Kim Basinger was born on 8 December in 1953. She was born and grew up in Athens in Georgia. Her parents were Ann Lee and Donald Wade Basinger. Her parents both had been into entertainment. Her father played big Band Jazz. Her mother was a water ballet in many Esther Williams movies. She began her acting career in 1976 on television. She made her first film debut drama Hard Country in the year 1981.
She came into limelight after playing Bond girl Domino Petachi film Never Say Never Again in the 1983.She played along with Sean Connery Think of “legend” and define thy word, this man ha >> Read More... . She got a Golden Globe nomination for the role in The Natural as Memo Paris in 1984. She won the Junior Miss Georgia title, travelled to New York Click to look into! >> Read More... to compete in the national Junior Miss pageant in the early 1970s. At the age of 20, she became a top model. She was commanding $1,000 a day. She entered into TV series by doing episodes of hit series such as Charlie's Angels in 1976. In 1980, she married Ron Snyder, and they got divorced in 1989. She played a small-town Texas beauty in Nadine in 1987.
She played the role of photojournalist Vicki Vale in the blockbuster hit Batman in 1989.This became her biggest success. She headed an investment group. The group went to purchase the entire town of Braselton, in her native town Georgia for $20 million. She married Alec Baldwin in 1993, and they had a daughter Ireland Eliesse. In 1997, she won an Oscar for her performance in the film classic LA Confidential.
Her salary for I Dreamed of Africa was $5000000. She became an enormous movie star. In retrospect, she can be seen as a girl who turned from a cover girl to an Oscar-winning actress in Hollywood. She had some financial problems during her late 50s. She filed for bankruptcy and also appealed the jury's decision to a higher court. It was ruled in her favour. She and the studio settled for $3.8 million. She is also an animal right supporter. She posed for anti-fur ads for PETA.
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