Kim Basinger is an American actress who made her television debut as Sheila in "Night Train to Dallas", an episode of the action/adventure drama series Gemini Man that aired on NBC in 1976. She starred in two canceled series as well as several made-for-TV films, including a remake of From Here to Eternity (1979). Her feature film debut was in 1981 drama Hard Country. Basinger came to prominence playing Bond girl Domino Petachi in the 1983 film Never Say Never Again, opposite Sean Connery, and went on to receive a Golden Globe nomination for her role as Memo Paris in The Natural (1984). She also starred as Elizabeth in the controversial erotic romantic drama 9½ Weeks (1986) with Mickey Rourke, as the title character in Nadine with Jeff Bridges (1987) and as Vicki Vale in Tim Burton's blockbuster Batman (1989), which remains the highest-grossing film of her career.
In 1991, she played a glamorous singer in the comedy The Marrying Man alongside her future husband, Alec Baldwin. They then both starred in the remake The Getaway in 1994. She won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance as Lynn Bracken in the 1997 film L.A. Confidential; as well as, the Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actress and the SAG Award for Best Supporting Actress.
She played the role of Kuki Gallmann, an Italian who moved to Kenya to start a new life, in the 2000 film I Dreamed of Africa. Her other films include 8 Mile (2002), The Door in the Floor (2004), Cellular (2004), and The Nice Guys (2016).
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| Year | Title | Role | Director | Notes | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1981 | scope=row | Hard Country | Jodie | [1] | ||
| 1982 | scope=row | Mother Lode | ||||
| 1983 | scope=row | Never Say Never Again | ||||
| scope=row | The Man Who Loved Women | |||||
| 1984 | scope=row | [2] | ||||
| 1985 | scope=row | Fool for Love | May | [3] | ||
| 1986 | scope=row | 9½ Weeks | [4] | |||
| scope=row | No Mercy | [5] | ||||
| 1987 | scope=row | Blind Date | [6] | |||
| scope=row | Nadine | [7] | ||||
| 1988 | scope=row | My Stepmother Is an Alien | [8] | |||
| 1989 | scope=row | Batman | ||||
| 1991 | scope=row | The Marrying Man | ||||
| 1992 | scope=row | Final Analysis | ||||
| scope=row | Cool World | |||||
| 1993 | scope=row | The Real McCoy | ||||
| scope=row | Wayne's World 2 | |||||
| 1994 | scope=row | The Getaway | ||||
| scope=row | Ready to Wear (Prêt-à-Porter) | |||||
| 1997 | scope=row | L.A. Confidential | Won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress | |||
| 2000 | scope=row | I Dreamed of Africa | [9] | |||
| scope=row | Bless the Child | |||||
| 2002 | scope=row | 8 Mile | ||||
| scope=row | People I Know | |||||
| 2004 | scope=row | The Door in the Floor | ||||
| scope=row | Elvis Has Left the Building | |||||
| scope=row | Cellular | |||||
| 2006 | scope=row | Even Money | ||||
| scope=row | The Sentinel | |||||
| 2008 | scope=row | The Burning Plain | Gina | |||
| scope=row | While She Was Out | Also executive producer | [10] | |||
| scope=row | The Informers | [11] | ||||
| 2010 | scope=row | Charlie St. Cloud | [12] | |||
| 2012 | scope=row | Black November | Kristy | [13] | ||
| 2013 | scope=row | Third Person | [14] | |||
| scope=row | Grudge Match | [15] | ||||
| 2014 | scope=row | 4 Minute Mile | [16] | |||
| scope=row | Maria | [17] | ||||
| 2016 | scope=row | The Nice Guys | [18] | |||
| 2017 | scope=row | Fifty Shades Darker | [19] | |||
| 2018 | Fifty Shades Freed | Unrated version only | ||||
| 2021 | Back Home Again | Mother Bear (voice) | Michael Mankowski | Short film | [20] | |
| Year | Title | Role | Network | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1976 | Gemini Man | Sheila | NBC | Episode: "Night Train to Dallas" | [21] |
| Charlie's Angels | Linda Oliver | ABC | Episode: "Angels in Chains" | ||
| 1977 | McMillan & Wife | Janet Carney | NBC | Episode: "Dark Sunrise" | |
| The Six Million Dollar Man | Lorraine Stenger | ABC | Episode: "The Ultimate Imposter" | ||
| Dog and Cat | Officer J.Z. Kane | ABC | Television series | [22] | |
| 1978 | The Ghost of Flight 401 | Prissy Frasier | NBC | Television movie based on a true story | [23] |
| Katie McEvera | NBC | Television movie | [24] | ||
| Vega$ | Allison Jorden | ABC | Episode: "Lady Ice" | [25] | |
| 1979 | From Here to Eternity | Lorene Rogers | NBC | TV miniseries | [26] |
| 1980 | From Here to Eternity | NBC | TV series spin-off | ||
| 1981 | Killjoy | Laury Medford | CBS | Television movie | [27] |
| 1992 | Dame Edna's Hollywood | Herself | NBC | Episode: "1.2" | |
| 1994 | Saturday Night Live | Host | NBC | Episode: "Alec Baldwin & Kim Basinger/UB40" | |
| 1998 | The Simpsons | Herself (voice) | FOX | Episode: "When You Dish Upon a Star" | [28] |
| 2003 | Rita | Narrator | Turner Classic Movies | Documentary | |
| 2006 | The Mermaid Chair | Jessie Sullivan | Lifetime | Television movie | [29] |
| 2010 | Mystery of the Hope Diamond | Narrator | Smithsonian Channel | Documentary | |
| 2017 | Comrade Detective | Sally Smith (voice) | Amazon Prime Video | Episode: "The Invisible Hand" | |
| Year | Title | Performer | Album | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1992 | "Shake Your Head" | Was (Not Was) featuring Kim Basinger & Ozzy Osbourne | Hello Dad... I'm in Jail | [30] | |
| 1993 | "Mary Jane's Last Dance" | Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers | Greatest Hits | [31] |