Sharon Vonne Stone was born on March 10, 1958 in Meadville, Pennsylvania, USA. She is an American actress, producer, and former fashion model.

Sharon's first role was in Woody Allen's Stardust Memories when she was 22 years old. But then things slowed down. Sharon played in movies like Action Jackson, Cold Steel and Police Academy 4 and also in some TV serials like Bay City Blues. In 1984 Sharon got married for the first time with Michael Greenburg. For the change in her carrer Sharon had to wait 10 long years. And then came Total Recall, where Sharon played the best of her action role as a Lori, the Arnold Schwarzenegger's wife.

But real upturn came in 1992 with a great movie Basic Instinct. Her role of sexually voracious crime writer made from her one of the biggest star in Hollywood and established her as a sexual symbol. In Basic Instinct Sharon revealed to the world one more thing: there was nothing between her and her tight dress. In a more conventionally sympathetic role, Stone followed up with another sizzling sex melodrama, Sliver (1993), which did middling business stateside but proved a solid success overseas. On the set of this movie (Sliver) Sharon met a producer Bill McDonald. They were engaged to be married for some time.

She again flexed her international box-office clout paired with Sylvester Stallone in the explosive actioner The Specialist (1994) but fared much less well commercially with her next project, The Quick and the Dead (1995), which marked her producing debut. Stone looked terrific in Western duds playing something of a distaff version of a Clint Eastwood-like gunfighter. Her directorial choice, Sam Raimi, helmed the smartly derivative tale with style to spare but the critical reception was uneven and the domestic take pathetic. In 1995 she got part in Scorsese's Casino. For this role she was awarded by Golden Globe and was nominated for Oscar. Her next character part was in Last Dance, where Sharon played a woman in prison waiting for the execution. In Sphere she played beside Dustin Hoffman. Her newest movies are Gloria, The Mighty and The Muse.

She lives in Beverly Hills, California, and owns a ranch in New Zealand. On Saturday, May 7, 2005, Stone, at the age of 47, adopted a baby boy who was born in Texas to a surrogate mother. She has named the baby Laird Vonne Stone.

Filmography

• Dirty Tricks (2008)
• Rockett (2007)
• When a Man Falls in the Forest (2007)
• If I Had Known I Was a Genius (2007)
• Bobby (2006)
• "Huff" (3 episodes, 2006)
• Basic Instinct 2 (2006)
• Alpha Dog (2006)
• Broken Flowers (2005)
• "Will & Grace" (1 episode, 2005)
• "Higglytown Heroes" (1 episode, 2005)
• "Kurtlar vadisi" (2 episodes, 2005)
• Catwoman (2004)
• A Different Loyalty (2004)
• "The Practice" (3 episodes, 2003)
• Cold Creek Manor (2003)
• "Harold and the Purple Crayon" (2002)
• Beautiful Joe (2000)
• Picking Up the Pieces (2000)
• If These Walls Could Talk 2 (2000)
• "Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child" (1 episode, 1999)
• Simpatico (1999)
• The Sissy Duckling (1999)
• The Muse (1999)
• Gloria (1999)
• Antz (1998)
• The Mighty (1998)
• Sphere (1998)
• Last Dance (1996)
• "Saturday Night Special" (1 episode, 1996)
• Diabolique (1996)
• Casino (1995)
• "Roseanne" (1 episode, 1995)
• The Quick and the Dead (1995)
• The Specialist (1994)
• Intersection (1994)
• Last Action Hero (1993)
• Sliver (1993)
• Basic Instinct (1992)
• Where Sleeping Dogs Lie (1992)
• Diary of a Hitman (1991)
• Year of the Gun (1991)
• Scissors (1991)
• He Said, She Said (1991)
• Total Recall (1990)
• Sangre y arena (1989)
• Beyond the Stars (1989)
• "War and Remembrance" (1988)
• Badlands 2005 (1988)
• Above the Law (1988)
• Action Jackson (1988)
• Tears in the Rain (1988)
• Cold Steel (1987)
• Allan Quatermain and the Lost City of Gold (1987)
• Police Academy 4: Citizens on Patrol (1987)
• Mr. and Mrs. Ryan (1986)
• King Solomon's Mines (1985)
• "T.J. Hooker" (1 episode, 1985)
• The Vegas Strip War (1984)
• "Magnum, P.I." (3 episodes, 1984)
• Irreconcilable Differences (1984)
• Calendar Girl Murders (1984)
• "Mike Hammer" (1 episode, 1984)
• "Bay City Blues" (1983)
• "Uns et les autres, Les" (1983)
• "Remington Steele" (1 episode, 1983)
• "Silver Spoons" (1 episode, 1982)
• Not Just Another Affair (1982)
• Deadly Blessing (1981)
• Uns et les autres, Les (1981)
• Stardust Memories (1980)

Awards

• Emmy Best Guest Actress in a Drama Series "The Practice" 2004
• Golden Globe Award Best Actress in a Motion Picture (Drama) "Casino" 1995
• Women in Film Crystal Award 1995
• MTV Movie Award Best Female Performance "Basic Instinct" 1993
• MTV Movie Award Most Desirable Female "Basic Instinct" 1993