Demi Moore

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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.

Contents 1 Biography 1.1 Early life 1.2 Career 1.3 Personal life 2 Selected filmography 3 References 3.1 Footnotes 4 External links

[edit] Biography

[edit] 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.

Demi Moore was a founding "celebrity investor" in the Planet Hollywood chain of international theme restaurants (modeled after the Hard Rock Cafe and launched in New York on October 22, 1991) along with Bruce Willis, Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger.

[edit] 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 softcore 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.

[edit] 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 proceedings 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 sketch 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.

[edit] 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 (cameo)	(as Demetria Guynes)
	Parasite	Patricia Welles

[edit] References

[edit] Footnotes

[edit] External links

• Demi Moore at the Internet Movie Database
• Delight.com's birthday spotlight on Demi Demi's style and fashion influences at Delight.com
• Roles that Demi Moore turned down
• Demi Moore Fan