Demi Moore Back to Demi's page Biography Demi was born on the 11th November 1962 in Roswell New Mexico USA. Real name Demetria Gene Guynes. She was slightly cross-eyed as a child and required two operations to correct the condition. Quitting school at 16, she posed nude for the magazine 'Oui' before her neighbour, Nastassja Kinski, suggested she tried acting. Her stepfather, Danny, killed himself in 1979. She won her first acting part in a role for the daytime soap 'General Hospital' in 1982. In her third movie, 'Parasite' (1982), a 3-D horror film, she did battle with a giant slug. Involved in a three-way tie for the lead in 'Flashdance'(1983), she lost out after 50 men watched their audition tapes and had to choose whom they'd most like to sleep with - they preferred Jennifer Beals. Battling substance abuse during the shooting of 1985's 'St Elmo's Fire', she was given a week by director Joel Schumacher to sort herself out, and managed to turn her life around. Won the MTV best screen kiss award in 1994 for Indecent Proposal. Her most regular victories have been at the Golden Raspberries, where she landed worst actress for 'The Juror' and 'Striptease' (1996), despite being the highest paid woman in Hollywood history with a $12.5m fee for 'GI Jane'(1997). Divorced from rock musician Freddy Moore and formerly engaged to Emilio Estevez, she married Bruce Willis in Las Vegas in 1987. She hired three photographers to film the birth of Rumer Glenn (1988) and posed on the cover of 'Vanity Fair' while carrying Scout LaRue (1991). Tallulah Belle (1994) escaped similar brushes with the camera. In addition to voicing Esmeralda in the 'Hunchback of Notre Dame' (1996), she also turned in an uncredited cameo as Dallas Grimes in 'Beavis and Butt-head Do America' (1996). A five-year feud with her mother, Virginia, was patched up before her death in 1998. Since the split with Bruce Willis in 1998 she has been linked with self-defence expert Oliver Whitcomb. She has her own company, Moving Pictures, which co-produced both the 'Austin Powers' films. A fiercely determined individual who lacks humour and is said by some to take herself too seriously. She plays a dual role in 'Passion of Mind' (2000), but refused to promote its US release. This site was created and is maintained by John Robinson © 1995 This page first published 28 December 2000 .