1. Demi Moore's accolades include a Golden Globe Award, a Screen Actors Guild Award, and nominations for an Academy Award, a British Academy Film Award, and an Emmy Award.
74 Facts About Demi Moore
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Demi Moore emerged a star with her portrayal of a grieving girlfriend in the romance film Ghost, had further box office success with A Few Good Men, Indecent Proposal, and Disclosure, and received a then-unprecedented to star in Striptease.
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Demi Moore has sporadically held leading roles in arthouse films; supporting roles in Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle, Bobby, Mr Brooks, Margin Call, and Rough Night ; as well as television credits in If These Walls Could Talk, Empire, Feud: Capote vs The Swans, and Landman.
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Demi Moore received renewed recognition for her performance as an aging celebrity in the body horror film The Substance, which earned her a Golden Globe and a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress.
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Demi Moore was married to Ashton Kutcher from 2005 to 2013.
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Demi Moore was born Demi Gene Guynes on November 11,1962, in Roswell, New Mexico.
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Demi Moore has deep roots in the South Central and Southern United States, particularly Oklahoma, Arkansas and Georgia.
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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 mother in 1989, when she 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 Roswell, and later, Canonsburg, Pennsylvania.
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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 recently separated mother was 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 acting classes after being inspired by her next-door neighbor, 17-year-old German starlet Nastassja Kinski.
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Demi Moore obtained a divorce in late 1980 and married Demi six weeks later.
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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 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 made her film debut as the protagonist's girlfriend in Choices, a sports drama directed by Silvio Narizzano.
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Demi Moore had already joined the cast of the ABC soap opera General Hospital several months before the film's release, playing the role of investigative reporter Jackie Templeton through 1983.
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Demi Moore progressed to more serious material with the romantic dramedy About Last Night.
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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 boyfriend through the help of a reluctant psychic.
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Ghost was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture, while Demi Moore's performance earned her a Golden Globe nomination and the Saturn Award for Best Actress.
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Demi Moore started fashion trends with her uncharacteristically gamine look, and legions of women emulated the short haircut she sported throughout the film.
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In 1991, Demi Moore starred as a lawyer in the horror comedy Nothing but Trouble, a murder suspect in the mystery thriller Mortal Thoughts, and a clairvoyant woman in the romantic comedy The Butcher's Wife.
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Mortal Thoughts, which co-starred Willis, was a "passion project" for Demi Moore, who wanted a more challenging role following the success of Ghost and was particularly drawn to her character's New Jersey dialect.
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Demi Moore received a fee to star in The Butcher's Wife, but later regretted making the film.
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Demi Moore arrived for each morning's shoot in a limo and insisted on flying between locations by private plane.
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Demi Moore became the world's highest-paid actress when she was paid a record-breaking salary of to star as a FBI secretary-turned-stripper in Striptease.
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Demi Moore starred as a single mother intimidated by a mobster in the thriller The Juror, which did not connect with critics nor audiences.
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Demi Moore produced and starred in HBO's If These Walls Could Talk, a three-part anthology about abortion alongside Sissy Spacek and Cher.
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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 felt that Passion of Mind "didn't get the best of [her]" due to the death of her mother and her divorce from Willis.
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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 Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle, opposite Cameron Diaz, Drew Barrymore, and Lucy Liu.
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Demi Moore's role was specifically written for her and proved, according to Barrymore, to have "upstaged" the film's heroines.
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Demi Moore found herself intimidated by the response, which she said made her question her place in the industry.
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Demi Moore reunited with Blame It on Rio co-star Michael Caine for the British heist drama 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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Demi Moore made her directorial debut with the coming-of-age short film Streak, which starred her daughter Rumer and screened at the Nashville Film Festival.
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In 2009, Demi Moore played a daughter helping her father deal with age-related health problems in the dramedy Happy Tears, as well as a stealth marketer in the comedy The Joneses.
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In Bunraku, a film Demi Moore described as a "big action adventure," she starred as a courtesan and a femme fatale with a secret past.
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Demi Moore portrayed a chief risk management officer at a large Wall Street investment bank during the initial stages of the 2008 financial crisis in the corporate drama Margin Call, in which she was part of an ensemble cast that included Kevin Spacey, Simon Baker, and Paul Bettany.
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Between 2017 and 2018, Demi Moore had a recurring arc as a mysterious take-charge nurse on Empire.
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Demi Moore played a social worker in the Hindi-language drama Love Sonia, and an unethical CEO in the black comedy Corporate Animals.
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In 2020, Demi Moore played a protective matriarch in the thriller Songbird, recurred as the mother of a subversive outsider in three episodes of Brave New World, and was among the celebrities who made cameo appearances modeling lingerie at Rihanna's Savage x Fenty Vol.
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Demi Moore's supporting turn as an eccentric neighbor in the musical drama Please Baby Please earned her positive notices.
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In 2024, Demi Moore played socialite Ann Woodward in the Ryan Murphy anthology series Feud: Capote vs The Swans on FX, and began starring as the wife of an oil tycoon in Taylor Sheridan's drama series Landman on Paramount+.
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In Coralie Fargeat's body horror film The Substance, Demi Moore played an aging star who uses a black market drug to make herself younger.
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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 for her role in Striptease, which was more money than any other actress had ever been offered at the time.
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Striptease won and Demi Moore became the world's highest-paid actress in 1995.
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Demi Moore has been included in a number of magazine lists of the world's most beautiful women.
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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 W, Vanity Fair, Interview, Rolling Stone, Glamour, InStyle, Time and Vogue.
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Demi Moore posed nude on the October 2019 cover of Harper's Bazaar.
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Annie Leibovitz shot the picture while Demi Moore was seven months pregnant with her second child, Scout LaRue Willis, intending to portray "anti-Hollywood, anti-glitz" attitude.
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On February 8,1981, at the age of 18, Demi Moore married singer Freddy Demi Moore, then 30 and recently divorced from his first wife, Lucy.
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Demi Moore filed for divorce from Freddy 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 romance 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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Demi Moore has reportedly kept a separate residence to house her 2,000 dolls.
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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 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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Demi Moore appeared on PETA's Worst-Dressed List in 2009 for wearing fur, but two years later, she supported the group's efforts to ban circus workers' use of bullhooks on elephants.
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Demi Moore received the Courage Award at The Women's Cancer Research Fund's gala in 2024.
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Demi Moore is the recipient of numerous accolades, including a Golden Globe Award, a Critics' Choice Movie Award and a Screen Actors Guild Award, as well as nominations for an Academy Award, a British Academy Film Award, a Primetime Emmy Award, a Directors Guild of America Award, and two Independent Spirit Awards.