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Sharon Vonne Stone (born March 10, 1958) is an American actress, model and producer. She came to international attention for her performance in the 1992 blockbuster film Basic Instinct
, which caused controversy for its erotic content.

She was one of the highest paid actresses in Hollywood in the 1990s, until she moved to San Francisco to live with her husband, Phil Bronstein, and raise their adopted son, Roan Joseph. When that marriage dissolved, Stone returned to Los Angeles and resumed her film career.

Personal Life

Stone was born in Meadville, Pennsylvania, between Pittsburgh and Erie, Pennsylvania. The second of four children, she is the daughter of Joe and Dorothy Stone, blue collar workers with ancestral roots in Galway, Ireland. Her brother, Michael, a convicted drug dealer, was linked with British heiress and photographer, Tamara Beckwith, until Beckwith's wealthy parents threatened to disinherit her.

She lives in Beverly Hills, California, and owns a ranch in New Zealand.

Education

Sharon was said to be a smart and ambitious child. She has described herself as "a nerdy, ugly duckling who sat in the back of the closet with a flashlight, reading. I was never a kid. I walked and talked at 10 months. I started school in the second grade when I was five, a real weird, academically driven kid, not at all interested in being social. Recess was a drag until I realized I didn't have to play, that I could lean up against a wall and read". Most of the kids disliked her because she was standoffish and didn't play children's games. One day on the playground she announced, "I am the new Marilyn Monroe." Her mother once said: "Sharon has been posing from the day she arrived. She came out posing."

As a young woman, her IQ was tested and rated at a high level of 154 points. After skipping a grade in school, she was involuntarily transferred from Saegertown High to Edinboro University in Pennsylvania, enrolling at the young age of 15.

Beliefs

It has been said that her parents raised her with feminist values. "My dad never raised me to believe that being a woman inhibited any of my choices or my possibilities to succeed. To be a feminist like Dad in that blue-collar, middle-class world is a big stand", said Sharon.

In April of 2004, she was awarded the National Center for Lesbian Rights Spirit Award in San Francisco for her support and involvement with organizations that serve the lesbian, gay and HIV/AIDS community. She was presented the award by San Francisco Mayor, Gavin Newsom, then embroiled in a national controversy over his decision to allow same sex marriage in his city.

Relationships

She married television producer Michael Greenburg in 1984 on the set of The Vegas Strip War, a TV movie he produced and she starred in, along with Rock Hudson and James Earl Jones. The controversial marriage (Greenburg's first marriage was destroyed along the way) quickly fell apart; they split up three years later, and their divorce was finalized in 1990.

On February 14, 1998, she married Phil Bronstein, editor of the San Francisco Chronicle. Stone and Bronstein were divorced in January 2004, after he had suffered a severe heart attack. They have an adopted son named Roan Joseph, born in 2000.

On May 7, 2005, Stone, aged 47, adopted a baby boy who had been born in Texas to a surrogate mother. She named the baby boy Laird Vonne Stone.

In 2005 during a television interview for her movie Basic Instinct 2, Sharon arguably came out as bisexual stating "Middle age is an open-minded period.". Though in an interview on the Parkinson talk show in England on March 18 2006, she said she was straight.

Religion

In the early 1990's, Stone became a member of the controversial Church of Scientology. The religion, often considered a 'cult', is infamous due to many Hollywood followers. Stone remained with the religion until recently when fellow actor Richard Gere introduced her to the Dalai Lama. Since then she converted to Buddhism.

Medical Problems

Shortly after the release of Total Recall, Stone had a bad car accident on Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles. Immediately after the accident, she went home, not knowing she had just suffered a concussion. She woke up almost completely paralyzed and ended up lying on the floor, crying, for three days. When she finally got to the hospital, the concussion was diagnosed along with a dislocated shoulder and jaw, several broken ribs, and three compressed disks in her back. The accident left scars that are visible in some of her later screen appearances.

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