- Sharon Stone met Muhammad Ali when she was 17. She was in the Miss Pennsylvania pageant and Ali was in Hershey, Pennsylvania, when Stone was there and she met him. And then Ali called her father and offered her a part in The Greatest (1977), a film that he was making. The late boxing champ predicted movie stardom while her father was skeptical. Sharon Stone's father said, "She is not going to be in film". Ali told her father, ''You may think that she is not, but she is. You cannot hide that girl under a bushel basket. Her light is too bright".
- Has three adopted sons: Roan Joseph Bronstein (b. May 22, 2000) with ex-husband Phil Bronstein; Laird Vonne Stone (b. May 7, 2005) and Quinn Kelly Stone (b. June 8, 2006) as a single parent. She adopted Roan and Laird from Texas.
- Made a teenage ballet star's dreams come true by giving her $75,000 for tuition fees.
- Said that Rock Hudson was instrumental in helping her build up her confidence and skills as an actress early in her career (in the television movie The Vegas Strip War (1984)). She also became good friends with Hudson and became a lifelong crusader for AIDS research due to her friendship with him.
- Her production company is called Chaos Productions.
- Suffers from asthma and diabetes, is also allergic to caffeine.
- Her scar on her neck is from a childhood accident when she was 14 yrs old. She was riding a horse and it charged straight into a clothes line.
- She passionately kissed fan Joni Rimm for charity after she paid $50,000 for the pleasure. She auctioned the kiss in aid of Project Angel Food, a Los Angeles charity providing meals for homeless people. (August 12, 2003)
- Owns a ranch in New Zealand.
- As an elementary grade student at Brookhauser Elementary in the Saegertown Schools, Sharon was one of seven students chosen based on individually administered intelligence exams to enter a gifted program. That 1966-67 school year was the first time gifted programs were offered to rural elementary school students in Northwest Pennsylvania. To qualify, students had to possess an IQ in the upper 3%. Sharon surpassed that 130 IQ threshold with an IQ that placed her in the upper one half of one per cent, above 150 IQ.
- Spent many long workdays in agony while filming scenes for Casino (1995). She has back trouble due to an old injury, and the gold and white beaded gown she wore during a casino scene weighed 45 pounds.
- As a teenager worked part-time as a McDonald's countergirl.
- For her role on The Quick and the Dead (1995), she was trained by renowned Hollywood Gun Coach Thell Reed, who has also trained such actors as: Russell Crowe, Val Kilmer, Edward Norton, Leonardo DiCaprio, Ben Foster and Girard Swan.
- Stone was hospitalized on September 29, 2001 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.
- Suffered cerebral hemorrhage. (September 29, 2001)
- January 28, 2005, World Economic Forum, Davos, Switzerland: At the end of the debate on "funding the war on poverty", she stood up and pledged $10,000 and asked people to follow her. Within five minutes they raised nearly $100,000 - she wanted to raise at least one million. It's money that will go directly to the Global Fund to Fight Aids Tuberculosis and Malaria - to buy bed nets to stop deaths from malaria in the developing world.
- Her husband, Phil Bronstein, underwent foot surgery after being attacked by a Komodo dragon during a private tour of the Los Angeles Zoo. The tour was arranged by Stone as a Father's Day gift for Bronstein, who had always wanted to see one of the Indonesian lizards up close. The attack occurred after Bronstein had removed his white shoes. Zookeepers later speculated the 5-foot-long lizard may have mistaken the shoes for white rats it ate regularly. (June 11, 2001)
- Her famous "leg crossing" scene in Basic Instinct (1992) was voted "Sexiest Leg Moment on Screen" in a poll for Veet.
- Former model for the Eileen Ford Model Agency.
- Suffered a few miscarriages before adopting her 1st son Roan in July 2000.
- A sex scene in The Quick and the Dead (1995) between Ellen (Stone) and Cort (Russell Crowe) was shot, but Stone and director Sam Raimi decided that it wasn't a necessary part of the story. The scene was not included in the American release of the film, but international versions do include it.
- (3/2/00) Stone's former housekeeper Socorro Del Carmen Membreno pleaded not guilty to grand theft of $300,000 worth of jewelry and other valuables from Stone's Los Angeles home two months earlier. In June, the former housekeeper was sentenced to 16 months in prison after she plead no contest to taking items from Ms. Stone. Judge Victoria Chavez ordered Socorro Del Carmen Membrano to pay Stone $50,000 in restitution after it was found that the maid had taken jewelry, handbags and other items from the home. Among the items taken were dozens of evening gowns worth over $20,000.
- Fainted at a fashion show in Milan, Italy after severe head pains. (September 23, 2012)
- After Richard Gere introduced her to the The Dalai Lama, she converted to Buddhism.
- She donated many items to Rocky Stone to be given to less fortunate kids as part of the Toy Mountain Campaign.
- Chosen by Empire magazine as one of the "100 Sexiest Stars in Film History" (#49). (1995)
- Entered Pennsylvania's Edinboro University at age 15.
- In 2019, she stated she was blocked from the dating app Bumble because others reported her account, suspecting it to be fake. It was later restored when she contacted their online support.
- A dedicated fund-raiser and advocate for AIDS research for the past 10 years, she received the Harvard Foundation's 2005 Humanitarian Award at the Memorial Church. Her friend, Rock Hudson, died from AIDS.
- Felt offended when Gwyneth Paltrow portrayed her on Saturday Night Live (1975). (February 1999)
- Received the Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters from the French government in 1995.
- As a child, put on theatrical productions in the family's two-car garage before an audience of neighbors seated at a picnic table; as one garage door went down, the other would go up, revealing a new Stone-created set.
- She attended Edinboro State University of Pennsylvania where she majored in creative writing and fine arts in the 1970s on a writing scholarship, but left the school before graduating to pursue a modeling career. However, she was later awarded a honorary Doctorate in Philosophy in public service by the school in 2007.
- In 2015 Stone was guest of honor at the Pilosio Building Peace Award in Milan. 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.
- IQ of 154.
- Is a big supporter of the AIDS research organization AMFAR.
- Has one older brother (Michael Stone), one younger brother (Patrick Stone), and a younger sister (Kelly Stone).
- Temporarily lost custody of son, Roan Joseph Bronstein, to Phil Bronstein after their divorce.
- In 2001, Stone was linked to a biopic of the German film director Leni Riefenstahl. Prospective director, Paul Verhoeven, and Riefenstahl herself, favoured Stone to portray Riefenstahl in the film. Verhoeven, with whom Stone had worked previously, pulled out of the project, reportedly because he wanted to hire a more expensive screenwriter than the producers did.
- Auditioned for the role of Breathless Mahoney in Dick Tracy (1990).
- Good friends with singer Christina Aguilera and attended Aguilera's November 19, 2005 wedding to music producer Jordan Bratman in Napa Valley, California.
- She turned down the role of Laura Alden in Wolf (1994) that went to Michelle Pfeiffer.
- Received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6925 Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood, California in 1995.
- Dated Dwight Yoakam in the early 1990s, and was rather famously quoted as saying, "Kissing Dwight is like eating a dirt sandwich.".
- As a child, Sharon once said she would become the next Marilyn Monroe.
- Entered the Miss Pennsylvania Pageant at age 17.
- During Total Recall (1990) filming, she complained to director Paul Verhoeven that she wasn't sure whether her character really was married to Doug.
- Member of the Jury at Cannes Festival in 2002, alongside David Lynch, Christine Hakim, Claude Miller, Michelle Yeoh, Raúl Ruiz, Régis Wargnier, Walter Salles and William August (full-length films category).
- Has said that she considers it a skill to have no shame.
- Sharon was granted a restraining order against Agostino P'omata, who allegedly had made threats of violence against her. (March 27, 2001)
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