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Trivia
Birth name: Sharon Vonne Stone
Date of birth: 10 March 1958
Place of birth: Meadville, Pennsylvania, USA
Height: 5' 7˝" (1.71 m)
Spouse: Phil Bronstein (14 February 1998 - 29 January 2004) (divorced) 1 child,
Michael Greenburg (18 August 1984 - 20 January 1987) (divorced),
George Englund Jr. (divorced).
Chosen by Empire magazine as one of the "100 Sexiest Stars in Film
History" (#49). [1995]
Sharon and husband Phil Bronstein, a newspaperman, adopted a child they
named Roan Joseph Bronstein, born 22 May 2000 in Texas. He weighed 5
pounds, 6 ounces, and was adopted by Stone and Bronstein a week after
birth. His first name is Celtic for "seal," and his middle
name is a tribute to Stone's father. [July 2000]
Playboy Magazine's "100 Sexiest Stars of the Century," Number
24. [1999]
Entered Pennsylvania's Edinboro University at age 15.
IQ of 154 (Source: The Times, March 25th, 1998).
Ranked #77 in Empire (UK) magazine's "The Top 100 Movie Stars of
All Time" list. [October 1997]
Reported to be dating Columbia Pictures production boss, Barry Josephson.
[November 1996]
Engaged to producer William J. MacDonald. [1993-1994]
Former "Ford" Model.
Owns her own production company, Chaos.
Lives in Beverly Hills.
Went to school at Saegertown High School, Saegertown, PA.
Has a visible scar on her neck that is usually covered by clothing.
Has one older brother, one younger brother, and a younger sister (Kelly
Stone).
Auditioned for the Cathy Moriarty role in Raging Bull (1980).
As a teenager worked part-time as a McDonald's countergirl.
One of People Magazine's "50 Most Beautiful People." [1992]
Is allergic to caffeine.
One of People Magazine's "25 Most Intriguing People" of 1992.
Auditioned for the Glenn Close role in Fatal Attraction (1987).
Auditioned for the Kim Basinger role in Batman (1989).
Auditioned for the Madonna role in Dick Tracy (1990).
Turned down the role in Exit to Eden (1994) that later went to Rosie
O'Donnell.
Speaks Italian
Is asthmatic.
Ex-husband Phil Bronstein is one of the editors of the San Francisco
Examiner.
Received a humanitarian award from the Human Rights Campaign, a
well-funded organization specializing in gay and lesbian rights, for her
role in If These Walls Could Talk 2 (2000) (TV), in which she plays the
lover to Ellen DeGeneres', with whom she wants to raise a child. [2000]
Is a gay rights activist.
Stone's former housekeeper Socorro Del Carmen Membreno pleaded not
guilty to grand theft of $300,000 worth of jewelry and other valuables
from Stone's L.A. home two months earlier. [2 March 2000]
As a child, Sharon once said she would become the next Marilyn Monroe.
Sharon was granted a restraining order against Agostino P'omata, who
allegedly had made threats of violence against her. [27 March 2001]
Dated Dwight Yoakam in the early 1990s, and was rather famously quoted
as saying, "Kissing Dwight is like eating a dirt sandwich."
Suffered a brain aneurysm and was hospitalized for a while. [October
2001]
Irish-American
Sister of actor Michael Stone.
Has one adopted son, Roan Joseph Bronstein, born on 22 May 2000.
Former daughter-in-law of Cloris Leachman and George Englund.
Is a close friend of Jeanne Moreau. Presented a 1998 American Academy of
Motion Pictures life tribute to her.
Measurements: 35B-24-35 (as Ford model-1980), 36B-25-35 (self-described
in 1993 as wearing a 36B bra), (Source: Celebrity Sleuth magazine)
Spent many long workdays in agony while filming scenes for Casino
(1995). She has back trouble due to an old injury, and the gold and
white beaded gown she wore during a casino scene weighed 45 pounds.
She passionately kissed fan Joni Rimm for charity after she paid $50,000
for the pleasure. She auctioned the kiss in aid of Project Angel Foods,
a Los Angeles charity providing meals for homeless people. (August 12,
2003)
Made a teenage ballet star's dreams come true by giving her $ 75,000 for
tuition fees.
During Total Recall (1990) filming, she complained to director Paul
Verhoeven that she wasn't sure whether her character really was married
to Doug.
June 11, 2001: her husband, Phil Bronstein, underwent foot surgery after
being attacked by a Komodo dragon during a private tour of Los Angeles
Zoo. The tour was arranged by Stone as a Father's Day gift for Bronstein,
who had always wanted to see one of the Indonesian lizards up close. The
attack occurred after Bronstein had removed his white shoes. Zookeepers
later speculated the 5-foot- long lizard may have mistaken the shoes for
white rats it ate regularly.
Met her close friend Mimi Craven on the set of Deadly Blessing (1981).
They subsequently worked together on the film Last Dance (1996) in 1996.
A sex scene in The Quick and the Dead (1995) between Ellen (Stone) and
Cort (Russell
Crowe) was shot, but Stone and director Sam Raimi decided that it
wasn't a necessary part of the story. The scene was not included in the
American release of the film, but international versions do include it.
Received the Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters from the French
government in 1995.
Is diabetic.
Her scar on her neck is from a childhood accident. She was riding a
horse and she ran right into a clothes line and it ripped her neck open.
Is a big supporter of the AIDS research organization AMFAR.
Her famous "leg crossing" scene in Basic Instinct (1992) was
voted "Sexiest Leg Moment on Screen" in a poll for Veet.
Entered the Miss Pennsylvania Pageant at age 17.
Moved to New York City (1977).
Appeared as spokesmodel contestant on the pilot for the syndicated
series "Star Search" (1983); won the competition (1983).
Won the Miss Crawford County (Pennsylvania) beauty pageant and was also
queen of her high school's spring festival (1975).
As a child, put on theatrical productions in the family's two-car garage
before an audience of neighbors seated at a picnic table; as one garage
door went down, the other would go up, revealing a new Stone-created
set.
28 Jan 2005, World Economic Forum, Davos, Switzerland. At the end of the
debate on 'funding the war on poverty', she stood up and pledged 10,000
dollars and asked people to follow her. Already, within a few minutes
they raised nearly 100,000 dollars - she wanted to raise at least one
million. She did it in 5 minutes. It's mone that will go directly to the
Global Fund to Fight Aids Tuberculosis and Malaria - to buy bed nets to
stop deaths from malaria in the developing world.
Graduated from the Edinboro State University of Pennsylvania with a
degree in creative writing & fine arts
Member of the Jury at Cannes Festival in 2002 alongside David Lynch,
Christine Hakim, Claude Miller, Michelle Yeoh, Raoul Ruiz, Régis
Wargnier, Walter Salles and 'Bill August' (full-length films category).
adopted a son, Laird Vonne Stone, who was born "to unknown and
unrelated parents" in Texas on May 7, 2005. [11 May 2005]
Created Officer in France's Order of Arts and Letters by Festival
President Gilles Jacob, 20 May 2005 on the sidelines of the 58th edition
of the Cannes International Film Festival.
14 March 2005: for the past 10 years a dedicated foundraiser and
advocate for AIDS research, she received the Harvard Foundation's 2005
Humanitarian Award at the Memorial Church.
Is good friends with singer Christina
Aguilera and attended Aguilera's November 19, 2005 wedding to music
producer Jordan Bratman in Napa Valley, California. |
