Kim Basinger

American actress (born 1953)

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Born 1953
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Fifty Shades Freed
2018

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Updated 2026-08-31

She was the blonde who made Bond sweat, then spent two decades as Hollywood's go-to for glacial beauty with a simmer underneath — until L.A. Confidential proved she could act circles around the bombshell brand and won her an Oscar.

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Basinger started as a model, pivoted to acting in 1976, and logged TV work before her feature debut in Hard Country (1981). Never Say Never Again (1983) made her a Bond girl and a name. A Golden Globe nod for The Natural (1984) followed, then the erotic headline-grabber 9½ Weeks (1986) and the biggest payday of her career as Vicki Vale in Tim Burton's Batman (1989). She worked steadily through the '90s — No Mercy, Blind Date, My Stepmother Is an Alien, Cool World, The Real McCoy — before L.A. Confidential (1997) landed her the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress as a femme fatale who cou…

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Kim Basinger

said2015

We are one half of this planet and yet women all over the world are second class citizens. There are many women abused in so many countries.

— on the treatment of women in 2015.

Kim Basinger

said2015

Life does imitate art many times, and people pick up from the movies. Messages are sent that way.

— on female representation in film in 2015.

Kim Basinger

said2015

But if you really look at it, men are kept as the sacred ones and touted the older they get. It’s always been the old adage that women are put out to pasture the older they get.

— on women in hollywood in 2015.

Kim Basinger

said2015

Well, I’m not very comfortable with looking at myself in the mirror before I do a scene, anyway. It really throws me.

— 2015

Kim Basinger

said2013

I’m not a big red-carpet girl. But I love the work.

— acknowledging her preference to privacy in 2013.

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Awards

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Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress

Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture
Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role