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Kim Basinger
Known for: ActingKimila Ann Basinger (born December 8, 1953) is an American actress and former fashion model. She has garnered acclaim for her work in film and television, for which she has received various accolades including an Academy Award, a Golden Globe Award, a Screen Actors Guild Award, and a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Following a brief but successful career modeling in New York, Basinger moved to Los Angeles where she began acting on television in 1976. She appeared in several made-for-TV films, including a remake of From Here to Eternity (1979), before making her feature debut in the drama Hard Country (1981). Hailed as a sex symbol of the 1980s and 1990s, Basinger came to prominence for her performance of Bond girl Domino Petachi in Never Say Never Again (1983). She went on to receive a Golden Globe nomination for her work in The Natural (1984), starred in the erotic drama 9½ Weeks (1986), and played Vicki Vale in Tim Burton's Batman (1989), which remains the highest-grossing film of her career. For her femme fatale portrayal in L.A. Confidential (1997), Basinger won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. Her other films include No Mercy (1986), Blind Date (1987), My Stepmother Is an Alien (1988), Cool World (1992), The Real McCoy (1993), I Dreamed of Africa (2000), 8 Mile (2002), The Door in the Floor (2004), Cellular (2004), The Sentinel (2006), The Burning Plain (2009), Grudge Match (2013), and Fifty Shades Darker (2017). Divorced from makeup artist Ron Snyder and actor Alec Baldwin, Basinger cohabits with her longtime hairdresser, Mitch Stone. She had a high-profile relationship between marriages with the late musician Prince, with whom she recorded an album, Hollywood Affair, and is the mother of social media influencer Ireland Baldwin from her marriage to Alec.
Filmography 46
Fifty Shades Freed
as Elena Lincoln 
8 Mile
as Stephanie 
L.A. Confidential
as Lynn Bracken 
The Nice Guys
as Judith Kuttner 
Cellular
as Jessica Martin 
Batman
as Vicki Vale 
Fifty Shades Darker
as Elena Lincoln 
The Sentinel
as Sarah Ballentine 
Nine 1/2 Weeks
as Elizabeth 
Never Say Never Again
as Domino Petachi 
Charlie St. Cloud
as Louise St. Cloud 
Grudge Match
as Sally Rose 
Third Person
as Elaine 
My Stepmother Is an Alien
as Celeste Martin 
The Getaway
as Carol McCoy 
Wayne's World 2
as Honey Hornée 
Cool World
as Holli Would 
Even Money
as Carolyn Carver 
The Natural
as Memo Paris 
The Real McCoy
as Karen McCoy 
Comrade Detective
as Sally Smith (voice) 
Final Analysis
as Heather Evans 
Prêt-à-Porter
as Kitty Potter 
The Informers
as Laura Sloan 
Blind Date
as Nadia Gates 
No Mercy
as Michel Duval 
The Burning Plain
as Gina 
I Dreamed of Africa
as Kuki Gallmann 
Bless the Child
as Maggie O'Connor 
The Door in the Floor
as Marion Cole 
While She Was Out
as Della 
People I Know
as Victoria Gray 
Elvis Has Left the Building
as Harmony Jones 
The Marrying Man
as Vicki Anderson 
Mother Lode
as Andrea Spalding 
The Man Who Loved Women
as Louise Carr 
The Ghost of Flight 401
as Prissy Frasier 
Hard Country
as Jodie 
Fool for Love
as May 
Nadine
as Nadine Hightower 
4 Minute Mile
as Claire Jacobs 
Black November
as Kristy 
I Am Here
as Maria 
Killjoy
as Laury Medford 
The Mermaid Chair
as Jessie Sullivan