Kim Basinger

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.

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.

"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."

• Note: The majority of the links in this timeline are to IMDb, which has pop-ups.

• 1953: Born

• 1983 Never Say Never Again: IMDb

• 1984 The Natural: IMDb

• 1986 Nine 1/2 Weeks : IMDb

• 1989 Batman: IMDb

• 1992 Cool World : IMDb

• 1993 The Real McCoy: IMDb

• 1997 L.A. Confidential: IMDb

• 2000 I Dreamed of Africa: IMDb

• 2002 8 Mile : IMDb

• 2004 The Door in the Floor: IMDb

• 2004 Cellular : IMDb

• 2006 The Sentinel: IMDb

• 2008 While She Was Out: IMDb