Kim basinger

Born on December 8, 1953, in Athens (Georgia), Kimila Ann Basinger, Kim for friends, is the daughter of Ann, a dancer and model, and Don, a jazz musician who became a businessman, who had participated in the Normandy landings. . Since she was little, she studied ballet, and she was always extremely shy, to the point that her parents came to think that she was autistic, and she was about to faint from her when the teacher made her come out to the blackboard.

But Basinger is distinguished by her great willpower, and although she also suffers from agoraphobia – a pathological fear of open spaces – she managed to better herself little by little and enter beauty pageants during her adolescence. She ended up being elected Miss Georgia, which opened the doors of modeling agencies for her, and the way to succeed in the field of advertising.

After studying acting at the Neighborhood Playhouse, she moved to Los Angeles with the intention of making it big in movies. She made her first steps in a television series and made her film debut in 1981 with Hard Country , by David Greene . Although she had never seen a 007 movie before, she was recruited to play one of the most explosive Bond girls on record in Never Say Never , the ‘unofficial’ tape of the saga in which Sean Connery last played the role that made him famous.

The golden age of Kim Basinger began in 1983, when she was one of the protagonists of My Problems with Women , a comedy by Blake Edwards , who would later recover it in the hilarious Blind Date . She was the object of Robert Redford ‘s desire in The Best of Her, where she played a woman who has a passion for achievers. Right after she became the star of the moment with the overrated erotica 9 1/2 Weeks , in which she starred with Mickey Rourke . She was the girlfriend of the Batman in Tim Burton ‘s Batman , she accompanied Richard Gerein the low-key thriller Dead End and shared the screen with cartoon characters in Cool World. a blonde between two worlds .

During the filming of She Always Says Yes , she fell in love with her co-star, Alec Baldwin , with whom Basinger, divorced from make-up artist Ron Britton, remained together for many years, and had a daughter, Ireland Eliesse. She separated from Baldwin in 2001.

In the mid-90s, her career stagnated, after being denounced for breach of contract for refusing to shoot Jennifer Lynch’s My Obsession with Helena , because although she had signed the contract, she smelled that it was going to be a disaster. She had been in dry dock for almost three years when she read the script for LA Confidential , but oddly enough, she threw it away. “I will never play a prostitute,” she said. But she later thought that the story she had read was not bad, and she decided to accept. It was a lucky decision, as she did one of the best jobs of her career as Lynn Bracken, a luxury prostitute who imitated Veronica Lake . She quite rightly got the Oscar for supporting actress.

Since then, she can be seen in small roles, often as a mother, in titles such as 8 miles , Far from the Scorched Earth and Always by my side (Charlie St. Cloud) . She also shined as a kidnapped woman in the entertaining and vibrant Cellular .