'''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 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.
Biography
Early life
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.
Career
thumb|left|200px|Moore with Patrick Swayze in ''Ghost_(film)|Ghost'' (1990)
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".
thumb|right|200px|Moore in ''Vanity Fair'' (September, 1991)
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
