Biography

Demetria Gene Guynes, or better known as Hollywood actress Demi Moore was born in Roswell, Mexico and spent most her childhood years growing up in Perryopolis in Pennsylvania. At such a very young age, she struggled to keep up with an unstable life inside her home. Her mother, Virginia King, was divorced to Demi’s biological father (Charles Harmon) after a shortlived marriage of only two months. Virginia eventually re-married to a guy named Danny Guynes and this is where Demi started to use his stepfather’s surname instead of her biological father’s. Danny changed jobs frequently and he was moving his family from one place to another amounting to forty times until tragedy struck the Guynes family once more when Danny committed suicide in 1980. Demi grew up in a dysfunctional family where domestic disputes have been part of her life as a child. Both of her parents were alcoholics and would often beat each other up. Demi was cross-eyed as a child and she would often wear an eyepatch to correct the problem but was later resolved after undergoing two eye surgeries. Aside from the eye problem, Demi also struggled to cope up with her kidney dysfunction.

As a teenager, Demi and her family finally moved and settled permanently in Los Angeles in 1976. She attended secondary schooling at the Hollywood’s Fairfax High School where her schoolmates included Red Hot Chili Peppers’ main man Anthony Kiedis and actor Timothy Hutton. At age 16, she was forced to drop out of school when her friend, sexy actress Nastassja Kinski convinced her to become an actress. In 1979, Demi married songwriter Freddy Moore but they eventually divorced in 1985 and still kept the last name Moore up to this very day.

When she decided to quit school, Demi worked as a pin-up girl and modelled for European photographers in the early 80’s, she did several full-frontal nudity pictures that were later published in a German Magazine then was circulated in North America. Demi’s calling to become an actress started in 1982 when she starred in this 3-D sci-fi/horror flick entitled Parasite which grossed $7 million in the box office, but this budding young actress was not known until she got the role to play Jackie Templeton on the soap opera General Hospital from 1982 to 1983. She even did a cameo role at the end of 1982 with the spoof of Young Doctors In Love. But what became Demi’s launchpad in her bid for Hollywood stardom came when she became a part of the infamous Brat Pack (a name coined by the media that comprised a group of top notch actors at that time) that made headlines in the mid-80’s with two youth-oriented movies namely St. Elmo’s Fire and About Last Night.

In the 90’s, Demi was cashing up on her success with her stunning acting prowess when she made a string of Hollywood blockbuster movies like The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Disclosure, Indecent Proposal, A Few Good Men and the box-office hit movie Ghost where she starred with Patrick Swayze. Demi was enjoying her worldwide popularity and her salary earnings when she became the very first Hollywood actress to have reached the $10 million mark. Other hit movies included under her belt were Basic Instinct, While You Were Sleeping and Flashdance.

Although the 1990’s was Demi’s benchmark decade in her movie career, she suffered some drawbacks and media criticisms with a string of box office failures like The Scarlet Letter, The Juror, G.I. Jane (where Demi decided to shave her head bald for the role) and the controversial movie Striptease where she played as a stripper and, despite being a major flop in Hollywood, she caused quite a stir worldwide with her no-holds-barred double breast exposure in one of her scenes. She even made more controversy when Demi decided to pose pregnant and naked for the August 1991 issue of Vanity Fair. It showed an alluring and naked Demi pregnant then to her daughter Scout LaRue, portraying the “anti-Hollywood and anti-Glitz” attitude that had the entire United States discussing and debating about it over the radio and on television. Despite the setbacks in her movie career, she produced and starred in a TV mini-series entitled If These Walls Could Talk, a three-part series about abortion in the 1950’s that earned her a Golden Globe nomination for Best Actress.

After taking a long hiatus from her acting career, she made her comeback to the big screen in 2003 with the movie Charlie’s Angels: Full Throttle playing the role of Bobby, a former member of the crime-busting trio gone bad and out to get rid of the current Angels portrayed by Cameron Diaz, Drew Barrymore and Lucy Liu. Her current hubby Ashton Kutcher (from That 70’s Show and MTV’s Punk’d) also appeared in the movie but was never seen together all throughout the film. In June 2007, she starred in the movie Mr. Brooks, a psychological thriller about a man being controlled by his demented alter ego. She stars opposite Kevin Costner, William Hurt and Dane Cook.