Kim Basinger

Kimila Anna Basinger [ beɪsɪŋɡəɹ ] ( born December 8, 1953 in Athens, Georgia ) is an American actress.

Life

Basinger was born as the third of five children of jazz musician Don Basinger and his wife Ann, a synchronized swimmer, who had been involved in Esther Williams films. So it was the show business from childhood familiar. As a young woman she received ballet classes and won beauty contests in Georgia. In the early 1970s she moved to New York and became a model. In addition to working as a well-paid model forming, she took private acting lessons and played in small theaters in Greenwich Village Theater.

1976 Basinger went to Hollywood, where she Ron Snyder - Britton married in 1980, of which she was divorced in 1988. First, she appeared as Charlie's Angels, in some TV series. The breakthrough as an actress she managed in 1983 as Bond girl Domino Petachi in the James Bond film Never Say Never Again and on the side of Mickey Rourke in the film 9 ½ Weeks.

In 1992, she turned down the lead role in Basic Instinct, Sharon Stone who then took over. In 1997, she came back with the film LA Confidential, for which she received an Oscar. This made her the first former Bond girl, who won an Oscar. She was among the highest paid Hollywood stars. For the movie I Dreamed of Africa, she received a fee of 5 million U.S. dollars.

In 2010 she starred alongside young actor Zac Efron in the drama as if by a miracle.

She was married in first marriage with the make-up artist Ron Snyder, from 1980-1989, she in 1980 shooting of the film Jodie - had met somewhere in Texas (Hard Country ) and in second marriage with the U.S. actor Alec Baldwin 1993-2002 married. With him she has their daughter Ireland Baldwin ( * 1995), which operates in the U.S. as famous model.

Filmography (selection)

Awards

Oscar

British Academy Film Award

Golden Globe Award

Golden Raspberry

Jupiter

MTV Movie Award

Saturn Award

Screen Actors Guild Award