Demi Moore Biography

Fast Facts

• Pronounces her name with the stress on the second syllable, since it's short for Demetria
• Quit school at 16 to model and pursue acting, thanks in part to encouragement from actress Nastassja Kinski, her then-neighbor
• Posed nude for the cover of Vanity Fair in 1991 while seven months pregnant, and graced the magazine's cover again in 1992 "clothed" in body paint
• Received the MTV Movie Award for Best Kiss in 1994 with costar Woody Harrelson (Indecent Proposal)
• Paid a reported $12
• 5 million in 1995 to star in Striptease, becoming Hollywood's highest paid actress at the time
• Appeared as an old woman on Saturday Night Live in 2005 to spoof her age difference with soon-to-be husband Ashton Kutcher, the show's host that night