“I think any girl who comes to Hollywood with sex symbol or bombshell hanging over her has a rough road.” Kim Basinger
Leggy, full-lipped, blue-eyed blonde Kim Basinger first came to prominence as one of the world’s top fashion models before establishing a highly successful film career with her Oscar-winning supporting turn as a Hollywood call girl in Curtis Hanson’s L.A. Confidential (1997), where she also nabbed a Golden Globe Award. The former Breck Girl and Playboy playmate, who was routinely cast as a sex object, also gained popularity for playing roles in such films as the James Bond movie Never Say Never Again (1983), The Man Who Loved Women (1983), The Natural (1984), 9 1/2 Weeks (1986), the blockbuster hit Batman (1989), Final Analysis (1992), Cool World (1992), Wayne’s World 2 (1993) and Roger Donaldson’s thriller The Getaway (1994). A cover girl turned Oscar-winning actress, Basinger also added I Dreamed of Africa (2000), Bless the Child (2000), 8 Mile (2002), The Door in the Floor (2004) and the well-received thriller Cellular (2004) to her acting resume. Recently starring in Even Money (2006) and appearing in The Sentinel (2006), the 53-year-old actress will soon make her return to television with the forth coming The Mermaid Chair (2006).
A blend of Irish, German, Swedish and Cherokee Indian, Basinger was named one of Empire magazine’s “100 Sexiest Stars in Film History” (1995) and one of the John Willis’ Screen World “Twelve Promising New Actors” (1984). In late 1989, Basinger made headlines after buying the town of Braselton in her native Georgia. Four years later, she again became the center of interest after being sued by Main Line studio for violating a verbal agreement she had made to star in the motion picture Boxing Helena. She was ordered to pay them $8.1 million dollars, which caused her to file personal bankruptcy. On a more positive note, animal lover and strict vegan Basinger is known as an active supporter of PETA. As for her private life, the blonde beauty has been married twice, once to Ron Britton (from 1980-1989), and once to Alec Baldwin (from 1993-2001), with whom she has a daughter. Her romantic life has also been involved with Prince (dated in the 1980s), Jon Peters (also dated in the 1980s) and Eminem (reportedly dated while shooting the film 8 Mile).
Timid Dodo
Childhood and Family:
Born Kimila Ann Basinger, on December 8, 1953, in Athens, Georgia, Kim Basinger was the 3rd of 5 children to Don, a jazz musician and loan-company manager, and Ann, a former model, champion swimmer and water ballet artist who often performed in Esther Williams movies. She has two brothers, Mick and Skip, and two younger sisters, Ashley and Barbara. Thoughtful Kim was considered a shy girl when she was a student. To help overcome her shyness, her parents sent young Kim to ballet classes. Despite the bashfulness, Kim, whose nickname is Dodo, wanted to become a performer.
Kim attended Athens High School and joined the school cheerleader team. An active girl, she also took dancing, diving and gymnastic lessons. At age 16, Kim, joined the local Junior Miss pageant and won by singing a number from the 1964 movie My Fair Lady. She was later crowned “Junior Miss Georgia” and flew to New York City to compete in the national Junior Miss pageant. A former student of the University of Georgia, Kim later dropped out of college and moved to New York City to pursue a modeling career. She later also added acting to her endeavors.
In 1980, Kim married makeup artist Ron Britton, but they divorced nine years later, in 1989. She later married actor Alec Baldwin (born in 1958), whom she met while on the production of the 1990 movie The Marrying Man. The couple married on August 19, 1993, and had their first child, daughter Ireland Eliesse Baldwin, on October 23, 1995. In the late 2000s, Kim and Baldwin became estranged before finally filing for divorce in January 2001.
Batman Girl
Career:
A native of Athens, Georgia, 16-year-old Kim Basinger started her modeling career by entering the Athens Junior Miss contest and sang her way to the tiara with a number from My Fair Lady, “Wouldn’t It Be Loverly.” She followed that up by winning the title of “Junior Miss Georgia.” The once-shy Basinger then headed to New York City to compete in the national Junior Miss pageant. It was there that Basinger was approached by fashion modeling mogul Eileen Ford, who offered the young beauty queen a modeling contract with her celebrated Ford Modeling Agency. Initially turning down the offer in favor of singing and acting, Basinger made up her mind and headed back to NYC to become a Ford model.
Not long after penning the deal, Basinger’s pretty face graced numerous magazine covers and she also appeared in hundred of ads throughout the early ‘70s, 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 between modeling work and attending acting classes at the prestigious Neighborhood Playhouse as well as performing in various Greenwich Village clubs.
In 1976, after a five-year stint as a cover girl, Basinger decided to put her modeling career on the backburner and move to Los Angeles to begin a career in acting. Her early TV appearances include guest starring in “Gemini Man,” “Charlie’s Angels,” “The Six Million Dollar Man” and “McMillan and Wife.” In 1977, she made her TV movie debut with a costarring role as cop J.Z. Kane, opposite Lou Antonio, in the ABC police drama Dog and Cat, a role she reprised for the short-lived series of the same name. After a string of TV projects, including a title character in NBC’s film Katie: Portrait of a Centerfold (1978) and a supporting role as Lorene Rogers in the miniseries adaptation of “From Here to Eternity” (1979, also reprised the role in a short-lived spin-off series in the next year), Basinger made her move to the big screen by taking the female lead in the low-budget, but well-received, Hard Country (1981).
Basinger then undertook a costarring role, opposite actor and director Charlton Heston, in his adventure film The Mother Lode (1982), but it was in the following year that she won the roles of James Bond Girl Domino Petachi in Never Say Never Again and Louise Carr, opposite Burt Reynolds, in Blake Edwards’ remake of The Man Who Loved Women (1983). The movies gave Basinger’s career attention and she gained additional notice for posing topless for Playboy magazine.
Her career began to take off and Basinger was considered for better roles. In 1985, she was nominated for Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture Golden Globe Award for her good portrayal of femme fatale Memo Paris, who romances Robert Redford, in The Natural (1984). As she tried to display her range and capability, Basinger, however, had to deal with blockbuster failure with the film version of Sam Shepard’s Off-Broadway hit Fool for Love (1985, starred with Mickey Rourke) for director Robert Altman. She followed that up with a series of flops like Adrian Lyne’s 9 1/2 Weeks (1986), Blake Edwards’ Blind Date (1987) and My Stepmother Is an Alien (1988). Basinger bounced back in 1989 when she was chosen to replace the injured Sean Young, and the love interest of Michael Keaton’s Batman, in the box office smash hit Batman.
The actress next teamed up with her then-lover Alec Baldwin in the trouble-plagued and box office disappointment The Marrying Man (1991) and earned MTV nominations for Most Desirable Female for her role in Final Analysis (1992, with Richard Gere) and Ralph Bakshi’s live action/animated mishmash Cool World (1992). She was also nominated for Best Kiss at the MTV Movie Awards when she made a cameo appearance in Wayne’s World 2 (1993) and again was honored with the Most Desirable Female MTV Movie nomination for her starring turn opposite Baldwin in Roger Donaldson’s thriller The Getaway (1994). She was then offered the role of TV reporter Kitty Potter in Altman’s Ready to Wear (1994), before taking a few years off to concentrate on her new family with Baldwin.
Returning to filmmaking in 1997, Basinger hit the big time when director Curtis Hanson cast her in the supporting role of Lynn Bracken, a hooker made to look like Veronica Lake, in L.A. Confidential. Delivering a brilliant scene-stealing performance, she was handed an Academy Award, a Golden Globe, a Screen Actors Guild and a Southeastern Film Critics Association for Best Supporting Actress, as well as received a nomination at BAFTA for Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role. The film noir classic starred Kevin Spacey, Russell Crowe, Guy Pearce and James Cromwell.
After taking another break, Basinger made her way back to the cinematic industry in 2000 with the moderate success I Dreamed of Africa and the absurd thriller Bless the Child. In the first film, she portrayed Kuki Gallmann, a woman recently relocated to the Dark Continent, and in the second, she was cast as Maggie O’Connor, the aunt of a girl wanted by Satanic cultists. In 2002, she rejoined L.A. Confidential director Curtis Hanson to costar as rapper Eminem’s drug-addled mother in 8 Mile, a fictionalized telling of the hip-hop artist’s rise from the streets of urban Detroit. She followed that up with roles in People I Know (2003, with Al Pacino), the adaptation of John Irving’s A Widow For One Year, The Door in the Floor (2004, opposite Jeff Bridges), the comedy/romance Elvis Has Left the Building (2004) and the well-received thriller Cellular (2004, earning a Saturn Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress).
Recently, Basinger starred with Danny DeVito, Kelsey Grammer and Nick Cannon in the crime/drama Even Money (2006) and shared the screen with Michael Douglas, Kiefer Sutherland and Eva Longoria in the Clark Johnson-directed thriller The Sentinel (2006). She is also set to make her TV comeback with a starring role in director Steven Schachter’s TV movie adaptation of The Mermaid Chair (2006).
Awards:
Kudzu Film Festival: Athena Award for her achievements in the cinematic arts, 1999
Southeastern Film Critics Association: Best Supporting Actress, L.A. Confidential, 1998
Screen Actors Guild: Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role, L.A. Confidential, 1998
Golden Globe: Best Actress in a Supporting Role, L.A. Confidential, 1997
Academy Award: Best Supporting Actress, L.A. Confidential, 1997
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Произведения Шекспира, Достоевского, Булгакова, Дикенса на английском языке. В целях изучения и более глубокого понимания английского языка к самым интересным книгам подготовлен перевод на русский язык...
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