Kim Basinger - 65: What the star of the movie "9 and a half weeks" prefers not to remember

2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55

On December 8, one of the most famous and beautiful American actresses, Oscar winner Kim Basinger, celebrates her 65th birthday. Her most famous role in the melodrama "Nine and a half weeks" was at the same time her biggest failure - the actress was nominated for the Golden Raspberry anti-award - and her biggest success, since it was after this that the whole world learned about her. However, the actress really does not like to remember this time …

Kimila Ann Basinger was born in 1953 in Athens, Georgia. Her father was a financial advisor to banks and played in an amateur jazz band, and her mother, in her youth, was engaged in modeling and was an actress, but left her career for a family and five children. As a child, Kim studied ballet, but soon dropped out of choreography. She grew up very withdrawn and shy - so much so that her parents even took her to a psychiatrist, fearing that her daughter might have autism. However, the doctor saw the reason for this behavior in the Puritan upbringing and did not find any deviations in her development. At school, Kim was repeatedly harassed, which she said only years later: "".

The first victory of Kim Basinger was the title of "Miss Georgia", then she took part in the "Miss America" contest and became one of the most demanded and highly paid models, earning a thousand dollars a day. Her photographs graced the covers of fashion magazines, she starred in dozens of commercials and became the face of famous brands. However, the girl did not want to be limited only to the modeling business and in the mid-1970s. graduated from acting courses. In 1976, Kim quit modeling, moved to Los Angeles and started acting in films. Her first roles did not find recognition from critics and the public. Widespread fame came to her only in 1983, after filming in the next episode of the James Bond film Never Say Never, where Sean Connery became her partner on the set.

For a long time she was offered the same type of roles of fatal beauties. And although they brought her world fame, she did not like to talk about them. So, the erotic melodrama "Nine and a half weeks", about which the whole world spoke, was not among her favorite works. Yes, she had no reason to consider it successful - the Americans did not accept this film, the critics smashed it to smithereens, the actress was nominated for the Golden Raspberry anti-award, which was awarded for the most dubious achievements in cinema. Despite this, the film was commercially successful at the European box office, thanks in large part to its scandalous reputation, and later it was called an erotic movie classic, and Kim Basinger was a sex symbol of the 1980s.

Shooting in the film, which turned her into a world-class star, she called one of the most terrible periods in her life, which she later did not like to remember very much. Many were convinced that the reason for this was a dislike of partner on the set Mickey Rourke. But the actress herself denied it: "".

In the late 1980s. the actress cemented her success by playing the superhero's girlfriend in the movie "Batman". And the most successful in her film career, she considered shooting in the thriller "Secrets of Los Angeles". Initially, Kim rejected the director's offer, since at that time she was going to pause in her creative life, but the decisive argument in favor of filming was the fact that the film involved a star cast: Russell Crowe, Kevin Spacey, Guy Pearce. For this role, the actress was awarded the prestigious Oscar and Golden Globe awards. Later on this work she said: "".

At the beginning of the new century, the actress continued to act actively, although her works of this period are less known to the general public: "Save and Save", "Cellular", "Guard", "Informants", "Burning Plain", "The Double Life of Charlie Sun Cloud" … In 2017, she made herself talk again by playing in the controversial film Fifty Shades Darker, a sequel to Fifty Shades of Gray. She got the role of a friend and business partner of the protagonist Christian.

2 years before that, they also wrote about her in the press, only this time scandals and controversies erupted not because of her creative achievements, but in connection with unsuccessful plastic surgeries. If before that everyone was unanimous that the actress managed to preserve her natural beauty until the age of 60, then after 2015 she was called a victim of plastic surgery, and a large number of photos appeared on the network showing changes in Kim Basinger's appearance before and after plastic surgery.

The actress was married twice. She met her first husband, makeup artist Ron Britton, on the set in 1979 and married him a year later. Their union lasted 7 years, after which the couple divorced due to the constant scenes of jealousy with which her husband harassed her, and his demands to leave the acting career. In 1993, Kim Basinger married again - to the famous actor Alec Baldwin. They met on the set of the film "My Stepmother is an Alien", and the next joint work - "The habit of getting married" - became a landmark for them. A stormy romance unfolded not only on the screens, but also in real life, and 2 years after the wedding, their daughter Ireland was born. Their family life was as difficult as that of their characters in The Habit to Marry - it was accompanied by the same quarrels and scenes of jealousy. It all ended in separation in 2000, legal proceedings for custody of the daughter and divorce in 2002.

After the birth of her daughter, Kim Basinger decided to pause in her acting career and devote herself to her family, which is why she had to break the contract to shoot in the crime drama Elena in the Box. For this she was awarded a $ 9 million fine, which led the actress to a serious financial crisis. But soon she returned to the set again and continues to act to this day.

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