— | 1984 |
57% | Irreconcilable Differences |
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— | 1984 |
No Score Yet | Calendar Girl Murders |
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— | 1984 |
14% | Deadly Blessing |
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— | 1982 |
68% | Stardust Memories |
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— | 1980 |
TV
RATING | TITLE | CREDIT | YEAR |
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61% |
Ratched
2019-2020
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97% |
Better Things
2016-2020
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90% |
The New Pope
2020
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78% |
Mosaic
2018
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No Score Yet |
Sunday Morning
2011-2018
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No Score Yet |
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
2015-2019
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No Score Yet |
The Late Late Show With James Corden
2015
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No Score Yet |
The Late Show With Stephen Colbert
2015
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No Score Yet |
Conan
2010
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27% |
Agent X
2015
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No Score Yet |
The View
1997
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No Score Yet |
Jimmy Kimmel Live
2003
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No Score Yet |
The Talk
2010
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78% |
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
1999
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No Score Yet |
The Daily Show With Jon Stewart
1999-2015
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67% |
Huff
2006
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No Score Yet |
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
2003
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No Score Yet |
Will & Grace
1998-2006
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No Score Yet |
The Practice
1997-2004
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76% |
Roseanne
1988-2018
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100% |
The Larry Sanders Show
1992-1998
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No Score Yet |
Saturday Night Live
1975
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No Score Yet |
War and Remembrance
1988-1989
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No Score Yet |
Remington Steele
1982-1987
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No Score Yet |
T.J. Hooker
1982-1986
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No Score Yet |
Magnum, P.I.
1980-1988
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71% |
The Movies
2019
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Quotes from Sharon Stone's Characters
Laurel Hedare: | Game over. |
Patience Phillips/Catwoman: | Guess what? It's overtime! |
Dr. Parker: | It's like candy, having sex with you. You're 'top shelf'...hard to reach. That's what makes you so good. |
Dr. Parker: | You are really top shelf; hard to reach. |
Ginger McKenna: | Nicky's methods of betting weren't scientific, but they worked. When he won, he collected. When he lost, he told the bookies to go fuck themselves. I mean, what were they going to do, muscle Nicky? Nicky was the muscle. |
Carly Norris: | Get a life... |
Bala: | Z, I've gotta help my Mom! |
Z: | Don't worry, I know almost exactly what I'm doing! |
Bala: | Labor? What you YOU know about labor? How would YOU feel if you were expected to give birth every 10 seconds for the rest of your life? |
Azteca: | Labor? What you know about labor? How would you feel if you were expected to give birth every 10 seconds for the rest of your life? |
Princess Bala: | Labor? What you know about labor? How would you feel if you were expected to give birth every 10 seconds for the rest of your life? |
Lori Quaid: | You wouldn't hurt me, would you sweetheart? Sweetheart, we're married |
Doug Quaid: | (shoots Lori) Consider that a Divorce |
Doug Quaid: | [shoots Lori] Consider that a divorce. |
Laurel Hedare: | If you have no identity, why keep it a secret? |
Patience Philips/Catwoman: | Because you killed me! |
Lori Quaid: | If I'm not me, then who the hell am I? |
Douglas Quaid / Hauser: | If I'm not me, then who the hell am I? |
Jesse Huston: | Please let him go I love him... |
Laurel Hedare: | No. My advice to you, George, quit the self-tanning. Stop eating Viagra like they're vitamins. Resist the urge to date children born the same day they invented the cell phone. For once, in you miserable like, George, [kicks him] be a man! |
Patience Philips/Catwoman: | I'm Patience Phillips. |
Laurel Hedare: | That's who's under there?! |
Lori Quaid: | Doug, honey... you wouldn't hurt me, would you, sweetheart? Sweetheart, be reasonable. After all, we're married! [Lori goes for her gun, Quaid shoots her in the head, killing her] |
Lori Quaid: | Doug, honey... you wouldn't hurt me, would you, sweetheart? Sweetheart, be reasonable. After all, we're married! [Lori goes for her gun, Quaid shoots her in the head, killing her] |
Doug Quaid: | Consider that a divorce! |
Doug Quaid: | Consider that a divorce! |
Melina: | That was your wife? [Quaid nods] What a bitch. |
Lori Quaid: | Doug, honey... you wouldn't hurt me, would you, sweetheart? Sweetheart, be reasonable. After all, we're married! |
Lori Quaid: | Doug, honey. You wouldn't hurt me, would you, sweetheart? Sweetheart, be reasonable. After all, we're married! |
Doug Quaid: | Consider that a divorce! |
Bala: | I've meen kindapped by the village idiot! Z: who's the bigger idiot? The Idiot or the idiot who gets kidnapped by the idiot> |
Bala: | I've meen kindapped by the village idiot! |
Z: | Who's the bigger idiot? The idiot, or the idiot who gets kidnapped by the idiot? |
Lori Quaid: | No wonder you're having nightmares. You're always watching the news. |