Editing Sharon Stone (section)

==Early life==
Sharon Vonne Stone was born on March 10, 1958, in [[Meadville, Pennsylvania]],<ref>{{cite web |title=Sharon Stone |url=https://www.biography.com/people/sharon-stone-9542584 |website=Biography.com |access-date=May 31, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180627090855/https://www.biography.com/people/sharon-stone-9542584 |archive-date=June 27, 2018 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Sharon Vonne Stone |url=https://www.geni.com/people/Sharon-Stone/6000000046207329794 |website=geni.com |date=March 10, 1958 |access-date=August 29, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180829175441/https://www.geni.com/people/Sharon-Stone/6000000046207329794 |archive-date=August 29, 2018 |url-status=live }}</ref> to Dorothy Marie (née Lawson), an accountant, and Joseph William Stone II,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/latimes/obituary.aspx?n=joseph-william-stone&pid=137678508|title=Joseph William STONE II's Obituary on Los Angeles Times|website=Los Angeles Times|access-date=October 11, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170619214501/http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/latimes/obituary.aspx?n=joseph-william-stone&pid=137678508|archive-date=June 19, 2017|url-status=live}}</ref> a [[tool and die maker|tool and die]] manufacturer and former factory worker. She has three siblings.<ref>{{cite news|last=Mott|first=Gordon|date=August 1, 2004|url=http://www.cigaraficionado.com/Cigar/CA_Profiles/People_Profile/0,2540,188,00.html|title=Sharon Stone Reinvented|work=[[Cigar Aficionado]]|access-date=August 19, 2011|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100820103758/http://www.cigaraficionado.com/Cigar/CA_Profiles/People_Profile/0,2540,188,00.html|archive-date=August 20, 2010}}</ref><ref name=tca>Stated on ''[[Inside the Actors Studio]]'', 1999</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Gardner |first=Chris |date=March 17, 2023 |title=Sharon Stone Says She Lost "Half My Money to This Banking Thing," Breaks Down in Tears During Speech |url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/lifestyle/lifestyle-news/sharon-stone-speech-banking-collapse-breast-cancer-1235355047/ |access-date=March 27, 2023 |website=The Hollywood Reporter |language=en-US}}</ref> She has some Irish ancestry.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.independent.ie/style/celebrity/celebrity-news/an-unlikely-friendship-caroline-morahan-and-sharon-stone-bond-over-ireland-30367736.html|title=An unlikely friendship: Caroline Morahan and Sharon Stone bond over Ireland|work=The Irish Independent|access-date=February 28, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150403034832/http://www.independent.ie/style/celebrity/celebrity-news/an-unlikely-friendship-caroline-morahan-and-sharon-stone-bond-over-ireland-30367736.html|archive-date=April 3, 2015|url-status=live}}</ref> In a 2013 interview with [[Conan O'Brien]], she stated that her Irish ancestors arrived in the United States during the [[Great Famine (Ireland)|Great Famine]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5PZfFyWcYEM|title=Sharon Stone Recreates Her "Basic Instinct" Leg Cross|website=YouTube|date=August 8, 2013 |access-date=November 28, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191221101837/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5PZfFyWcYEM&gl=US&hl=en&has_verified=1&bpctr=9999999999|archive-date=December 21, 2019|url-status=live}}</ref> She has a reported [[Intelligence quotient|IQ]] of 154.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.cbsnews.com/pictures/stars-with-high-iqs/2/|title=Stars with High IQs|author=CBS News|website=[[CBS News]]|date=April 11, 2011|access-date=March 13, 2021|archive-date=March 16, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210316232743/https://www.cbsnews.com/pictures/stars-with-high-iqs/2/|url-status=live}}</ref> Stone was considered academically gifted as a child and entered the second grade when she was five years old.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://uk.movies.yahoo.com/person/sharon-stone/biography.html |title=Sharon Stone profile at |website=Yahoo! Movies |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140305131405/http://uk.movies.yahoo.com/person/sharon-stone/biography.html |archive-date=March 5, 2014 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.wtfpod.com/podcast/episode-895-sharon-stone|title=Episode 895 – Sharon Stone|author=Marc Maron|date=March 5, 2018|website=WTF with Marc Maron Podcast|access-date=April 17, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180418032233/http://www.wtfpod.com/podcast/episode-895-sharon-stone|archive-date=April 18, 2018|url-status=live}}</ref> Stone said that she and her sister were both [[child sexual abuse|sexually abused as children]] by their maternal grandfather, in an interview to ''[[The New York Times]]'' in March 2021, while promoting her memoir ''[[The Beauty of Living Twice]]''.<ref name="nytimes-Itzkoff-memoir">{{cite news|first=Dave|last=Itzkoff|author-link=Dave Itzkoff|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/24/books/sharon-stone-beauty-of-living-twice.html|title=Sharon Stone Is Telling Her Side of the Story|newspaper=[[The New York Times]]|date=March 24, 2021|access-date=March 25, 2021|archive-date=March 25, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210325001937/https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/24/books/sharon-stone-beauty-of-living-twice.html|url-status=live}}</ref> At 14, her neck was badly injured while [[breaking a horse]] when the animal bucked as it charged toward a washing line.<ref name="nypost-sharon-stone-new-memoir"/>

She graduated from Saegertown High School in [[Saegertown, Pennsylvania]], in 1975.<ref name=tca/> Stone was admitted to [[Edinboro State College]] on a creative writing scholarship at age 15,<ref name=tca/> but quit college and moved to New York City to become a fashion model.<ref name=tca/> Inspired by [[Hillary Clinton]], in 2016 Stone went back to [[Edinboro University of Pennsylvania]] to complete her degree.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/sharon-stone-hails-reaching-60-12181345 |title=Reason Sharon Stone hails turning 60 as her "greatest achievement" |website=[[Daily Mirror]] |date=March 13, 2018 |access-date=November 8, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181108224626/https://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/sharon-stone-hails-reaching-60-12181345 |archive-date=November 8, 2018 |url-status=live }}</ref>