She followed up with comic roles in Nadine (1987) and My Stepmother Is an Alien (1988).Ĭourtesy of Atlanta Journal-Constitution.Īfter her divorce from Britton in 1989, Basinger starred as Vicky Vale opposite Michael Keaton in the blockbuster hit Batman (1989). The film 9 1/2 Weeks (1986), in which Basinger costarred with Mickey Rourke, propelled her to international stardom. She continued to costar in several successful movies, including The Natural (1984) with Robert Redford, Fool for Love (1985) with Sam Shepard, and No Mercy (1986) with Richard Gere. Basinger married makeup artist Ron Britton in 1982.īasinger’s popularity spiked in 1983 when she posed nude for Playboy magazine and appeared opposite such leading men as Sean Connery in the James Bond film Never Say Never Again (1983) and Burt Reynolds in The Man Who Loved Women (1983).
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A role in the miniseries remake of From Here to Eternity (1979) was followed by her first feature film, Hard Country (1981), in which she starred opposite Jan-Michael Vincent.
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In 1977 she played the title female role in Dog and Cat, a short-lived cop series, and in 1978 landed the leading role in the made-for-television movie Katie: Portrait of a Centerfold. Less than a year after her arrival in Los Angeles, Basinger made guest appearances in several mid-1970s television hits, including The Six Million Dollar Man and Charlie’s Angels. In 1976 Basinger’s modeling career literally became water under the bridge, after she threw her portfolio into the East River and moved to Los Angeles, California, with her boyfriend, model Dale Robinette, to pursue an acting career. She disliked modeling, however, and in her spare time took acting and voice lessons, in addition to singing at open-mike nights in Greenwich Village. By the time Basinger was twenty years old, her numerous appearances on magazine covers and in print advertisements, most notably as the Breck Shampoo girl, were commanding $1,000 a day. Modeling CareerĪlthough Basinger initially hoped to have a career as a cabaret singer, she became a full-time working model in New York City within weeks of signing a contract with the Ford Agency. In 1971 she won the Athens Junior Miss pageant, and soon thereafter she was offered a modeling contract by Eileen Ford of the well-known Ford Agency in New York City. At a young age, after her parents enrolled her in dance classes to combat shyness, Basinger discovered that she loved singing and dancing. Her father was a jazz musician before becoming a loan-company manager, and her mother was a former model, dancer, and swimmer who had performed in the water ballet chorus of several Esther Williams musicals. The third of five children, Basinger was raised in a family of entertainers. Kimila Ann Basinger was born in Athens on December 8, 1953, to Ann and Don Basinger. Best known as an Academy Award–winning actress, Georgia native Kim Basinger has also been recognized as a fashion model, businesswoman, animal activist, and to a lesser extent, recording artist.
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