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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.
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.[1] 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, 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.
Demi Moore appeared nude during pregnancy on this famous Vanity Fair (August,
1991)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[citation needed]. The image was endlessly parodied[citation needed]
(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".
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. On June
1st of 2007 her next film Mr. Brooks is to be released.
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.
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