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Demi Moore (born Demetria Gene
Guynes on November 11, 1962) is an American actress. She became well-known
after a string of 1980s teen-oriented movies, and mutated into 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.
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. After quitting
school, Moore went to work as a pin-up girl, modelled in Europe, and
worked at a collection agency. Her half-brother, Michael Moore, once had a
crush on her before it was determined they were related. He is famous for
his documentary Fahrenheit 9/11.
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. 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 2:
Full Throttle.
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. |
