Demi Moore

Biography

Once a pretty, sultry teenage model with a slightly subdued, aloof quality, Moore evolved into one of the top female screen stars of the 1990s (see her naked here). She began as a regular on ABC's staple of daytime drama, "General Hospital"; her husky voice and hushed line delivery seemed to lend itself well to the tense plots.

Moore soon segued to features, making her debut in "Choices" (1981). She went on to appear in Charles Band's "Parasite" (1982) and Garry Marshall's "Young Doctors in Love" (1982). In 1984 she became a Hollywood mainstay, playing Michael Caine's vulnerable young daughter in "Blame It on Rio" and a callous model in "No Small Affair". Moore joined the female contingent of the "brat-pack", co-starring in "St. Elmo's Fire" (1985) and "Wisdom" (1986), a road movie directed by her then-fiance Emilio Estevez.

Moore graduated to adult roles as the prophecy-bearing mother in "The Seventh Sign" (1988), a foul-talking hooker in Neil Jordan's misfire "We're No Angels" (1989) and the mourning, teary-eyed lover in the surprise hit "Ghost" (1990). She gave one of her better performances and moved into production when she co-produced Alan Rudolph's intriguing "Mortal Thoughts" (1991).

The extremely popular "A Few Good Men" (1992) kept her in the public eye but the military courtroom proceedings largely kept her sidelined dramatically as the more prominent male characters occupied center stage. Moore shed more tears as Woody Harrelson's wife who sleeps with Robert Redford for a million dollars in Adrian Lyne's popular "Indecent Proposal" (1993).

In Barry Levinson's thriller "Disclosure" (1994), she received a chance to shed her "nice girl" image, playing a ruthless corporate executive who becomes the target of a sexual harassment suit lodged by a disappointed employee and former lover, played by Michael Douglas. While many reviewers slammed the film for its skittish treatment of the issue, its implausibility and irrelevance to real world concerns, Moore received some favorable notices for her icy turn.

Moore made her debut in a costume epic as adulteress Hester Prynne in the misconceived and unpopular adaptation of Hawthorne's classic "The Scarlet Letter" (there is a clip of her nude scene from that film at this site) opposite Gary Oldman and then segued to more contemporary times in "Now and Then" (1995), a drama she also co-produced focusing on childhood friendships. She followed with the title role of "The Juror" (1996) as a single mother pressured to change influence a jury by a gangster (Alec Baldwin). Moore could also be heard as the voice of Esmerelda in Disney's animated version of "The Hunchback of Notre Dame" (also 1996). She solidified her stature in Hollywood with a reported $12.5 million salary to play a single mother who turns to exotic dancing in "Striptease" (also 1996), making her the highest-paid actress in Hollywood.

After a string of financial disappointments, Moore bounced back with "G.I. Jane" (1997), in which she played a female recruit training for the Navy SEALs. Receiving wildly mixed reviews, the film placed Number One at the box office. Perhaps signaling an upswing in her career, Moore delivered a well-received turn as an observant Jewish psychiatrist in Woody Allen's "Deconstructing Harry" (also 1997).

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Nude movie clip:
Scarlet Letter (1995)