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Kim Basinger | |
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 Basinger in France, September 1989 | |
| Born | Kimila Ann Basinger December 8, 1953 |
| Occupation(s) | Actress, producer |
| Years active | 1969–1975 (model) 1976–present (actress) |
| Height | 5 ft 7.5 in (1.71 m) |
| Spouse(s) | Ron Snyder (1980–1989) Alec Baldwin (1993–2002) |
| Children | Ireland Baldwin |
Kimila Ann "Kim" Basinger ( /ˈbeɪsɪŋər/ BAY-sing-ər, often mispronounced /ˈbæsɪndʒər/ BASS-in-jər; born December 8, 1953) is an American actress, and singer.
She is known for her portrayals of Domino Petachi, the Bond girl in Never Say Never Again (1983), and Vicki Vale, the female lead in Batman (1989). Basinger received a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture nomination for her work in The Natural (1984). She won an Academy Award, Golden Globe, and Screen Actors Guild Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in L.A. Confidential (1997). Basinger also acted in the movies 9½ Weeks (1986), I Dreamed of Africa (as Kuki Gallmann) (2000) and 8 Mile (2002).
Early life
Basinger was born in Athens, Georgia, on 8 December 1953.[1] Her mother, Ann Lee (née Cordell), was a model, actress, and swimmer who appeared in several Esther Williams films.[1][2] Her father, Donald Wade Basinger, was a big band musician and loan manager; as a U.S. Army soldier, he landed in Normandy on D-Day (June 6, 1944).[3] The third of five children,[1] she has two brothers, Mick and Skip, and two sisters, Ashley and Barbara. Basinger's ancestry includes English, German, French, Swedish, Irish, and possible Cherokee Native American ancestry.[4][5][6] She was raised a Methodist.[7] The relationship between her parents was tenuous,[citation needed] and her father's critical nature affected her emotionally from a young age. She has said, "I just couldn't please him enough. He never complimented me ever. And I saw a lot of silence. Children always read into silence as something terrible."[1] Basinger has described herself as extremely shy and lonely during her childhood, and has stated that she faced many hardships during her school years as a result.[1][5]
Basinger studied ballet from about age three to her mid-teens. By her mid teens, she grew in confidence and successfully auditioned for the school cheerleading team.[1] When Basinger was 16, she started modeling, by winning the Athens Junior Miss contest. She then won the title “Junior Miss Georgia”.[8] She competed in the national Junior Miss pageant and was offered a modeling contract with the Ford Modeling Agency.[1] She turned it down in favor of singing and acting, and enrolled at the University of Georgia, but soon reconsidered and went to New York to become a Ford model.[1] Despite earning $1,000 a day, Basinger never enjoyed modelling, saying "It was very hard to go from one booking to another and always have to deal with the way I looked. I couldn't stand it. I felt myself choking."[1] Basinger has said that even as a model, when others relished looking in the mirror before appearing, she abhorred it and would avoid mirrors out of insecurity.[9]
Career
Not long after her little Ford deal, Basinger appeared on the cover of magazines. She appeared in hundreds of ads throughout the early 1970s, most notably as the Breck Shampoo girl.[10] She alternated between modeling and attending acting classes at the Neighborhood Playhouse, as well as performing in Greenwich Village clubs as a singer.[11]
In 1976, after five years as a cover girl, Basinger quit modelling and moved to Los Angeles to act. She had guest roles on TV shows such as Charlie's Angels[12] and The Six Million Dollar Man,[13] as well as a starring role on the short-lived series Dog and Cat (1977).[14]
In 1978, Basinger played the lead role in the made-for-TV movie Katie: Portrait of a Centerfold, as a smalltown young woman, who goes to Hollywood to become an actress and winds up a famous centerfold for a men's magazine.[1] She was cast as prostitute Lorene Rogers in the 1979 NBC miniseries remake of the 1953 film From Here to Eternity.[13] Basinger reprised that role in a 13-episode series spinoff in 1980. She made her theatrical feature debut in Hard Country (shot in 1979 and released in 1981), where she starred opposite Jan Michael Vincent.[5] Her next film was the 1982 adventure Mother Lode, featuring Charlton Heston and directed by Fraser Clarke Heston.
Basinger's breakout role was as Bond girl Domino Petachi in Never Say Never Again (1983), opposite Sean Connery.[5] She received a Golden Globe nomination for her performance in Barry Levinson's The Natural (1984), opposite Robert Redford. In 1984, Basinger began work on the sexually provocative film 9½ Weeks (released 1986), which co-starred Mickey Rourke. Oscar-winning writer-director Robert Benton cast her in the title role for the film Nadine (1987) with Jeff Bridges. Basinger played Vicki Vale in the 1989 blockbuster Batman, directed by Tim Burton.[5]
Several directors cast her twice in their films, including Blake Edwards for The Man Who Loved Women (1983) and Blind Date (1987), and Robert Altman for Fool for Love (1985) and Prêt-à-Porter (1994). In 1992, Basinger was a 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.[15]
Basinger scaled back her acting work for most of the 1990s. She made a comeback in 1997 as the femme fatale in the neo-noir L.A. Confidential. She initially turned down the film twice, feeling an insecurity at returning to the screen and enjoying motherhood.[5][9] The role earned her an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, as well as the Golden Globe and Screen Actor's Guild Award. In a 2000 interview with Charlie Rose, Basinger said that L.A. Confidential and her next project, I Dreamed of Africa (2000), were the most pleasurable of her career and that the cast were all there for the right reasons.[9] She says that Vincent Pérez was the "most incredible actor she had ever worked with" and had the "biggest heart of anybody she has ever worked with."[9]
Curtis Hanson cast her again, as Eminem's mother in 8 Mile (2002). Basinger appeared in the mainstream thrillers Cellular (2004) and The Sentinel (2006), but for the rest of the decade her appearances were in low-profile projects. She starred in the 2006 Lifetime original movie The Mermaid Chair, as well as independent films such as 2008's The Burning Plain.[16]
Basinger played Zac Efron's character's mother in the 2010 film Charlie St. Cloud.
Personal life
Relationships and family
Basinger dated and lived with Dale Robinette in the 1970s.[17]
On October 12, 1980, Basinger married makeup artist Ron Snyder-Britton (born 1938), who worked on the crew of her film Hard Country (1981). They separated in 1988 and were officially divorced in 1989. He later wrote a memoir in 1998, Longer than Forever, about their time together and her rumored affair with actor Richard Gere, with whom she starred in No Mercy (1986) and Final Analysis (1992).[18] After the divorce Basinger dated casting director Jon Peters and singer Prince.[17]
She met her second husband, Alec Baldwin, in 1990 when they played lovers in The Marrying Man. They married on August 19, 1993, and appeared in the remake of The Getaway (1994). They played themselves in a 1998 episode of The Simpsons (which includes Ron Howard), in which Basinger corrects Homer Simpson on the pronunciation of her last name and polishes her Oscar statuette. Basinger and Baldwin have a daughter, Ireland Eliesse Baldwin (born October 23, 1995), thus connecting her to the well-known Baldwin family. They separated in December 2000 and were officially divorced in February 2002. In the following years, the pair were embroiled in a custody battle over their daughter. In a 2000 interview with Charlie Rose, Basinger confessed to having suffered from agoraphobia in the early 1980s and suffering deep-rooted insecurities.[9] Basinger says that she has a "humorous relationship" with God and a strong faith.[9]
Financial problems
Some family members recommended Basinger buy the small town of Braselton, Georgia, some 1,691 acres in 1989 for US$20 million, to establish as a tourist attraction with movie studios and film festival.[19] However, she encountered financial difficulties and started to sell parts of it off in 1995.[20] 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.
Basinger's financial difficulties were exacerbated when she pulled out of the controversial film Boxing Helena (1993), resulting in the studio's winning an US$8.1 million judgment against her. Basinger filed for bankruptcy [21] and appealed the jury's decision to a higher court, which sided with her. She and the studio settled for $3.8 million instead.[20]
Activism
Basinger is a vegetarian and an animal rights supporter. She has posed for anti-fur advertisements by PETA.[22]
Discography
- Studio albums
- 1989: Hollywood Affair (produced by Prince; Sabotage Records)
- EPs
- 1989: The Scandalous Sex Suite EP with Prince (Warner Bros)
- 1991: Too Hot To Handle EP: Music from the Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (produced by Tim Hauser; Hollywood Records)
Filmography
Television
| Year | Film | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1976 | Gemini Man | Sheila | TV series; episode: "Night Train to Dallas" |
| Charlie's Angels | Linda Oliver | TV series; episode: "Angels in Chains" | |
| 1977 | McMillan & Wife | Janet Carney | TV series; episode: "Dark Sunrise" |
| The Six Million Dollar Man | Lorraine Stenger | TV series; episode: "The Ultimate Imposter" | |
| Dog and Cat | Officer J.Z. Kane | TV series (canceled after 6 episodes) | |
| 1978 | The Ghost of Flight 401 | Prissy Frasier | |
| Katie: Portrait of a Centerfold | Katie McEvera | ||
| Vega$ | Allison Jorden | TV series; episode: "Lady Ice" | |
| 1979 | From Here to Eternity | Lorene Rogers | |
| 1980 | From Here to Eternity | Lorene Rogers | Spinoff (canceled after 13 episodes) |
| 1998 | The Simpsons | Herself | One episode: "When You Dish Upon a Star" |
Awards and honors
Basinger has received an Academy Award, a Golden Globe award (out of two nominations), a Screen Actors Guild Award (out of two nominations), an award from the National Board of Review of Motion Pictures, and an award from the Southeastern Film Critics Association. For her lifetime achievements in the cinematic arts, she received the Athena Award at the Kudzu Film Festival, and has two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. She has also been nominated for the British Academy Film Awards, the People's Choice Awards, the Saturn Awards (three times) and the MTV Movie Awards (four times). More details on Basinger's movie and TV awards and nominations are available on her IMDb page.
See also
References
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j Parish, James Robert (24 August 2007). The Hollywood Book of Extravagance: The Totally Infamous, Mostly Disastrous, and Always Compelling Excesses of America's Film and TV Idols. John Wiley & Sons. p. 66. ISBN 978-0-470-05205-1. Retrieved 11 August 2012.
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- ^ Kim Basinger. Yahoo Movies.
- ^ Baltake, Joe (1983-12-22). "Kim Basinger – Information on the Academy Award Winning Actress and former fashion model". Philadelphia Daily News. Retrieved 2007-12-10.
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- ^ http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000107/bio?ref_=nm_ov_bio_sm
- ^ Wuntch, Philip (1987-08-02). "NADINE IS THAT YOU? Robert Benton needed a down-home girl to play a manicurist in his movie. He found her in Kim Basinger". The Dallas Morning News. Retrieved 2007-12-10.
{{cite news}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter:|coauthors=(help) - ^ Denisoff, R. Serge; Romanowski, William D. (1991). Risky Business: Rock in Film. Transaction Publishers. p. 547. ISBN 978-0-88738-843-9. Retrieved 11 August 2012.
- ^ a b c d e f "Interview". Charlierose.com. Retrieved 11 August 2012.
- ^ Sherrow, Victoria (2006). Encyclopedia of Hair: A Cultural History. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 72. ISBN 978-0-313-33145-9. Retrieved 11 August 2012.
- ^ Publishing, Macmillan; Brownstone, David; Franck, Irene (1 May 1995). People in the News 1995. Macmillan Reference USA. p. 22. ISBN 978-0-02-897058-5. Retrieved 11 August 2012.
- ^ Stephens, Autumn (1998). Drama Queens: Wild Women of the Silver Screen. Conari Press. p. 60. ISBN 978-1-57324-136-6. Retrieved 11 August 2012.
- ^ a b Current biography yearbook. H.W. Wilson Company. 1991. p. 53. Retrieved 11 August 2012.
- ^ Bianculli, David (1992). Teleliteracy: Taking Television Seriously. Syracuse University Press. p. 132. ISBN 978-0-8156-0653-6. Retrieved 11 August 2012.
- ^ "Chart Stats – Was (Not Was)". chartstats.com. Retrieved 2008-11-09.
- ^ Kemp, Stuart (2007-11-05). "Market buyers pick up pace, pics". The Hollywood Reporter.
- ^ a b http://movies.yahoo.com/movie/contributor/1800011707/bio
- ^ Britton, Ron. Longer than Forever. Blake Publishing. 1998. ISBN 978-1-85782-325-7.
- ^ New York Magazine. New York Media, LLC. 23 September 1996. p. 24. ISSN 00287369 Parameter error in {{issn}}: Invalid ISSN.. Retrieved 11 August 2012.
- ^ a b For Kim Basinger, the "fire ball" is out – and Veronica Lake is in
- ^ O'Steen, Kathleen (1993-05-26). "Basinger files Chapter 11". Variety.
- ^ Celebs that protest for PETA, some in the buff. (2008-07-21). "Kim Basinger – Protesting for PETA – Pictures – Homefamily". Virgin Media. Retrieved 2010-03-01.
Further reading
- Britton, Ron; Markham-Smith, Ian; Hodgson, Liz (October 1998). Kim Basinger: Longer Than Forever. Blake. ISBN 978-1-85782-325-7.
External links
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- 1953 births
- 20th-century American actresses
- 21st-century American actresses
- Actresses from Georgia (U.S. state)
- American female models
- American film actresses
- American people of English descent
- American people of German descent
- American people of Swedish descent
- American people of Irish descent
- American voice actresses
- Animal rights advocates
- Best Supporting Actress Academy Award winners
- Best Supporting Actress Golden Globe (film) winners
- Living people
- Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role Screen Actors Guild Award winners
- People from Athens, Georgia