American actress and singer
Musical artist
Cynthia Basinet is an American actress and singer, born in the San Fernando Valley in Los Angeles. She is also noted for being a friend and lover of Jack Nicholson[1]
Career
She started as a model for I. Magnin and later became a model for Bob Mackie. After that, she worked in a San Francisco modeling agency. She spent the next five years in Europe modeling, including campaigns for Benetton with photographer, Oliviero Toscani.[2] In the 1990s, she starred in the movies Last Dance, The Making of a Hollywood Madam, A Hard Death, and has also appeared in the "Last Man on Earth" segment of the Beyond Belief: Fact or Fiction TV series.
Basinet released her first album, For You With Love in 2001 under the name "C. Basinet".[3] It included "Santa Baby", which was originally recorded as a gift to actor Jack Nicholson in 1997[citation needed]. In 2006, she released her first full-length album, The Collection, which contains a decade of songs that she had recorded as singles for Dreamsville, including "Santa Baby," "Haunted Heart", "Water's Edge", and "God." In 2007, she released a tenth anniversary version of "Santa Baby".[4]
Filmography
Discography
| Year
|
Album
|
| 2011 |
"The Christmas Song" (single)
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| 2010 |
Remixed
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| 2007 |
"Santa Baby" (10th Anniversary Edition) (single)
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| 2007 |
Uncovered
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| 2006 |
The Collection
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| 2001 |
For You with Love
|
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