Date of Birth : Mar 10th 1958
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, PA, 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 (with an IQ of 154), 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 countergirl, 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 in train”. Her first speaking part, though, was in Wes Craven’s horror movie, Deadly Blessing (1981). 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 with Michael Greenburg, the producer of “MacGyver,” 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 breaktrough role as a sociopath novelist, Catherine Tramell, in 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.