Sharon Stone
The femme fatale who conquered Hollywood with intelligence and allure.
Sharon Vonne Stone is an American actress born on March 10, 1958, in Meadville, Pennsylvania.[1][2] She became one of the most popular sex symbols of the 1990s, known for playing femmes fatales and women of mystery.[1]
Quick Facts
- Birth name
- Sharon Vonne Stone
- Born
- 10 March 1958
- Birthplace
- Meadville, Pennsylvania, U.S.
- Occupation
- Actress
- Years active
- 1976–present
- Partner
- William Macdonald (1992–1994); Bob Wagner (1994–1995)
- Children
- 3
Facts from the source article.
Life and work
Stone graduated from Saegertown High School in 1975 and attended Edinboro State College on a creative writing scholarship.[3] She won the title of Miss Crawford County, Pennsylvania, and was a candidate for Miss Pennsylvania in 1976.[4] After being signed by Ford Modeling Agency in 1977, she lived in Milan and Paris before quitting modeling to pursue acting.[4][5] Stone has three adopted sons and resides in West Hollywood, California.[6]
After being hospitalized in September 2001 for a subarachnoid hemorrhage, she stopped acting in films for a period.[7][8] The BBC added her to its 100 Women list in December 2024.[9]
What the cited sources add
The same review states that Stone's performance in Mosaic is "something close to masterful"[10] The Mosaic series premiered on HBO on January 22, 2018.[10] A review in The Daily Beast describes Stone's character in Mosaic, Olivia, as exhibiting "brash-talking toughness, lingering self-doubt, past-her-prime sourness."[10]
References
- Wikipedia, "Sharon Stone" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: "Commandeur of the Order of Arts and Letters", July 16, 2021 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
- Wikipedia, "Sharon Stone" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: "Sharon Stone", Biography.com; "Sharon Stone - Actress, Humanitarian, Activist - Movies for Grownups", Aarp.org; "Joseph William STONE II's Obituary on Los Angeles Times", Los Angeles Times (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
- Wikipedia, "Sharon Stone" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Stated on Inside the Actors Studio, 1999; Stated on Inside the Actors Studio, 1999; Stated on Inside the Actors Studio, 1999; "Reason Sharon Stone hails turning 60 as her "greatest achievement"", Daily Mirror, March 13, 2018 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
- Wikipedia, "Sharon Stone" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Rotunda, "In Your Own Words: A flashback to Sharon Stone, competing to become Miss Pennsylvania 1976", Naples Daily News; Stated on Inside the Actors Studio, 1999; Stated on Inside the Actors Studio, 1999; "The 50 Hottest Models Turned Actresses", Complex Magazine, May 18, 2012 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
- Wikipedia, "Sharon Stone" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Dunn, "When They Were 22: 100 Famous People at the Turning Point in Their Lives", Andrews McMeel Publishing, 2009; Galella, "Actress Sharon Stone attending 'Woody Allen New Year's Eve Party' at Harkness House in New York City, New York. (156098186)", Getty Images, December 31, 1979; Galella, "Actress Sharon Stone attending 'Woody Allen New Year's Eve Party' at Harkness House in New York City, New York. (156098202)", Getty Images, December 31, 1979; Stone, "The Beauty of Living Twice", Alfred A. Knopf, 2021; Stated on Inside the Actors Stud en.wikipedia.org
- Wikipedia, "Sharon Stone" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Perry, "Maternal Instinct: Sharon Stone Adopts Boy", May 12, 2005; Hellard, "Court humiliation for Stone", Herald Sun, October 5, 2008; WENN.com, "Sharon Stone Confirms Adoption", Hollywood.com, August 29, 2006; "Sharon Stone's second chance", CBS News, January 14, 2018 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
- Wikipedia, "Sharon Stone" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Jensen, "Sharon Stone remembers career strife after near-fatal stroke: 'I lost everything I had'", USA Today, July 19, 2019 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
- Wikipedia, "Sharon Stone" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Mike Falcon, "Basic instinct may have saved Sharon Stone", USA Today, October 23, 2001 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
- Wikipedia, "Sharon Stone" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: "BBC 100 Women 2024: Who is on the list this year?", BBC, December 3, 2024 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
- Schager, "Steven Soderbergh's 'Mosaic' Is the Most Innovative TV Series Maybe Ever", The Daily Beast, January 16, 2018. facts only, no text reused. thedailybeast.com
Each numbered sentence above was checked against the source it cites before publication. Sentences citing Wikipedia adapt text from the English Wikipedia article Sharon Stone (contributors), used under CC BY-SA 4.0; this entry is available under the same licence. Other sources were used for facts only; no text or images are copied from them.
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