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Demi Moore (born Demetria Gene Guynes on November
11, 1962 in Roswell, New Mexico) is an American actress. She became well-known
after a string of 1980s teen-oriented movies, and became one of the best-known
actresses in 1990s Hollywood. Moore is also known for her marriages to
songwriter Freddy Moore and actors Bruce Willis and Ashton Kutcher.
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Biography
Early life
Moore was born in Roswell, New Mexico, but spent
much of her childhood and teenage years in the suburbs of Pittsburgh. As a
child, she had a difficult and unstable home life. Her biological father,
Charles Harmon, left her mother, Virginia, after a two-month marriage, before
Moore was born. As a result, Moore had the surname of her stepfather, Danny
Guynes, on her birth certificate. Danny Guynes, who committed suicide in 1980,
frequently changed jobs and made the family move a total of forty times. Moore's
parents were also alcoholics and often fought and beat each other. To make
matters worse, operations on Moore's left eye during childhood required her to
wear an eyepatch.
Moore's family settled in Los Angeles in 1976. When
Moore was sixteen, her then-friend, actress Nastassja Kinski, persuaded her to
drop out of Hollywood's Fairfax High School to become an actress.
Career
After quitting school, Moore went to work as a
pin-up girl, modelled in Europe, and worked at a collection agency. In the early
1980s, Moore posed for a series of soft-core photographs featuring full frontal
nudity. These photos went unnoticed until after she became a star, and were
eventually published in a German magazine and later in North America. Moore's
film debut was in the 1982 3-D science fiction/horror film, Parasite, which was
a hit on the drive-in circuit, ultimately grossing $6 million.[1] However, Moore
was not widely known until she played the part of Jackie Templeton on the ABC
soap opera, General Hospital, from 1982 to 1983.
In the 1980s, she appeared in several
youth-oriented films, and was mentioned as being a member of the "Brat Pack".
For a time during the 1990s, Moore was the
highest-paid actress in Hollywood. She had a string of box-office successes,
including Ghost, A Few Good Men, and Indecent Proposal, and was the first
actress to reach the $10 million salary mark. Among other films for which Moore
was considered were Basic Instinct, Batman & Robin, Flashdance, Runaway Bride,
and While You Were Sleeping. Moore's reputation suffered when the starring
vehicles The Scarlet Letter, The Juror, Striptease, and G.I. Jane (a movie in
which Moore shaved off all her long hair on camera, leaving her head totally
bald) failed at the box office and garnered mixed reviews.
In August 1991, Moore appeared nude on the cover of
Vanity Fair magazine while seven months pregnant with her daughter Scout LaRue,
with enormous attendant publicity. The image was endlessly parodied (including
by Spy magazine, which placed her then-husband Bruce Willis's head on her body),
but also spawned honest imitators as other pregnant celebrities posed nude.
Moore again appeared on the cover of Vanity Fair in August 1992, wearing only a
body painted "suit".
After a break from her acting career, Moore
returned to the screen as a former member of Charlie's Angels in the 2003 film
Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle.
Personal life
In August 1979, Moore began dating rock
musician/songwriter Freddy Moore, whose last name she adopted; the two married
in February 1980. The relationship lasted only 6 years (August 1979-August
1985). Moore began dating actor Emilio Estevez and began divorce procedings in
1985, and the two were engaged until 1987. She also dated actor John Stamos
during the time when the two worked together on General Hospital.
On November 21, 1987, Moore married actor Bruce
Willis, after a highly publicized whirlwind romance (the two met in August of
that year). The couple has three daughters, Rumer Glenn (born August 16, 1988),
Scout LaRue (born July 20, 1991), and Tallulah Belle (born February 3, 1994).
Willis and Moore announced their separation in June of 1998, and divorced in
2000.
Moore also became a staple of tabloids due to her
romantic relationship with actor Ashton Kutcher, who is sixteen years her
junior. Both would eventually spoof the public's fascination with their age
difference during a monologue on the March 19, 2005 episode of Saturday Night
Live. Kutcher, who served as guest host, brought Moore on stage while Moore was
made up to appear like an old woman who constantly babied Kutcher. Moore and
Kutcher were married on Saturday, September 24, 2005 in a lavish, private
ceremony conducted by a Kabbalah Centre rabbi and attended by about 100 close
friends and family (Bruce Willis included).
Moore's primary residence is in Hailey, Idaho, near
the famous Sun Valley resort, although she spends much time in the Los Angeles
area with Kutcher. She is a practicing follower of the Rabbi Philip Berg's
Kabbalah Centre religion, and initiated Kutcher into the faith.
Selected filmography
Year Title Role Notes
2006 Bobby Virginia Fallon
2006 Half Light Rachel Carlson
2003 Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle Madison Lee
2000 Passion of Mind Martha Marie/'Marty' Talridge
1997 Deconstructing Harry Helen/Harry's Character
G.I. Jane Lt. Jordan O'Neil
1996 Beavis and Butt-Head Do America Dallas Grimes
(voice only)
Striptease Erin Grant
The Hunchback of Notre Dame Esmeralda (voice only)
The Juror Annie Laird
1995 Now and Then Samantha
The Scarlet Letter Hester Prynne
1994 Disclosure Meredith Johnson
1993 Indecent Proposal Diana Murphy
1992 A Few Good Men Lt. Cdr. JoAnne Galloway
1991 The Butcher's Wife Marina Lemke
Mortal Thoughts Cynthia Kellogg
Nothing But Trouble Diane Lightson
1990 Ghost Molly Jensen
1989 We're No Angels Molly
1988 The Seventh Sign Abby Quinn
1986 Wisdom Karen Simmons
One Crazy Summer Cassandra Eldridge
About Last Night... Debbie
1985 St. Elmo's Fire Jules
1984 No Small Affair Laura Victor
Blame It on Rio Nicole 'Nikki' Hollis
1982 Young Doctors in Love New Intern (uncredited)
Parasite Patricia Welles
References
Footnotes
1 http://www.imdb.com/. Business Data for Parasite.
Retrieved on March 12, 2006.
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