Sharon Stone was born on March 10, 1958, in Meadville, Pennsylvania. Her father, Joseph William Stone II, was a tool and die manufacturer and competitive bodybuilder, and her mother, Dorothy Marie (née LAWSon), was an accountant.
Sharon’s paternal grandfather, William Stone, emigrated from Scotland to the United States in the early 1900s. Sharon’s parents were both of Italian descent; she also has German, Irish, English, and Welsh ancestry.
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After her parents divorced when she was nine years old, Sharon and her two brothers lived with their mother; Stone later said that she experienced physical and sexual abuse as a child. In a 1995 interview with David Letterman, she stated that she was put up for adoption at age two because her parents could not afford to care for her and her siblings.
She was later adopted by Louise and John Bregman after their own daughter died of a heart defect at age 18 months old. John Bregman’s work as an advertising executive ultimately influenced Sharon’s career direction; after he took the family on vacation to Los Angeles, she saw an advertisement for acting classes and decided to give it a try.
Sharon took acting classes throughout high school before landing her first professional role in 1974’s Stardust Memories. After a few more film and television roles throughout the late 1970s and early 1980s, Sharon’s breakout role came in Paul Verhoeven’s Basic Instinct (1992).
The film made her a household name and earned her a Golden Globe Award nomination for Best Actress.
Sharon went on to star in several successful films throughout the 1990s, including Casino (1995), Sliver (1993), The Specialist (1994), and Last Dance (1996). She earned another Golden Globe nomination for Casino, which also earned her a Screen Actors Guild Award nomination.
In 2000, Sharon starred in the critically acclaimed film Gloria, for which she received a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress. She continued to act throughout the 2000s and 2010s, appearing in such films as Cold Creek Manor (2003), Catwoman (2004), Alpha Dog (2006), Basic Instinct 2 (2006), Bobby Z (2007), The Year of Getting to Know Us (2008), Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps (2010), Fading Gigolo (2013), Lovelace (2013), Godsend (2014), Mothers and Daughters (2016), Running Wild (2017), All I Wish (2017) and The Disaster Artist (2017).
On television, Sharon has appeared in episodes of such series as Magnum P.I., Tales from the Crypt and Will & Grace. In 2005, she starred in the short-lived series Dr.
Vegas. From 2014 to 2015, she starred as Catherine Tramell in theBasic Instinct TV series.
Sharon married Phil Bronstein in 1998; the couple separated in 2004 but have yet to finalize their divorce. They have two sons: Roan Joseph Bronstein (born May 15, 1997) and Quinn Kelly Stone-Bronstein (born August 10, 2006).
How old was Sharon Stone in Casino? Sharon Stone was 37 years old when she starred as Ginger McKenna/Rothstein in Casino.
