Biography of Kim Basinger

Sex symbol ... for more than nine weeks

December 8, 1953 Kim Basinger seems one of those actresses from the eternal seductive power and you can bet that many will be amazed to discover, making a quick count, that being born in 1953 (the day December 8 in Athens, Georgia), has today his ripe old age. Still are fresh in the memory its sinuous performances in "Nine 1/2 weeks", as well as the wonderful photographs that have immortalized in the radiance of her beauty. Originally from Georgia, Kim Basinger is the daughter of a former model and musician, so much so that at the beginning of his career, eager to follow in his father's footsteps, he served for a short time the singer, learning meanwhile also dancing. His stage name was Chelsea. The desire for independence has always been very strong in her, and at the age of seventeen he slams the door and settled in New York, where he keeps alone studying at drama school doing the photomodel. The need to scrape together the money also brings quite a bit of money by posing nude for Playboy, an issue of the magazine, the one now sought after. In the mid-70 's, tired of paying his body to the covers of fashion magazines, leaving Madison Avenue in New York to go to California. The 1977 date from his first appearances as an actress on tv, including a version for the small screen of "from here to eternity". After its debut on the big screen with "Hard Country" (1981), in 1983 he starred as a protagonist in the episode, "never say never", Unfading series of 007 (Sean Connery) always fond of beautiful women, and then receive another tempting offer for "the best", good movie dramatic content under the name Robert Redford to certify their quality. In the following years she participated in many other films, including "blind date" (with Bruce Willis), "I married an alien" (with Dan Aykroyd), "Batman" (with Michael Keaton and Jack Nicholson), "beautiful, blonde ... and always says Yes," "final analysis" (with Richard Gere and Uma Thurman), "escape from the world of dreams," "a blonde takes the gold" and "Getaway", though he will be remembered forever for the already mentioned "nine and a half weeks" (dated 1986 with Mickey Rourke), a title that really sets as an interpreter of irresistible charm. The 90 's have seen the beautiful Kim Basinger in a bit of shade, also because of some misadventures. Julia Roberts in 1990, for example, takes its place in "Pretty woman", when Kim had already signed the contract. In 1992, however, takes the title role (a woman crippled and at the mercy of a crazed surgeon) in "Boxing Helena", but once you read the script carefully and frightened by the massive doses of sex and violence, withdraws from the operation, move that cost her a subpoena on the part of the film's producers and the sentence of the Court of Los Angeles to pay around seven million. It is true that he has participated in important films shot by big names, like "Robert Altman's" Prêt-à-porter, but has returned to large only in 1997 with "L.A. Confidential" by Curtis Hanson: his performance was rewarded with an Oscar for best supporting actress. Recently, after other trials not heady movie mediocre ("dreaming of Africa", "The Devil's Gambit") is back on magazine covers around the world with "8 Mile", the fictional story of rapper Eminem. Now it's on the set of the new film by Todd Williams, "A door in the floor", a free adaptation of John Irving's novel "a widow for one year". Kim Basinger is married to Alec Baldwin, the beautiful actor met on the set of "beautiful, blonde and always says Yes".
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