Kim Basinger is one of the world's most successful actresses, making the leap from top-tier fashion model to A-list (or even B-Grade) screen star is no easy business, but the actress Kim Basinger is sure to be an inspiration to any soul hoping to make that peril-ridden leap from the catwalk to the silver screen.
By her twentieth birthday, Basinger was a top model doing everything from magazine covers to shampoo ads, by the time she was forty, she was a top actress earning a seven-figure salary per film. In 1994 Basinger had a high-profile marriage to Alec Baldwin, who had wooed her for three long years after first striking up a relationship with her on the set of 1991's The Marrying Man.
After taking a couple of years off to stay at home with her new born child and devote her energies to animal rights issues, Basinger went on to upstageing such heavyweights as Kevin Spacy and Danny Devito with her Oscar winning performance in 1997's highly regarded noir smash L.A. Confidential.
L.A. Confidential is a gripping, intricate portrate of a remarkable place and time. It is a story whose characters reflect the city in which they live... characters whose outward images are often in direct conflct with their inner reality... characters whose repressed passions threaten evereything they have or think they have.
