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Also known as Kimila Ann

American actress (born 1953)

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Kim Basinger is an American film, stage, and voice actor who also works as a singer. Born in Athens, Georgia, in 1953, she began her professional career in 1976. She received her education at the University of Georgia and the Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre. Basinger is a vegetarian and speaks English.

Her acting career has been recognized with several major honors, including the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture, and the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role. She also has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

Basinger is married to Alec Baldwin, and they have a child named Ireland Baldwin. In addition to her acting roles, she performs as a vocalist in the dance music genre.

Synthesized by Vinony from 41 facts across 9 sources: Wikidata, Crossref, Open Library, MusicBrainz, Last.fm, TMDb, Wikiquote, Vinony collections, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.

Person · Open Library

Works
1

Top works

  • Cellular

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Film & TV

Acting · Athens, Georgia, USA

Kimila 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…

Known for

  • 100 Years of Warner Bros. — Self2023
  • Back Home Again — Mother Bear (voice)2021
  • Fifty Shades Freed — Elena Lincoln2018
  • Hollywood: No Sex, Please!2018
  • Fifty Shades Darker — Elena Lincoln2017
  • Comrade Detective — Sally Smith (voice)2017
  • The Nice Guys — Judith Kuttner2016
  • The Natural: The Best There Ever Was — Self2016
  • I Am Here — Maria2015
  • Third Person — Elaine2014

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Gender
Female
Country
United States
Active from
1953

Discography

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
332
Total plays
3,848

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female vocalistsjazzactressamericanactresses

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Dolores GrayНино КатамадзеElisa FiorilloJennifer BaldwinMadonna and Warren Beatty

Georgia native model-turned-actress Kim Basinger (born December 8, 1953) is best known for her film roles in 9 1/2 Weeks (1986), Batman (1989), and L.A. Confidential (1997). Basinger was dating Prince in 1989 when she appeared on his "Scandalous Sex Suite" single. An unreleased Basinger album from the same year called "Hollywood Affair" is widely available as a bootleg. Although frequently purported to be a Prince project, it is notably absent <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Kim+Basinger">Read more on Last.fm</a>

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Quotes

  • I wanted to be an actress - I didn't want to be a model, I felt myself choking to death. I hated it with a passion. I got hurt very easily. I mean, I'd come in weighing 115 pounds, and I'm 5 feet 7 ½, and I'd be told I was TEN pounds too heavy! And I still wasn't eating a damn thing!
  • about a hundred and eight, I think
  • As I have grown up in the acting world, I have learned a lot about really listening and keeping quiet, even in my own life. Less talk, more listening. It has taught me a lot about life and acting.
  • You come to a place in your life where you really learn what it is and how it is and what make you tick as an actress. It takes you a long time to learn how to be an actress. It really does. And then you find these buttons that become so accessible to you. And you just push them.
  • I’m not a big red-carpet girl. But I love the work.
  • She grew up in the limelight but I tried to provide stability and a quieter world.

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Encyclopedic overview

Kimila Ann Basinger (/ˈbeɪsɪŋər/ BAY-sing-ər; born December 8, 1953) is an American actress. She has garnered acclaim for her work in film, 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. Initially a TV starlet, she shot to fame as a Bond girl in 1983 and enjoyed a long heyday over the next two decades.

Basinger began her career as a model and switched to acting in 1976. She appeared in several television productions, including a remake of From Here to Eternity (1979), before making her feature debut in the rural drama Hard Country (1981). Basinger first gained widespread attention for her performance of Domino Petachi in the James Bond entry Never Say Never Again (1983). She went on to receive a Golden Globe nomination for her role 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.

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