Born: 1958, Meadville, PA
Education: Edinboro State University of Pennsylvania (creative writing, fine arts)
Former beauty pageant contestant and Ford model who made her film debut with a non-speaking part as a beautiful woman fleetingly glimpsed from a moving train in Woody Allen's STARDUST MEMORIES (1980). Stone subsequently appeared as a stereotypical blonde beauties in mostly forgettable roles: a down-and-out waitress turned petulant movie star (based on Cybill Shepherd) in IRRECONCILABLE DIFFERENCES (1984); an archaeologist's daughter in KING SOLOMON'S MINES (1985) and its sequel ALLAN QUATERMAIN AND THE LOST CITY OF GOLD (1987). She received greater exposure playing Arnold Schwarzenegger's kick-boxing, secret agent "wife" in Paul Verhoeven's sci-fi actioner TOTAL RECALL (1990), before finally achieving "overnight" stardom playing a sexually voracious crime writer opposite Michael Douglas in Paul Verhoeven's controversial and popular erotic thriller, BASIC INSTINCT (1992).
In a more conventionally sympathetic role, Stone followed up with another sizzling sex melodrama, SLIVER (1993), which did middling business stateside but proved a solid success overseas. She again flexed her international box-office clout paired with Sylvester Stallone in the explosive actioner THE SPECIALIST (1994) but fared much less well commercially with her next project, THE QUICK AND THE DEAD (1995), which marked her producing debut. Stone looked terrific in Western duds playing something of a distaff version of a Clint Eastwood-like gunfighter. Her directorial choice, Sam Raimi, helmed the smartly derivative tale with style to spare but the critical reception was uneven and the domestic take pathetic.
Biography from Baseline's Encyclopedia of Film
