90s bombshell unrecognisable as adorable student in old yearbook photo before fame
Do you know who she is?
Prepare for a real blast from the past thanks to a resurfaced photo of this 90s bombshell.
Yearbook snaps of the silver screen siren show her as a student in the 1970s attending the Saegertown Junior-Senior High School in western Pennsylvania.
Of course, she had no idea at the time that she’d grow up to become such a movie icon, known for playing femme fatale characters and mystifying women.
The actress in question has appeared opposite some of the industry’s most in-demand males, including Robert De Niro, Arnold Schwarzenegger, and Sylvester Stallone.
Making a name for herself as a Hollywood sex symbol, the now 66-year-old has a Golden Globe and an Emmy in her trophy cabinet. She was also nominated for an Oscar and has been inducted onto the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
So, do you know who she is?
Can you work out who this huge movie star is? (Picture: Seth Poppel/Yearbook Library)This erotic thriller temptress could only be one person—Sharon Stone.
Black-and-white images of Stone capture her at the language arts club and the YCMA-affiliated Tri-Hi-Y club.
Taken in 1974, one adorable pic shows her smiling for the camera in her junior year.
Now famously blonde, at the time she had brunette locks, which were styled in a bob.
It wasn’t until her senior year that Stone switched things up, dyeing her natural hair to the trademark blonde tresses we now associate her with.
She looks truly unrecognisable in the portrait, thanks to her shorter locks and adolescent features.
Sharon Stone is one of Hollywood’s most iconic actresses (Picture: Reuters)Born in Meadville, Pennsylvania, Stone was raised by mother Dorothy, an accountant, and father Joseph, a manufacturer. She has three siblings: Michael, Kelly, and Patrick Joseph, the latter of whom died in 2023.
Throughout her academic years, Stone was a high performer, as it’s been reported that she has an IQ of 154.
Considered a gifted child, she entered the second grade when she was five years old. Students usually enter second grade at seven or eight.
Childhood wasn’t solely about glowing grades for the star, though, as Stone previously revealed she and her sister, Kelly, suffered sexual abuse at the hands of their maternal grandfather.
Speaking to The New York Times in 2021, the actress made the harrowing admission while promoting her memoir, The Beauty of Living Twice.
He died when Stone was 14, and she claims their grandmother facilitated the molestation by locking them all together in a room when the girls were toddlers.
She was catapulted to superstardom in Basic Instinct (Picture: REX/Shutterstock)Writing in her book, she added that, at his funeral, she poked her grandfather’s casket to make sure he was dead.
Stone found a ‘bizarre satisfaction’ in his death, as she would then be safe from his abuse.
Elsewhere in traumatic childhood events, Stone badly injured her neck as a teen.
Comment nowWhat’s your favourite Sharon Stone movie?Comment NowAlso at 14, she was bucked by a horse she was attempting to break.
‘My neck was hanging open, wet, and ripped from one ear to the other,’ she penned in her memoir.
‘There was plasma rolling down the front of my shirt.’
Stone is famous for her blonde locks, but is naturally brunette (Picture: Sipa/REX/Shutterstock)Stone began modelling after graduating from high school, winning the Miss Crawford County pageant and becoming a contestant for Miss Pennsylvania.
In the 1980s, she made her film debut as an extra, landing her breakthrough role in Total Recall in 1990.
Just two years later, everyone knew her name, and she was catapulted to superstardom thanks to her starring role as Catherine Tramell in Paul Verhoeven’s Basic Instinct.
Fast forward to today, and Stone, a mother of three, has an extensive CV of TV and film roles. She’s also produced several films herself.
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