Cynthia Basinet
{{short description|American actress and singer|bot=PearBOT 5}}
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| birth_place = San Fernando Valley, Los Angeles, United States
| genre = Pop
| occupation = Singer, actress
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Cynthia Basinet is an American actress and singer, born in the San Fernando Valley in Los Angeles. She is also noted for being a friend and lover of Jack NicholsonDouglas, Edward (2004). [http://webcontent.harpercollins.com/text/excerpts/pdf/0060794135.pdf Jack: The Great Seducer — The Life and Many Loves of Jack Nicholson] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110906231008/http://webcontent.harpercollins.com/text/excerpts/pdf/0060794135.pdf |date=2011-09-06 }} New York City: HarperCollins. {{ISBN|0060520477}}. Retrieved 19 December 2011.
Career
She started as a model for I. Magnin and later became a model for Bob Mackie. After that, she worked in a San Francisco modeling agency. She spent the next five years in Europe modeling, including campaigns for Benetton with photographer, Oliviero Toscani.http://abilitymagazine.com/basinet.html Ability magazine In the 1990s, she starred in the movies Last Dance, The Making of a Hollywood Madam, A Hard Death, and has also appeared in the "Last Man on Earth" segment of the Beyond Belief: Fact or Fiction TV series.
Basinet released her first album, For You With Love in 2001 under the name "C. Basinet".[http://allmusic.com/artist/c-basinet-p553240/songs C. Basinet]. Allmusic 2001. Last accessed 19 December 2011. It included "Santa Baby", which was originally recorded as a gift to actor Jack Nicholson in 1997{{citation needed|date=February 2018}}. In 2006, she released her first full-length album, The Collection, which contains a decade of songs that she had recorded as singles for Dreamsville, including "Santa Baby," "Haunted Heart", "Water's Edge", and "God." In 2007, she released a tenth anniversary version of "Santa Baby".{{cite news|url= http://www.jazzcorner.com/news/display.php?news=8261|title= Sultry "Santa Baby" Singer, Actress and Humanitarian Cynthia Basinet Returns to Petition the United Nations|date= October 7, 2017|work= Jazz Corner}}
=Filmography=
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scope="col" | Year
! scope="col" | Title ! scope="col" | Episode ! scope="col" | Role | |||
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2014 | Blue Gold: American Jeans | Herself | |
2011 | Onion SportsDome (TV series) | Episode #1.4 (2011) | Cheryl |
1999 | The Big Tease | Hotel Clerk (uncredited) | |
1997 | Beyond Belief: Fact or Fiction (TV series) | Last Man on Earth (1997) The Prophecy Couch Potato Love over the Counter Imaginary Friend | |
1996 | A Hard Death (video) | Leslie Miller | |
1996 | The Making of a Hollywood Madam (TV movie) | Caroline | |
1992 | Last Dance | Jamie (as Cynthia Stanton) | |
1991 | The Bold and the Beautiful (TV series) | Episode #1.1161 (1991) |
=Discography=
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scope="col" | Year
! scope="col" | Album | |
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2011 | "The Christmas Song" (single) |
2010 | Remixed |
2007 | "Santa Baby" (10th Anniversary Edition) (single) |
2007 | Uncovered |
2006 | The Collection |
2001 | For You with Love |
References
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External links
- [http://www.cynthiabasinet.com Official website]
- {{IMDb name|0060305}}
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Category:21st-century American singers
Category:Actresses from Los Angeles
Category:American television actresses