Beautiful and seductive blonde bombshell Sharon Stone has been typecast, despite her intelligence and ambition, unable to realize her acting goals to star in serious dramatic roles. She made her film debut in 1980 in WOODY ALLEN's Stardust Memories, had a sensational role in Basic Instinct (1992), and in 1996 was awarded a Golden Globe for Best Actress and was nominated for an Oscar for her performance in Casino. That same year, Sharon Stone was the second biggest box-office female star in America, beaten only by JODIE FOSTER. However, her roles since then have been disappointing to her and to her fans.
Sharon Stone, who "came out posing," according to her parents, was born in Meadville, Pennsylvania, and early on was determined to be a movie star, even boasting that she would be the next MARILYN MONROE. At the age of 17, she was Miss Crawford County of 1975 and soon after was hired by the Ford Modeling Agency in New York. She did much of her modeling in Europe. Although continuing to model, she studied method acting with Marilyn Freid and Jack Waltzer.
Sharon Stone then did television commercials for Diet Coke and Clairol. In her first role, in Stardust Memories, she was cast as a bimbo who looked like Barbie; and in her second film, Deadly Blessing (1981), directed by Wes Craven, she played a drug-addicted model who becomes a stalker's victim. This was hardly an auspicious start in film, so she turned to television, appearing in Bay City Blues as a baseball player's wife in the short-lived series.
Her next significant film was Irreconcilable Differences (1984), in which she played a waitress, showing some comic talent. Also in 1984, she appeared in two TV movies, The Vegas Strip Wars, playing a cigarette girl who seduces ROCK HUDSON in his last TV role, and Calendar Girl Murders, in which she again played the bimbo, this time as a pinup in a girlie magazine.
Sharon Stone starred in two films after her 1984 marriage to Michael Greenburg, who as coproducer of King Solomon's Mines (1985) and Allen Quatermain and the Lost City of Gold (1987), cast her in the films. (She split with Greenburg in 1987). The two films did little for her career. She next appeared in War and Remembrance, a television miniseries that ran for 30 episodes, and then returned to film.
Five Sharon Stone films appeared in 1991. Two, Diary of a Hitman and Where Sleeping Dogs Lie, were forgettable, but the other three showed some promise. In a wannabe Hitchcock film, Scissors, she played an unstable young woman under siege; in Year of the Gun, she and costar Andrew McCarthy play lovers who are threatened by the terrorist Red Brigade in Germany; and in He Said, She Said, she is excellent as Kevin Bacon's nasty ex-girlfriend. In a way, these roles prepared her for the part she may best be known for, the bisexual novelist Catherine Trammell, the killer pursued, in more ways than one, by detective MIKE DOUGLAS in Basic Instinct (1992).
Sharon Stone received the MTV Movie Award for Best Female Performance and as Most Desirable Female for her performance. Basic Instinct was followed in 1993 by Sliver, another voyeuristic thriller, which resulted in her being nominated for an MTV Most Desirable Female Award, and Intersection, one of costar RICHARD GERE's few weak films. In 1994, Sharon Stone appeared in two more duds, each one featuring her as an avenging killer: She plays a CLINT EASTWOOD-like role in The Quick and the Dead, and a woman intent on killing Cuban gangsters in The Specialist, a film which costarred SYLVESTER STALLONE.
In 1995, she had a wonderful role in Casino, the third in SCORSESE's gangster trilogy. For her role as Ginger, the hedonistic and materialistic wife of ROBERT DE NIRO's character, she won a Golden Globe as Best Actress and an Oscar nomination. Again, Sharon Stone had trouble capitalizing on her success. In 1996, she appeared in the inferior remake of the 1955 French film classic Diabolique, and in Last Dance, she played an innocent convicted murderer, a part that might have worked for her if the script had not given her lawyer (Rob Morrow) most of the attention.
Sphere (1997) was forgettable, and Gloria (1998) was another bad remake, this one of JOHN CASSAVETES's 1980 original. She ended the decade with the eponymous role of Muse, the daughter of the Greek god Zeus, representing an ideal, much like the 10 (1979) appearance of Bo Derek, that does not exist in the real world. Too often, Sharon Stone has fallen short of her potential.
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