Demi Guynes Kutcher (born November 11, 1962), known professionally as Demi Moore, is an American actress.
Moore was born Demi Gene Guynes in Roswell, New Mexico. As a child, she had a difficult and unstable home life. Her biological father, Charles Harmon, left her mother Virginia King (November 27, 1943 – July 2, 1998), after a two-month marriage before Moore was born. As a result, Moore had the surname of her stepfather Danny Guynes (March 9, 1943 – October 1980) on her birth certificate. Danny Guynes, who committed suicide in 1980, frequently changed jobs; as a result, the family moved a total of forty times. Moore has two younger half-brothers: James Craig Harmon (paternal) and Morgan Guynes (maternal, born 1967). Her parents were alcoholics and often fought and beat each other. Moore was cross-eyed as a child and wore an eye patch in an attempt to correct the problem until it was ultimately corrected by two surgeries. She also suffered from kidney dysfunction.
Moore's family settled in Los Angeles in 1976. She attended Fairfax High School in Hollywood where her schoolmates included Red Hot Chili Peppers frontman Anthony Kiedis, bassist Michael Balzary (aka Flea) and actor Timothy Hutton. When Moore was 16, her friend Nastassja Kinski persuaded her to drop out of school to become an actress.