We wrote the life story of Sharon Stone, who has made a name for herself not only with her performance in the films she has acted in, but also as a human rights activist, artist, mother, sister and writer.
Her full name is Sharon Vonne Stone, she was born on March 10, 1958, in Meadville, Pennsylvania. She was born to her mother, Dorothy Marie Lawson, an accountant, and her father, Joseph William Stone II, a tool and mold maker and former factory worker. Stone has three siblings named Michael, Kelly and Patrick Joseph. She is partly of Irish ancestry she. With an IQ of 154, Stone was considered academically gifted as a child and started second grade at the age of five.
She attended and graduated from Saegertown High School in Saegertown, Pennsylvania, in 1975. Then, at the age of 15, she was accepted to the University of Pennsylvania Edinboro on a creative writing scholarship. While attending college, she won the title of Miss Crawford County, Pennsylvania, and was nominated for Miss Pennsylvania in the 1976 pageant. She dropped out of college after one of the competition judges told her to drop out of college and move to New York to become a model. She moved to New York to become a model and she.
Stone signed a collaboration with Ford Modeling Agency in New York City in 1977. Moving to Europe soon after, Stone lived first in Milan and then in Paris. While living there, she decided to quit modeling and move on to the acting industry. The 20-year-old Stone was selected for a small role in the Woody Allen directed comedy-drama film "Stardust Memories" (1980). A year later she appeared in the horror movie "Deadly Blessing" (1981), directed by Wes Craven.
She starred as Stone in the French epic musical film "Les Uns et les Autres" (1982), directed by Claude Lelouch and starring James Caan. She took part in many serials after she. These; "Silver Spoons"(1982), "Bay City Blues"(1983), "Remington Steele"(1983), "Magnum, P.I."(1984) and "TJ Hooker"(1985).
Later, she appeared in the drama film "Irreconcilable Differences" (1984), in which she co-starred with Ryan O'Neal, Shelley Long and Drew Barrymore. She then starred in the action-oriented adventure film "King Solomon's Mines"(1985) and the adventure comedy film "Allan Quatermain and the Lost City of Gold"(1986), an adaptation of Indiana Jones directed by Gary Nelson. The Jones film adaptation was not well received by critics and audiences, and her performance earned her her first Golden Raspberry Award nomination for Worst Actress.
Stone landed the role of Janice Henry in the ABC mini-series "War and Remembrance" (1987), based on the novel of the same name by Herman Wouk. During the rest of the 1980s, she appeared in the comedy "Police Academy 4: Citizens on Patrol" (1987) and the thriller "Cold Steel" (1987). She also successfully appeared in the crime action movie "Above the Law"(1988) and the action movie "Action Jackson"(1988).
She played the role of a construction worker's loving-looking wife in "Total Recall" (1990), a science fiction action movie directed by Paul Verhoeven and starring Arnold Schwarzenegger. While the film received positive reviews, it provided a great boost to Stone's career with its worldwide output. She then acted in five films that were released in 1991. These; romantic comedy-drama movie "He Said, She Said", psychological thriller "Scissors", crime drama movie "Diary of a Hitman", thriller "Year of the Gun" and neo-noir thriller "Where Sleeping Dogs Lie".
She landed the role that made her a star in Paul Verhoeven's erotic thriller "Basic Instinct"(1992), playing Catherine Tramell, a brilliant bisexual and alleged serial killer. Although critical response to the film was mixed, Stone received critical acclaim for her performance. Stone also earned Golden Globe Award nominations for Best Actress, four MTV Movie Award nominations, and Golden Raspberry Award nominations for Worst New Star for the role. At the same time, the film became one of the most financially successful productions of the 1990s, grossing worldwide.
In 1993, Stone played one of the leading roles in the erotic thriller "Sliver," based on Ira Levin's novel of the same name. While the film was heavily criticized by critics, it became a commercial success. Additionally, it earned Stone a Golden Raspberry Award nomination for Worst Actress.
The following year, Stone starred opposite Richard Gere in the drama "Intersection" and with Sylvester Stallone in the action thriller "The Specialist." The first film was a moderate success, while the second film was a huge worldwide hit and was nominated for the MTV Movie Award for Most Desirable Woman. She won a Golden Raspberry Award and a Stinkers Bad Movie Award for Worst Actress for her performance in both films.
She took on the role of a gunfighter in the western movie "The Quick and the Dead" (1995). She also served as a producer on the movie She. The film was a healthy profit, earning Stone a Saturn Award nomination for Best Actress. Subsequently, Stone co-starred with Robert De Niro in the epic crime drama movie "Casino" (1995), directed by Martin Scorsese. The film, based on a book, received widely critical acclaim and commercial success. Her performance earned her a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture and an Academy Award nomination for Drama and Best Actress. That year, she earned a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and was awarded the Women in Film Crystal Award.
Stone appeared in the psychological thriller "Diabolique"(1996), the crime drama thriller "Last Dance"(1996) and the thriller "Sphere"(1998). In the three films she took part in, she was not liked by both the critics and the audience. In 1998, Stone starred in the critically acclaimed comedy-drama "The Mighty" and was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance.
She appeared in the crime thriller "Gloria" (1999), a remake of the movie of the same name, which was both a critical and commercial success. That year, she starred in "The Muse," a comedy film inspired by a respected screenwriter. Most reviews for the film were moderate, and Stone's performance was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Comedy or Musical.
The following year, Stone played a lesbian in the HBO television movie "If These Walls Could Talk 2" alongside Ellen DeGeneres. She received her second Lucy Award from Women in Film for her performance. She then starred with Billy Connolly in the comedy "Beautiful Joe".
After being hospitalized in September 2001, Stone took a break from acting. After a two-year hiatus, she returned to the screen as Sheila Carlisle, a lawyer, in the legal drama TV series "The Practice". She received a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series for her performance. Stone made her return with roles in the thriller "Cold Creek Manor"(2003) starring Dennis Quaid and the superhero movie "Catwoman"(2004) starring Halle Berry. Both films failed at the box office and the latter was considered by many critics to be one of the worst films of all time.
Her next film was the comedy-drama film "Broken Flowers" (2005), directed by Jim Jarmusch. It was critically acclaimed at the film's premiere in Cannes, where it was nominated for the Palme d'Or and won the Grand Prix. Stone's role was ranked among one of her "top 10 performances". In 2005 she was elected Officer of the Order of Arts and Letters in France.
After years of disagreement, the sequel "Basic Instinct 2" was released in 2006. The movie did not do well at the box office. Later, Stone appeared with Bruce Willis in the crime drama film "Alpha Dog" (2006), directed by Nick Cassavetes. The film was an art house success. In the same year, the drama film "Bobby" (2006), directed by Emilio Estevez, was also part of a large cast. Stone received positive reviews for her performance. As one of the cast, she was nominated for a Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture and won the Hollywood Film Festival Best Casting Award.
Stone starred as a clinically depressed woman in the independent drama film "When a Man Falls in the Forest" (2007), for which the film was nominated for a Golden Bear. She appeared in many movies in the late 2000s. These; "If I Knew I Was a Genius" (2007), "The Year You Know Us" (2008), "Five Dollars a Day" (2009) and "Streets of Blood" (2009). She then starred in the direct to DVD mystery thriller "Border Run" (2012).
The following year, Stone continued her career, starring in the biographical drama "Lovelace" and the comedy "Fading Gigolo" directed by Woody Allen–John Turturro. Both films were released with good critical reception. Stone later appeared in the TV series "Mothers and Daughters" (2016), the action movie "Life on the Line" (2016), and the TV series Running Wild (2017). All three films received mixed and mixed reviews. A year later, she appeared in the biographical comedy-drama film "The Disaster Artist" (2017), directed by James Franco. The film was a critical and commercial success, and was named one of the ten best films of that year by the National Board of Review.
Stone returned in 2018 with a television series portraying a murdered children's book author and illustrator in the HBO mystery production "Mosaic," directed by Steven Soderbergh. She received critical acclaim for her performance and won the Satellite Award for Best Supporting Actress in a Series, Mini-Series or Television Movie.
The following year, she appeared in an exaggerated version of herself in "Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese"(2019), the so-called documentary film directed by Martin Scorsese and about Bob Dylan's concert tour. The film was released on Netflix, which received positive reviews from critics. Later that year, she played a frustrated real estate agent in the movie "The Laundromat"(2019), which was also directed by Soderbergh with Meryl Streep.
She appeared with Sarah Paulson in Netflix's psychological thriller series "Ratched" (2020), the prequel to Miloš Forman's 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest' (1975) developed by Ryan Murphy. The series was able to garner good reviews and was watched by 48 million viewers in its first four weeks of airing. Also that year, she appeared as herself in the opening of the fifth episode of the drama TV series "The New Pope". In 2021, she appeared as herself in the drama film "Here Today" directed by Billy Crystal, and also starred in the romantic drama film "Beauty" directed by Andrew Dosunmu for Netflix.
Private life
In 1984, she met television producer Michael Greenburg on the set of the television movie The Vegas Strip War. The couple, who decided to get married the same year, separated three years later and divorced in 1990. Later, she briefly dated comedian Garry Shandling. They remained close friends until Shandling's death in 2016.
Stone met William J. MacDonald on a movie set in 1993. MacDonald, who was married at the time, left his wife and got engaged to Stone. The couple separated a year later. In the same year, Stone met assistant director Bob Wagner while working on a film, became engaged to Wagner and later broke up.
Stone married editor in chief Phil Bronstein on February 14, 1998. Unable to have biological children, Stone and Bronstein adopted a son named Roan Joseph Bronstein in 2000. With the divorce case filed in 2003, they divorced the following year. Stone adopted her second son, named Laird Vonne, in 2005 and her third son, named Quinn Kelly Stone, in 2006. As of 2018, she lives in a house in West Hollywood, California, with her three sons.
She has appeared on the covers and photographs of more than 300 celebrities and fashion magazines throughout her acting career. She appeared on the cover of French Vogue in June-July 1986. In 1993, she appeared in a commercial for the Pirelli brand called 'Driving Instinct'. In 2005 she became the face of luxury fashion house Dior's 'Capture' skincare line. In 2016, she appeared in Airfield's short film 'Fashion Is a Lovestory' with actor Paul Sculfor.
She was named among the "50 most beautiful people in the world" by People magazine in 1992. She was also listed by Empire magazine in its "100 Sexiest Stars in Film History" list in 1995 and 1997, and in Playboy magazine's "25 Sexiest Stars of the Century" list in 1999. Additionally, several biographies have been written about Stone, who has been the subject of four television specials. She also posed nude for the September 2015 issue of Harper's Bazaar. She has supported many institutions and organizations both financially, morally and timely.
Stone, who experienced abuse and discrimination in her childhood, and the struggle to exist in the world of men later on, the abuse and trauma she experienced, said that she reached her great point with difficulties and effort. Stating that she was struggling with a disease with a misdiagnosis at the time, Stone said that she has actually caught the same disease and that she will be treated and upset her fans.