Demi Moore Trivia

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Lived in the home of actess Grace Baine while filming "The Joneses" (thehollywoodnews.com)

Mother died from cancer at the age of 54. (imdb.com)

In 1996, became the highest-paid actress in Hollywood, getting $12.5m for Striptease (1996).

Her mother was only 19 when she had her.

Named Demetria after a shampoo that her mother saw in a magazine.

Has one brother, Morgan.

Her professional first name "Demi" (short for her birth name Demetria) is pronounced "deh-ME", not "DEM-ee", with emphasis on the second syllable just as in "Demetria".

Lived next door to Nastassja Kinski when moving to Los Angeles to pursue acting.

Is part Cherokee.

Attended (but did not graduate from) Fairfax High School in Los Angeles with actor/producer Byron Allen.

Little Richard presided over her wedding to Bruce Willis and Ally Sheedy was one of the bridesmaids.

Married Bruce Willis at the Golden Nugget Hotel in Las Vegas.

Her left eye is green and her right eye is hazel.

Auditioned for (and won) the role of Jackie Templeton on "General Hospital" (1963) after producers put out a casting call for a "Margot Kidder/Karen Allen" type actress (both of whom were top box office stars at the time).

Her wedding with Ashton Kutcher was attended by about 100 guests. Among them were ex-husband Bruce Willis, their three daughters, Ashton`s best friend and co-star from "That `70s Show" (1998), Wilmer Valderrama, and Demi`s close friend Lucy Liu.

Along with Pia Zadora, Madonna, Pauly Shore and Sylvester Stallone, one of the few people who have "won" back to back awards at the Razzies in successive years. She "won" Worst Actress of 1997 for her performances in the films The Juror (1996) and Striptease (1996), then again the next year she "won" Worst Actress for her role in G.I. Jane (1997).

The only Brat Packer to become a huge and long-lasting movie star after the Brat Pack era ended

Was one of the nine original members of the 1980s "brat pack", along with Judd Nelson, Mare Winningham, Anthony Michael Hall, Andrew McCarthy, Rob Lowe, Molly Ringwald, Emilio Estevez and Ally Sheedy.

According to an article in the now defunct Buzz magazine, she was so demanding when it came to perks and fringe benefits, her nickname around Hollywood studio executives was "Gimme Moore".

She quit school at 16 and started working as a pin-up girl.

Supporter of Arsenal Football Club, and attends home games whenever she is in London.

Though born in New Mexico she spent much of her childhood in Eastern Pennsylvania.

Voted #22 on VH1`s Hottest Hotties

First job was as a bill collector.

Was spoofed in the video game Leisure Suit Larry 7: Love for Sail (1996) (VG) as a hypersexual version of herself called "Dewmi (pronounced "Do Me") Moore".

Continues to receive royalty checks for songs she wrote before becoming an actress.

Measurements: 33-22-33 (young model 1980), 36C-26-36 (after implants in 1996), (Source: Celebrity Sleuth magazine)

Demi`s real father, Charles Harmon, abandoned the family before she was born, which is why she didn`t share his last name on her birth certificate.

Aunt of actors Cooper Guynes and Oliver Guynes.

First actress to reach 10 million dollar salary mark.

Operations on her left eye during childhood caused her to wear a patch.

Was replaced by Sandra Bullock for the lead in While You Were Sleeping (1995).

Was one of three finalists for the lead in Flashdance (1983). No one could decide between the three, so a group of about 50 men was brought into a room, shown the three audition tapes and asked who they would want to sleep with the most. Jennifer Beals won by a landslide.

In order to play a coke addict, Jules, in St. Elmo`s Fire (1985), she had to sign a contract stipulating that she would stop her own alcohol and drug abuse, an agreement that caused her life to turn around.

Listed as one of twelve "Promising New Actors of 1986" in John Willis`s Screen World, Vol. 38.

She appeared in John Parr`s "St. Elmo`s Fire (Man In Motion)" music video.

Owns a production company: "Moving Pictures"

Stripped on "Late Show with David Letterman" (1993), allegedly to disprove rumors that she`s too fat for her new movie Striptease (1996).

She posed nude while seven months pregnant with daughter Scout LaRue Willis for a 1991 `Vanity Fair` magazine cover. In August 1992, she again posed nude for `Vanity Fair`, this time wearing body paint that resembled a man`s suit.

Was once engaged to Emilio Estevez

Has three daughters with Bruce Willis: Rumer Willis (b. 1988), Scout LaRue Willis (1991) and Tallulah Belle Willis (1994).

Chosen by People (USA) magazine as one of the 50 most beautiful people in the world [1996]

Bruce and Demi announce they are ending their marriage of eleven years. No reasons given. [24 June 1998]

Hired 3 cameramen to videotape the birth of her first child

Has a Husky voice.