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Kimila Ann "Kim" Basinger (pronounced
/
ˈ be ɪ s ɪ ŋ ɚ / bay-sing-er, often mispronounced
/ ˈ bæs ɪ nd ʒɚ / bass-in-jer ) (born December 8, 1953) is an Academy Award-winning American film actress and former fashion model.
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1 Early life
2 Career
3 Personal life
4 Filmography
5 Television work
6 References
7 External links Kim Basinger at the Academy Awards, March 1990
Born Kimila Ann Basinger
December 8, 1953
Athens, Georgia
Occupation Film actress
Spouse(s) Ron Snyder (1980-1988)
Alec Baldwin (1993-2002)
Basinger was born in Athens, Georgia in 1953. Her father, Don Basinger, was a big band musician and loan manager
[1]
who landed in Normandy on
Awards won [show]
D-Day.
[2]
Her mother, Ann, was a model, actress, and swimmer who appeared in Esther Williams films.
The third of five children, she has two brothers, Mick and Skip, and two sisters, Ashley and Barbara.
When Basinger was sixteen, she started her modeling career by winning the Athens Junior Miss contest.
She followed that by winning the title “Junior Miss Georgia”. Basinger then competed in the national
Junior Miss pageant. It was there that Basinger was offered a modeling contract with Ford Modeling
Agency. Initially turning down the offer in favor of singing and acting, Basinger reconsidered and went to New York to become a Ford model.
Not long after penning the deal, Basinger was on the cover of numerous magazines. She appeared in hundreds of ads throughout the early 1970s, most notably appearing as the Breck shampoo girl. She achieved a top model status by age 20, earning a salary of $1,000 a day. In the meantime, she alternated
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In 1976, after a five-year stint as a cover girl, Basinger decided to put her modeling career on hold and move to Los Angeles to begin a career in acting. After appearing in small parts on a few TV shows such as
McMillan & Wife and Charlie's Angels , her first starring role was a made-for-TV movie, Katie: Portrait of a Centerfold (1978) in which she played a small town girl who goes to Hollywood to become an actress and winds up becoming a famous centerfold for a men's magazine. She was a Bond girl in Never Say Never Again (1983), where she starred opposite Sean Connery. She did a famous pictorial for Playboy in 1983, which Basinger has said led to good opportunities, such as Barry Levinson's The Natural (1984), co-starring
Robert Redford, for which she earned a Golden Globe nomination as
Best Supporting Actress. Academy Award winning writer-director
Robert Benton cast her in the title role for the film Nadine (1987).
Other directors repeated her in their films, such as Blake Edwards for
The Man Who Loved Women (1983) and Blind Date (1987)) and Robert Kim Basinger (1989).
Altman for Fool for Love (1985) and Prêt-à-Porter (1994). Her most prominent appearances include 9 ½ Weeks (1986), Batman (1989) and
Curtis Hanson's L.A. Confidential (1997), for which she received an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress, as well as the Golden Globe and Screen Actor's Guild Award. Hanson would cast her once more as
Eminem's mother in the hit film 8 Mile (2002). She is the only actress who has both posed nude in
Playboy and won an Academy Award.
In 1992 Basinger was the guest vocalist on a re-recorded version of Was (Not Was)'s "Shake Your
Head," which also featured Ozzy Osbourne on vocals, and reached the UK Top 5. This makes her also one of a few Academy Award winners for acting roles to have had a hit record, particularly in more recent years.
In the video for Tom Petty's 1993 song "Mary Jane's Last Dance", Basinger played the role of a deceased woman Petty brings home from the morgue for a dinner date, clothing her in a wedding dress.
Later, Petty is shown carrying her to a rocky shore and throwing her into the sea. In a macabre ending, she is seen floating in the water with her eyes open.
She was, at an early stage, considered for the role of Donna in film adaptation of the stage musical
Mamma Mia!
, but lost to Meryl Streep.
In 1980 Basinger married makeup artist Ron Snyder-Britton, whom she had met on the film Hard
Country , but the marriage ended in divorce in 1988. He would later write a memoir titled Longer than
Forever , published in 1998, about their time together and about her rumored affair with actor Richard
Gere, with whom she starred in No Mercy (1986) and Final Analysis (1992).
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She later had a brief relationship with Prince.
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In 1990 she met her second husband, actor Alec Baldwin, when they played lovers in the film The
Marrying Man . They married on August 19, 1993 and appeared in the remake of The Getaway (1994).
They also played themselves in an 1998 episode of The Simpsons (which also includes Ron Howard), where Basinger corrects Homer Simpson on the pronunciation of her last name and also polishes her
Oscar statuette.
Basinger and Baldwin had a daughter, Ireland Eliesse "Addie" Baldwin (born October 23, 1995). They separated at the end of 2000 and divorced in February 2002. Since then, the couple have been locked in a contentious public custody battle. Alec Baldwin's book A Promise To Ourselves
[4]
chronicles the lengths Basinger has gone to deny Baldwin access to their daughter since their separation. They are not on good terms.
Basinger suffers from agoraphobia, which she blames on discomfort early in her Hollywood career from people "ogling" her when she was required to appear in bikinis. She said she was in "misery" when strangers looked at her and that she would go "home and play piano and scream at night to let out...frustrations."
[5]
Some of her family members recommended that Basinger buy the small town of Braselton, Georgia in
1989 for $20 million, with the hopes of establishing the town as a tourist attraction with movie studios and a film festival, but she met financial difficulties and sold it in 1993. The town is now owned by developer Wayne Mason. In a 1998 interview with Barbara Walters, Basinger admitted that "nothing good came out of it," because a rift resulted within her family. Her financial difficulties were exacerbated when she pulled out of the controversial film Boxing Helena , resulting in the studio suing and winning an $8-million judgment against her at after a trial. Kim filed for bankruptcy
[6]
and also appealed the jury's decision to a higher court, which sided with her. Eventually, she and the studio settled for a lesser amount.
[7]
KIM will be present at Venice Festival movie on 27 august 2008 Kim Basinger - Biography
(http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000107/bio) </ref>
Year
1981
1981 Killjoy
1982
Film
Hard Country
Mother Lode
Jodie
Role
Laury Medford
Andrea Spalding
Never Say Never Again Domino Petachi
1983
The Man Who Loved
Women
Louise Carr
1984 The Natural Memo Paris
Other notes aka Who Murdered Joy Morgan?
Nominated - Golden Globe
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1985 Fool for Love
1986
9 ½ Weeks
No Mercy
1987
Blind Date
Nadine
1988
My Stepmother Is an
Alien
1989 Batman
1991 The Marrying Man
Final Analysis
1992 Cool World
The Real McCoy
1993
Wayne's World 2
Mary Jane's Last Dance
A Century of Cinema
1994
The Getaway
Ready to Wear (Prêt-
à-Porter)
May
Elizabeth
Michel Duval
Nadia Gates
Nadine Hightower
Celeste Martin
Vicki Vale
Vicki Anderson
Heather Adams
Holli Would
Karen McCoy
Honey Horneé
Herself
Carol McCoy
Kitty Potter music video for Tom Petty documentary
1997 L.A. Confidential Lynn Bracken
Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress;
Nominated - BAFTA Award;
Golden Globe
2000
I Dreamed of Africa
Bless the Child
Kuki Gallmann
Maggie O'Connor
2002
8 Mile
People I Know
Stephanie Smith
Victoria Gray
The Door in the Floor Marion Cole
2004
Elvis Has Left the
Building
Cellular
Harmony Jones
Jessica Martin
1st Lady Sarah
Ballentine
2006
The Sentinel
The Mermaid Chair
2007 Even Money
While She Was Out
Jessie Sullivan
Carol Carver
Lead Role
2008 The Informers
The Burning Plain
Graham's Mother
Gina awaiting release awaiting release awaiting release
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Preceded by
Juliette Binoche for The English Patient
Preceded by
Lauren Bacall for The Mirror Has Two
Faces
Preceded by
Lauren Bacall for The Mirror Has Two
Faces
Awards and achievements
Academy Award for Best Supporting
Actress
1997 for L.A. Confidential
Golden Globe Award for Best
Supporting Actress - Motion Picture
1997 for L.A. Confidential
Screen Actors Guild Award for Best
Supporting Actress - Motion Picture
1997 for L.A. Confidential
Succeeded by
Judi Dench for Shakespeare in Love
Succeeded by
Lynn Redgrave for Gods and Monsters
Succeeded by
Kathy Bates for Primary
Colors
Charlie's Angels (1976) (episode: Angels in Chains)
Dog and Cat (1977) (canceled after six episodes)
The Ghost of Flight 401 (1978)
Katie: Portrait of a Centerfold (1978)
From Here to Eternity (1979) (miniseries)
From Here to Eternity (1980) (canceled after thirteen episodes)
Killjoy (1981)
Sean Connery, an Intimate Portrait (1997) (documentary)
The Simpsons (1998: 13.17) (as herself)
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^ Kim Basinger biography
(http://www.filmreference.com/film/64
/Kim-Basinger.html) . Film Reference.com.
^ Kim Basinger (http://movies.yahoo.com/movie
/contributor/1800011707/bio) . Yahoo Movies.
^ Britton, Ron. Longer than Forever
(http://www.blake.co.uk/e-store
/product.php?productid=4971&cat=37&page=7) .
Blake Publishing. 1998. ISBN 9781857823257.
^ Alec Baldwin, A Promise to Ourselves St
Martin Press, 2008
^ Kim Basinger Pinpoints Source of Her
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Agoraphobia (http://www.imdb.com
/name/nm0000107/news) . 17 October 2002
(WENN). Reprinted news at IMDB.com.
^ Kim Basinger Files Bankruptcy
(http://www.straightbankruptcy.org
/hollywood_bankruptcy.asp) . Straight
Bankruptcy.com
^ For Kim Basinger, the "fire ball" is out - and
Veronica Lake is in (http://www2.jsonline.com
/letsgo/movies/0921basinger.stm) . Milwaukee
Journal Sentinel. 20 September 1997.
Kim Basinger (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000107/) at the Internet Movie Database
Kim Basinger (http://www.allmovie.com/cg/avg.dll?p=avg&sql=2:4427) at Allmovie
Kim Basinger Fansite (http://www.kim-basinger.org/)
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