Biography of Kim Basinger
Kim Basinger was one of the most seductive Hollywood actresses of the 80s. She was dubbed "the new Marilyn Monroe" after her roles in the movies "Nine ½ Weeks" (Elizabeth McGraw), "Blind Date" (Nadia Gates), and "The Marrying Man" (Vicki Anderson). She is an Oscar and Golden Globe winner for her role as Lynn Bracken in "L.A. Confidential".
Childhood and Youth
Kimila Ann Basinger (the actress's full name) was born in the winter of 1953 to parents Donald Wade Basinger and Ann Lee Cordell in Athens, Georgia. Her father was a jazz musician who later became a financial consultant.
Despite a rather strict upbringing, she considers her childhood to be happy. She enjoyed helping her mother cook - peas, green turnip, pumpkin pie. But what the girl loved most were German chocolate cakes, which she ate with pleasure, despite having to watch her figure since she was three because she was doing ballet.

Kim had no school friends, classmates didn't really want to socialize with the girl who was always daydreaming. Everything changed in high school when Basinger joined the cheerleading squad and started dancing. By the age of 16, Kim had transformed from a gawky teenager into a beautiful girl, started making her first steps in the modeling business, and in 1971 she won the Junior Miss Georgia pageant. After this, Kim went to New York, where she represented her state in the America's Junior Miss Scholarship pageant.“I don't like being the center of attention. I remember when I was little, my mom would give me a birthday present, and I'd run off to my room to open it. And not much has changed with age. Friends occasionally throw parties for me for various reasons, I'll hang out for a bit, and then I run off to the neighbors' house. That's how quiet I am!”



Film Career
Initially, Basinger was regarded as just another beauty, and her roles reflected this. She appeared as Jodie Lee Palmer ("Hard Country"), and Louise Carr ("The Man Who Loved Women").



In the very explicit scenes, Kim was substituted by a body double. But the shooting was far from easy. The film's director, Adrian Lyne, subjected Basinger (and Rourke) to psychological terror. They were forbidden to communicate after work, Lyne fed the actress unpleasant gossip about Mickey, and passed on valuable advice to Rourke in notes, but he did nothing similar for Kim. All of this fueled the actress's irritation and directed her performance in the way Lyne wanted.I think that both me and my character were misunderstood. It's a very contradictory film. We made a truly wonderful movie, but in the end, what appeared on the screen was a version in the style of MTV. Women still approach me on the street and ask, 'That scene from '9½ Weeks' – could you teach me how?'.

With Bruce Willis, the actress brought a love story to life in the melodramatic comedy "Blind Date". In the sci-fi film "My Stepmother Is an Alien" with Dan Aykroyd in the lead role, Kim managed to create the unforgettable character of Celeste Martin, an alien creature who arrived on Earth with a combat mission but never completed it.



The new millennium began for the actress with the horror film "Bless the Child", where she played nurse Maggie O'Connor. Her character raises her younger sister's daughter. When her sister returns home with her new husband – the leader of a religious sect, Maggie learns a horrifying truth about her niece. To help the baby, she turns to an FBI occult specialist.The role in 'L.A. Confidential' was a real gift for me. I enjoyed filming so much! For the first time in a long time, I really enjoyed acting - everything that happened between the commands 'action!' and 'cut!'.





Personal Life of Kim Basinger
Before marrying, Kim had a series of short-term affairs. Among her boyfriends were cinematographer Dale Robinette, actor Jan-Michael Vincent, and Tom Sonders and Richard Deros.Kim's first husband was makeup artist Ron Snyder, who took the surname Britton. He was the son of Marilyn Monroe's personal makeup artist, and he met Kim on the set of "Hard Country". Initially, Ron attracted Kim's attention with his modesty and care, qualities that were lacking in her previous suitors. Even though he was 15 years older than the actress, Kim married Britton in 1980.

In 1987, they separated, and Kim started dating producer Jon Peters. In 1989, Basinger officially divorced, and Britton won a monthly alimony of eight thousand dollars and complete mortgage payment from his ex-wife. In his memoir, Ron accused his former wife of infidelity, attributing her an affair with Richard Gere during their life together.




In 2015, there were rumors that Kim secretly married her hairdresser, Mitch Stone. Paparazzi managed to take several pictures where they both wore identical gold rings on their ring fingers.

Kim Basinger Now
Basinger hasn't had any film roles since 2018, but in 2021, she joined Chloe Sevigny, Du Juan, Jourdan Dunn and other actresses in the Miu Miu Icons advertising campaign, a subsidiary brand of Prada Miu Miu. The concept by photographers Mert Alas and Marcus Piggott involves uniting women based on their individuality and their differences from each other.
Interesting Facts
- At school, Kim Basinger was teased as a "dummy" and "fish mouth", which often led her into awkward situations and made her feel very lonely.
- Kim received her first million-dollar fee for the role of Nadia Gates in the movie "Blind Date".
- In 1989, the actress spent 20 million dollars on realizing her next dream: turning the small town of Braselton in her home state of Georgia into a tourist center. The investment turned out to be unprofitable, and after trading, Basinger was only able to recover 1 million dollars from the original investment.
- In the scene of the movie "9 ½ Weeks" where John feeds Elizabeth food from the refrigerator, a "movie mistake" was made because Basinger refused to eat chili pepper. The scriptwriter insisted that the vegetable had to be long. The director persuaded Kim to eat a small pepper so that the reaction to the chili would be natural. As a result, Rourke pulls out a long pepper from the refrigerator, and a second later, the actress is chewing a small pepper.
- Divorce from Alec Baldwin and other life problems led Basinger to panic attacks, she suffered from agoraphobia and was afraid of everything in life. The actress managed to cope with the ailment and, according to her, she let go of all her pain.
- Kim Basinger has her own star, number 7021, on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
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