Demi Moore was born Demetria Gene Guynes on November 11, 1962, in Roswell, New Mexico. Her biological father, Air Force airman Charles Foster Harmon Sr., deserted her then-18-year-old mother, Virginia, after a two-month marriage before Moore’s birth. When Moore was three months old, her mother married Dan Guynes, a newspaper advertising salesman who frequently changed jobs; as a result, the family moved many times.
Moore spent her early childhood in Roswell, and later, Canonsburg, Pennsylvania. At age 14, she returned to her hometown of Roswell and lived with her grandmother for six months before relocating to Washington State, where her recently separated mother was residing near Seattle. Several months later, the family moved again to West Hollywood, California, where Moore’s mother took a job working for a magazine distribution company. she attended Fairfax High School there.
In November 1978, Moore moved in with 28-year-old guitarist Tom Dunston, quitting high school in her junior year to work as a receptionist at 20th Century Fox, a job she secured through Dunston’s mother, who was an executive assistant to producer Douglas S. Cramer. She signed with the Elite Modeling Agency, then enrolled in acting classes after being inspired by her next-door neighbor, 17-year-old German starlet Nastassja Kinski. Moore’s first and second roles as a professional actress were guest spots on the TV shows W.E.B. and Kaz, though these were uncredited or small.
Though she wasn’t yet famous, she was already driven, self-reliant, and ambitious, traits that would define her Hollywood rise in the next decade.
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