Sharon stone born rich

First of all, erase from your mind the image of Sharon Stone, icy sex goddess. She certainly looked the part—and played it to the hilt—in her breakout role, the man-eating novelist Catherine Tramell, in the thriller “Basic Instinct.” Her performance (and, yes, the leg-crossing thing) was so indelible that, nearly three decades on, her public persona remains frozen as a femme fatale. But that isn’t a particularly useful way to understand who Stone is: a seeker, a survivor, a no-bullshit artist, a commanding talent (just rewatch her Oscar-nominated role in Martin Scorsese’s “Casino”), and a bit of a kook. This was evident moments into a recent Zoom call, when Stone, signing on from her home in West Hollywood, stumbled in with the teleconferencing equivalent of a pratfall, shocked at her own ability to get the sound working. “Can you hear me?” she said. “Do I have it together?”

In a way, Stone explores both of those questions in her new autobiography, “The Beauty of Living Twice” (Kno

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Sharon Stone - Biography

Early life

Born on March 10, , to a factory worker and his wife in Meadville, Pennsylvania, Sharon Stone was a fast developer. Able to walk and talk by her first birthday, at school she "drove everybody crazy because I had adult questions and wanted adult answers".

After graduating from high school, by which time she had started to land the top prize in beauty pageants, Sharon won a writing scholarship to the University of Pennsylvania. There she majored in creative writing and fine arts, but her real love was acting. As a child she performed plays in her parents' garage to entertain the neighbours, and used her beauty pageant money to hire an acting coach to help her hone her craft.

Start of career

In , Sharon moved to New York, where she signed with the Ford agency and became one of the firm's top models, most memorably in the Charlie perfume ads. Her career slowed down, however, after an injury incurred while horse-riding left her

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Sharon Stone was born and raised in Meadville, a small town in Pennsylvania. Her strict father was a factory worker, and her mother was a homemaker. She was the second of four children. At the age of 15, she studied in Saegertown High School, Pennsylvania, and at that same age, entered Edinboro State University of Pennsylvania, and graduated with a grad in creative writing and fine arts. She was a very smart girl (with an IQ of ), became a bookworm, and once was told that a suitable job for her (and her brains) was to become a lawyer. However, her first love was still the black-and-white movies, especially those featuring Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers. So, the year-old Sharon got herself into the Miss Crawford County and won the beauty contest.

From working part-time as a McDonald's counter girl, she worked her way up to become a successful Ford model, both in TV commercials and print ads. In , she made her acting debut in Woody Allen's Stardust Memories () as "pr