Sharon Stone, born\u00a0March 10, 1958, celebrated her 68th birthday last month. Which is incredibly hard to believe when you look at images from her Instagram account. The actress who starred in classics like\u00a0Basic Instinct, Casino, and Total Recall still looks great\u2026 despite all the hardships and bumps in the road throughout her Hollywood journey.<\/p>\n
Stone grew up in Pennsylvania and did really well at school with a reported IQ of 154. In fact, that led her to enrol at Edinboro State College at just 15 years old. But soon, a pageant judge at the 1976 Miss Pennsylvania competition pushed her toward modelling \u2013 a gig that would take her around the world.<\/p>\n
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Image Credit: Facebook \/ Woody Allen\n<\/div>\nStone, who seems to be able to do just about anything she sets her mind to, then decided acting looked more interesting. \u201cSo I packed my bags, moved back to New York, and stood in line to be an extra in a Woody Allen movie,\u201d Stone later said, discussing her small part in Stardust Memories (1980).<\/p>\n
She must have made an impact, because next came a speaking part in Wes Craven\u2019s Deadly Blessing (1981), and roles on TV shows like Magnum, P.I., Remington Steele, and Silver Spoons in\u00a0the \u201980s.<\/p>\n
But her first major role came in 1990 when director\u00a0Paul Verhoeven cast her opposite Arnold Schwarzenegger in Total Recall, a sci-fi classic.<\/p>\n
Two years later, she took a role in\u00a0Basic Instinct as Catherine Tramell and walked out as one of the decade\u2019s most talked-about actresses. The thriller made about $352.9 million worldwide and earned her a Golden Globe nomination. Rolling Stone critic Peter Travers wrote, \u201cStone, a former model, is a knockout\u2026 [Basic Instinct] establishes Stone as a bombshell for the 1990s.\u201d<\/p>\n
Then Sharon Stone was everywhere. Her name was as popular as Coca-Cola in the 90s. Of course, she took full advantage of her\u00a0\u201csex symbol\u201d label and posed for Playboy in 1990.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Speaking to Oprah Winfrey in 2014, she said, \u201cIt\u2019s a pleasure for me now. I mean, I\u2019m gonna be 56 years old. If people want to think I\u2019m a sex symbol, it\u2019s, like, yeah. Think it up. You know. I mean, like, good for me.\u201d<\/p>\n
While she was now well known, many would argue that her acting peak came with Martin Scorsese\u2019s Casino (1995). Working opposite Robert De Niro pushed her hard. \u201cThere\u2019s a scene in the movie where we\u2019re sitting across a table arguing, and [Robert] says to me, \u2018You\u2019re a good actress, you know that?\u2019 I remember thinking, \u2018Oh, buddy. Not today, pal,\u201d\u00a0Stone recalled to Business Insider in August 2025.<\/p>\n
That\u00a0performance earned her a Golden Globe and an Academy Award nomination.<\/p>\n
But while she was at the peak of her career, behind-the-scenes life brought plenty of setbacks, including a stroke in 2001 that nearly killed her. It was also in that moment that she discovered that she was broke.\u00a0\u201cWhen I got back into my bank account, it was all gone. My refrigerator, my phone \u2013 everything was in other people\u2019s names. I had zero money,\u201d she told Vanity Fair.<\/p>\n
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Sharon Stone In Nobody 2. Image Credit: Universal Pictures\n<\/div>\nBut just like she had done before, Stone set out to rebuild her career again. Over the years, she\u2019s gotten into modelling again, and she returned to TV with shows like Mosaic and Netflix\u2019s Ratched in 2020. She\u2019s also set to appear in season three of Euphoria.<\/p>\n
She also raised three sons over the last few years. \u201cWhen you decide to take on this big adventure of being a single parent, you don\u2019t know what it\u2019s going to be like,\u201d she told People in 2018. \u201cYour hair\u2019s still going down the drain in the shower. It\u2019s just a lot.\u201d<\/p>\n
At 68, Sharon Stone has still got it. She\u2019s still the coolest person in the room. She\u2019s still more than just looks. She\u2019s timeless. Just look at her Instagram account<\/a> for proof.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n