Demi Moore

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Demi Moore, 2010

Demi Guynes (* 11. November 1962 as Demetria Gene Guynes in Roswell , New Mexico ) is an American actress who by her stage name Demi Moore is known.

biography

Childhood and youth

Demi Moore was born in Roswell, New Mexico. She comes from a broken family background. Before she was born, her biological father, Charles Harmon, left her mother Virginia (née King) after a two-month marriage. When Demi Moore was three months old, her mother married the newspaper seller Dan Guynes. Due to his often changing jobs, the family moved frequently. Moore saw Guynes as her real father. She grew up mostly in eastern Pennsylvania . In October 1980, Dan Guynes committed at the age of 37 years suicide , two years after the divorce from her mother. Her mother, Virginia Guynes, has been arrested many times, including arson and drunk driving . Moore broke off contact with her in 1990, but was later reconciled with her shortly before Virginia Guynes died of cancer in July 1998 at the age of 54 . Moore has a half-brother on his mother's side and two half-brothers on his father's side: Charles Harmon Jr. and James Craig Harmon (* 1974). The latter was sentenced to ten years in prison in 2006 for aggravated assault. Moore also has a paternal half-sister named Charlotte Harmon Eggar, who testified in 2012 that she had not seen Moore for 30 years. Demi Moore squinted during her childhood, which was eventually corrected by two operations. She also suffered from kidney dysfunction. At the age of 15, Moore moved to West Hollywood , California, where her mother worked for a magazine distribution company. She attended Fairfax High School and said of it, "I moved out of my family house when I was 16 and dropped out of high school in my junior year." She worked for a debt collection agency and was a pin-up girl Europe.

Acting career

Demi Moore first played guest roles in various television series, including from 1981 in General Hospital and Tales from the Crypt . She celebrated her first cinema success in 1983 in debt to it is Rio . As a member of the Brat Pack , she played in St. Elmo's Fire in 1985 . When she appeared on the set under the influence of drugs, her director Joel Schumacher threatened to resign. She went on a drug withdrawal and was able to finish the film.

The actress received a Golden Globe nomination for her role in Ghost . It belonged during this time to the gefragtesten actresses and was the first woman for a film, a 10-million dollars - Gage received. Her initial successes at the side of Patrick Swayze , Tom Cruise , Robert Redford or Michael Douglas , she could not repeat with her following projects such as striptease .

In addition to various roles in the cinema, she also plays in the theater and works as a film producer in her company "Moving Pictures". With her appearance in 3 Angels for Charlie - Full Power , she made a comeback in 2003.

In late 2008, Demi Moore said her youthful looks made it difficult to get role offers and that this had led to a career slump.

Private life

Demi Moore and Ashton Kutcher , September 2008

In August 1979, three months before her 17th birthday, she met the musician Freddy Moore, who was married to another woman at the time. In February 1980, six months after they first met, the couple married and moved into an apartment in West Hollywood. She filed for divorce in September 1984, which became final on August 7, 1985. To this day, she receives royalties on some of the songs that she helped to write.

After her divorce, she was in a relationship with the actor Emilio Estevez . The couple wanted to get married in December 1986, but broke off the engagement a short time later .

On November 21, 1987, she married the actor Bruce Willis . She stated on her marriage certificate that this was her first marriage; "I only did it because I thought the marriage would last longer if I gave it up." The couple have three daughters together: Rumer Glenn (born August 16, 1988), Scout LaRue (born July 20, 1991) and Tallulah Belle (born February 3, 1994). The children have been in front of the camera themselves since 1995, initially only in films in which one of their parents was involved.

Scout and Tallulah first appeared in the movie The Scarlet Letter in flashbacks as the younger Pearl and as Baby Pearl, starring her mother. Daughter Rumer played in Now and Then - then and now for the first time, but she is listed as "Willa Glen" in the credits. Rumer took on the role of the daughter in striptease . On June 24, 1998, Moore and Willis separated, but they only filed for divorce on October 18, 2000, and the day after it was final.

From 1999 to 2002 Moore was in a relationship with the martial arts teacher Oliver Whitcomb.

In 2003 she got together with Ashton Kutcher , 16 years her junior . They were married on September 24, 2005. The couple lived with Moore's daughters in Hailey , Idaho . The wedding took place with 150 guests in close family circles, including Bruce Willis. In mid-November 2011, Moore announced the separation; Reports of Kutcher's infidelity had preceded them. In January 2012, it was announced that Demi Moore was struggling with addiction problems. She was hospitalized for emergency treatment with a seizure and was later treated in rehab. Among other things, she was dependent on the prescription drug Adderall, an amphetamine combination. In March 2013, she filed for divorce.

Filmography

As an actress

  • 2020: Brave New World (TV series)

As a producer

Others

  • Moore is a vegan and co-owner of the Planet Hollywood restaurant chain .
  • The actress reportedly negotiates very hard about her salaries; that earned her the nickname Gimme Moore (English corruption for "give me more").
  • The cover picture of Vanity Fair magazine with Demi Moore, seven months pregnant, photographed by Annie Leibovitz , made headlines around the world in 1991. Moore's next cover picture for the August 1992 issue, in which she was photographed naked with a man's suit painted on, received significantly less attention.

literature

  • Meinolf Zurhorst : Demi Moore. Lady and Vamp. Heyne-Filmbibliothek, Volume 248. Wilhelm Heyne Verlag, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-453-11858-8 .
  • Nigel Goodall: Demi Moore. The Most Powerful Woman in Hollywood. Mainstream Publishing Company, Edinburgh, London 2000, ISBN 1-84018-269-5 .

Web links

Commons : Demi Moore  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Demi Moore's Long-Lost Siblings: We Can Save Her. (No longer available online.) In: OK! Magazines. February 11, 2012, archived from the original ; Retrieved December 19, 2016 .
  2. ↑ a b Demi Moore. In: The Biography Channel. Archived from the original ; accessed on August 16, 2020 .
  3. ^ Meagan Murphy: Demi Moore's hospitalization puts spotlight on alleged past demons. In: Fox News. January 25, 2012, accessed December 19, 2016 .
  4. ↑ a b Cover Story: Dreams Die Hard. In: People, Vol. 49 No. July 27 , 1998, accessed December 19, 2016 .
  5. ↑ a b Pictured: Troubled Demi Moore's half brother who is serving 10 year jail term for beating fiancee with telephone. In: Mail Online. Retrieved December 19, 2016 .
  6. ↑ Demi Moore. In: People . Retrieved December 19, 2016 .
  7. ↑ Ring in the New, Wring Out the Old. In: People , Vol. 27 No. January 1 , 1987, accessed December 19, 2016 .
  8. ↑ Demi Moore. Celebrity Central / Top 25 Celebs. In: People. Archived from the original on November 20, 2012 ; accessed on August 16, 2020 .
  9. ^ Gainesville Sun - Google News Archive Search. In: news.google.com. Retrieved December 19, 2016 .
  10. ↑ https://www.promiflash.de/thema/scout-larue-willis/
  11. ↑ The Vindicator - Google News archive search. In: Google News. Retrieved December 19, 2016 .
  12. ↑ a b That's a wrap. In: People, Vol. 54 No. November 19 , 2000, accessed December 19, 2016 .
  13. ↑ Demi Moore's Past Relationships. In: The Huffington Post. November 17, 2011, accessed December 19, 2016 .
  14. ^ Filmreporter.de: Demi Moore becomes Demi Kutcher , September 19, 2007
  15. ^ Ashton & Demi Get Married. In: People . September 25, 2005, accessed December 19, 2016 .
  16. Jump up ↑ Demi Moore and Ashton Kutcher got married. In: The world . November 17, 2011, accessed November 18, 2011 .
  17. ↑ What Happened to Demi Moore - 2016 Update & News . Gazette Review, January 25, 2016
  18. ↑ Inside Demi Moore's Addiction Problems . Huffington Post , January 27, 2012
  19. ^ War of the Roses in Hollywood Demi Moore demands maintenance from Ashton Kutcher. In: Stern . Retrieved March 8, 2013 .
  20. ↑ Francesca Menato: 13 Famous Celebrities Who Are Vegan. In: Women's Health UK. Retrieved October 17, 2018 .
  21. ↑ Celebrity baby bellies Beautifully naked, beautifully pregnant. In: Stuttgarter Zeitung . Retrieved April 15, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Moore, Demi
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kutcher, Demi (married name); Guynes, Demetria Gene (maiden name); Guynes Kutcher, Demi (married name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION US-american actress
DATE OF BIRTH November 11, 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH Roswell , New Mexico , United States