Bruce
Willis is a name to reckon with in the Hollywood film industry. He was
born on 19th March, 1955 in Idar-Oberstein, a German town near the
border with Luxembourg. He was born to David, a military man, and his
wife, Marlene, who was from Kassel. Bruce was called as Walter Bruce
Willison on his birth.The Willis family moved from a West German
military base to the small town of Carneys Point, New Jersey, when
Bruce was two years old. He grew up as the oldest of four children in
a blue-collar family. As a teenager, he worked in a DuPont chemical
plant.
Bruce was quite popular in his school times and therefore was elected
as Student Council President. After graduating from high school,
Willis attended Montclair (NJ) State College, where he first became
interested in acting. He left college and moved to New York City in
1977, when he landed a bit part in an Off-Broadway play. In New York,
he supported himself by working as a bartender in between small roles
in stage productions.
Willis’ first break came in 1984, when he stepped in for another
actor in the lead role in Sam Shepard’s Off-Broadway hit Fool for
Love. His success led to an audition for Desperately Seeking Susan, an
upcoming production starring Madonna. Willis didn’t get the role,
but he stayed in Hollywood long enough to attend a casting call for a
new television series called Moonlighting. Chosen from among 3,000
hopefuls to play the wisecracking private detective David Addison,
Willis became a star overnight when Moonlighting became a hit. The
chemistry between Willis and co-star Cybill Shepherd won over fans for
four successful seasons (1985-89), and Willis won an Emmy in 1987 for
Best Actor in a Television Series (Comedy or Musical).
In 1994, Willis emerged from this slump with two powerful supporting
performances in relatively low-budget films—Quentin Tarantino’s
gleefully violent Pulp Fiction (which also revived Travolta’s fading
career) and Nobody’s Fool, starring Paul Newman. He also had a
much-talked-about frontal nude scene in the psychological thriller
Color of Night (1994). Unlike many of his fellow action heroes, Willis
continued to mix riskier roles in smaller films with big-budget action
films—meeting with varying results. He scored hits with two weird
futuristic thrillers—Twelve Monkeys (1995), also featuring Brad
Pitt, and The Fifth Element (1997)—while more traditional action
films, like Last Man Standing (1996), The Jackal (1997), co-starring
Richard Gere, and Mercury Rising (1998), did relatively mediocre
business.
In 2000, Willis showed off his considerable comedic talent by starring
as a hit man in the hit film The Whole Nine Yards, and guest starring
on three episodes of the hit TV series Friends during the May sweeps.
Willis marrie the A-list actress Demi Moore. But after 10 years of
their marriage the couple announced their divorce.
BRUCE WILLIS has demonstrated incredible versatility in his career
with such diverse roles as the action-hero in the popular Die Hard
film series, a meek, classic anti-hero in Death Becomes Her, the
prizefighter in Quentin Tarantino's Academy Award winning Pulp
Fiction, and the traumatized Vietnam vet in Norman Jewison's In
Country. Its just right to say that he is a versatile and accomplished
actor of all times. |
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