Kim Basinger was born December 8, 1953, in Athens, Georgia, the third of five children. Kim, who had blossomed to a 5' 7" beauty, was offered a contract on the spot with the Ford Modeling Agency. At the age of 20, Kim was a top model, commanding $1,000 a day. Kim broke into television doing episodes of such hit series as "Charlie's Angels" (1976). In movies, she had roles like being a Bond girl in Never Say Never Again (1983) and playing a small-town Texan beauty in Nadine (1987). Her breakout role was as photojournalist Vicki Vale in the blockbuster hit Batman (1989). She and Alec Baldwin met and fell in love in 1990 on the set of the trouble-plagued movie The Marrying Man (1991). In 1993, Kim married Alec Baldwin, and in 1995 they had a daughter, Ireland Eliesse. Chosen by Empire magazine as one of the 100 Sexiest Stars in film history (#40). [1995] In 1997, Kim gave an Oscar-winning performance in the film noir classic L.A. Confidential (1997). Kim's salary for I Dreamed of Africa (2000) was $5,000,000, putting her firmly in the category of big-name movie star.