1975 Won the Miss Crawford County (Pennsylvania) beauty pageant and was also queen of her high school's spring festival.
1977 Became one of the top ten models at the Ford Agency, most memorably in the Charlie perfume ads; appeared in TV commercials, magazine layouts and billboard campaigns; worked in New York, Paris and Milan; modeling career adversely affected by a scar on her neck (received in a horseback riding accident), which cast a shadow requiring photo-retouching; as plastic surgery was unable to correct it, often hides it with scarfs, high necks, etc.
1977 Moved to New York City.
1980 Film debut, bit part in Woody Allen's "Stardust Memories"; Allen offered her the part after the two spent a half hour discussing infinity.
1982 TV debut, "Not Just Another Affair" (CBS).
1983 Appeared as spokesmodel contestant on the pilot for the syndicated series "Star Search"; won the competition.
1983 Played a baseball player's wife in the short-lived NBC TV series "Bay City Blues".
1984 Attracted notice as Ryan O'Neal's conniving girlfriend in "Irreconcilable Differences".
1985 First of two films with Richard Chamberlain, the remake of "King Solomon's Mines"; later referred to her performance as "a bad hairdo running through a jungle".
1987 Reteamed with Chamberlain on "Allan Quatermain and the Lost City of Gold", actually shot immediately after its predecessor but shelved for two years.
1988 Played Robert Mitchum's daughter-in-law in TV miniseries, "War and Remembrance" (ABC).
1990 Capitalized on her role as Arnold's kick-boxing cyber-wife with a ten-page photospread in PLAYBOY.
1990 First film with director Paul Verhoeven, "Total Recall", starring Arnold Schwarzenegger.
1991 Acted in "Diary of a Hitman", directed by her beloved acting teacher Roy London; played a beautiful blonde who "hits" on assassin-for-hire Forest Whitaker, sent to kill her sister.
1992 Reteamed with Verhoeven for breakthrough role in the erotic thriller "Basic Instinct", written by Joe Eszterhas.
1993 Acted in "Sliver", also written by Eszterhas.
1993 Hosted a TV biography of 1930s film star Jean Harlow, "Harlow: The Blonde Bombshell" (TNT).
1994 Starred opposite Sylvester Stallone in "The Specialist"; first film with James Woods.
1995 Earned Best Actress Oscar nomination for "Casino"; picture reteamed her with Woods playing her ne'er-do-well boyfriend.
1995 Feature producing debut (as co-producer), the Sam Raimi-directed Western "The Quick and the Dead"; despite the presence of Gene Hackman and Leonardo DiCaprio in the cast, the public balked at the idea of a female gunfighter.
1995 Received star on Hollywood Walk of Fame (November 16).
1995 Signed a multi-year first-look deal, under her newly formed Chaos Productions with Miramax Films.
1996 Sported a very unglamorous look as a woman on death row in "Last Dance".
1998 Got many tips from Gena Rowlands regarding a future part while acting with her in Peter Chelsom's "The Mighty"; played the single mother of a disabled child, and her company co-produced the picture.
1998 Rendered as an insect, reunited with Woody Allen on "Antz", providing the voice of Princess Bala.
1998 Starred with Dustin Hoffman in Barry Levinson's underwater flop "Sphere".
1999 Had title role of Zeus' daughter opposite Albert Brooks in his romantic comedy "The Muse".
1999 Played opposite Jeff Bridges and Nick Nolte in "Simpatico", adapted from the play by Sam Shepard; released in France (September 1999); feature directorial debut of Matthew Warchus.
1999 Starred as "Gloria", Sidney Lumet's remake of the 1980 John Cassavettes film which had starred Rowlands.
2000 Acted in Anne Heche's writing-directing project "Miss Conception", one of the three stories comprising HBO's "If These Walls Could Talk 2", examining the lesbian experience in America in three different decades; starred opposite Ellen DeGeneres.
2000 Signed for a reported $14 million pay or play deal to reprise role of Catherine Trammell in a sequel to "Basic Instinct"; sued producers Andrew Vajna and Mario Kassar in June 2001 when project was canceled.
2000 Teamed with Allen again in "Picking Up the Pieces", a black comedy whose all-star cast also included Fran Drescher and David Schwimmer, among many others; aired on Starz! in lieu of a theatrical release.
2001 Appeared opposite Billy Connolly in "Beautiful Joe".
2003 Co-starred with Dennis Quaid in the thriller "Cold Creek Manor".
2003 Had a recurring guest starring role on the ABC drama "The Practice".
2004 Cast as the scheming wife of a cosmetics mogul in "Catwoman".
2005 Starred as an ex-flame of Bill Murray's in Jim Jarmusch's "Broken Flowers".
2006 Cast as a a beautician married to William H. Macy in Emilio Estevez's directorial debut, "Bobby," an ensemble centered around the night of Robert F. Kennedy's assassination.
2007 Co-starred as the mother of a kidnapped boy in "Alpha Dog," about real-life drug dealer Jesse James Hollywood; Nick Cassavetes wrote and directed.
As a child, put on theatrical productions in the family's two-car garage before an audience of neighbors seated at a picnic table; as one garage door went down, the other would go up, revealing a new Stone-created set.
Entered the Miss Pennsylvania Pageant at age 17.
Worked as counter girl at McDonald's as a teenager.
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