Demi Moore Biography

Name

Demi Moore

Real Name

Demetria Guynes

Date of Birth

November 11, 1962

Birth Place

Roswell, N.M.

Relationships

Ashton Kutcher, husband (2003 to present) Oliver Whitcomb, ex-boyfriend (1999 to 2003) Bruce Willis, ex-husband (1987 to 1998; divorce finalized in 2000) Emilio Estevez, ex-boyfriend (1984 to 1987, engaged) Freddy Moore, ex-husband (1980 to 1984)

Children

Rumer Willis, daughter (8/16/1988) Scout Willis, daughter (7/20/1991) Tallulah Willis, daughter (2/3/1994)

1976

On the Road

By the age of 14, Moore, a self-described "trailer park kid," has moved at least 30 times. Her parents, Danny and Virginia, divorce the following year, and Moore settles in L.A. with her mother, where she eventually drops out of Fairfax High School at 16. She works as a debt collector and takes up acting in earnest after reading scripts with a young German neighbor and aspiring actress named Nastassja Kinski.

1980

White Wedding Day

Moore, 18, marries rocker Freddy Moore, 30, whose last name she adopts as her own. Their marriage lasts for four years, and ends amicably. "I'm not surprised she's now the star she is," he later tells London's Daily Mirror. "She's a genius." In 1982, she plays reporter Jackie Templeton on General Hospital. "She had street smarts," GH veteran Norma Connolly tells PEOPLE. "She learned fast."

1984

February 17

Undress for Success

Moore bares her chest in her first major motion picture, Blame It on Rio. Over the next 12 years, she will appear topless on screen five more times and nude on two Vanity Fair covers.

Brat Pack Unleashed

Moore plays the emotionally damaged Jules in the hit St. Elmo's Fire. Before filming begins, though, director Joel Schumacher pressures the young actress to get treatment for her drug and alcohol problems. "I didn't want to do what they had done with John Belushi," he tells PEOPLE in 1997, "which was just give her the money to kill herself." The movie helps launch her, boyfriend Emilio Estevez, Rob Lowe, Judd Nelson, Ally Sheedy and Andrew McCarthy into Brat Pack fame.

1985

Engaging Emilio

Moore and Estevez decide to marry but, two years later, the busy actors end their on-again, off-again engagement. "I was deeply in love with her," Estevez says to PEOPLE in 1996, and Moore tells Cosmopolitan that Estevez "was definitely my first love." The two remain friends.

1987

August

Moonlit Romance

Moore meets Moonlighting star Bruce Willis at a screening of Stakeout, featuring her former fiancé, Estevez. Willis is a legendary drinker and carouser, but Moore takes a chance because, PEOPLE reports her saying, "he was just so ready to embrace and give me love."

November 21

Here Comes the Bride (Again)

Following up on the diamond "friendship ring" Willis, 32, gave Moore ten days earlier, the two get hitched in a suite at the Golden Nugget hotel with a few guests. A big, black-tie celebration follows in L.A. a month later.

1988

August 16

Oh, Baby

Moore gives birth to her first daughter, Rumer Willis, named after British writer Rumer Godden. She and Willis love being parents: "I'm a big fan of kids. I tell everybody they should have them," PEOPLE reports Willis saying. The couple will continue to expand their brood with Scout LaRue (July 20, 1991) and Tallulah Belle (Feb. 3, 1994).

1989

March 29

Sew Bad

Moore takes on the challenge of designing her own outfit for the Oscars. A black split-front gown over biker shorts and a bustier land her on a few worst-dressed lists that year.

1990

July 13

A Haunting Performance

Starring with Patrick Swayze and Whoopi Goldberg, Moore gains wide attention as a grieving wife in the movie Ghost. It is a blockbuster at the box office and establishes Moore as a bankable star.

1991

August

[Un]covered

In what becomes the cover shot seen round the world, Moore poses nude and seven months pregnant on the cover of Vanity Fair. "You're either sexy or you're a mother," Moore says in a 1996 Interview magazine profile. "I didn't want to have to choose, so I challenged that." She appears on the August 1992 Vanity Fair cover as well, this time wearing nothing more than body paint.

1993

April 07

Femme Fatale

Moore costars with Woody Harrelson in Indecent Proposal. She plays a wife who accepts $1,000,000 to sleep with another man, played by Robert Redford. Moore and director Adrian Lyne famously clash on set over the interpretation of Moore's role. "She's a very tough ride," the director later tells Britain's Guardian. That May, she makes her first of three appearances (1995, 1996) in PEOPLE's 50 Most Beautiful issue.

1995

May

Strip Search

Cornering the Hollywood market on sex, power and money, Moore, 32, becomes the highest-paid actress ever when she nabs a reported $12.5 million for 1996's Striptease. "She works harder than anyone I know," director Andrew Bergman tells PEOPLE of Moore – who plays stripper Erin Grant, who fights to regain custody of her daughter. "She wants to be in control of her life."

September 17

Planet Hollywood

After the opening of the first Planet Hollywood in Orange County, Calif., three years earlier, the restaurant finally opens a location in its namesake town: Hollywood. Shareholders Willis, Moore, Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger host a truckload of stars at the grand opening. Beset by financial problems, the branch closes unceremoniously in January 2000.

1996

Becoming Townies

After settling into their new part-time residence in Hailey, Idaho, Moore and Willis invest $8 million restoring the area. "You see in so many of these little towns, as soon as the mall comes up, the main street starts to die, but the main street is the real charm of the town," Moore says to In Style.

1997

August 22

The Big Buzz

Moore sports a nearly bald head for the movie G.I. Jane, prompting The New York Times to declare her new 'do "the moment a well-known exhibitionist gave new meaning to taking it all off." Though the film is a disappointment at the box office, Moore's buff body and cropped style grab headlines.

1998

June 24

Her Biggest Break

After 11 years of marriage, Moore and Willis announce their separation. Moore spends a few post-marriage years living a low-key life with her girls, but keeps her hand in film, cofounding Moving Pictures production company. She strikes gold producing the Austin Powers movies.

2003

May 31

Dating Ashton Kutcher

After spending nearly four years with martial arts instructor Oliver Whitcomb (who was seven years her junior), Moore makes a splash at Diddy's MTV Movie Awards after party with Ashton Kutcher, who is nearly 16 years her junior. "They were all over each other," sources tell PEOPLE. "They were the talk of the party."

June 27

She's No Angel

After years away from the big screen, Moore takes on the role of Madison Lee, the Angel gone bad in Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle. She didn't say yes right away, however. Producer and costar Barrymore tells USA Today, "We wrote the part for her and wouldn't accept no for an answer. We were willing to do whatever it took. Demi was a huge battle for me that I had to win."

2004

October 21

Kabbalah Bash

Moore hosts Madonna and Gwyneth Paltrow in London at a Kabbalah party for guru Rabbi Michael Berg's book Becoming Like God: Kabbalah and Our Ultimate Destiny. Longtime Kabbalah follower Madonna introduced Moore to the religion in 2003. Moore tells Vogue the Judaism-inspired mysticism helps one uncover "the value of your worth," and introduces boyfriend Kutcher to Berg's Kabbalah Centre.

2005

September 24

Bound in Kabbalah

Kutcher, 27, and Moore, 42, wed in a private Kabbalah ceremony at their Beverly Hills, Calif., home, joined by ex-husband Willis and 100 close friends and relatives. "It was a beautiful wedding," a close friend of Moore's tells PEOPLE. "It was incredibly unpretentious, representing who they really are." Adds another friend: "There was just so much love in the room."

2006

November 23

Brat Packers Reunited

Estevez directs and costars with Moore in Bobby, a drama set against the backdrop of Robert F. Kennedy's assassination. Estevez had written the part of his character's alcoholic wife for Moore. "Intense as the scenes were, we were laughing all day," she tells PEOPLE.

2008

April

A Bazaar Family Portrait

The Harper's Bazaar cover girl poses for her first family portrait for a magazine with daughters Rumer, 19, Scout 16, and Tallulah, 14. The girls also ring in with their observations on mom, 45, and her life with stepdad Ashton Kutcher, 30. Says Tallulah, "I find it weird that people think my stepdad is hot."

2010

September

The Five-Year Hitch

Before their fifth wedding anniversary, Moore and Kutcher present a united front as a tabloid claims the actor had an affair. Calling the cheating account a "defamation of character," the couple appears inseparable, with Kutcher joining his wife on the set of her film, The Reasonable Bunch. "You could hear them laughing in her trailer," a source tells PEOPLE.