Demi Moore Biography
Demi Moore was born 1962 in Roswell, New Mexico. Her father left her mother, Victoria, before Demi was born. Her stepfather, Danny Guynes, didn't add much stability to her life, either. He frequently changed jobs and made the family move a total of 40 times. The parents kept on drinking, arguing and beating, until Guynes finally committed suicide. Demi quit school at the age of 16 to work as a pin-up-girl. At 18, she married rock musician
Freddie Moore; the marriage lasted four years. At 19, she became a regular on the TV show
General Hospital. From the first salaries, she started partying and sniffing cocaine. That lasted more than 3 years, until director
Joel Schumacher fired her from the set of
St. Elmo's Fire when she turned up high. She got a withdrawal treatment and returned clean after a week... and stayed clean. With determination and a skill for publicity stunts, like the nude appearance on the cover of Vanity Fair while pregnant, she made her way to fame. Since the huge commercial success of
Ghost and the controversial pictures
Indecent Proposal and
Disclosure, she's one of Hollywood's most sought-after and most expensive actresses.
Salary
Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle (2003): $2,000,000
G.I. Jane (1997): $11,000,000
Striptease (1996): $12,500,000
The Juror (1996): $5,000,000
Now and Then (1995): $500,000
The Scarlet Letter (1995): $5,000,000
Disclosure (1994): $5,000,000
A Few Good Men (1992): $3,000,000
The Butcher's Wife (1991): $500,000
Mortal Thoughts (1991): $1,000,000
Nothing But Trouble (1991): $500,000
Ghost (1990): $350,000
Trivia

Hired 3 cameramen to videotape the birth of her first child

Bruce and Demi announce they are ending their marriage of eleven years. No reasons given. [24 June 1998]

Chosen by People (USA) magazine as one of the 50 most beautiful people in the world [1996]

Has three daughters with
Bruce Willis:
Rumer Willis (b. 1988),
Scout LaRue Willis (1991) and
Tallulah Belle Willis (1994).

Was once engaged to
Emilio Estevez

She posed nude while seven months pregnant with daughter
Scout LaRue Willis for a 1991 'Vanity Fair' magazine cover. In August 1992, she again posed nude for 'Vanity Fair', this time wearing body paint that resembled a man's suit.

Stripped on
Late Show with David Letterman, allegedly to disprove rumors that she's too fat for her new movie
Striptease.

Owns a production company: "Moving Pictures"

She appeared in
John Parr's "St. Elmo's Fire (Man In Motion)" music video.

Listed as one of twelve "Promising New Actors of 1986" in John Willis's Screen World, Vol. 38.

In order to play a coke addict, Jules, in
St. Elmo's Fire, she had to sign a contract stipulating that she would stop her own alcohol and drug abuse, an agreement that caused her life to turn around.

Was one of three finalists for the lead in
Flashdance. No one could decide between the three, so a group of about 50 men was brought into a room, shown the three audition tapes and asked who they would want to sleep with the most.
Jennifer Beals won by a landslide.

Was replaced by
Sandra Bullock for the lead in
While You Were Sleeping.

Operations on her left eye during childhood caused her to wear a patch.

First actress to reach 10 million dollar salary mark.

Aunt of actors
Cooper Guynes and
Oliver Guynes.

Demi's real father, Charles Harmon, abandoned the family before she was born, which is why she didn't share his last name on her birth certificate.

Measurements: 33-22-33 (young model 1980), 36C-26-36 (after implants in 1996), (Source: Celebrity Sleuth magazine)

Continues to receive royalty checks for songs she wrote before becoming an actress.

Was spoofed in the video game
Leisure Suit Larry 7: Love for Sail as a hypersexual version of herself called "Dewmi (pronounced "Do Me") Moore".

First job was as a bill collector.

Voted #22 on VH1's Hottest Hotties

Though born in New Mexico she spent much of her childhood in Eastern Pennsylvania.

Supporter of Arsenal Football Club, and attends home games whenever she is in London.

She quit school at 16 and started working as a pin-up girl.

According to an article in the now defunct Buzz magazine, she was so demanding when it came to perks and fringe benefits, her nickname around Hollywood studio executives was "Gimme Moore".

Was one of the nine original members of the 1980s "brat pack", along with
Judd Nelson,
Mare Winningham,
Anthony Michael Hall,
Andrew McCarthy,
Rob Lowe,
Molly Ringwald,
Emilio Estevez and
Ally Sheedy.

The only Brat Packer to become a huge and long-lasting movie star after the Brat Pack era ended

Along with
Pia Zadora,
Madonna,
Pauly Shore and
Sylvester Stallone, one of the few people who have "won" back to back awards at the Razzies in successive years. She "won" Worst Actress of 1997 for her performances in the films
The Juror and
Striptease, then again the next year she "won" Worst Actress for her role in
G.I. Jane.

Her wedding with
Ashton Kutcher was attended by about 100 guests. Among them were ex-husband
Bruce Willis, their three daughters, Ashton's best friend and co-star from
That '70s Show,
Wilmer Valderrama, and Demi's close friend
Lucy Liu.

Auditioned for (and won) the role of Jackie Templeton on
General Hospital after producers put out a casting call for a "
Margot Kidder/
Karen Allen" type actress (both of whom were top box office stars at the time).

Her left eye is green and her right eye is hazel.

Married
Bruce Willis at the Golden Nugget Hotel in Las Vegas.
Little Richard presided over her wedding to
Bruce Willis and
Ally Sheedy was one of the bridesmaids.

Attended (but did not graduate from) Fairfax High School in Los Angeles with actor/producer
Byron Allen.

Is part Cherokee.

Lived next door to
Nastassja Kinski when moving to Los Angeles to pursue acting.

Her professional first name "Demi" (short for her birth name Demetria) is pronounced "deh-ME", not "DEM-ee", with emphasis on the second syllable just as in "Demetria".

Mother died from cancer at the age of 54.

Has one brother, Morgan.

Named Demetria after a shampoo that her mother saw in a magazine.

Her mother was only 19 when she had her.

In 1996, became the highest-paid actress in Hollywood, getting $12.5m for
Striptease.
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