Kim Basinger

Kim Basinger

Kimila Ann Basinger is an American actress, singer and former fashion model. She came to prominence for her role as Bond girl Domino Petachi in Never Say Never Again. Her other films include No Mercy, Blind Date and The Door in the Floor.

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Summary Kim BasingerKimila Ann Basinger is an American actress, singer and former fashion model. She came to prominence for her role as Bond girl Domino Petachi in Never Say Never Again. She also played Vicki Vale in Tim Burton’s Batman, which remains the highest-grossing film of her career. She is an alumna of the William Esper Studio for the performing arts in Manhattan, New York City. Her mother, Ann Lee, was a model, actress and swimmer who appeared in several Esther Williams films. She has two older brothers, Skip and Mick, and two younger sisters, Barbara and Ashley. She was born in Athens, Georgia, on December 8, 1953, and raised as a Methodist. She studied ballet from about age three to her mid-teens. She turned down a modeling contract with the Ford Modeling Agency, but turned it down in favor of singing and acting, and enrolled at the University of Georgia. She appeared in hundreds of advertisements throughout the early 1970s, most notably as the Breck Shampoo girl. In 1976, after five years as a cover girl, she quit modeling and moved to Los Angeles to act. Her first starring role was a made-for-TV movie, Katie Centerfold, in which she played a small town girl who goes to Hollywood to become an actress. In 1979, she co-starred with Natalie Wood, William Devane and Steve Railsback in the remake of From Here to Eternity. Her breakthrough role was as a prostitute Lorene Rogers in a spinoff of Mother Lode, which aired in 1980.

In 1981, she posed for a nude pictorial for Playboy, and made her feature debut in the critically-received Mother Lodes, which she followed with the outdoorsy adventure Hard Country. In 1983, she was not published until 1983, when it was used to promote her Bond girl role in the film Bond Girl. She went on to star in 13 films, including No Mercy, Blind Date, Prêt-à-Porter, I Dreamed of Africa, 8 Mile, Cellular and Grudge Match. Her other films include No Mercy, Blind Date and The Door in the Floor. She won the Golden Globe and the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for L.A. Confidential, for her femme fatale portrayal in L. A. Confidential. She later starred in the erotic drama 9½ Weeks and Fifty Shades Darker, which was released in 2004. She had a role in The Natural, and received a Golden Globe Award nomination for her roles in 9½ weeks and The Natural. Her last film role was in the romantic drama Hard Country, which followed the death of Charlton Heston’s character. She starred in a miniseries adaptation of The Godfather: Part II, starring Natalie Wood and Steve Carrell, in which her role was reprising her as LoreneRogers. In 2007, she appeared in a remake of The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the Planet of the Apes.