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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.
Early life: Moore was born in Roswell, New
Mexico, but spent much of her childhood and teenage
years in Perryopolis, Pennsylvania, a small town south
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.
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. In 1979 she met and
then married her first husband songwriter Freddy Moore.
By the time they divorced in 1985, she had acquired the
last name Moore.
Career: After quitting school, Moore went to work
as a pin-up girl, modelled for European photographers,
and worked at a collection agency. In the early 1980s,
Moore posed for a series of 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. Appropriately, she also had an uncredited
cameo at the end of the 1982 spoof Young Doctors in
Love.
In the mid 1980s, she was mentioned as being a member of
the Brat Pack and appeared in the youth-oriented films
St. Elmo's Fire and About Last Night.
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, Indecent
Proposal and Disclosure for which she 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 in the mid 1990s when her
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. 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.
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".
Born Demetria Guynes in Roswell, NM, on
November 11, 1962, Moore led a troubled childhood. To
call it tumultuous would be something of an
understatement: along with her mother, half-brother and
stepfather, she moved no less than 30 times before her
adolescence, thanks to her stepfather's job as a
newspaper ad salesman. The problems that went along with
such an itinerant lifestyle were compounded by the
dysfunctional, sometimes abusive relationship between
Moore's mother and stepfather.
The latter committed suicide when Moore was 15, around
the time that she discovered that he was not her
biological father. She dropped out of school a year
later and did some modeling in Europe. When she was 18,
Moore married rocker Freddy Moore; the union lasted four
years, during which time the actress landed her first
role playing Jackie Templeton on the TV daytime drama
General Hospital.
Moore made her film debut in 1981, appearing in both the
coming-of-age drama Choices and the schlock-tastic
Parasite. Following a bit role in 1982's Young Doctors
in Love, she had her first lead role in No Small Affair
(1984) as an aspiring rock singer opposite Jon Cryer.
Her real breakthrough came the next year, when she
starred as an unstable member of a group of college
friends in St. Elmo's Fire.
Apparently, her onscreen instability mirrored her
offscreen condition at the time; she was reportedly
fired from the film at one point and then rehired after
going into drug rehab. The film was a hit, and Moore,
along with such co-stars as Emilio Estevez (to whom she
was engaged for three years), Rob Lowe, and Ally Sheedy,
became a member of the infamous "Brat Pack."
Fortunately for Moore, she managed to avoid the
straight-to-oblivion fate of other Brat Pack members,
increasing her fame and resume with films like About
Last Night (1986) and The Seventh Sign (1988). Her fame
further increased in 1987 when she wed Bruce Willis in a
Las Vegas ceremony presided over by singer Little
Richard. In 1990, Moore had her biggest hit to date with
Ghost, a romantic drama that cast her as the grieving
girlfriend of the deceased Patrick Swayze.
A huge success, Ghost secured Moore a place on the
A-list, something she managed to sustain despite the
subsequent twin flops of The Butcher's Wife and Mortal
Thoughts, both released in 1991. That same year, Moore
gained exposure of a different sort when she appeared
nude and hugely pregnant on the cover of Vanity Fair;
the resulting hoopla gained her more attention than
either of her movies that year.
She was back on the magazine's cover the following year,
nude again but fetus-free and sporting a layer of
artfully applied body paint. The controversy surrounding
her cover-girl appearances may have helped Moore weather
similar flak around her next feature, 1993's Indecent
Proposal. The story of a woman (Moore) who agrees to a
one-night stand with a wealthy man (Robert Redford) for
one million dollars after she and her husband (Woody
Harrelson) find themselves in dire financial straits,
Proposal was decried by a number of feminist groups as
well as various film critics and went on to be another
big, if controversial, hit for Moore.
Following the commercial success of Indecent Proposal,
Moore's career hit something of a downward spiral.
1994's Disclosure proved a disappointment, and the
following year's Now and Then (which she also produced)
staged a similarly wan performance at the box office;
however, it was Moore's other film that year, a
"free,"or, as some would say, staggeringly
misguided, adaptation of Nathaniel Hawthorne's The
Scarlet Letter, that had critics howling and audiences
cowering like small children being forced to watch
German expressionist films.
An unintentionally hilarious rendering of the classic
tale, it featured Moore's Hester Prynne exposing plenty
of skin, luxuriating in what must have been one of
Puritan New England's few hot tubs, having steamy sex on
a shifting bed of grain, and walking off into the sunset
with her beloved Reverend Dimmesdale (a moody Gary
Oldman).
Following the disaster that was The Scarlet Letter,
Moore took refuge on safer grounds, lending her voice to
Disney's animated The Hunchback of Notre Dame in 1996;
however, that same year, she encountered another career
pitfall in the form of Striptease. Based on Carl
Hiaasen's satirical novel about a divorcיe who
turns to stripping so that she can raise money to win
back custody of her daughter, the film proved a failure,
despite titillating advertisements promising that Moore
would bare all for audiences.
The actress' career suffered a further blow with the
disappointment of G.I. Jane in 1997, and she found
herself getting more attention for her offscreen life as
she was, by that point, embroiled in a very public
divorce from Willis. The two formally separated in 1998.
Although her career in front of the camera has suffered,
Moore has managed to do well for herself as a producer.
In 1997, she produced the hugely successful Austin
Powers: International Man of Mystery and served in the
same capacity for its mega-hit sequels, 1999's Austin
Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me and 2002's Austin Powers
in Goldmember. In 2000, Moore returned to the screen to
star in Alain Berliner's Passion of Mind, a
psychological drama that cast the actress in a dual role
as two women who lead different lives but are tied by a
single identity. The year 2003 brought Moore back to the
spotlight in a big way -- not only did the 41-year-old
actress play the shockingly buff-bodied bad guy in
Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle, she gave the paparazzi
something of a godsend by dating Punk'd wunderkind
Ashton Kutcher.
After a break from her acting career, Moore returned to
the screen as a former member of Charlie's Angels gone
bad in the 2003 film Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle.
In 2006, she appeared in Bobby which featured an
all-star cast including her husband Ashton Kutcher
although they did not appear in any scenes together.
She has been described by her Passion of Mind co-star
Joss Ackland as "not very bright or talented".
However, on the May 11, 2007 Mother's Day episode of the
Oprah Winfrey show, Oprah called Demi "so
smart...so wise." In the 5/11/07 episode, clips
from a documentary interview with Maria Shriver revealed
much about Demi's relationship with her mother. She
appeared in Jon Bon Jovi's longform video
"Destination Anywhere" as Janie.
Personal life: 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. She is also a passionate raw
foodist (raw foodism) or live-vegan. She also is the
mother of three daughters: Rumer Glenn Willis (born in
1988), Scout LaRue Willis (born in 1991), Tallulah Belle
Willis (born in 1994). All three children are with her
ex-husband, Bruce Willis. She is currently expecting her
first child with current husband Ashton Kutcher. |
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