Kim Basinger - Wikipedia. Kimila Ann "Kim" Basinger (BAY- sing- ər; born December 8, 1. Watch My Name Is Lenny Tube Free on this page.

American actress, singer and former fashion model. Following a successful modeling career in New York during the 1. Basinger moved to Los Angeles where she began her acting career on television in 1. She starred in several made- for- TV films, including a remake of From Here to Eternity (1. Hard Country. She won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance as Lynn Bracken in the 1. L. A. Confidential. Basinger came to prominence playing Bond girl.

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Domino Petachi in the 1. Never Say Never Again, opposite Sean Connery, and went on to receive a Golden Globe nomination for her role as Memo Paris in The Natural (1. She starred as Elizabeth in the controversial erotic romantic drama 9½ Weeks (1. Mickey Rourke, and as Vicki Vale in Tim Burton's blockbuster Batman (1. For her role in L. A. Confidential, she also won the Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actress and the SAG Award for Best Supporting Actress.

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Her other films include I Dreamed of Africa (2. Mile (2. 00. 2), The Door in the Floor (2. Cellular (2. 00. 4), The Nice Guys (2. Fifty Shades Darker (2. Early life[edit]Basinger was born in Athens, Georgia, on December 8, 1. Her mother, Ann Lee (née Cordell), was a model, actress and swimmer who appeared in several Esther Williams films.

Her father, Donald Wade Basinger (died 2. U. S. Army soldier, he landed in Normandy on D- Day.[3] The third of five children, she has two brothers, James Michael "Mick" and Skip, and two sisters, Ashley and Barbara.

Basinger's ancestry includes English, German, Swedish, and Scots- Irish.[4][5][6] She was raised a Methodist.[7] Basinger has described herself as extremely shy, which had a major effect on her during her childhood and young adulthood.[5] She has said that her shyness was so extreme that she would faint if asked to speak in class.[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. At 1. 7, she entered the America's Junior Miss Scholarship Pageant, won at the city level and was crowned Athens Junior Miss. Although she lost in the state pageant to Sue Whitted, who competed as "Georgia's Junior Miss," her beauty was profiled in the national program. She had competed at the state level for the Breck Scholarship and was featured in an ad for Breck in a joint portrait with her mother. Watch Timbuktu Download Full.

She was subsequently offered a modeling contract with the Ford Modeling Agency. Watch Carry On Teacher Download here. 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. Despite earning $1,0. Basinger never enjoyed modeling, 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." 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] Not long after her Ford deal, Basinger appeared on the cover of magazines. She appeared in hundreds of advertisements throughout the early 1.

Breck Shampoo girl. She alternated between modeling and attending acting classes at the Neighborhood Playhouse, as well as performing in Greenwich Village clubs as a singer. Early work[edit].

Basinger as Officer J. Z. Kane in ABC television series Dog and Cat (1. In 1. 97. 6, after five years as a cover girl, Basinger quit modeling and moved to Los Angeles to act. She made guest appearances on a few TV shows such as Mc. Millan & Wife and Charlie's Angels, turning down a regular role in the latter series that eventually went to Cheryl Ladd. Her first starring vehicle was a made- for- TV movie, Katie: Portrait of a Centerfold (1. Hollywood to become an actress and winds up becoming a famous centerfold for a men's magazine.

In 1. 97. 9, she co- starred with Natalie Wood, William Devane and Steve Railsback in the miniseries remake of From Here to Eternity, reprising the role in a 1. Her feature debut was the critically well- received rural drama Hard Country (1. Charlton Heston- directed adventure film Mother Lode (1. In 1. 98. 1, Basinger posed for a famous nude pictorial for Playboy, which didn't appear for two years, until she used it to promote her breakthrough role as the Bond girl.

Domino Petachi in Never Say Never Again (1. Sean Connery. In his review of the film, Gary Arnold of The Washington Post said Basinger "looks like a voluptuous sibling of Liv Ullmann and has a certain something."[1. Basinger said her subsequent Playboy appearance led to further opportunities, such as Barry Levinson's The Natural (1. Robert Redford, for which she earned a Golden Globe nomination as Best Supporting Actress. In 1. 98. 6, Basinger starred opposite Mickey Rourke in Adrian Lyne's controversial erotic romantic drama 9½ Weeks.[1.

Though the film failed at the U. S. box office, it performed very well in Europe, especially France, and acquired a large American fanbase on home video and cable. Roger Ebert praised the film, comparing it to Last Tango in Paris, and said Basinger helped "develop an erotic tension.. Academy Award- winning writer- director Robert Benton cast her in the title role for the film Nadine (1.

Several directors cast her twice in their films, including Blake Edwards for The Man Who Loved Women (1. Blind Date (1. 98. Robert Altman for Fool for Love (1. Prêt- à- Porter (1. Mainstream exposure[edit]The highest- grossing film of her career thus far was Tim Burton's 1.

Batman,[1. 8] where Basinger played the role of photojournalist Vicki Vale.[5] After her role in Batman, Basinger was invited to present the award for Best Original Score at the 6. Academy Awards, during which she publicly chastised the Academy for not nominating Spike Lee's Do the Right Thing (1. Best Picture.[1. 9]In 1. 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.[2.

That same year, she starred in the live- action/animated film, Cool World (directed by Ralph Bakshi), where she voiced/played Holli Would, a cartoon bombshell who longs to become a real human woman. The film marks her only voice- acting role to date. In 1. 99. 7, after a three- year hiatus from acting, Basinger made a comeback as the femme fatale in Curtis Hanson's neo- noir L. A. Confidential alongside Guy Pearce and Russell Crowe. 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. She holds the distinction of being the only actress who has both posed nude in Playboy and won an Academy Award (Oscar winner Charlize Theron also appeared nude in Playboy, but those photos were from a separate shoot and published in the magazine without her consent). In a 2. 00. 0 interview with Charlie Rose, Basinger said that L.

A. Confidential and her next project, I Dreamed of Africa (2. Kuki Gallmann), 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] Hanson cast her again, as Eminem's mother in 8 Mile (2. Later projects[edit]In 2.

Basinger co- starred with Jeff Bridges and Jon Foster in The Door in the Floor, a drama with heavy sexual themes adapted from the novel A Widow for One Year by John Irving. She was next featured in the crime thrillers Cellular (2. The Sentinel (2. 00. Lifetime original film The Mermaid Chair (2. Benedictine monk and experiences a self- awakening.

Her 2. 00. 9 film The Informers premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in January 2.