Demi Moore
Moore at the 2010 Time 100 Gala
Born	(1962-11-11) November 11, 1962 (age 49) Roswell, New Mexico, U.S.[n 1]
Occupation	Actress, producer, director, songwriter, model
Years active	1981–present
Spouse	Freddy Moore (1980–1985) Bruce Willis (1987–2000) Ashton Kutcher (2005–present)
Children	Rumer Willis, Scout Willis, Tallulah Willis

Demi Guynes Kutcher ( /dəˈmiː/ də-MEE; born November 11, 1962),^{[n 1]} known professionally as Demi Moore, is an American actress, film producer, film director, former songwriter and model. Born in Roswell, New Mexico to teenage parents who divorced before she was born, Moore dropped out of high school at age 16 to begin modeling in Europe, and posed for a nude pictorial in Oui magazine in 1980. After making her movie debut in 1981, she appeared on the soap opera General Hospital and established her career with such films as St. Elmo's Fire (1985) and About Last Night... (1986). Following the successes of Ghost (1990), A Few Good Men (1992), Indecent Proposal (1993), and Disclosure (1994), Moore became Hollywood's highest-paid actress,^[12] receiving an unprecedented sum of $12.5 million for Striptease (1996).^[13]

Moore took her professional name from her first husband, musician Freddy Moore, and is the mother of three daughters from her second marriage to actor Bruce Willis. She married her third husband, actor Ashton Kutcher, in 2005, and separated from him in November 2011.

Early life[link]

Moore was born in Roswell, New Mexico. As a child, she had a difficult and unstable home life. Her parents split up before she was born, with her mother, Virginia, leaving Demi's biological father, Charles Harmon, Sr.,^[14][15] and marrying Dan Guynes, a newspaper advertising salesman who frequently changed jobs; as a result, the family moved a great many times.^[16] Moore said in 1991, "My dad is Dan Guynes. He raised me. There is a man who would be considered my biological father who I don't really have a relationship with."^[15] Moore learned of him at age 13, when she found her parents' marriage certificate and inquired about circumstances since "I saw my parents were married in February 1963. I was born in '62."^[15] Moore was cross-eyed as a child; this was ultimately corrected by two surgeries. She also suffered from kidney dysfunction.^[16] She has a maternal half-brother, Morgan Guynes, who in 1988 was a U.S. Marine stationed in North Carolina, and gave her away at her wedding that year;^[17] a paternal half-brother, James Craig Harmon (born 1974) who in 2006 was sentenced to 10 years in jail for aggravated assault;^[18] a paternal half-sister, Charlotte Harmon Eggar, who in 2012 said she had not seen Moore in 30 years;^[14] a paternal half-brother, Charles Harmon Jr.;^[14] and a sister, who in 1998 was named Carolyn Sneed and living in Farmington, New Mexico.^[19]

Virginia Guynes left her husband when Moore was 15 and moved to West Hollywood, California, where Virginia worked for a magazine-distribution company.^[15] Two years later, Dan Guynes committed suicide.^[15] Moore attended Fairfax High School there,^[15] and recalled, "I moved out of my family's house when I was 16 and left high school in my junior year."^[20] She decided to pursue a career in the entertainment industry after being inspired by 17-year-old German actress Nastassja Kinski, who lived with her own divorced mother in the same apartment building.^[21] In August 1979, three months before her 17th birthday,^[21] Moore met musician Freddy Moore at the Los Angeles nightclub The Troubadour.^[22] Freddy Moore was married to another woman at that time.^[21] In February 1980, six months after they met, Freddy and Demi were married^[23] and lived in an apartment in West Hollywood.^[22]

Career[link]

Moore with then-husband Bruce Willis at the Academy Awards in 1989

Demi Moore co-wrote three songs with Freddy Moore and appeared in the music video for their "It's Not a Rumor," performed by his band The Nu Kats.^[24] She continues to receive royalty checks from her brief songwriting career (1980-1981).^[25]

After training with John Casablancas — the founder of Elite Model Management — she posed for the adult magazine Oui,^[26] telling a reporter in 1988 she "only posed for the cover of Oui — I was 16; I told them I was 18."^[27] In 1990, she told another interviewer, "I was 17 years old. I was underage. It was just the cover."^[28] Moore made her film debut with a small supporting role in the deaf-teen drama Choices (1981), directed by Silvio Narizzano,^[29] which was still unreleased at the time her second film came out.^[30] This was the 1982 3-D science fiction/horror film Parasite, for which director Charles Band had instructed casting director Johanna Ray to "find me the next Karen Allen."^[26] Moore achieved greater exposure when she played the part of Jackie Templeton on the ABC soap opera General Hospital from 1982 to 1983. She made an uncredited cameo appearance as that character in the 1982 spoof Young Doctors in Love.

Moore's career took off following her appearances in the youth-oriented films Blame It on Rio (1984) and St. Elmo's Fire (1985), and she was often listed as part of the Brat Pack, a label she shunned at the time. Moore reached a professional turning point with the release of About Last Night... in 1986. Film critic Roger Ebert praised her performance, writing, "There isn't a romantic note she isn't required to play in this movie, and she plays them all flawlessly."^[31] In 1988, she starred in The Seventh Sign, directed by Carl Schultz. The following year, she acted with Robert DeNiro in We're No Angels.

Her most successful film as of 2012 was the supernatural romantic melodrama Ghost, a sleeper hit that became the highest-grossing film of 1990. The film included a memorable love scene between Moore's character and that of Patrick Swayze's, which begins in front of a pottery wheel. Moore's performance as Molly Jensen garnered her a Golden Globe Award nomination as Best Actress.

In 1991, Moore co-produced and starred in the mystery thriller Mortal Thoughts, and appeared as a blonde for the first time in the romantic comedy The Butcher's Wife, with one review describing her as "warm and cuddly".^[32] Both films were box-office disappointments, but her next three films (A Few Good Men, Indecent Proposal and Disclosure) all opened at #1 at the box office and became hits.^[33]

By 1995, Moore was the highest-paid actress in Hollywood.^[12] However, she subsequently had a string of unsuccessful films with The Scarlet Letter, The Juror, Striptease, and G.I. Jane. Moore's Passion of Mind co-star Joss Ackland lambasted her by describing her as being "not very bright or talented",^[34] although he worked with her again on Flawless in 2008. Moore produced and starred in a controversial miniseries for HBO, If These Walls Could Talk, a three-part omnibus telefilm about abortion. Its scriptwriter, Nancy Savoca, directed two segments, including one in which Moore played a single woman in the 1950s seeking a back-alley abortion. For that role, Moore received a second Golden Globe nomination as Best Actress.

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 Sylvester Stallone, Arnold Schwarzenegger, and then-husband Bruce Willis.

After a break from her acting career, Moore returned to the screen as the villain of 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. As of 2012, her last appearance in a widely released film was in Mr. Brooks, which was released on June 1, 2007. She appeared in Jon Bon Jovi's longform video "Destination Anywhere" as Janie.^[35]

After modeling in a Versace ad campaign in 2005, Moore signed on as the face of the Helena Rubinstein brand of cosmetics the following year.^[36]

Moore had been cast to play feminist activist Gloria Steinem in the Linda Lovelace film biography Lovelace^[37] but within a month of being announced for the role, she dropped out of the production in the wake of a January 23, 2012, hospitalization and what her representative called "professional assistance to treat her exhaustion and improve her overall health."^[38] Sarah Jessica Parker took over the role.^[39]

[edit] Vanity Fair controversy

In August 1991, Moore appeared nude on the cover of Vanity Fair under the title More Demi Moore. Annie Leibovitz shot the picture while Moore was seven months pregnant with her daughter Scout LaRue, intending to portray "anti-Hollywood, anti-glitz" attitude.^[40] The cover sparked an intense controversy for Vanity Fair and Moore. It was widely discussed on television, radio, and in newspaper articles.^[41] The frankness of Leibovitz's portrayal of a pregnant sex symbol led to divided opinions, ranging from complaints of sexual objectification to celebrations of the photograph as a symbol of empowerment.^[42]

The photograph was subject to numerous parodies, including the Spy magazine version which placed Moore's then-husband Bruce Willis' head on her body. In Leibovitz v. Paramount Pictures Corp., Leibovitz sued over one parody featuring Leslie Nielsen, made to promote the 1994 film Naked Gun 33⅓: The Final Insult. In the parody, the model's body was attached to what is described as "the guilty and smirking face" of Nielsen. The teaser said "Due this March".^[43] The case was dismissed in 1996 because the parody relied "for its comic effect on the contrast between the original".^[43] In November 2009, the Moroccan magazine Femmes du Maroc emulated the infamous pose with Moroccan news reporter Nadia Larguet, causing controversy in the majority Muslim nation.^[44] In August 1992, Moore would again appear nude on the cover of Vanity Fair, modeling for body painting artist Joanne Gair in Demi's Birthday Suit.^[45][46]

Personal life[link]

Marriages and children[link]

Moore and Kutcher in September 2008

On February 8, 1980 (three months after her 17th birthday), she married singer Freddy Moore, adopting his surname.^[23] The pair had met six months prior to their wedding.^[25] Demi filed for divorce in September 1984; it was finalized on August 8, 1985.^[25]

In 1987, Moore met and married her second husband, actor Bruce Willis.^[47] She stated on her marriage license that this was her first marriage, explaining in an interview the following year, "I did it only because I thought it was going to take longer if I put that [first marriage] on there."^[17] She and Willis had three daughters together: Rumer Glenn Willis (born August 16, 1988), Scout Willis and Tallulah Willis.^[47] The couple divorced in 2000.^[47]

After two years of dating, Moore wed actor Ashton Kutcher on September 24, 2005.^[48] The couple separated in November 2011, and Moore announced her intention to divorce Kutcher.^[49]

Charity work[link]

In April 2011, Demi Moore and Ashton Kutcher launched their "Demi and Ashton Foundation", a non-profit, non-governmental organization directed towards fighting child sexual slavery.^[50][51] Its first campaign was "Real Men Don't Buy Girls".^[52]

Interests[link]

Moore's primary residence is in Hailey, Idaho, near the Sun Valley resort, although she spent much time in the Los Angeles area during her marriage to Kutcher. She also owns a waterfront mansion on Sebago Lake, Maine. She is a follower of Philip Berg's Kabbalah Centre religion, and initiated Kutcher into the faith, having said that she "didn't grow up Jewish, but ... would say that [she has] been more exposed to the deeper meanings of particular rituals than any of [her] friends that did".^[53]

According to The New York Times, Moore is "the world's most high-profile doll collector", and among her favorites is the Gene Marshall fashion doll.^[54]

Filmography[link]

Television[link]

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References[link]

External links[link]

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