• Academy Award winner Kim Basinger is an American actress and former fashion model who starred in movies like 9½ Weeks and My Stepmother Is an Alien. She has also appeared in Batman and 8 Mile as Eminem's mother.

• Fast Facts

  1. Birthdate: December 8th, 1953
  2. Birthplace: Athens, Georgia
  3. Given name: Kimila Ann Basinger
  4. Awards: Oscar, Golden Globe
  5. Former spouse: Alec Baldwin
  6. Daughter: Ireland Eliesse "Addie" Baldwin
  7. Suffers from agoraphobia

• Career

  Kim started modeling at the age of 16 for Ford Modeling Agency. Soon she was a Breck Shampoo girl and appeared in hundreds of commercials. She also was a Cover Girl for five years before getting her big break in films. Early films include Hard Country, where she met her first husband. She played a "Bond" girl in the movie Never Say Never Again with Sean Connery and co-starred with Robert Redford in The Natural.

• Quotes

  "I feel there are two people inside me - me and my intuition. If I go against her, she'll screw me every time, and if I follow her, we get along quite nicely."

  "I remember that Jack Lemmon, who is one of my favorite actors of all time, says that the day he stops being nervous is the day he should leave the business."

  "I think any girl who comes to Hollywood with sex symbol or bombshell hanging over her has a rough road."

  "I'm a very determined businesswoman... I've got lots of things to do, and I don't have time to be classified as difficult, and I don't have time."

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