When you're a regular gal, you look in the rearview mirror, and in the bright daylight you see that line around your mouth, but when you're an actress and you see that line up on the big screen, it's, like, seven feet long.

For her work on 'Walls' Sharon Stone was again recognized by Women in Film this time with the Lucy Award. In 2001 Stone was linked to a biopic of the German film director Leni Riefenstahl. To coincide with the film's release Sharon Stone posed nude for Playboy showing off the muscles Sharon Stone developed in preparation for the film (Sharon Stone lifted weights and learned taekwondo).

She achieved international recognition for her role in the erotic thriller Basic Instinct by Paul Verhoeven. Sharon Vonne Stone (born March 10 1958) is an American actress film producer and former fashion model. She was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress and won a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture Drama for her performance in Casino.