Sharon Stone is one of the most famous femalecigar smokers.


Any living and breathing, red-blooded American male hasn't forgotten, and will probably never forget, the interrogation scene in the 1992 thriller Basic Instinct starring with Michael Douglas. Novelist Catherine Tramell, accused of murdering her boyfriend with an ice pick, is dressed in stark white, with her hair severely pulled back. Sitting in a chair with one arm draped casually across its back, Tramell nonchalantly smokes a cigarette as she faces a phalanx of gritty, perspiring San Francisco police detectives. She uncrosses and recrosses her legs slowly to reveal one of the most infamous shots in American film history.


She has been in loads of movies, Catwoman, Ace Ventura, A Different Loyalty, Total Recall with Arnold Schwarzenegger, Silver, The Specialist starring with William Baldwin, Sylvester Stallone and James Woods, Casino starring with Robert De Niro and Joe Pesci.


Sharon Stone was born on March 10, 1958, in Meadville, Pennsylvania, the second of four children. Her father, Joseph, was a tool-and-die maker, her mother, Dorothy, a homemaker. She fell in love with acting at a young age. "My mom says I just started making plays when I was young. But I wasn't the actor. I was always the writer, producer and director. I made my sister, Kelly, be the actor," she says. At 15, she entered Edinboro University of Pennsylvania, guided there by teachers who were impressed with her intelligence (Stone reportedly scored 154 on an IQ test at the age of seven). While still a teenager, she left home for New York to pursue modeling after winning several local beauty pageants.


Rummers have it that she has quite, but I bet she still has a puff or two.