Kim Basinger has been a Hollywood icon for decades, and 2026 marks 40 years since she starred in the erotic drama 9½ Weeks, a role that would change her career forever. At 72, she continues to turn ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In the mid-’90s, Kim Basinger was newly married to actor Alec Baldwin and had just given birth to their daughter, Ireland, when ...

Oscar winner Kim Basinger hasn’t shied away from controversial films in her career. Her work in the 1986 film, 9½ Weeks, is still discussed because it offered a very raw look at a dangerous affair ...

Kim Basinger, now 72, has had a long and varied career in Hollywood, but one film in the 1980s helped define her as an ...

Kim Basinger says she "loved" working with Mickey Rourke nearly 40 years ago, despite any rumors that claim otherwise. The Oscar winner, who starred alongside Rourke in director Adrian Lyne's 9½ Weeks ...

Zach Laws is a longtime entertainment journalist and movie features writer. He is also an independent filmmaker and member of the Screen Actors Guild based out of Los Angeles. Zach grew up watching ...

9 1⁄2 Weeks is a 1986 American erotic romantic drama film based on the 1978 memoir of the same name by Austrian-American author Ingeborg Day. It stars Kim Basinger as Elizabeth McGraw and Mickey ...