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“I loved old black and white movies, especially with Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers musicals. I loved everything about them – the songs, the music, the romance and the spectacle. They were real class and I knew that I wanted to be in that world.” Sharon Stone did go on to become part of that world. Today, she is the one that young women are looking to on the silver screen and aspiring to become.

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Sharon Stone’s career can be described, in many ways, as a story in four parts. Many will agree that the works she is best known for, are not necessarily her best work as an actress. She has played a variety of roles from sensational and shocking characters to those that are vulnerable and innocent. She brings her gift to each role making them all utterly human.

Among the films she has starred in along the way are: Irreconcilable Differences (1984), King Solomon’s Mines (1985), Action Jackson (1988), Above the Law (1988), Total Recall (1990), Basic Instinct (1992), Casino (1995), Sliver (1993), The Quick and the Dead (1995), Sphere (1998), Catwoman (2004), Alpha Dog (2006), Basic Instinct 2 (2006), Lovelace (2013), and The Disaster Artist (2017).  Stone has also made her mark on the small screen with various guest appearances throughout her career as well as major roles on upcoming series, such as Ratched and The New Pope.

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Acting Career Part I

During the 1980s Sharon Stone started out as a model living in Europe. She decided to pursue acting, packed her bags, and moved back to New York where she was cast for a non-speaking role in Wood Allen’s movie, Stardust Memories in 1980. Afterward she was cast in horror flick Deadly Blessing. After a few television guest spots that included 80s sitcom Silver Spoons, Bay City Blues, Remington Steele, and T.J. Hooker, she took the next major role of her career: Irreconcilable Differences. From there, she had a steady stream of work that took her into the next stage of her career.

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Acting Career Part II

Her career went on a new trajectory with her role as Arnold Schwarzenegger’s wife in the film Total Recall in 1990. She starred in a variety of successful films between then and 1992 when she took the role she is, perhaps, most famous for to date. That of Catherine Tramell in Basic Instinct. The performance garnered mixed reviews from critics but was a success with audiences everywhere, especially male audiences. Peter Travers of Rolling Stone even called the performance one with “enough come0on carnality to singe the screen.” Her portrayal in this role also earned her a Golden Globe nomination for Best Actress in a Motion Picture.

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Capitalizing on her widespread sex appeal she took a role in erotic thriller Sliver in 1993 and then The Specialist, opposite Sylvester Stallone in 1994 and The Quick and the Dead (1995) as part of an impressive ensemble cast. Casino would define her career mid 1990s earning her a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture and a nomination for an Academy Award for Best Actress. 1995 would also be the year in which she received her star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. The movie, Sphere, in 1998 would earn her another nomination for a Golden Globe Award.

Acting Career Part III

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The 2000s were largely unkind to Sharon Stone with several box office disasters and a variety of health issues, including a massive stroke and 9-day brain bleed she suffered in 2001. Only recently has she vocalized her treatment in Hollywood in the aftermath of her stroke, calling them “brutally unkind” and going on to say that it took her about seven years to recover. Her appearance in Bobby (2006) which was met with wild success receiving a Screen Actors Guild Nomination for Best Cash in a Motion Picture and winning the Hollywood Film Festival Award for having the Best Ensemble Cast.

Acting Career Part IV

The 2010s really saw Sharon Stone come into her own and show that age, health, and nothing else were going to hold her down. She made a four-episode stint in Law & Order: Special Victims Unit then went on to portray journalist Sofie Talbert in Border Run (2012). Other films during this decade include: Life on the Line, Mothers and Daughters, Running Wild, and The Disaster Artist. It may be the small screen performances that tell the story of this part of her career best. From the HBO series Mosaic to the upcoming Netflix drama Ratched and another project, the 2010s are shining brightly for Sharon Stone.

She is somewhat bemused by the fact that people continue to view her as a sex symbol as recently as 2014 where she discussed it with Oprah Winfrey, stating, “It’s a pleasure for me now. I mean, I’m gonna be 56 years old. If people want to think I’m a sex symbol, it’s, like, yeah. Think it up. You know. I mean, like, good for me.”

Today Stone lives with her three adopted sons in West Hollywood. She is actively supports several causes she believes in and continues to live the life she once dreamed of on the silver screen.