Sharon Stone

Sharon Vonne Stone was born on March 10, 1958, in Meadville, Pennsylvania,{{cite web |title=Sharon Stone |url=https://www.biography.com/people/sharon-stone-9542584 |website=Biography.com |access-date=May 31, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180627090855/https://www.biography.com/people/sharon-stone-9542584 |archive-date=June 27, 2018 |url-status=live }}{{cite web |title=Sharon Vonne Stone |url=https://www.geni.com/people/Sharon-Stone/6000000046207329794 |website=geni.com |date=March 10, 1958 |access-date=August 29, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180829175441/https://www.geni.com/people/Sharon-Stone/6000000046207329794 |archive-date=August 29, 2018 |url-status=live }} to Dorothy Marie (née Lawson), an accountant, and Joseph William Stone II,{{cite web|url=http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/latimes/obituary.aspx?n=joseph-william-stone&pid=137678508|title=Joseph William STONE II's Obituary on Los Angeles Times|website=Los Angeles Times|access-date=October 11, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170619214501/http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/latimes/obituary.aspx?n=joseph-william-stone&pid=137678508|archive-date=June 19, 2017|url-status=live}} a tool and die manufacturer and former factory worker. She has three siblings: Michael, Kelly, and Patrick Joseph (died in 2023).{{cite news|last=Mott|first=Gordon|date=August 1, 2004|url=http://www.cigaraficionado.com/Cigar/CA_Profiles/People_Profile/0,2540,188,00.html|title=Sharon Stone Reinvented|work=Cigar Aficionado|access-date=August 19, 2011|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100820103758/http://www.cigaraficionado.com/Cigar/CA_Profiles/People_Profile/0,2540,188,00.html|archive-date=August 20, 2010}}Stated on Inside the Actors Studio, 1999{{Cite web |last=Gardner |first=Chris |date=March 17, 2023 |title=Sharon Stone Says She Lost "Half My Money to This Banking Thing," Breaks Down in Tears During Speech |url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/lifestyle/lifestyle-news/sharon-stone-speech-banking-collapse-breast-cancer-1235355047/ |access-date=March 27, 2023 |website=The Hollywood Reporter |language=en-US}} She has some Irish ancestry.{{cite news|url=http://www.independent.ie/style/celebrity/celebrity-news/an-unlikely-friendship-caroline-morahan-and-sharon-stone-bond-over-ireland-30367736.html|title=An unlikely friendship: Caroline Morahan and Sharon Stone bond over Ireland|work=The Irish Independent|access-date=February 28, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150403034832/http://www.independent.ie/style/celebrity/celebrity-news/an-unlikely-friendship-caroline-morahan-and-sharon-stone-bond-over-ireland-30367736.html|archive-date=April 3, 2015|url-status=live}} In a 2013 interview with Conan O'Brien, she stated that her Irish ancestors arrived in the United States during the Great Famine.{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5PZfFyWcYEM|title=Sharon Stone Recreates Her "Basic Instinct" Leg Cross|website=YouTube|date=August 8, 2013 |access-date=November 28, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191221101837/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5PZfFyWcYEM&gl=US&hl=en&has_verified=1&bpctr=9999999999|archive-date=December 21, 2019|url-status=live}} She has a reported IQ of 154.{{cite web|url=https://www.cbsnews.com/pictures/stars-with-high-iqs/2/|title=Stars with High IQs|author=CBS News|website=CBS News|date=April 11, 2011|access-date=March 13, 2021|archive-date=March 16, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210316232743/https://www.cbsnews.com/pictures/stars-with-high-iqs/2/|url-status=live}} Stone was considered academically gifted as a child and entered the second grade when she was five years old.{{cite web|url=http://uk.movies.yahoo.com/person/sharon-stone/biography.html |title=Sharon Stone profile at |website=Yahoo! Movies |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140305131405/http://uk.movies.yahoo.com/person/sharon-stone/biography.html |archive-date=March 5, 2014 }}{{cite web|url=http://www.wtfpod.com/podcast/episode-895-sharon-stone|title=Episode 895 – Sharon Stone|author=Marc Maron|date=March 5, 2018|website=WTF with Marc Maron Podcast|access-date=April 17, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180418032233/http://www.wtfpod.com/podcast/episode-895-sharon-stone|archive-date=April 18, 2018|url-status=live}} Stone said that she and her sister were both sexually abused as children by their maternal grandfather, in an interview to The New York Times in March 2021, while promoting her memoir The Beauty of Living Twice.{{cite news|first=Dave|last=Itzkoff|author-link=Dave Itzkoff|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/24/books/sharon-stone-beauty-of-living-twice.html|title=Sharon Stone Is Telling Her Side of the Story|newspaper=The New York Times|date=March 24, 2021|access-date=March 25, 2021|archive-date=March 25, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210325001937/https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/24/books/sharon-stone-beauty-of-living-twice.html|url-status=live}} At 14, her neck was badly injured while breaking a horse when the animal bucked as it charged toward a washing line.

She graduated from Saegertown High School in Saegertown, Pennsylvania, in 1975. Stone was admitted to Edinboro State College on a creative writing scholarship at age 15, but quit college and moved to New York City to become a fashion model. Inspired by Hillary Clinton, in 2016 Stone went back to Edinboro University of Pennsylvania to complete her degree.{{cite web |url=https://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/sharon-stone-hails-reaching-60-12181345 |title=Reason Sharon Stone hails turning 60 as her "greatest achievement" |website=Daily Mirror |date=March 13, 2018 |access-date=November 8, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181108224626/https://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/sharon-stone-hails-reaching-60-12181345 |archive-date=November 8, 2018 |url-status=live }}

While attending Edinboro State College, Stone won the title of Miss Crawford County, Pennsylvania, and in 1976,{{cite news |last1=Rotunda |first1=Marie |title=In Your Own Words: A flashback to Sharon Stone, competing to become Miss Pennsylvania 1976 |url=http://archive.naplesnews.com/community/in-your-own-words-a-flashback-to-sharon-stone-competing-to-become-miss-pennsylvania-1976-ep-40654742-331458661.html/ |access-date=June 2, 2021 |work=Naples Daily News |location=Naples, Florida |language=en |quote=On the other hand, at 17, Sharon was a real pageant novice. We became fast friends during pageant week in Altoona, Pa. I was impressed by her all-American pretty looks and smarts. She was very confident sharing with me that she was going to be the next Marilyn Monroe. I was a little surprised at her remark since she weighed about 145 (or more) pounds. During the talent segment, she recited the Gettysburg Address with sparkles in her hair. During the evening gown competition, she announced to the audience that she was going to win an Academy Award. She did not finish in the Top 10 that evening. The following year, in June of 1977, as I was relinquishing my Miss Pennsylvania title, Sharon came to the pageant with her mother on the final night, she said, "to specifically thank me for helping her the year before." Sharon was totally transformed. At a statuesque 5 foot 9, she now weighed about 115 pounds. She wasn't just pretty anymore. She was beautiful. I was thrilled when she told me she had signed a modeling contract with the prestigious Ford Modeling Agency in New York City |archive-date=June 2, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210602214250/http://archive.naplesnews.com/community/in-your-own-words-a-flashback-to-sharon-stone-competing-to-become-miss-pennsylvania-1976-ep-40654742-331458661.html/ |url-status=live }} was a candidate for Miss Pennsylvania. One of the pageant judges told her to quit college and move to New York City to become a fashion model. Stone left Meadville and moved in with an aunt in New Jersey, and by 1977, she had been signed by Ford Modeling Agency in New York City.{{cite news| url=https://www.complex.com/pop-culture/2012/05/the-50-hottest-models-turned-actresses/12| title=The 50 Hottest Models Turned Actresses| date=May 18, 2012| work=Complex Magazine| access-date=October 7, 2015| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160312141939/http://www.complex.com/pop-culture/2012/05/the-50-hottest-models-turned-actresses/12| archive-date=March 12, 2016| url-status=live |quote=Modeling Credentials: She was signed by Ford Modeling Agency in 1977 and worked for a time as a model in Europe.}} She soon moved to Europe, living for a year in Milan and then in Paris. While living there, she decided to quit modeling and pursue acting. "So I packed my bags, moved back to New York, and stood in line to be an extra in a Woody Allen movie", she later recalled.{{cite book|last=Dunn|first=Brad|title=When They Were 22: 100 Famous People at the Turning Point in Their Lives|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ddKTf8joKAQC&pg=PT140|publisher=Andrews McMeel Publishing|year=2009|isbn=9780740786815|access-date=November 25, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160514181424/https://books.google.com/books?id=ddKTf8joKAQC&pg=PT140|archive-date=May 14, 2016|url-status=live}}{{cite web |last1=Galella |first1=Ron |author1-link=Ron Galella |title=Actress Sharon Stone attending 'Woody Allen New Year's Eve Party' at Harkness House in New York City, New York. (156098186) |url=https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/actress-sharon-stone-attending-woody-allen-new-years-eve-news-photo/156098186 |website=Getty Images |access-date=May 15, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210515025143/https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/actress-sharon-stone-attending-woody-allen-new-years-eve-news-photo/156098186 |archive-date=May 15, 2021 |language=en-us |date=December 31, 1979}}{{cite web |last1=Galella |first1=Ron |author1-link=Ron Galella |title=Actress Sharon Stone attending 'Woody Allen New Year's Eve Party' at Harkness House in New York City, New York. (156098202) |url=https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/actress-sharon-stone-attending-woody-allen-new-years-eve-news-photo/156098202 |website=Getty Images |access-date=May 15, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210515025118/https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/actress-sharon-stone-attending-woody-allen-new-years-eve-news-photo/156098202 |archive-date=May 15, 2021 |language=en-us |date=December 31, 1979}}{{cite book |last1=Stone |first1=Sharon |title=The Beauty of Living Twice |chapter=Role Models |date=2021 |publisher=Alfred A. Knopf |location=New York |isbn=9780525656760 |edition=First |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1234479428 |access-date=June 2, 2021 |quote=I got a call from my friend Riccardo Bertoni, who was an extras casting agent. He said that he knew that there was a call for a Woody Allen movie, and I should go. I was twenty, still in New York, trying to book modeling work by going out on 'go-sees.'|oclc=1234479428 |archive-date=March 23, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230323104421/https://www.worldcat.org/title/1234479428 |url-status=live }} At 20, Stone was cast for a brief role in Allen's dramedy Stardust Memories (1980) and had a speaking part a year later in the horror film Deadly Blessing (1981).

French director Claude Lelouch cast Stone in the musical epic Les Uns et les Autres (1982), starring James Caan,{{cite book| last=Milne| first=Jeff| title=Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon: The Complete Guide to the Movie Trivia Game| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YZyqXZ_3sEwC&pg=PT638| publisher=Jeff Milne| year=2009| isbn=9780615285214| access-date=November 25, 2015| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160610142426/https://books.google.com/books?id=YZyqXZ_3sEwC&pg=PT638| archive-date=June 10, 2016| url-status=live}} but she was on screen for two minutes and did not appear in the credits. She secured guest-spots on the television series Silver Spoons (1982), Bay City Blues (1983), Remington Steele (1983), Magnum, P.I. (1984), and T. J. Hooker (1985); played a starlet who breaks up the marriage of a successful director and his screenwriter wife in the drama Irreconcilable Differences (1984), opposite Ryan O'Neal, Shelley Long and a young Drew Barrymore; and starred as a resourceful woman teaming up with a fortune hunter (played by Richard Chamberlain) in the action-centered King Solomon's Mines (1985) and Allan Quatermain and the Lost City of Gold (1986), a light, comedic take on the Indiana Jones film series,{{cite web|url=http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0089421/locations|title=King Solomon's Mines (1985)|website=IMDb|access-date=February 9, 2022|archive-date=November 7, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211107161827/https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0089421/locations|url-status=live}} which were poorly received by critics and audiences.{{cite web|url=https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/1011639-king_solomons_mines|title=King Solomon's Mines|access-date=February 9, 2022|website=Rotten Tomatoes|archive-date=January 26, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220126081853/https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/1011639-king_solomons_mines|url-status=live}} In his review for King Solomon's Mines, Walter Goodman of The New York Times considered that Stone was "up to date as a spunky, sexy, smart-talking heroine with an effective right hook" but felt that the story was "lost in the effects".{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1985/11/23/movies/film-in-updated-form-king-solomon-s-mines.html|title=FILM: IN UPDATED FORM, 'KING SOLOMON'S MINES'|first=Walter|last=Goodman|date=November 23, 1985|access-date=February 9, 2022|website=The New York Times|archive-date=January 26, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220126081855/https://www.nytimes.com/1985/11/23/movies/film-in-updated-form-king-solomon-s-mines.html|url-status=live}} For her performance in Allan Quatermain and the Lost City of Gold, she received her first Golden Raspberry Award nomination for Worst Actress.

Stone obtained the role of Janice Henry in the ABC miniseries War and Remembrance (1987), the sequel to the 1983 miniseries The Winds of War, based on the 1978 novel of the same name written by Herman Wouk. Through the remainder of the 1980s, she appeared as a reporter in the comedy Police Academy 4: Citizens on Patrol (1987), an attractive but mysterious woman with a hidden agenda in the thriller Cold Steel (1987), the wife of an ex-CIA agent in the crime film Above the Law (1988) and the ill-fated wife of a successful businessman in the action film Action Jackson (1988).

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In Paul Verhoeven's Total Recall (1990), a science fiction action film opposite Arnold Schwarzenegger, Stone played the seemingly loving wife of a construction worker. The film received favorable reviews and made $261.2 million worldwide, giving Stone's career a major boost, leading to her being cast in five feature films released throughout 1991. She played what Roger Ebert described as the "bad girl" in the romantic comedy He Said, She Said,{{cite web|url=https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/he-said-she-said-1991|title=He Said, She Said movie review (1991) | Roger Ebert|first=Roger|last=Ebert|website=Rogerebert.com/|access-date=February 9, 2022|archive-date=January 26, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220126033616/https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/he-said-she-said-1991|url-status=live}} a sexually repressed woman in the psychological thriller Scissors, a wealthy blonde in the crime drama Diary of a Hitman,{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0105809/releaseinfo|title=Where Sleeping Dogs Lie (1991)|access-date=October 11, 2017|website=IMDb|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160323014937/http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0105809/releaseinfo|archive-date=March 23, 2016|url-status=live}} a provocative young photojournalist in the thriller Year of the Gun and the agent and former lover of a writer in the neo-noir Where Sleeping Dogs Lie.

In another Verhoeven film, the erotic thriller Basic Instinct (1992), she took on the role that made her a star, playing Catherine Tramell, a brilliant bisexual novelist and alleged serial killer. Several actresses at the time turned down the role, mostly because of the nudity required.{{cite news|last=Weinraub|first=Bernard|title=Basic Instinct': The Suspect Is Attractive, and May Be Fatal|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1992/03/15/movies/film-basic-instinct-the-suspect-is-attractive-and-may-be-fatal.html?pagewanted=all|access-date=May 10, 2014|work=The New York Times|date=March 15, 1992|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140429001640/http://www.nytimes.com/1992/03/15/movies/film-basic-instinct-the-suspect-is-attractive-and-may-be-fatal.html?pagewanted=all|archive-date=April 29, 2014|url-status=live}}

Critical response towards Basic Instinct was mixed, but Stone received critical acclaim for her "star-making performance";{{cite web|url=https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/basic_instinct/|title=Basic Instinct|website=Rotten Tomatoes|access-date=October 11, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170830115706/https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/basic_instinct|archive-date=August 30, 2017|url-status=live}} Peter Travers of Rolling Stone remarked that "Verhoeven's cinematic wet dream delivers the goods, especially when Sharon Stone struts on with enough come-on carnality to singe the screen," and observed of the actress' portrayal: "Stone, a former model, is a knockout; she even got a rise out of Ah-nold in Verhoeven's Total Recall. But being the bright spot in too many dull movies (He Said, She Said; Irreconcilable Differences) stalled her career. Though Basic Instinct establishes Stone as a bombshell for the 1990s, it also shows she can nail a laugh or shade an emotion with equal aplomb."{{cite magazine|author=Travers, Peter|title=Review: Basic Instinct|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/movies/reviews/basic-instinct-19920320|magazine=Rolling Stone|access-date=March 10, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110628215638/http://www.rollingstone.com/movies/reviews/basic-instinct-19920320|archive-date=June 28, 2011|url-status=live}} Australian critic Shannon J. Harvey of The Sunday Times called the film "one of the best films of the early 1990s, doing more for female empowerment than any feminist rally. Stone – in her star-making performance – is as hot and sexy as she is ice-pick cold."{{cite book|title=Basic Instinct|url=https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/basic_instinct/reviews|publisher=Rotten Tomatoes|access-date=February 12, 2023|archive-date=February 13, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230213002918/https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/basic_instinct/reviews|url-status=live}} For the part, Stone earned a Golden Globe Award nomination for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama, four MTV Movie Awards nominations, and a Golden Raspberry Award nomination for Worst New Star for her "tribute to Theodore Cleaver". The film also became one of the most financially successful productions of the 1990s, grossing US$352.9 million worldwide.{{cite web|url=http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=basicinstinct.htm|title=Basic Instinct (1992)website=Box Office Mojo|access-date=October 11, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170321233141/http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=basicinstinct.htm|archive-date=March 21, 2017|url-status=live}}

In 1993, Stone played a femme fatale in the erotic thriller Sliver, based on Ira Levin's eponymous novel about the mysterious occurrences in a privately owned New York City high-rise apartment building. The film was heavily panned by critics and earned Stone a Golden Raspberry Award nomination for Worst Actress but became a commercial success, grossing US$116.3 million at the international box office.{{cite web|url=http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=sliver.htm|title=Sliver (1993)website=Box Office Mojo|access-date=October 11, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171011233153/http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=sliver.htm|archive-date=October 11, 2017|url-status=live}} She also made a cameo appearance in the action film Last Action Hero (1993), reuniting with Arnold Schwarzenegger. In 1994, Stone appeared as the wife of an architect opposite Richard Gere in the drama Intersection, and as a woman who entices a bomb expert she is involved with into destroying the criminal gang that killed her family, alongside Sylvester Stallone, in the action thriller The Specialist. While Intersection found limited success, The Specialist made US$170.3 million worldwide.{{cite web|url=http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=specialist.htm|title=The Specialist (1994)website=Box Office Mojo|access-date=October 11, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171011034419/http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=specialist.htm|archive-date=October 11, 2017|url-status=live}} For her work in both films, she won a Golden Raspberry Award and a Stinkers Bad Movie Award for Worst Actress, but was nominated for the MTV Movie Award for Most Desirable Female for The Specialist.

In The Quick and the Dead (1995), Stone took on the role of a gunfighter who returns to a frontier town in an effort to avenge her father's death. She served as a producer on the film and had some creative control over the production;Muir, pp. 171-179 she chose director Sam Raimi, after being impressed by his work on Army of Darkness, and co-star Russell Crowe after watching Romper Stomper. She paid Leonardo DiCaprio's salary herself after a reluctance from Sony, the film's studio, over his casting. The Quick and the Dead was a modest profit and earned Stone a Saturn Award nomination for Best Actress.{{cite web|url=http://www.saturnawards.org/past.html|title=Past Saturn Awards|date=February 7, 2008|access-date=October 11, 2017|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080207072429/http://www.saturnawards.org/past.html|archive-date=February 7, 2008}} Stone starred opposite Robert De Niro in Martin Scorsese's epic crime drama Casino (1995), where she took on the role of Ginger McKenna, the scheming, self-absorbed wife of a top gambling handicapper (De Niro). The film, based on the non-fiction book Casino: Love and Honor in Las Vegas by Nicholas Pileggi, received widespread critical acclaim, made US$116.1 million globally,{{cite web|url=http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=casino.htm|title=Casino (1995)website=Box Office Mojo|access-date=October 11, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140201164641/http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=casino.htm|archive-date=February 1, 2014|url-status=live}} and earned her the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama and a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress. During an interview with The Observer, published on January 28, 1996, Stone said of the response: "Thank God. I mean just finally, wow [...] I am not getting any younger. It couldn't have happened at a better time".{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2009/mar/22/sharon-stone-interview-basic-instinct|title=Interview 1996: Sharon Stone|date=March 22, 2009|access-date=October 11, 2017|work=The Guardian|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171012044552/https://www.theguardian.com/film/2009/mar/22/sharon-stone-interview-basic-instinct|archive-date=October 12, 2017|url-status=live}} That year, she received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, located at 6925 Hollywood Blvd, and was awarded the Women in Film Crystal Award.{{cite web|url=http://wif.org/past-recipients |title=Past Recipients |website=Women in Film |access-date=August 19, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110724120329/http://www.wif.org/past-recipients |archive-date=July 24, 2011 |url-status=dead }}

Stone portrayed the mistress of a cruel school master in the psychological thriller Diabolique (1996), a woman waiting on death row for a brutal double murder in the drama Last Dance (1996), and a biologist in the suspense film Sphere (1998). The three aforementioned films were panned by critics and failed to find an audience in theaters.{{cite web|url=https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/1071413_last_dance|title=Last Dance|website=Rotten Tomatoes|access-date=October 11, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171126191120/https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/1071413_last_dance|archive-date=November 26, 2017|url-status=live}}{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1996/03/22/movies/film-review-forget-the-cerebral-just-kill-him.html |title=Movie Review : Forget the Cerebral. Just Kill Him|work=The New York Times|date=March 22, 1996 |access-date=October 11, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170731144951/http://www.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=9a04e0d71739f931a15750c0a960958260|archive-date=July 31, 2017|url-status=live|last1=Maslin |first1=Janet }} In 1998, Stone also lent her voice for the successful animated film Antz,{{cite web|url=http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=antz.htm|title=Antz (1998)|website=Box Office Mojo|access-date=October 11, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180918112522/https://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=antz.htm|archive-date=September 18, 2018|url-status=live}} and played the mother of a 13-year-old boy suffering from Morquio syndrome in the drama The Mighty, which garnered a positive critical response.{{cite web|url=https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/mighty/|title=The Mighty|website=Rotten Tomatoes|access-date=October 11, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171127043923/https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/mighty|archive-date=November 27, 2017|url-status=live}}{{cite web|url=http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=mighty.htm|title=The Mighty (1998)|website=Box Office Mojo|access-date=October 11, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171011233106/http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=mighty.htm|archive-date=October 11, 2017|url-status=live}} Stone was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in the lattermost.

Her turn as a street-wise, middle-aged moll in Gloria (1999), a remake of the 1980 film of the same name, proved to be a critical and commercial misfire.{{cite magazine |url=http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,63876,00.html |title=Gloria Review | Movie Reviews and News |magazine=Entertainment Weekly |date=February 5, 1999 |access-date=February 19, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140224203154/http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,63876,00.html |archive-date=February 24, 2014 |url-status=live }}{{cite news |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1999-jan-25-ca-1541-story.html |title=Remake of Cassavetes' 'Gloria' Is Mostly an Acting Exercise |work=Los Angeles Times |date=October 27, 2004 |access-date=February 19, 2014 |first=Jack |last=Mathews |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140306163244/http://articles.latimes.com/1999/jan/25/entertainment/ca-1541 |archive-date=March 6, 2014 |url-status=live }}{{cite news |last=Van |first=Lawrence |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1999/01/23/movies/film-review-tough-moll-with-heart-of-mush.html |title=Movie Review – Gloria – FILM REVIEW; Tough Moll With Heart of Mush |work=The New York Times |date=January 23, 1999 |access-date=February 19, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140310215509/http://www.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=9F06E7D91F30F930A15752C0A96F958260 |archive-date=March 10, 2014 |url-status=live }} A titular role followed in 1999 with the comedy The Muse, playing the inspiration of an esteemed screenwriter. Wade Major, a critic for Boxoffice, found her portrayal of a "dizzy Muse" to be "the film's most delightful surprise",Major, Wade. Boxoffice, August 1, 1999: 52. but most reviews were ultimately lukewarm. Helmut Voss, then president of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, which gave the annual Golden Globe Awards, ordered all 82 of its members to return gift luxury watches sent by either Stone or October Films (now merged into Focus Features) as these were considered to be promotions for a nomination for Stone's performance in the film.{{cite magazine |last=Wolk |first=Josh |title=Bribe, She Said |url=http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,84878,00.html |date=December 21, 1999 |magazine=Entertainment Weekly |access-date=June 3, 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090120113233/http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,84878,00.html |archive-date=January 20, 2009 |url-status=live }} She ultimately received the nomination for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Comedy or Musical.

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In 2000, Stone played a lesbian trying to start a family, opposite Ellen DeGeneres, in the HBO television film If These Walls Could Talk 2 and starred as an exotic dancer, alongside Billy Connolly, in the comedy Beautiful Joe. While she was recognized by Women in Film with her second Lucy Award for her performance in If These Walls Could Talk 2, Beautiful Joe premiered on cable television instead of receiving a theatrical release in North America.{{cite web |last= |first= |title=Joe Airs |url=https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/496433286/ |work=Vancouver Sun |date=December 12, 2001 |access-date=December 19, 2018 |url-access=subscription |archive-date=December 20, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181220231029/https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/496433286/ |url-status=live }}{{cite web |last= |first= |title=Tonight's TV tips |url=https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/346860715/ |work=The Bismarck Tribune |date=November 19, 2000 |access-date=December 19, 2018 |url-access=subscription |archive-date=December 20, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181220231044/https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/346860715/ |url-status=live }}{{cite web |title=Sunday listings |url=https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/107109499/ |work=The Indianapolis Star |date=November 19, 2000 |access-date=December 19, 2018 |url-access=subscription |archive-date=December 20, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181220230834/https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/107109499/ |url-status=live }}{{cite web |last= |first= |title=New Releases |url=https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/195679598/ |work=Star Tribune |date=May 25, 2001 |access-date=December 19, 2018 |url-access=subscription |archive-date=December 20, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181220230945/https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/195679598/ |url-status=live }}{{cite web |last=Davis |first=Cynthia |title=Here is a schedule of upcoming video... |url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-2001-05-10-0105100016-story.html |work=Chicago Tribune |date=May 10, 2001 |access-date=December 19, 2018 |archive-date=December 20, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181220230740/https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-2001-05-10-0105100016-story.html |url-status=live }} Nathan Rabin of The A.V. Club, who had been critical of Stone's previous films, wrote that "nothing she's done has been quite as shameless or appalling as Beautiful Joe, a toxic piece of whimsy that ranks among the worst films of 2000".{{cite web |last=Rabin |first=Nathan |title=Beautiful Joe |url=https://www.avclub.com/beautiful-joe-1798197292 |website=The A.V. Club |access-date=December 19, 2018 |date=April 19, 2002 |archive-date=December 19, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181219211027/https://film.avclub.com/beautiful-joe-1798197292 |url-status=live }}

Following her September 2001 hospitalization for a subarachnoid hemorrhage, Stone took a hiatus from screen acting. She faced professional challenges as she was in the process of recovery. She felt that she had "lost [her] place" in Hollywood, and during a 2015 interview with USA Today, she remarked: "[When] you find yourself at the back of the line in your business, as I did, [you] have to figure yourself out all over again."{{cite web |url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/celebrities/2019/07/19/sharon-stone-stroke-impaled-her-career-i-lost-everything/1776056001/ |title=Sharon Stone remembers career strife after near-fatal stroke: 'I lost everything I had' |work=USA Today |last=Jensen |first=Erin |date=July 19, 2019 |access-date=August 5, 2021 |archive-date=November 9, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211109175824/https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/celebrities/2019/07/19/sharon-stone-stroke-impaled-her-career-i-lost-everything/1776056001/ |url-status=live }} She returned to the screen in 2003, when she took on a three-episode arc as Sheila Carlisle, an attorney who believes she can communicate with God, in the eighth season of The Practice. For her performance, she received the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series.{{cite web|url=http://www.emmys.com/celebrities/sharon-stone|title=Sharon Stone|website=Television Academy|access-date=December 27, 2011|archive-date=March 23, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230323104415/https://www.emmys.com/bios/sharon-stone|url-status=live}}

Stone attempted a return to the mainstream with roles in the films Cold Creek Manor (2003), with Dennis Quaid, and Catwoman (2004), with Halle Berry. In the mystery psychological thriller Cold Creek Manor, she and Quaid played a couple terrorized by the former owner of the rural estate they bought in foreclosure. Variety magazine remarked in its review for the film that both actors "fish in vain to find any angles to play in their dimension-free characters".{{cite news|url=https://variety.com/review/VE1117921878/?categoryid=31&cs=1&p=0|work=Variety|title=Review: Cold Creek Manor|access-date=October 2, 2017}} {{Dead link|date=January 2021 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} The superhero film Catwoman saw her play the age-obsessed CEO of a cosmetic company and the story's antagonist. While both films flopped at the box office, Catwoman is considered by many critics to be one of the worst movies of all time.{{cite web|author=Jean Lowerison |url=http://sandiegometro.archives.whsites.net/reel/index.php?reelID=713 |title='Catwoman' The cat and the Bratt |website=San Diego Metropolitan |access-date=January 17, 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110724130824/http://sandiegometro.archives.whsites.net/reel/index.php?reelID=713 |archive-date=July 24, 2011 }}{{cite news |author=Kim, Janet |url=http://www.villagevoice.com/2004-07-20/film/me-ouch/1 |title=Me-Ouch – Page 1 – Movies – New York |work=The Village Voice |date=July 20, 2004 |access-date=January 17, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110629162951/http://www.villagevoice.com/2004-07-20/film/me-ouch/1/ |archive-date=June 29, 2011 |url-status=live }}

Her next film release was Jim Jarmusch's dramedy Broken Flowers (2005), in which Stone took on the role of a grasping and overly eager closet organizer who re-connects with a former womanizer (played by Bill Murray).{{cite web|url=http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=brokenflowers.htm|title=Broken Flowers (2005)|website=Box Office Mojo|access-date=October 11, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171011233150/http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=brokenflowers.htm|archive-date=October 11, 2017|url-status=live}} Unlike her previous few film outings, Broken Flowers was met with critical acclaim, upon its premiere at Cannes,{{cite web|url=https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/broken_flowers|title=Broken Flowers|website=Rotten Tomatoes|access-date=October 11, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170830115408/https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/broken_flowers|archive-date=August 30, 2017|url-status=live}} where it was nominated for the Palme d'Or and won the Grand Prix.{{cite web |url=http://www.festival-cannes.com/en/archives/ficheFilm/id/4278008/year/2005.html |title=Festival de Cannes: Broken Flowers |year=2005 |access-date=December 5, 2009 |work=Festival de Cannes |archive-date=January 20, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120120171412/http://www.festival-cannes.com/en/archives/ficheFilm/id/4278008/year/2005.html |url-status=live }} Far Out Magazine ranked Stone's role among one of her "10 best performances",{{cite web|url=https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/sharon-stone-10-best-films-martin-scorsese-jim-jarmusch/|title=Sharon Stone's 10 best film performances|website=Faroutmagazine.co.uk|date=March 10, 2021|access-date=February 9, 2022|archive-date=January 26, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220126133641/https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/sharon-stone-10-best-films-martin-scorsese-jim-jarmusch/|url-status=live}} while New York Magazine remarked: "Sharon Stone, playing a widow who's half-hippie, half-working-class-tough, demonstrates that, given the right part, she's still not merely sexy but knockabout funny and sly".{{cite news|url=http://nymag.com/nymetro/movies/reviews/12373/|title=Ex Marks the Spot|work=New York Magazine|access-date=October 11, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171023072831/http://nymag.com/nymetro/movies/reviews/12373/|archive-date=October 23, 2017|url-status=live}} In 2005, she was named Officer of the Order of Arts and Letters in France.{{cite web|url=http://www.festival-cannes.com/fr/theDailyArticle/43222.html|title=Sharon Stone Becomes an Officier des Arts et Lettres|website=festival-cannes.com|date=May 20, 2016|access-date=January 20, 2016|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://archive.today/20160224075120/http://www.festival-cannes.com/fr/theDailyArticle/43222.html|archive-date=February 24, 2016}}

After years of litigation, Basic Instinct 2 was released on March 31, 2006. A reason for a long delay in releasing the film was reportedly Stone's dispute with the filmmakers over the nudity in the film; she wanted more while they wanted less. Stone told an interviewer, "We are in a time of odd repression and if a popcorn movie allows us to create a platform for discussion, wouldn't that be great?".{{cite news|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060428042109/http://www.insideeonline.com/news/details/20060315-57/sharon_stone_sought_%22brazen%22_nude_scenes.html|title=Sharon Stone sought 'brazen' nude scenes|work=Inside Entertainment|date=March 2006|archive-date=April 28, 2006|access-date=August 19, 2011|url=http://www.insideeonline.com/news/details/20060315-57/sharon_stone_sought_%22brazen%22_nude_scenes.html}} Despite an estimated budget of US$70 million, Basic Instinct 2 placed only tenth in gross on its opening weekend with a meager US$3.2 million and finished with a total domestic gross of under US$6 million. Stone appeared in Nick Cassavetes's crime drama Alpha Dog (2006), opposite Bruce Willis, playing Olivia Mazursky, the mother of a real-life murder victim; she wore a fatsuit for the role.{{cite web |title=Stone struggles to look bad in a fat suit |url=http://www.contactmusic.com/news.nsf/article/stone%20struggles%20to%20look%20bad%20in%20a%20fat%20suit_1016226 |website=contactmusic.com |date=December 11, 2006 |access-date=August 19, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090429114527/http://www.contactmusic.com/news.nsf/article/stone%20struggles%20to%20look%20bad%20in%20a%20fat%20suit_1016226 |archive-date=April 29, 2009 |url-status=live }} The film premiered at the 2006 Sundance Film Festival and was an arthouse success.{{cite web|url=http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=alphadog.htm|title=Alpha Dog (2007)|website=Box Office Mojo|access-date=October 11, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171012043642/http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=alphadog.htm|archive-date=October 12, 2017|url-status=live}} She made part of an ensemble cast in Emilio Estevez's drama Bobby (2006), about the hours leading up to the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy. Stone received favorable comments for her performance, particularly a scene alongside Lindsay Lohan.{{cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/11/22/AR2006112202099.html|title='Bobby' Turns Back the Clock To a Fateful Day|first=Ann|last=Hornaday|date=November 23, 2006|access-date=October 11, 2017|newspaper=The Washington Post|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121112195203/http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/11/22/AR2006112202099.html|archive-date=November 12, 2012|url-status=live}}{{cite web |url=http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/movies/2003443730_bobby23.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061125005056/http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/movies/2003443730_bobby23.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=November 25, 2006 |title=Poignant story gets a lift from heavyweight cast |access-date=November 4, 2008 }} As a member of the cast, she was nominated for the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture, but won in the Hollywood Film Festival Award for Best Ensemble Cast.{{cite web|url=http://www.sagawards.org/awards/nominees-and-recipients/13th-annual-screen-actors-guild-awards|title=The 13th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards – Screen Actors Guild Awards|website=Sagawards.org|access-date=October 11, 2017|archive-url=https://archive.today/20121204191422/http://www.sagawards.org/awards/nominees-and-recipients/13th-annual-screen-actors-guild-awards|archive-date=December 4, 2012|url-status=live}}

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Stone took on the role of a clinically depressed woman in the independent drama When a Man Falls in the Forest (2007), which premiered in competition at the 57th Berlin International Film Festival where it was nominated for the Golden Bear.{{cite web|url=https://www.berlinale.de/en/archiv/jahresarchive/2007/02_programm_2007/02_Filmdatenblatt_2007_20073122.php#tab=boulevard|title=- Berlinale – Archive – Annual Archives – 2007 – Programme – When A Man Falls in the Forest|website=Berlinale.de|access-date=October 11, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171012043849/https://www.berlinale.de/en/archiv/jahresarchive/2007/02_programm_2007/02_Filmdatenblatt_2007_20073122.php#tab=boulevard|archive-date=October 12, 2017|url-status=live}}{{cite news|first1=Mike|last1=Collett-White|access-date=April 3, 2021|title=Stone says latest film challenges "Prozac society"|url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-berlin-film-stone-idUSL1251160520070215|newspaper=Reuters|date=February 15, 2007|via=www.reuters.com|archive-date=August 14, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220814165907/https://www.reuters.com/article/us-berlin-film-stone-idUSL1251160520070215|url-status=live}} All of her late 2000s films —If I Had Known I Was a Genius (2007), The Year of Getting to Know Us (2008), Five Dollars a Day (2009) and Streets of Blood (2009)— were direct-to-DVD releases in North America. In 2010, Stone made guest-appearances in four episodes of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit,{{cite magazine|last=Ausiello |first=Michael |date=January 5, 2010 |title=Scoop: 'Law & Order: SVU' collars Sharon Stone |url=http://ausiellofiles.ew.com/2010/01/05/law-order-svu-casts-sharon-stone |magazine=Entertainment Weekly |access-date=August 19, 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101009201343/http://ausiellofiles.ew.com/2010/01/05/law-order-svu-casts-sharon-stone/ |archive-date=October 9, 2010 }} portraying Jo Marlowe, a former cop turned prosecutor. Entertainment Weekly included in a review such descriptions of her performance as a "great presence", and having "had to revive her best [...] tone to sell hokey lines" in a series it described as "mawkish and overwrought".{{cite magazine|last=Tucker|first=Ken|author-link=Ken Tucker|date=April 29, 2010|title=Sharon Stone on 'Law & Order: SVU' review: Fire, but no sparks|url=http://watching-tv.ew.com/2010/04/29/sharon-stone-law-amp-order-svu|magazine=Entertainment Weekly|access-date=August 19, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110717014705/http://watching-tv.ew.com/2010/04/29/sharon-stone-law-amp-order-svu/|archive-date=July 17, 2011|url-status=live}} She took on the leading female role in the French action sequel Largo Winch II as a United Nations investigator named Diane Francken. Her first theatrical-released production since 2007, the film premiered on February 16, 2011, in France, where it opened in second place at the box office.{{cite web|url=http://www.jpbox-office.com/fichfilm.php?id=11448|title=Largo Winch 2 (2011)- JPBox-Office|last=JP|website=Jpbox-office.com|access-date=October 11, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171011233455/http://www.jpbox-office.com/fichfilm.php?id=11448|archive-date=October 11, 2017|url-status=live}} She next starred as a hard-hitting journalist in the thriller Border Run (2012), which received a direct-to-DVD release.

In 2013, Stone played the mother of porn actress Linda Lovelace (Amanda Seyfried) in the biographical drama Lovelace,{{cite web|url=http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=lovelace.htm|title=Lovelace (2013)|website=Box Office Mojo|access-date=October 11, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171011233310/http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=lovelace.htm|archive-date=October 11, 2017|url-status=live}} and a dermatologist seeking a ménage à trois in the Woody Allen–John Turturro comedy Fading Gigolo.{{cite web|url=http://tiff.net/festivals/thefestival/2013-programmes/specialpresentations/fading-gigolo|title=TIFF.net – Fading Gigolo|date=May 9, 2015|access-date=October 11, 2017|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150509121141/http://tiff.net/festivals/thefestival/2013-programmes/specialpresentations/fading-gigolo|archive-date=May 9, 2015}} Both films were released in limited theaters to a decent critical reception; Glenn Kenny, in his review for Fading Gigolo, found Stone to be "splendidly understated" in what he described as "a New York story through and through [...] often funny, sometimes moving, occasionally goofy as hell".{{cite web|url=http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/fading-gigolo-2014|title=Fading Gigolo Movie Review & Film Summary (2014) – Roger Ebert|first=Glenn|last=Kenny|website=Rogerebert.com|access-date=October 11, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171011233255/http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/fading-gigolo-2014|archive-date=October 11, 2017|url-status=live}} In 2014, she starred as an actress-turned-publisher, opposite Riccardo Scamarcio, in the Italian dramedy A Golden Boy (Un ragazzo d'oro), directed by Pupi Avati,{{cite web|url=http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/intl/?page=&country=IT&id=_fUNRAGAZZODORO01|title=Un ragazzo d'oro|website=Box Office Mojo|access-date=October 11, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171012043802/http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/intl/?page=&country=IT&id=_fUNRAGAZZODORO01|archive-date=October 12, 2017|url-status=live}}{{cite web|url=http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/review/a-golden-boy-film-review-735435|title='A Golden Boy': Film Review|website=The Hollywood Reporter|date=September 24, 2014|access-date=October 11, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171011233039/http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/review/a-golden-boy-film-review-735435|archive-date=October 11, 2017|url-status=live}}{{cite magazine |url=https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2021/03/sharon-stone-on-how-basic-instinct-nearly-broke-her |title="You Can't Shame Me": Sharon Stone on How Basic Instinct Nearly Broke Her, Before Making Her a Star |magazine=Vanity Fair |last=Stone |first=Sharon |date=March 18, 2021 |access-date=August 5, 2021 |archive-date=August 4, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210804192517/https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2021/03/sharon-stone-on-how-basic-instinct-nearly-broke-her |url-status=live }} and portrayed America's first female Vice President in the TNT action drama series Agent X, which only aired for one season.{{cite web|url=http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/2014/01/24/sharon-stone-to-star-in-tnts-action-drama-pilot-agent-x/231904|title=Sharon Stone To Star in TNT's Action-Drama Pilot 'Agent X'|date=January 24, 2014|website=Zap2it|access-date=October 11, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160530153017/http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/2014/01/24/sharon-stone-to-star-in-tnts-action-drama-pilot-agent-x/231904/|archive-date=May 30, 2016|url-status=dead}} Stone next played an adoptive mother in the drama Mothers and Daughters (2016),{{cite web|url=http://observer.com/2016/05/mothers-and-daughters-takes-on-a-familiar-theme-and-comes-up-wanting/|title='Mothers and Daughters' Takes on a Familiar Theme and Comes Up Wanting|date=May 5, 2016|website=The New York Observer|access-date=October 11, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171012043847/http://observer.com/2016/05/mothers-and-daughters-takes-on-a-familiar-theme-and-comes-up-wanting/|archive-date=October 12, 2017|url-status=live}}{{cite web|url=http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/review/mothers-daughters-film-review-891365|title='Mothers and Daughters': Film Review|website=The Hollywood Reporter|date=May 6, 2016|access-date=October 11, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171011232547/http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/review/mothers-daughters-film-review-891365|archive-date=October 11, 2017|url-status=live}} a "lineman widow" and the "alcoholic mom" of a high-wire worker in the action film Life on the Line (2016),{{cite web|url=http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/life-on-the-line-2016|title=Life on the Line Movie Review (2016) – Roger Ebert|first=Glenn|last=Kenny|website=Rogerebert.com|access-date=October 11, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171011232924/http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/life-on-the-line-2016|archive-date=October 11, 2017|url-status=live}}{{cite web|url=http://www.comingsoon.net/movie/life-on-the-line-2016|title=Life on the Line|website=ComingSoon.net|access-date=October 11, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171012000321/http://www.comingsoon.net/movie/life-on-the-line-2016|archive-date=October 12, 2017|url-status=live}} and a greedy billionaire in the drama Running Wild (2017).{{cite web|url=http://www.runningwildmovie.com/|title=About|website=RUNNING WILD|access-date=October 11, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171012043720/http://www.runningwildmovie.com/|archive-date=October 12, 2017|url-status=dead}} These three films all received a VOD release, to varying responses.{{cite web|url=http://theaters.runningwildmovie.com/#|title=Running Wild|website=theaters.runningwildmovie.com|access-date=October 11, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171011232906/http://theaters.runningwildmovie.com/|archive-date=October 11, 2017|url-status=live}} James Franco's biographical comedy The Disaster Artist (2017), which featured Stone as Iris Burton, the agent of actor Greg Sestero, was a critical and commercial success, and was chosen by the National Board of Review as one of the top ten films of 2017.{{cite web |url=http://www.nationalboardofreview.org/2017/11/national-board-review-announces-2017-award-winners/ |title=National Board of Review Announces 2017 Award Winners |publisher=National Board of Review |date=November 28, 2017 |access-date=December 7, 2017 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171129092703/http://www.nationalboardofreview.org/2017/11/national-board-review-announces-2017-award-winners/ |archive-date=November 29, 2017 }}

Stone returned to television in 2018, when she portrayed a murdered children's book author and illustrator in Steven Soderbergh's HBO mystery production Mosaic, which was released as an iOS/Android mobile app serving as an interactive film and as a television drama. She received positive reviews for her performance. Maureen Ryan of Variety felt that the actress "displays terrific range and depth" and "holds the screen with effortless charisma",{{cite news|last=Ryan|first=Maureen|title=TV Review: Steven Soderbergh's 'Mosaic' on HBO|work=Variety|date=January 17, 2018|url=https://variety.com/2018/tv/news/tv-review-steven-soderbergh-mosaic-hbo-1202667201/|access-date=January 20, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180120044258/http://variety.com/2018/tv/news/tv-review-steven-soderbergh-mosaic-hbo-1202667201/|archive-date=January 20, 2018|url-status=live}} and Nick Schager of The Daily Beast wrote that "Stone's turn is something close to masterful."{{cite news|last=Schager|first=Nick|title=Steven Soderbergh's 'Mosaic' Is the Most Innovative TV Series Maybe Ever|work=The Daily Beast|date=January 16, 2018|url=https://www.thedailybeast.com/steven-soderberghs-mosaic-is-the-most-innovative-tv-series-maybe-ever/|access-date=January 20, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180123032838/https://www.thedailybeast.com/steven-soderberghs-mosaic-is-the-most-innovative-tv-series-maybe-ever|archive-date=January 23, 2018|url-status=live}} She earned the Satellite Award for Best Supporting Actress in a Series, Miniseries, or Television Film.{{cite web |url=http://www.pressacademy.com/news/the-international-press-academy-announces-nominations-for-the-23rd-annual-satellite-awards-copy/ |title=ROMA, A STAR IS BORN, Set for Top Honors at 23rd Satellite™ Awards |last=Johnson |first=Quendrith |date=January 3, 2019 |publisher=International Press Academy |access-date=January 3, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190104102728/http://www.pressacademy.com/news/the-international-press-academy-announces-nominations-for-the-23rd-annual-satellite-awards-copy/ |archive-date=January 4, 2019 |url-status=live }}

In Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese (2019), a pseudo-documentary film covering Bob Dylan's 1975 Rolling Thunder Revue concert tour,{{cite web|url=https://variety.com/2019/film/columns/why-did-martin-scorsese-prank-his-audience-in-rolling-thunder-revue-1203243856/|title=Why Did Martin Scorsese Prank His Audience in 'Rolling Thunder Revue'? Even He May Not Know|last=Gleiberman|first=Owen|date=June 15, 2019|website=Variety|language=en|access-date=June 17, 2019|archive-date=June 16, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190616211207/https://variety.com/2019/film/columns/why-did-martin-scorsese-prank-his-audience-in-rolling-thunder-revue-1203243856/|url-status=live}} Stone played an exaggerated version of herself. The film was released on Netflix, to critical acclaim. Owen Gleiberman described her appearance as a "marketing hook" and further stated: "The presence of Sharon Stone embodies the spirit of [the Hollywood] machine. She has always been a good actress (probably better than many know; just watch her in Casino), but her fame will forever rest on a certain crudely riveting but debased high-budget exploitation thriller".{{cite web |url=https://variety.com/2019/film/columns/why-did-martin-scorsese-prank-his-audience-in-rolling-thunder-revue-1203243856/ |title=Why Did Martin Scorsese Prank His Audience in 'Rolling Thunder Revue'? Even He May Not Know |work=Variety |last=Gleiberman |first=Owen |date=June 15, 2019 |access-date=August 5, 2021 |archive-date=July 28, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210728065923/https://variety.com/2019/film/columns/why-did-martin-scorsese-prank-his-audience-in-rolling-thunder-revue-1203243856/ |url-status=live }} She reunited with Soderbergh for The Laundromat (2019), in which she played a harried realtor, opposite Meryl Streep.

In Netflix's psychological thriller series Ratched (2020), a prequel to Miloš Forman's 1975 film One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest developed by Ryan Murphy, Stone portrayed a wealthy heiress who hires a hit man to kill a doctor for disfiguring her son. Intrigued by Murphy's pitch for her character, which he wrote for her, Stone described the part as "completely insane. And at the same time she thinks she's really a loving mother who has her shit together".{{cite web|url=https://www.townandcountrymag.com/society/money-and-power/a33915326/sharon-stone-nurse-ratched-interview-2020/|title=Sharon Stone's Done with Monkey Business—Mostly|first=Hunter|last=Harris|date=September 16, 2020|website=Town & Country|access-date=February 9, 2022|archive-date=February 5, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220205233459/https://www.townandcountrymag.com/society/money-and-power/a33915326/sharon-stone-nurse-ratched-interview-2020/|url-status=live}}{{cite web|url=https://deadline.com/2019/01/ratched-sharon-stone-cynthia-nixon-10-cast-ryan-murphy-netflix-series-sarah-paulson-1202535205/|title='Ratched': Sharon Stone, Cynthia Nixon Among 10 Cast In Ryan Murphy's Netflix Series|author=Denise Petski|work=Deadline|date=January 14, 2019|access-date=January 20, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190115075834/https://deadline.com/2019/01/ratched-sharon-stone-cynthia-nixon-10-cast-ryan-murphy-netflix-series-sarah-paulson-1202535205/|archive-date=January 15, 2019|url-status=live}} The series garnered a decent critical response and was viewed by 48 million people in its first four weeks of release.{{cite tweet |user=netflix|author=Netflix|number=1317125663631892481|date=October 16, 2020|title=In its first 28 days, 48 million members have booked an appointment with Nurse Ratched, making it our biggest original Season 1 of the year.|archive-date=October 20, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201020142909/https://twitter.com/netflix/status/1317125663631892481|url-status=live}} In 2020 Stone appeared as herself in an introduction to the fifth episode of The New Pope, where she had an audience with John Malkovich as Pope John Paul III.{{cite web|url=https://decider.com/2020/02/10/the-new-pope-sharon-stone-cameo//|title='The New Pope' Made Such An Obvious Leg-Crossing Joke With Sharon Stone It Was Actually…Brilliant?|first=Hunter|last=Harris|date=February 10, 2020|website=Decider|access-date=July 3, 2022|archive-date=July 4, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220704000956/https://decider.com/2020/02/10/the-new-pope-sharon-stone-cameo/|url-status=live}}

In 2021, she also appeared as herself in the dramedy Here Today, directed by Billy Crystal,{{cite web|url=https://variety.com/2021/film/reviews/here-today-review-billy-crystal-tiffany-haddish-1234966838/|title='Here Today' Review: Billy Crystal, as a Comedy Writer Losing His Memory, Meets Tiffany Haddish in a Lively Movie With a Soft Center|website=Variety|first=Owen|last=Gleiberman|date=May 5, 2021|access-date=May 8, 2021|archive-date=May 8, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210508042934/https://variety.com/2021/film/reviews/here-today-review-billy-crystal-tiffany-haddish-1234966838/|url-status=live}} and was cast in the romantic drama Beauty, directed by Andrew Dosunmu for Netflix.{{cite web|url=https://www.ioncinema.com/news/festival-predictions/2021-sundance-film-festival-andrew-dosunmu-beauty|title=2021 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Andrew Dosunmu's Beauty|website=IonCinema.com|first=Eric|last=Lavalee|date=November 16, 2020|access-date=May 8, 2021|archive-date=November 16, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201116160140/https://www.ioncinema.com/news/festival-predictions/2021-sundance-film-festival-andrew-dosunmu-beauty|url-status=live}}

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For her leading roles in erotic and adult-themed feature films such as Basic Instinct, Sliver, and The Specialist, Stone cemented what was described as a "tough-talking, no-underwear, voyeuristic, cool-as-ice, sex symbol" status during the 1990s.{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pR_IAAAAQBAJ&q=sharon+stone+sex+symbol&pg=PA175|title=The Films of the Nineties: The Decade of Spin|first=W.|last=Palmer|date=March 2, 2009|publisher=Springer|access-date=October 11, 2017|via=Google Books|isbn=9780230619555|archive-date=March 23, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230323104414/https://books.google.com/books?id=pR_IAAAAQBAJ&q=sharon+stone+sex+symbol&pg=PA175|url-status=live}} She has appeared on the covers and pictorials of over 300 celebrity and fashion magazines throughout her four-decade acting career.{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000232/publicity/|title=Sharon Stone|publisher=IMDb|access-date=October 11, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130621120659/http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000232/publicity|archive-date=June 21, 2013|url-status=live}} She graced the June–July 1986 cover of French Vogue, and to coincide with the release of Total Recall, she posed nude for the July 1990 issue of Playboy, flaunting the muscles she had developed in preparation for the film. Following Basic Instinct, photographer George Hurrell took a series of photographs of Stone, Sherilyn Fenn, Julian Sands, Raquel Welch, Eric Roberts, and Sean Penn. Stone, who was Hurrell's reportedly last sitting before his death in 1992,{{cite web|url=http://news.nationalpost.com/life/style/saving-faces-a-new-biography-of-hollywood-publicity-photographer-george-hurrell|title=Saving faces: A new biography of Hollywood publicity photographer George Hurrell|date=November 23, 2013|website=National Post|access-date=October 11, 2017}} is also a collector of the photographer's original prints and wrote the foreword to the book Hurrell's Hollywood. In 1993, she appeared in Pirelli's commercial, Driving Instinct,{{cite web |last1=Vlugt |first1=Will van der |title=Pirelli: Driving Instinct |url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7728882/ |publisher=Pirelli Tires, Young and Rubicam |access-date=May 15, 2021 |date=March 26, 1993 |archive-date=May 16, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220516113553/https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7728882/ |url-status=live }}{{cite news |last1=Peden |first1=Lauren David |title=FILM; Seen the One Where Arnold Sells Noodles? |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1993/06/20/movies/film-seen-the-one-where-arnold-sells-noodles.html |access-date=May 15, 2021 |work=The New York Times |date=June 20, 1993 |quote=In Ms. Stone's Pirelli ad, the star steps off an airplane and into a waiting car. |archive-date=May 15, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210515041345/https://www.nytimes.com/1993/06/20/movies/film-seen-the-one-where-arnold-sells-noodles.html |url-status=live }} in 2005, became the face of Dior's Capture skincare line,{{cite web|url=https://www.vogue.co.uk/article/sharon-stone-for-dior|title=SHARON STONE FOR DIOR|date=October 4, 2005|website=British Vogue|access-date=February 9, 2022|archive-date=January 27, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220127034155/https://www.vogue.co.uk/article/sharon-stone-for-dior|url-status=live}} and in 2016, starred with Paul Sculfor in Airfield's (de) Fashion Is a Lovestory short film.{{cite web |last1=Schuller |first1=Kristian |author2=AIRFIELD |author1-link=:de:Kristian Schuller |author2-link=:de:Airfield |title=Fashion is a Love Story |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HUQsF93kpVQ | archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211029/HUQsF93kpVQ| archive-date=October 29, 2021|website=AirfieldFashion |publisher=via: YouTube |access-date=June 2, 2021 |language=en |date=February 25, 2016 |quote=AIRFIELD shows a cinematic love story with Hollywood star Sharon Stone and Paul Sculfor. Let yourself be enchanted by the story of a contemporary, self-confident woman who loves to travel, in fashion that still looks fresh and glamorous even after the longest trip – staged by star photographer Kristian Schuller.}}{{cbignore}}{{cite web |title=Impressum |url=https://www.airfield.de/policies/legal-notice |website=AIRFIELD |language=de |date=2021 |quote=Impressum#On webpages |access-date=June 2, 2021 |archive-date=June 2, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210602214907/https://www.airfield.de/policies/legal-notice |url-status=live }}{{cite web |url=http://www.luxurylondon.co.uk/article/sharon-stone-interview |title=Sharon Stone: The Interview |publisher=Luxury |location=London |date=July 22, 2016 |first=Olivia |last=Sharpe |access-date=August 1, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160809004136/http://www.luxurylondon.co.uk/article/sharon-stone-interview |quote=Hollywood actress, model and philanthropist Sharon Stone speaks to us about women in Hollywood, being sexy at 58 and starring in Airfield’s S/S16 campaign |archive-date=August 9, 2016 |url-status=dead }}

Stone's public and professional profiles have been strongly tied to her appearance and sex appeal. She has ranked among the "50 most beautiful people in the world" by People in 1992,{{cite magazine|date=May 12, 1997|url=http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20122069,00.html|title=Beautiful Through the Years|magazine=People|issn=0093-7673|access-date=August 19, 2011|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121019234043/http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20122069,00.html|archive-date=October 19, 2012}} the "100 sexiest stars in film history" by Empire in 1995 and 1997,{{cite web| title=Divas of the 1990s: now and then| url=http://entertainment.ca.msn.com/music/connection/divas-of-the-1990s-now-and-then-1?page=10| publisher=MSN| access-date=September 20, 2014}} {{Dead link|date=November 2019 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes}} and the "25 sexiest stars of the century" by Playboy in 1999.{{cite news|author=Playboy|url=http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/playboy-ranks-100-sexiest-stars-of-the-century-in-january-issue-77502262.html|title=Playboy Ranks 100 Sexiest Stars of the Century in January Issue|agency=PR Newswire|date=November 23, 1998|access-date=August 19, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120113032104/http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/playboy-ranks-100-sexiest-stars-of-the-century-in-january-issue-77502262.html|archive-date=January 13, 2012|url-status=dead}} She has also been the subject of four television documentary specials, and several biographies have been written about her.

{{cite book |last1=Sanello |first1=Frank |author1-link=Frank Sanello |title=Naked Instinct: Unauthorised Biography of Sharon Stone |date=1997 |publisher=Carol Pub. Group |location=Secaucus, N.J. |isbn=1559724021 |oclc=475599354}}{{cite book |last1=Sandison |first1=David |title=Sharon Stone |date=1998 |publisher=Chelsea House |location=Philadelphia |isbn=0791046508 |oclc=539139618}}{{cite book |last1=Hölzl |first1=Gebhard |last2=Lassonczyk |first2=Thomas |title=Sharon Stone mit "Basic Instinct" zum Erfolg |date=1995 |publisher=Heyne Verlag |location=München |oclc=235855293 |isbn=3453065514 |edition=1 |language=de}} On her sex symbol image, Stone told Oprah Winfrey on Oprah Prime in 2014: "It's a pleasure for me now. I mean, I'm gonna be 56 years old. If people want to think I'm a sex symbol, it's, like, yeah. Think it up. You know. I mean, like, good for me".{{cite web|url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/people/2014/03/13/sharon-stone-talks-being-sex-symbol-oprah/6373621/|title=Sharon Stone on sex-symbol status: 'It's a pleasure'|website=USA Today|access-date=October 11, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171012001358/https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/people/2014/03/13/sharon-stone-talks-being-sex-symbol-oprah/6373621/|archive-date=October 12, 2017|url-status=live}} She posed nude for the September 2015 issue of Harper's Bazaar, in which she stated: "At a certain point you start asking yourself, 'What really is sexy?' It's not just the elevation of your boobs. It's being present and having fun and liking yourself enough to like the person that's with you".{{cite web|url=http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2015/08/15/sharon-stone-naked-photos-magazine_n_7991468.html|title=Sharon Stone Strips Off For Stunning (NSFW) Mag Shoot|date=August 15, 2015|website=HuffPost|access-date=October 11, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171012043731/http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2015/08/15/sharon-stone-naked-photos-magazine_n_7991468.html|archive-date=October 12, 2017|url-status=live}}

On January 28, 2005, Stone helped solicit pledges for $1 million in five minutes for mosquito nets in Tanzania,"Sharon Stone raises $1 mil. for Tanzania in 5 minutes", Yomiuri Shimbun, January 30, 2005. turning a panel on African poverty into an impromptu fundraiser at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. Many observers, including UNICEF, criticized her actions by claiming that Stone had reacted instinctively to the words of Tanzanian President Benjamin Mkapa, because she had not done her research on the causes, consequences, and methods of preventing malaria.{{cite news|url=http://www.economist.com/world/displaystory.cfm?story_id=4127278|title=The $25 billion question|newspaper=The Economist|date=June 30, 2005|access-date=August 19, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080401132854/http://www.economist.com/world/displaystory.cfm?story_id=4127278|archive-date=April 1, 2008|url-status=live}} Of the $1 million pledged, only $250,000 was actually raised. In order to fulfill the promise to send $1 million worth of bed nets to Tanzania, UNICEF contributed $750,000.{{cite journal|last=Daar |first=Evan |year=2009 |url=http://www.columbia.edu/cu/current/articles/spring2009/daar.html |title=Aid Wars |journal=The Current |issue=Spring 2009 |location=New York |publisher=Columbia University |access-date=August 19, 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100626040310/http://www.columbia.edu/cu/current/articles/spring2009/daar.html |archive-date=June 26, 2010 }} A review of {{cite book|last=Moyo|first=Dambisa|year=2009|title=Dead Aid: Why Aid Is Not Working and How There Is a Better Way for Africa|location=New York|publisher=Farrar, Straus, and Giroux|isbn=978-0-374-13956-8|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/deadaidwhyaidisn00moyo}} This diverted funds from other UNICEF projects. According to prominent economist Xavier Sala-i-Martin, officials are largely unaware of what happened with the bed nets. Some were delivered to the local airport. These reportedly were stolen and later resurfaced as wedding dresses on the local black market.

Stone was criticized over her comments in an exchange on the red carpet with Hong Kong's Cable Entertainment News during the 2008 Cannes Film Festival on May 25, 2008. When asked about the 2008 Sichuan earthquake she remarked:

{{blockquote|Well you know it was very interesting because at first, you know, I'm not happy about the way the Chinese are treating the Tibetans because I don't think anyone should be unkind to anyone else. And so I have been very concerned about how to think and what to do about that because I don't like that. And I had been this, you know, concerned about, oh how should we deal with the Olympics because they are not being nice to the Dalai Lama, who is a good friend of mine. And then this earthquake and all this stuff happened, and then I thought, is that karma? When you're not nice that the bad things happen to you?{{cite news|url=http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/24847807/ns/today-entertainment/t/sharon-stone-suggests-china-quake-was-karma/|title=Sharon Stone suggests China quake was 'karma'|date=May 27, 2008|agency=Associated Press|publisher=MSN|access-date=December 2, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120425055800/http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/24847807/ns/today-entertainment/t/sharon-stone-suggests-china-quake-was-karma|archive-date=April 25, 2012|url-status=dead}}}}

One of China's biggest cinema chains reacted to Stone's comments by declaring it would not show her films in its theaters.{{cite news|publisher=Yahoo!|date=May 28, 2008|access-date=May 28, 2008| url=https://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080528/ap_en_mo/people_sharon_stone_quake|title=Sharon Stone: Was China quake 'bad karma?'| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080531005856/http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080528/ap_en_mo/people_sharon_stone_quake|archive-date=May 31, 2008}} The founder of the UME Cineplex chain and the chairman of the Federation of Hong Kong Filmmakers, Ng See-yuen, called Stone's comments "inappropriate", and said the UME Cineplex chain would no longer present her films. Dior advertisements featuring Stone's image were dropped from all ads in China amid the public uproar.{{cite news|first=Aislinn|last=Simpson|agency=Agence France-Presse|date=May 29, 2008|work=The Telegraph|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/china/2048006/Sharon-Stone-apologises-over-China-earthquake-karma-comments-in-Dior-statement.html|title=Sharon Stone apologises for China quake 'karma' remark|access-date=August 19, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110605091502/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/china/2048006/Sharon-Stone-apologises-over-China-earthquake-karma-comments-in-Dior-statement.html|archive-date=June 5, 2011|url-status=live}} Stone was removed from the 2008 Shanghai International Film Festival guest list, and the event's organizers considered banning the actress permanently.{{cite news|url=http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/life/people/2008-06-04-stone-shanghai_N.htm|title=Sharon Stone not welcome at Shanghai film festival|website=USA Today|first=Min|last=Lee|agency=Associated Press|location=Hong Kong|date=June 3, 2008|access-date=January 24, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160406033136/http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/life/people/2008-06-04-stone-shanghai_N.htm|archive-date=April 6, 2016|url-status=live}} Dior China had originally posted an apology in Stone's name, but Stone later denied making the apology during an interview with The New York Times, saying "I'm not going to apologize. I'm certainly not going to apologize for something that isn't real and true – not for face creams," although she did admit that she had "sounded like an idiot."{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/01/fashion/01stone.html|title=Actress Stone and Dior Differ Over Apology|work=The New York Times|date=June 1, 2008|access-date=June 1, 2008|first=Cathy|last=Horyn|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090410000706/http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/01/fashion/01stone.html|archive-date=April 10, 2009|url-status=live}} However, after the interview, Stone released a statement entitled "In my own words by Sharon Stone" in which she said "I could not be more regretful of that mistake. It was unintentional. I apologize. Those words were never meant to be hurtful to anyone."{{cite news|url=http://edition.cnn.com/2008/SHOWBIZ/Movies/05/31/sharon.stone/index.html|title=Actress says she misspoke on China|publisher=CNN|date=May 31, 2008|access-date=March 24, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160313093035/http://edition.cnn.com/2008/SHOWBIZ/Movies/05/31/sharon.stone/index.html|archive-date=March 13, 2016|url-status=live}} While Stone cited the Dalai Lama as her "good friend" when she made the remark at the Cannes film festival, the Dalai Lama has reportedly distanced himself by saying of her only, "yes, I've met that lady".{{cite news|url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/06/12/dalai-lama-distances-hims_n_106675.html|title=Dalai Lama Distances Himself From 'Good Friend' Sharon Stone|work=HuffPost|agency=Agence France-Presse|date=June 20, 2008|access-date=August 19, 2011|first=Katherine|last=Thomson|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110607061826/http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/06/12/dalai-lama-distances-hims_n_106675.html|archive-date=June 7, 2011|url-status=live}}

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Stone is a Tibetan Buddhist, having been converted to Buddhism when Richard Gere introduced her to the Dalai Lama. She has said she believes in God.{{cite news |last1=Wildt |first1=Marina |title=5 Celebrity Buddhists |url=https://longevitylive.com/celebrity/5-celebrity-buddhists-2/ |access-date=December 26, 2021 |work=Longevity |archive-date=December 26, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211226043010/https://longevitylive.com/celebrity/5-celebrity-buddhists-2/ |url-status=live }}

On September 29, 2001, Stone was hospitalized for a subarachnoid hemorrhage, which was diagnosed as a vertebral artery dissection rather than the more common ruptured aneurysm, and treated with an endovascular coil embolization.{{cite news|title=Basic instinct may have saved Sharon Stone|url=https://www.usatoday.com/news/health/spotlight/2001-10-23-stone.htm|work=USA Today|author=Mike Falcon|date=October 23, 2001|access-date=June 3, 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080508094140/http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/spotlight/2001-10-23-stone.htm|archive-date=May 8, 2008|url-status=live}} She has stated while she was sick people took advantage of her and stole $18 million from her. She nearly went broke.{{Cite web |date=July 10, 2024 |title=Sharon Stone Recalls Going Broke After Near Death Experience |url=https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/sharon-stone-recalls-going-broke-134541466.html |access-date=July 20, 2024 |website=Yahoo Entertainment |language=en-US}}

In 1984, she met television producer Michael Greenburg on the set of The Vegas Strip War, a television film he produced and she starred in. They married the same year. In 1986, Greenburg was her line producer on Allan Quatermain and the Lost City of Gold. The couple separated three years later, and their divorce was finalized in 1990.{{cite web |first=Peta |last=Hellard |date=October 5, 2008 |url=http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/sunday-heraldsun/court-humiliation-for-stone/story-e6frf92f-1111117663665 |title=Court humiliation for Stone |work=Herald Sun |location=Melbourne, Australia |access-date=August 19, 2011}}

Stone and comedian Garry Shandling were students of acting coach Roy London and dated briefly.{{cite web |url=https://www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/arid-30269837.html |title=Stone back with old flame Shandling? |work=The Irish Examiner |date=July 28, 2006 |access-date=October 23, 2020 |archive-date=October 30, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201030051158/https://www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/arid-30269837.html |url-status=live }}{{cite web |url=https://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/tv/garry-shandling-acclaimed-comic-actor-dead-66-article-1.2576782 |title=Garry Shandling, acclaimed comic and star of 'The Larry Sanders Show,' dead at 66 |work=New York Daily News |last=Sacks |first=Ethan |date=March 24, 2016 |access-date=October 23, 2020 |archive-date=October 26, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201026064439/https://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/tv/garry-shandling-acclaimed-comic-actor-dead-66-article-1.2576782 |url-status=live }} She appeared on his show The Larry Sanders Show in the episode "The Mr. Sharon Stone Show".{{cite web |url=https://variety.com/2016/tv/columns/garry-shandling-dead-appreciation-the-larry-sanders-show-its-garry-shandlings-show-1201738858/ |title=Garry Shandling: A Brilliant Comedic Observer of Hollywood Neuroses |date=March 24, 2016 |last=Lowry |first=Brian |work=Variety |access-date=October 23, 2020 |archive-date=October 26, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201026230125/https://variety.com/2016/tv/columns/garry-shandling-dead-appreciation-the-larry-sanders-show-its-garry-shandlings-show-1201738858/ |url-status=live }} They remained close friends until Shandling's death in 2016.{{cite magazine |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/tv/tv-news/judd-apatow-kathy-griffin-bob-odenkirk-pay-tribute-to-garry-shandling-190474/ |title=Judd Apatow, Kathy Griffin, Bob Odenkirk Pay Tribute to Garry Shandling |last=Legaspi |first=Althea |date=March 25, 2016 |magazine=Rolling Stone |access-date=October 23, 2020 |archive-date=October 21, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201021202137/https://www.rollingstone.com/tv/tv-news/judd-apatow-kathy-griffin-bob-odenkirk-pay-tribute-to-garry-shandling-190474/ |url-status=live }} In the documentary Special Thanks to Roy London, interviews with Stone[https://web.archive.org/web/20060102194121/http://www.specialthankstoroylondon.com/clips/SharonStone.mov Sharon Stone] Special Thanks to Roy London{{cite web |url=https://www.backstage.com/news/new-documentary-pays-special-thanks-to-roy-london/ |title=New Documentary Pays 'Special Thanks to Roy London' |work=Backstage.com |last=Jacobs |first=Tom |date=February 7, 2006 |access-date=July 20, 2021 |archive-date=June 12, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180612163557/https://www.backstage.com/news/new-documentary-pays-special-thanks-to-roy-london/ |url-status=live }} and Shandling[https://web.archive.org/web/20060102203324/http://www.specialthankstoroylondon.com/clips/GarryShandling.mov Garry Shandling] Special Thanks to Roy London{{cite web |url=https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/la-et-archives-garry-shandling-larry-sanders-show-dvd-20160324-story.html |title=From the Archives: With Garry Shandling, nothing was straightforward, including the DVD release of the 'Larry Sanders Show' |work=Los Angeles Times |last=Lloyd |first=Robert |date=March 24, 2016 |access-date=July 20, 2021 |url-access=subscription |archive-date=June 2, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210602214328/https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/la-et-archives-garry-shandling-larry-sanders-show-dvd-20160324-story.html |url-status=live }}{{cite web |url=https://www.kcrw.com/news-culture/shows/the-treatment/christopher-monger-and-garry-shandling |title=Christopher Monger and Garry Shandling |work=KCRW.com |last=Mitchell |first=Elvis |date=September 12, 2007 |access-date=July 20, 2021 |archive-date=June 12, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180612184908/https://www.kcrw.com/news-culture/shows/the-treatment/christopher-monger-and-garry-shandling |url-status=live }}[https://web.archive.org/web/20051028090248/http://specialthankstoroylondon.com/ Special Thanks To Roy London] - Documentary{{cite web |url=https://variety.com/2005/film/markets-festivals/special-thanks-to-roy-london-1200526354/ |title=Special Thanks To Roy London |work=Variety |last=Scheib |first=Ronnie |date=April 24, 2005 |access-date=July 20, 2021 |archive-date=June 2, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210602215602/https://variety.com/2005/film/markets-festivals/special-thanks-to-roy-london-1200526354/ |url-status=live }} discuss their relationship.

In 1993, Stone met William J. MacDonald on the set of the film Sliver, which he co-produced. MacDonald left his wife Naomi Baka for Stone and became engaged to her. They separated one year later in 1994.{{cite magazine |last=Fink |first=Mitchell |date=February 21, 1994 |url=http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20107530,00.html|title=The Insider: Stone's Throw |magazine=People |issn=0093-7673 |volume=41 |issue=7 |page=33 |access-date=August 19, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110330213112/http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20107530,00.html|archive-date=March 30, 2011 |url-status=live}} After they separated, Stone returned the engagement ring via FedEx.{{cite magazine |date=March 21, 1994 |url=http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20107684,00.html |magazine=Rolling Stone |issn=0093-7673 |volume=41 |issue=10 |page=74 |access-date=December 6, 2017 |title=People: Sharon Stone |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304043326/http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20107684,00.html |archive-date=March 4, 2016 |url-status=live}} While working on the film The Quick and the Dead in 1994, Stone met Bob Wagner, a first assistant director, and they became engaged.

On February 14, 1998, Stone married Phil Bronstein, executive editor of The San Francisco Examiner and later San Francisco Chronicle.{{cite magazine |last=Schindehette |first=Susan |date=March 2, 1998 |url=http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20124626,00.html |title=Some Enchanted Evening |magazine=People |issn=0093-7673 |volume=49 |issue=8 |page=80 |access-date=August 20, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111222130133/http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20124626,00.html |archive-date=December 22, 2011 |url-status=live}}{{cite news |last1=Mills |first1=Nancy |title=HEART OF STONE: Sharon takes smaller parts, like 'Simpatico,' to be more supportive of her husband after his heart attack |url=https://www.nydailynews.com/heart-stone-sharon-takes-smaller-parts-simpatico-supportive-husband-heart-attack-article-1.868418 |access-date=June 2, 2021 |work=New York Daily News |date=January 30, 2000 |archive-date=June 2, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210602220136/https://www.nydailynews.com/heart-stone-sharon-takes-smaller-parts-simpatico-supportive-husband-heart-attack-article-1.868418 |url-status=live }} Stone suffered several miscarriages due to an autoimmune disease and endometriosis{{cite book |last1=Stone |first1=Sharon |title=The Beauty of Living Twice |chapter=Kitchen-Sink Irish |date=2021 |publisher=Alfred A. Knopf |location=New York |isbn=9780525656760 |edition=First |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1234479428 |access-date=June 2, 2021 |quote=She had fibroid tumors in her uterus and I’m sure the endometriosis that both my sister and I inherited and that was what disallowed us to have our own children.” |oclc=1234479428 |archive-date=March 23, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230323104421/https://www.worldcat.org/title/1234479428 |url-status=live }} and was unable to have biological children.{{cite web |title=Sharon Stone: The heartbreaking reason why she couldn't have children |url=https://www.newidea.com.au/sharon-stone-reveals-she-wasnt-able-to-conceive-children-because-she-suffers-from-an-autoimmune-disease |website=New idea |date=May 6, 2017 |access-date=August 17, 2020 |archive-date=June 11, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200611205011/https://www.newidea.com.au/sharon-stone-reveals-she-wasnt-able-to-conceive-children-because-she-suffers-from-an-autoimmune-disease |url-status=live }} They adopted a son, Roan Joseph Bronstein, in 2000.{{cite news |last1=Bear |first1=Liza |last2=Oldenburg |first2=Ann |date=May 24, 2002 |url=https://www.usatoday.com/life/2002/2002-05-24-stone.htm |title=No fashion stone left unturned |work=USA Today |access-date=August 20, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111116004727/http://www.usatoday.com/life/2002/2002-05-24-stone.htm |archive-date=November 16, 2011 |url-status=live}} Bronstein filed for divorce in 2003, citing irreconcilable differences.{{cite news |url=http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20238153,00.html|title=The War Over Roan |date=October 20, 2008 |work=People |access-date=January 20, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160804032305/http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20238153,00.html |archive-date=August 4, 2016 |url-status=live}} The divorce became final in 2004,{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/12/arts/12iht-peepfri.html |title=People: Liv Ullmann, Sharon Stone, Seal |date=May 13, 2005 |work=The New York Times |access-date=August 20, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130523110646/http://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/12/arts/12iht-peepfri.html |archive-date=May 23, 2013 |url-status=live}} with a judge ruling that Roan would remain primarily with Bronstein and Stone would have visitation rights.{{cite news |url=http://ca.eonline.com/news/sharon_stones_custody_derailed_by_botox/31754 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120710134524/http://ca.eonline.com/news/sharon_stones_custody_derailed_by_botox/31754 |url-status=dead |archive-date=July 10, 2012 |title=Sharon Stone's Custody Derailed by Botox |date=September 30, 2008 |publisher=E! |access-date=January 20, 2012}}

Stone adopted her second son, Laird Vonne, in 2005{{cite magazine |last1=Perry |first1=Simon |last2=Arcieri |first2=Kate |last3=Silverman |first3=Stephen M. |date=May 12, 2005 |url=http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,1060418,00.html |title=Maternal Instinct: Sharon Stone Adopts Boy |magazine=People |issn=0093-7673 |access-date=August 20, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111114212114/http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,1060418,00.html|archive-date=November 14, 2011 |url-status=dead}} and her third son, Quinn Kelly Stone, in 2006.{{cite news |author=WENN.com |date=August 29, 2006 |url=http://www.hollywood.com/news/Stone_Confirms_Adoption/3549079 |title=Sharon Stone Confirms Adoption |work=Hollywood.com |access-date=August 20, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120620211138/http://www.hollywood.com/news/Stone_Confirms_Adoption/3549079 |archive-date=June 20, 2012 |url-status=live}} As of 2018, Stone resides with her three sons in West Hollywood, California, in a home once owned by the actor Montgomery Clift.{{cite web |work=CBS News |publisher=CBS |title=Sharon Stone's second chance |date=January 14, 2018 |url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/sharon-stones-second-chance-mosaic/ |access-date=November 29, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181130071522/https://www.cbsnews.com/news/sharon-stones-second-chance-mosaic/ |archive-date=November 30, 2018 |url-status=live}}

In March 2006, Stone traveled to Israel to promote peace in the Middle East through a press conference with Nobel Peace Prize winner and former prime minister of Israel Shimon Peres.{{cite web|title=ACTRESS SHARON STONE VISITS ISRAEL WITH THE SHIMON PERES CENTER FOR PEACE|url=https://www.upi.com/News_Photos/view/upi/f137b0cd8ec7cb582413f4ec768811e6/ACTRESS-SHARON-STONE-VISITS-ISRAEL-WITH-THE-SHIMON-PERES-CENTER-FOR-PEACE/|access-date=May 9, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190509211607/https://www.upi.com/News_Photos/view/upi/f137b0cd8ec7cb582413f4ec768811e6/ACTRESS-SHARON-STONE-VISITS-ISRAEL-WITH-THE-SHIMON-PERES-CENTER-FOR-PEACE/|archive-date=May 9, 2019|url-status=live}} In 2013, she referred to Peres, who was then serving as the president of Israel, as her "mentor".Dvir, Noam (Davul). [http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4394526,00.html "Sharon Stone call Peres her 'mentor'"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130620002122/http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4394526,00.html |date=June 20, 2013 }}, Ynetnews, June 19, 2013. Retrieved June 19, 2013. On October 23, 2013, Stone received the Peace Summit Award for her work for people with HIV/AIDS.{{cite news|title=The Peace Summit Award 2013 to Sharon Stone|url=http://www.nobelforpeace-summits.org/news/peace-summit-award-2013-sharon-stone|work=World Summit of Nobel Peace Laureates|date=October 23, 2013|access-date=October 23, 2013|url-status=usurped|archive-url=https://archive.today/20140702120503/http://www.nobelforpeace-summits.org/news/peace-summit-award-2013-sharon-stone/|archive-date=July 2, 2014}}

In 2015, Stone was guest of honor at the Pilosio Building Peace Award in Milan.{{cite web|last1=S.p.A |first1=Pilosio |title=Pilosio Award, Italy, September 11 |url=http://pilosioaward.com/next-edition-2/ |website=pilosioaward.com |language=it |date=March 5, 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160123235117/http://pilosioaward.com/next-edition-2/ |archive-date=January 23, 2016 }} She began an impromptu auction on stage in front of a crowd of CEOs from the construction industry and other dignitaries. She gained enough pledges to build 28 schools in Africa.{{cite web|title=Sharon Stone's Basic Instinct Is To Build Schools|url=http://real-leaders.com/sharon-stones-basic-instinct-is-to-build-schools/|website=Real Leaders|access-date=December 29, 2015|archive-url=https://archive.today/20170109200907/http://real-leaders.com/sharon-stones-basic-instinct-is-to-build-schools/|archive-date=January 9, 2017|url-status=dead}}

{{main|Sharon Stone filmography|List of awards and nominations received by Sharon Stone}}

In a career spanning over four decades, Stone has had over one hundred acting credits in film and on television. She has won 10 awards from 41 nominations, including one Golden Globe Award (for Casino), one Primetime Emmy Award (for The Practice), and two MTV Movie Awards (for Basic Instinct). Her top-billing roles and most notable films {{as of|2019|lc=on}} include:{{cite web|url=https://www.rottentomatoes.com/celebrity/sharon_stone/|title=Sharon Stone|website=Rotten Tomatoes|access-date=October 11, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170830104708/https://www.rottentomatoes.com/celebrity/sharon_stone|archive-date=August 30, 2017|url-status=live}}{{cite web|title=Sharon Stone|url=http://www.boxofficemojo.com/people/chart/?id=sharonstone.htm|website=Box Office Mojo|access-date=May 14, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171012043600/http://www.boxofficemojo.com/people/chart/?id=sharonstone.htm|archive-date=October 12, 2017|url-status=live}}

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• Irreconcilable Differences (1984)
• King Solomon's Mines (1985)
• Above the Law (1988)
• Action Jackson (1988)
• Total Recall (1990)
• Basic Instinct (1992)
• Sliver (1993)
• The Specialist (1994)
• The Quick and the Dead (1995)
• Casino (1995)
• Antz (1998)
• Sphere (1998)
• Catwoman (2004)
• Broken Flowers (2005)
• Basic Instinct 2 (2006)
• Alpha Dog (2006)
• Bobby (2006)
• Fading Gigolo (2013)
• The Disaster Artist (2017)
• Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese (2019)
• The Laundromat (2019)

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• {{cite book |last1=Stone |first1=Sharon |title=The Beauty of Living Twice |date=2021 |publisher=Alfred A. Knopf |location=New York |isbn=9780525656760 |edition=First |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1234479428 |ref=off |quote= |oclc=1234479428 }}{{cite news |last1=Ridley |first1=Jane |title=Sharon Stone reveals child sex abuse, horrific stroke in new memoir |url=https://nypost.com/2021/03/29/sharon-stone-reveals-child-sex-abuse-stroke-in-new-memoir/ |access-date=June 2, 2021 |work=New York Post |date=March 29, 2021 |archive-date=June 2, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210602214319/https://nypost.com/2021/03/29/sharon-stone-reveals-child-sex-abuse-stroke-in-new-memoir/ |url-status=live }}

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