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Kim Basinger |
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Female |
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5' 7" |
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US - United States of America |
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December 8, 1953 |
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Athens, GA |
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c/o Creative Artists Agency |
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9830 Wilshire Boulevard |
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Beverly Hills, CA 90212-1825 |
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USA |
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See also:
Alec Baldwin
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Kim Basinger was born December 8, 1953, in Athens, Georgia. Both her parents had been in entertainment, her dad had played big-band jazz, and her mother had performed water ballet in several Esther Williams movies. Kim study ballet from an early age. By the age of 17, Kim entered the Athens Junior Miss contest. From there, she went on to win the Junior Miss Georgia title and traveled to New York to compete in the national Junior Miss pageant. Kim was offered a contract on the spot with the Ford Modeling Agency. At the age of 20, Kim was a top model. Throughout the early 1970s, she appeared on dozens of magazine covers and in hundreds of ads, most notably as the Breck girl. Kim took acting classes at the Neighborhood Playhouse, performed in various Greenwich Village clubs, and sang under the stage name Chelsea. Kim moved to Los Angeles in 1976. Kim broke into television doing episodes of such hit series as "Charlie's Angels" (1976).
In 1980, she married Ron Snyder-Britton (they divorced in 1989). In movies, she had roles like being a Bond girl in Never Say Never Again (1983) and playing a small-town Texan beauty in Nadine (1987). Her breakout role was as photojournalist Vicki Vale in the blockbuster hit Batman (1989). During the 1990s, she purchased and later sold the entire town of Braselton, Georgia. Kim married Alec Baldwin (1993-2002), and they had a daughter. Kim, who loves animals and is a strict vegetarian, devoted energy to animal rights issues and PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals), even posing for some ads. In 1997, Kim gave an Oscar-winning performance in L.A. Confidential (1997).
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