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AKA: Kim Basinger

Ethnicity: Caucasian

Birthdate: 1953-12-08

Birthplace: Athens, Georgia, USA

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Biography

Kim Basinger started her big screen career in a series of roles as blonde arm candy, but eventually acted her way out of that status with an Academy and Golden Globe Award-winning performance in Curtis Hanson’s neo-noir crime drama, “L.A. Confidential” (1997). It was a cruel twist of fate that the leggy bombshell was born shy and panic-stricken over being the center of attention, but she managed to build a steady career out of fighting her fears; first as a model and then as an actress. While often cast for her ethereal beauty, the root of Basinger’s real gift was the ever-present internal struggle, which imbued even her most extroverted characters with a gentle vulnerability. Basinger weathered a storm of unflattering publicity surrounding her marriage and acrimonious divorce from loose cannon...

Credits

Title	Distributor	Role	Release
Natural	TriStar Pictures	Actor	05-01-1984
Hard Country	---	Actor	03-01-1981
9 1/2 Weeks	Producers Sales Organization	Actor	02-21-1986
Final Analysis	Witt/Thomas Films	Actor	02-07-1992
Man Who Loved Women	Delphi Productions	Actor	11-30-1983

Awards

Award	Category	Project	Year
National Board of Review ...	Best Acting by an Ensemble	"Prêt-à-Porter"	1994
Golden Globe Award	Best Performance by an Actress in a S...	"L.A. Confidential"	1998
Screen Actors Guild Award	Outstanding Performance by a Female A...	"L.A. Confidential"	1998
Academy Award	Best Actress in a Supporting Role	"L.A. Confidential"	1998

Box Office

Release	Title	Distributor	Role	Domestic Box Office
05-01-1984	Natural	TriStar Pictures	Actor	---
03-01-1981	Hard Country	---	Actor	---
02-21-1986	9 1/2 Weeks	Producers Sales Organization	Actor	$5,706,924
02-07-1992	Final Analysis	Witt/Thomas Films	Actor	$26,993,247
11-30-1983	Man Who Loved Women	Delphi Productions	Actor	---

Education

Institution	Location	Year range	Notes
Athens High School	Athens, GA	1971	Was a cheerleader
University of Georgia	Athens, GA	1972	Attended briefly, but dropped out to pursue modeling career
The Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre	New York, NY

Affiliations

Active with People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) and other animal rights organizations

Milestones

Begin	Through
1971	---	At age 16, won the Athens Junior Miss contest
1971	---	Won the Junior Miss Georgia contest
1971	---	Won the national Miss Breck competition and appeared with her mother in an advertisement for the shampoo
1976	---	Made TV debut in an episode of "Starsky and Hutch" (ABC)
1977	---	First starring role as J Z Kane in ABC's police drama, "Dog and Cat" (a pilot TV-movie and then a short-lived series)

Professions

Profession	Type
actress	primary
singer	occasional
model	occasional

Relationships

Relationship	Name
Companion	Jon Peters	Dated in the 1980s; no longer together
husband	Alec Baldwin	Met when they played lovers in "The Marrying Man" (1991); married from 1993-2002; they went through a long drawn out custody battle over their daughter Ireland and have battled each other in the media
Companion	Richard Gere	Appeared together in "No Mercy" (1986) and "Final Analysis" (1992)
Companion	Eminem	Rumored to have briefly dated while filming "8 Mile" (2002)
Companion	Prince Prince	Dated in the late 1980s; no longer together

Notes

"I became an actress in my own eyes in '9 1/2 Weeks.' I did what I wanted to do emotionally. I built myself up and tore myself down so many times that I was electrically disturbed after it was over; marbles were rolling off the table." - Basinger in Premiere magazine, September 1989

"You know what's funny? After all the years I've been in Hollywood, I still don't know a lot of the directors and producers who are working today. I've never met them. I'm not a real social person, I'm shy and a lot of the business is just social. It really is. I don't think it's a bad game. But early on I didn't know there was a game. I know now." - Basinger quoted in Interview magazine, December 1994

"I'm extremely competitive with myself. But I'm not actively competitive with other women in the business. Which may have been a mistake. I've never had someone in my life, agent or otherwise, fighting for me." - Basinger quoted in Movieline magazine, January/February 1994

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