Demi Moore had her breakthrough for her starring role in Ghost, the highest-grossing film of that year.
74 Facts About Demi Moore
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Demi Moore's performance was praised and earned her a Golden Globe nomination.
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Demi Moore had further box-office success in the early 1990s, with the films A Few Good Men, Indecent Proposal, and Disclosure.
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In 1996, Demi Moore became the highest-paid actress in film history when she received an unprecedented $12.5 million to star in Striptease.
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Demi Moore's career has since had a resurgence with voice roles in The Hunchback of Notre Dame and The Hunchback of Notre Dame II and supporting roles in such films as Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle, Bobby, Mr Brooks, Margin Call, and Rough Night.
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Demi Moore has been married thrice, to the musician Freddy Demi Moore and the actors Bruce Willis and Ashton Kutcher.
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Demi Moore was born November 11,1962, in Roswell, New Mexico.
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When Demi Moore was three months old, her mother married Dan Guynes, a newspaper advertising salesman who frequently changed jobs; as a result, the family moved many times.
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Demi Moore's mother had a long arrest record which included drunk driving and arson.
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Demi Moore broke off contact with her in 1989, when Guynes walked away halfway through a rehab stay Demi Moore had financed at the Hazelden Foundation in Minnesota.
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Demi Moore spent her early childhood in New Mexico, and later, Canonsburg, Pennsylvania.
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Demi Moore suffered from strabismus as a child, which was corrected by two operations; Moore suffered from kidney dysfunction.
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At age 14, Demi Moore returned to her hometown of Roswell and lived with her grandmother for six months before relocating to Washington state, where her mother and siblings were residing near Seattle.
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Several months later, the family moved again to West Hollywood, California, where Demi Moore's mother took a job working for a magazine distribution company.
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Demi Moore signed with the Elite Modeling Agency, then enrolled in drama classes after being inspired by her next-door neighbor, 17-year-old German actress Nastassja Kinski.
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Demi Moore co-wrote three songs with Freddy Demi Moore and appeared in the music video for their selection "It's Not a Rumor," performed by his band, The Nu Kats.
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Demi Moore continues to receive royalty checks from her songwriting work.
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Demi Moore sang in the films One Crazy Summer and Bobby.
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Demi Moore appeared on the cover of the January 1981 issue of the adult magazine Oui, taken from a photo session in which she had posed nude.
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Demi Moore portrayed Laura Victor in the comedy film No Small Affair, opposite Jon Cryer.
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Demi Moore's commercial breakthrough came in Joel Schumacher's yuppie drama St Elmo's Fire, which received negative reviews, but was a box office success and brought Demi Moore recognition.
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Demi Moore progressed to more serious material with About Last Night.
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Demi Moore was listed as one of twelve "Promising New Actors of 1986" in John Willis's Screen World, Vol.
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Demi Moore made her professional stage debut in an off-Broadway production of The Early Girl, which ran at the Circle Repertory Company in fall 1986.
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Demi Moore played a young woman in jeopardy to be protected by the ghost of her murdered lover.
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Ghost was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture, and Demi Moore's performance earned her a Golden Globe Award nomination.
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In 1991 Demi Moore starred in the horror comedy Nothing but Trouble, co-produced and appeared in the mystery thriller Mortal Thoughts, and played a blonde for the first time in the romantic comedy The Butcher's Wife, with Roger Ebert's review describing her as "warm and cuddly".
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Demi Moore was paid a record-breaking salary of US$12.5 million in 1996 to star in Striptease.
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The film opened to overwhelmingly negative reviews with Demi Moore's performance being criticised.
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Demi Moore produced and starred in a controversial miniseries for HBO called If These Walls Could Talk, a three-part anthology about abortion alongside Sissy Spacek and Cher.
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Demi Moore took on the role of an ultrapious psychiatrist in Woody Allen's Deconstructing Harry, in 1997.
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Jane, Demi Moore retreated from the spotlight and moved to Hailey, Idaho, on a full-time basis to devote herself to raising her three daughters.
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Demi Moore was off screen for three years before re-emerging in the arthouse psychological drama Passion of Mind, the first English-language film from Belgian director Alain Berliner.
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Demi Moore then resumed her self-imposed career hiatus and continued to turn down film offers.
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Demi Moore returned to the screen playing a villain in the 2003 film Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle, opposite Cameron Diaz, Drew Barrymore and Lucy Liu.
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In Emilio Estevez's drama Bobby, Moore portrayed an alcoholic singer whose career is on the downswing, as part of an ensemble cast, about the hours leading up to the Robert F Kennedy assassination.
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Demi Moore had a lead role as grieving and tormented novelist in the mystery thriller Half Light alongside Hans Matheson, then took on the role of a driven police officer investigating a serial killer in the psychological thriller Mr Brooks, with Kevin Costner.
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Demi Moore reunited with Blame It on Rio co-star Michael Caine for the British crime drama film Flawless, which saw her portray an American executive helping to steal a handful of diamonds from the London Diamond Corporation during the 1960s.
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In 2010, Demi Moore took on the role of a daughter helping her father deal with age-related health problems in the dramedy Happy Tears, opposite Parker Posey and Rip Torn, and starred as the matriarch of a family moving into a suburban neighborhood in the comedy The Joneses, with David Duchovny.
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In Bunraku, a film Demi Moore described as a "big action adventure," she played a courtesan and a femme fatale with a secret past.
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Demi Moore appeared as the mother of Miley Cyrus' character in the romantic drama film LOL.
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Demi Moore played a similar mother role in her next film, the likewise coming-of-age dramedy Very Good Girls, which co-starred Dakota Fanning and Elizabeth Olsen.
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In February 2017, Demi Moore joined the cast of Empire, in the recurring role of a take-charge nurse with a mysterious past.
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Demi Moore portrayed Lucy, a superficial CEO in the comedy horror film Corporate Animals, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival on January 29,2019.
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Demi Moore discussed the book in an exclusive interview with Diane Sawyer of ABC News on Good Morning America.
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On June 24,2020, Moore joined as Piper Griffin, the matriarch of a powerful family "who will stop at nothing to protect her family and her way of life" in the pandemic-themed thriller produced by Michael Bay, Songbird, alongside Craig Robinson, Paul Walter Hauser and Peter Stormare.
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Demi Moore has a leading role as Diana in Amazon's drama series, Dirty Diana, which is based on the podcast of the same name.
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Demi Moore was among the celebrities who made cameo appearances modeling lingerie at Rihanna's Savage x Fenty Vol.
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Demi Moore is viewed as a pioneer for equal salary for women in Hollywood.
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Demi Moore was paid $12.5 million for her role in Striptease, which was more money than any other woman in Hollywood had ever been offered at the time.
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Striptease won and Demi Moore became the highest paid actress in Hollywood in 1995.
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Demi Moore has been included in magazine lists of the world's most beautiful women.
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Demi Moore was selected as one of People magazine's 50 Most Beautiful People in the world in 1996.
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In 1999, Demi Moore became a guest editor for the November issue of Marie Claire.
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Demi Moore has 4.5 million followers on Twitter as of January 2020.
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Demi Moore has graced the cover of numerous international fashion magazines, including France's Elle; UK's Grazia; US' W, Vanity Fair, Interview, Rolling Stone, Glamour and InStyle; Australia's Harper's Bazaar and Turkey's Marie Claire.
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Demi Moore has appeared on the front cover of Vogue.
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Demi Moore has appeared in commercials and print ads throughout her career.
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Annie Leibovitz shot the picture while Demi Moore was seven months pregnant with the second of her three daughters, Scout LaRue Willis, intending to portray "anti-Hollywood, anti-glitz" attitude.
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Demi Moore has supported numerous charities, including All Day Foundation, American Foundation for AIDS Research, Artists for Peace and Justice, Coalition to Abolish Slavery and Trafficking, Declare Yourself, Free The Slaves, Healthy Child Healthy World, Raising Malawi, The Art of Elysium and UNICEF.
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In 2010, Demi Moore defeated Kevin Bacon to win $250,000 in the Pepsi Refresh Celebrity Challenge.
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Demi Moore traveled to Haiti with the Artists for Peace and Justice following the earthquake of 2010.
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Demi Moore has supported Chrysalis, a non-profit organization which offers employment opportunities to the homeless.
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Demi Moore was the narrator and anchor of CNN's documentary on child trafficking, called Nepal's Stolen Children, which aired on June 26,2011.
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On February 8,1981, at the age of 18, Demi Moore married singer Freddy Demi Moore, 12 years her senior and recently divorced from his first wife, Lucy.
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Demi Moore filed for divorce from Moore in September 1984; it was finalized on August 7,1985.
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Demi Moore was then engaged to actor Emilio Estevez, with whom she co-starred in St Elmo's Fire and Wisdom, a crime drama he wrote and directed.
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On November 21,1987, Demi Moore married her second husband, actor Bruce Willis.
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Demi Moore had a three-year relationship with martial arts instructor Oliver Whitcomb, whom she dated from 1999 to 2002.
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In November 2011, after months of media speculation about the state of the couple's marriage, Demi Moore announced her decision to end her marriage to Kutcher.
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Demi Moore filed her response papers in March 2013, requesting spousal support and payment of legal fees from Kutcher.
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At one point, Demi Moore kept a separate residence to house her 2,000 dolls.
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Demi Moore appeared on PETA's Worst-Dressed List in 2009 for wearing fur; two years later she supported the group's efforts to ban circus workers' use of bullhooks on elephants.
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Demi Moore is the recipient of many accolades, including nominations for a Critics' Choice Award, two Golden Globe Awards, a Primetime Emmy Award and a Screen Actors Guild Award.