Kim Basinger

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Kim Basinger in the 1997 film "LA Confidential".

Kimila Ann Basinger (born December 8, 1953 in Athens, Georgia) is an Academy Award-winning American film actress and former fashion model.

Basinger is of German, Irish, Swedish and one-eighth Cherokee descent.

Entering the acting profession after great success as a fashion model, her most prominent appearances include 9½ Weeks (1986), Batman (1989) and L.A. Confidential (1997) for which she received an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress.

From 1993 to 2002, she was married to actor Alec Baldwin, with whom she later engaged in a long legal custody battle (still ongoing) regarding their daughter, Ireland. He says that the case is classic parental alienation syndrome and has spent more than $1m trying to maintain contact. She says he should amend his acting schedule to fit in with hers.

The small town of Braselton, Georgia, was bought by Basinger in 1989 for $20 million, with the hopes of establishing the town as a tourist attraction with movie studios and a film festival, but she met financial difficulties and sold it in 1993. The town is now owned by developer Wayne Mason.

Filmography

• Hard Country (1981)
• Mother Lode (1982)
• Never Say Never Again (1983)
• The Man Who Loved Women (1983)
• The Natural (1984)
• Fool for Love (1985)
• 9 1/2 Weeks (1986)
• No Mercy (1986)
• Blind Date (1987)
• Nadine (1987)
• My Stepmother Is an Alien (1988)
• Batman (1989)
• The Marrying Man (1991)
• Final Analysis (1992)
• Cool World (1992)
• The Real McCoy (1992)
• Wayne's World 2 (1993) (cameo)
• A Century of Cinema (1994) (documentary)
• The Getaway (1994)
• Ready to Wear (1994)
• L.A. Confidential (1997)
• I Dreamed of Africa (2000)
• Bless the Child (2000)
• 8 Mile (2002)
• People I Know (2002)
• The Door in the Floor (2004)
• Elvis Has Left the Building (2004)
• Cellular (2004)
• Jump Shot (2005)
• The Sentinel (2006)

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Television work

• Dog and Cat (1977) (canceled after six episodes)
• The Ghost of Flight 401 (1978)
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• From Here to Eternity (1979) (miniseries)
• From Here to Eternity (1980) (canceled after thirteen episodes)
• Killjoy (1981)
• Sean Connery, an Intimate Portrait (1997) (documentary)
• The Simpsons (1998: 13.17) (as herself)

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