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

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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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2014Blue Gold: American JeansHerself
2011Onion SportsDome (TV series)Episode #1.4 (2011)Cheryl
1999The Big TeaseHotel Clerk (uncredited)
1997Beyond Belief: Fact or Fiction (TV series)Last Man on Earth (1997)

The Prophecy

Couch Potato

Love over the Counter

Imaginary Friend

1996A Hard Death (video)Leslie Miller
1996The Making of a Hollywood Madam (TV movie)Caroline
1992Last DanceJamie (as Cynthia Stanton)
1991The Bold and the Beautiful (TV series)Episode #1.1161 (1991)

=Discography=

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2011"The Christmas Song" (single)
2010Remixed
2007"Santa Baby" (10th Anniversary Edition) (single)
2007Uncovered
2006The Collection
2001For You with Love

References

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