Known as: Demi
Moore
Full Name: Demetria Gene Guynes
Birthday: November 11, 1962
Birth Place: Roswell, New Mexico, USA
Zodiac Sign: Scorpio
Trade mark: Husky voice
Height: 168 cm
Weight: 130 lbs
Education: Fairfox High School, Los Angeles; Left high school
to model in Europe; Studied with Zina Provendie
Occupation: Actress
Demi's real father,
Charles Harmon, left her mother in 1962 before Demi was born,
after a two-month marriage. Virginia married Danny Guynes, a
newspaper ad salesman, who frequently changed jobs and caused
the family to move over 30 times. Demi grew up dealing with
poverty, alcoholism, domestic abuse, divorce, and her stepfather's
suicide when she was 18.
With influence from
Nastassja Kinski, her neighbor in the same building, she decided
to become an actress while in high school. When Demi was 16,
she quit school to work at a debt collection agency and to do
some modeling in Europe. At age 18, she married the English
rock musician, Freddy Moore. This marriage lasted for four years.
In 1982, she became
a regular actress on the TV show General Hospital. In the 1985
movie, St. Elmo's Fire, in order to play coke addict, Jules,
she had to sign a contract stipulating that she would stop her
own alcohol and drug abuse, an agreement that caused her to
turn her life around. For the next three years, she struggled
with drug and alcohol problems until director Joel Schumacher
threatened to fire her from the set of St. Elmo's Fire. After
drug rehabiliation for two weeks, she returned to work, and
continued to stay sober.
Demi met Bruce Willis
in August 1987 after ending a three-year engagement to Emilio
Estevez. Bruce and Demi were married on November 21, 1987 by
singer, Little Richard. She has formed her own production companies,
Rufglen and then Moving Pictures (in partnership with Suzanne
and Jennifer Todd.)
With determination
and a skill for publicity stunts, she has achieved fame and
fortune. Since the huge successes of Ghost in 1990, Indecent
Proposal in 1993, Disclosure in 1994, The Juror in 1995, and
Striptease in 1996, she is one of Hollywood's most sought-after
and expensive actresses. Her current asking price is $12.5 million
per film.