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Bruce Willis
Willis at the San Diego Comic-Con International, July 2010
Born	Walter Bruce Willis March 19, 1955 (age 57) Idar-Oberstein, State of Rhineland-Palatinate, West Germany
Other names	W.B. Willis Bruno
Occupation	Actor, producer, musician
Years active	1980–present
Spouse	Demi Moore (m.1987–2000) Emma Heming (m. 2009–present)
Children	4; Rumer

Walter Bruce Willis (born March 19, 1955) is a German-born American actor, producer, and musician. His career began in television in the 1980s and has continued both in television and film since, including comedic, dramatic, and action roles. He is well known for the role of John McClane in the Die Hard series, which were mostly critical and uniformly financial successes. He has also appeared in over sixty films, including box office successes like Pulp Fiction (1994), 12 Monkeys (1995), The Fifth Element (1997), Armageddon (1998), The Sixth Sense (1999), Unbreakable (2000), Sin City (2005), Over the Hedge (2006) and Red (2010).

Motion pictures featuring Willis have grossed US$2.64 billion to 3.05 billion at North American box offices, making him the ninth highest-grossing actor in a leading role and twelfth highest including supporting roles.

He is a two-time Emmy Award–winning, Golden Globe Award–winning and four-time Saturn Award–nominated actor. Willis was married to actress Demi Moore and they had three daughters before their divorce in 2000, following thirteen years of marriage. He is currently married to model Emma Heming, with whom he has one daughter.

life

Willis was born in Idar-Oberstein, West Germany. His mother, Marlene K., was German and born in Kaufungen near Kassel, and his father, David Willis, was an American soldier. Willis is the oldest of four children: he has a sister, Florence, and a brother, David. His brother Robert died of pancreatic cancer in 2001, aged 42. After being discharged from the military in 1957, Willis's father took his family back to Carneys Point, New Jersey. Willis has described himself as having come from a "long line of blue collar people"; his mother worked in a bank and his father was a welder, master mechanic, and factory worker. Willis attended Penns Grove High School in his hometown, where he encountered issues with a stutter. He was nicknamed Buck-Buck by his schoolmates. Finding it easy to express himself on stage and losing his stutter in the process, Willis began performing on stage and his high school activities were marked by such things as the drama club and student council president.After high school, Willis took a job as a security guard at the Salem Nuclear Power Plant and also transported work crews at the DuPont Chambers Works factory in Deepwater, New Jersey.After working as a private investigator (a role he would play in the television series Moonlighting as well as in the 1991 film, The Last Boy Scout), Willis returned to acting. He enrolled in the drama program at Montclair State University, where he was cast in the class production of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. Willis left school in his junior year and moved to New York City.After multiple auditions, Willis made his theater debut in the off-Broadway production of Heaven and Earth. He gained more experience and exposure in Fool for Love, and in a Levi's commercial. Willis also played a lead role in the off-Broadway production Bullpen for four years which was written and directed by Dennis Watlington that was also presented at Joseph Papp's Public Theater.

Personal Life

Marriages and family

At the premiere for the film Stakeout, Willis met actress Demi Moore. Willis married Moore on November 21, 1987 and had three daughters: Rumer Willis (b. August 16, 1988), Scout LaRue Willis (b. July 20, 1991) and Tallulah Belle Willis (b. February 3, 1994) before the couple divorced on October 18, 2000. The couple gave no public reason for their breakup. Regarding the divorce, Willis stated, "I felt I had failed as a father and a husband by not being able to make it work." He credited actor Will Smith for helping him cope with the situation. After their breakup, rumors persisted that the couple planned to re-marry, until Moore married the actor Ashton Kutcher. Willis has maintained a close relationship with both Moore and Kutcher, even attending their wedding.

Willis was engaged to Brooke Burns until they broke up in 2004 after ten months together. He married Emma Heming in Turks and Caicos on March 21, 2009; guests included his three daughters, Moore, and Kutcher. The ceremony was not legally binding, so the couple wed again in a civil ceremony in Beverly Hills six days later. The couple have one daughter, Mabel Ray Willis, born in 2012.

Religion

Willis at the German premiere of Over the Hedge on June 28, 2006

Bruce Willis was, at one point, Lutheran (specifically Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod), but no longer practices, after clarifying in a July 1998 interview with George magazine:

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'Organized religions in general, in my opinion, are dying forms', he says. 'They were all very important when we didn't know why the sun moved, why weather changed, why hurricanes occurred, or volcanoes happened', he continues. 'Modern religion is the end trail of modern mythology. But there are people who interpret the Bible literally. Literally! I choose not to believe that's the way. And that's what makes America cool, you know?'

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Political views

In 1988, he and Moore openly campaigned for Massachusetts Governor Michael S. Dukakis's Presidential bid. Four years later, he supported President George H. W. Bush for reelection and he was an outspoken critic of Bill Clinton. However, in 1996, he declined to endorse Clinton's Republican opponent Bob Dole, because Dole had criticized Moore for her role in the film Striptease. Willis was an invited speaker at the 2000 Republican National Convention, and openly supported George W. Bush that year. He did not make any contributions or public endorsements in the 2008 presidential campaign. In several June 2007 interviews, he declared that he still maintains some Republican ideologies.In 2006, he said that the United States should invade Colombia, in order to end the drug trafficking.In several interviews Willis has said that he supports large salaries for teachers and police officers, and says that he is disappointed in the United States' foster care and treatment of Native Americans. Willis also stated that he is a big supporter of gun rights:
“ "Everyone has a right to bear arms. If you take guns away from legal gun owners, then the only people who have guns are the bad guys." Even a pacifist, he insists, would get violent if someone were trying to kill him. "You would fight for your life." ”In February 2006, Willis appeared in Manhattan to talk about 16 Blocks with reporters. One reporter attempted to ask Willis about his opinion on the current government, but was interrupted by Willis in mid-sentence: "I'm sick of answering this fucking question. I'm a Republican only as far as I want a smaller government, I want less government intrusion. I want them to stop shitting on my money and your money and tax dollars that we give 50 percent of... every year. I want them to be fiscally responsible and I want these goddamn lobbyists out of Washington. Do that and I'll say I'm a Republican... I hate the government, OK? I'm apolitical. Write that down. I'm not a Republican."Willis's name was in an advertisement in the Los Angeles Times on August 17, 2006, that condemned Hamas and Hezbollah and supported Israel in the 2006 Israel-Lebanon war.

Filmography

Film


Year	Title	Role	Notes
1980	The First Deadly Sin	Man Entering Diner	Uncredited
1980	A Guru Comes	Extra	TV movie; uncredited
1982	The Verdict	Courtroom Observer	Uncredited
1987	Blind Date	Walter Davis
1988	The Return of Bruno	Bruno Radolini	TV movie
1988	Sunset	Tom Mix	Also co-executive producer
1988	Die Hard	John McClane
1989	That's Adequate	Himself
1989	In Country	Emmett Smith
1989	Look Who's Talking	Mikey (voice)
1990	Die Hard 2	John McClane
1990	Look Who's Talking Too	Mikey (voice)
1990	The Bonfire of the Vanities	Peter Fallow
1991	Mortal Thoughts	James Urbanski
1991	Hudson Hawk	Eddie 'Hudson Hawk' Hawkins	Also writer
1991	Billy Bathgate	Bo Weinberg
1991	The Last Boy Scout	Joseph Cornelius 'Joe' Hallenbeck
1992	The Player	Himself
1992	Death Becomes Her	Dr. Ernest Menville
1993	Loaded Weapon 1	John McClane	Uncredited
1993	Striking Distance	Tom 'Tommy' Hardy
1994	North	Narrator/Guardian Angel
1994	Color of Night	Dr. Bill Capa
1994	Pulp Fiction	Butch Coolidge
1994	Nobody's Fool	Carl Roebuck
1995	Die Hard with a Vengeance	John McClane
1995	UnNormal	Jack Richerd
1995	Four Rooms	Leo	Uncredited
1995	12 Monkeys	James Cole
1996	Last Man Standing	John Smith
1996	Beavis and Butt-head Do America	Muddy Grimes (voice)
1997	The Fifth Element	Korben Dallas
1997	The Jackal	The Jackal
1998	Mercury Rising	Art Jeffries
1998	Armageddon	Harry S. Stamper
1998	The Siege	Major General William Devereaux
1999	"Franky Goes to Hollywood"	Himself	Short
1999	Breakfast of Champions	Dwayne Hoover
1999	The Sixth Sense	Dr. Malcolm Crowe
1999	The Story of Us	Ben Jordan
2000	The Whole Nine Yards	Jimmy "The Tulip" Tudeski
2000	Disney's The Kid	Russell 'Russ' Duritz
2000	Unbreakable	David Dunn
2001	Bandits	Joe Blake
2002	Hart's War	Col. William A. McNamara
2002	Grand Champion	Mr. Blandford
2003	Tears of the Sun	Lieutenant A.K. Waters
2003	Rugrats Go Wild	Spike (voice)
2003	Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle	William Rose Bailey	Uncredited
2004	The Whole Ten Yards	Jimmy "The Tulip" Tudeski
2004	Ocean's Twelve	Himself
2005	Hostage	Jeff Talley	Also producer
2005	Sin City	John Hartigan
2006	Alpha Dog	Sonny Truelove
2006	16 Blocks	Jack Mosley	Also producer
2006	Fast Food Nation	Harry Rydell
2006	Lucky Number Slevin	Mr. Goodkat
2006	Over The Hedge	RJ (voice)
2007	The Astronaut Farmer	Colonel Doug Masterson	Uncredited
2007	Perfect Stranger	Harrison Hill
2007	Grindhouse: Planet Terror	Lt. Muldoon
2007	Nancy Drew	Himself	Uncredited
2007	Live Free or Die Hard	John McClane	Also producer
2008	What Just Happened	Himself
2008	Assassination of a High School President	Principal Kirkpatrick
2009	Surrogates	Agent Tom Greer
2010	Cop Out	Jimmy Monroe
2010	The Expendables	Mr. Church	Uncredited cameo
2010	Red	Frank Moses
2011	Set Up	Jack Biggs
2011	Catch .44	Mel
2012	Moonrise Kingdom	Captain Sharp
2012	Lay the Favorite	Dink Heimowitz
2012	The Expendables 2	Mr. Church	post-production
2012	Fire with Fire	Mike Cella	post-production
2012	The Cold Light of Day	Martin	post-production
2012	Looper	Older Joe	post-production
2013	G.I. Joe: Retaliation	General Joseph Colton	post-production
2013	A Good Day to Die Hard	John McClane	filming

Awards and honors

Hollywood Walk of Fame star.

Willis has won a variety of awards and has received various honors throughout his career in television and film.

For his work on the television show Moonlighting he won an Emmy ("Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series") and a Golden Globe ("Best Performance by an Actor in a TV-Series — Comedy/Musical") plus received additional nominations for the show.
He was nominated for a Golden Globe for "Best Supporting Actor" for his role in the film In Country
Maxim magazine had named his sex scenes in Color of Night (1994) as the best sex scenes ever in film history.
In the 1999 drama/thriller film, The Sixth Sense, Willis won the Blockbuster Entertainment Award ("Favorite Actor — Suspense") and the People's Choice Award ("Favorite Motion Picture Star in a Drama"). He was also nominated for the Saturn Award for Best Actor and received two nominations for the MTV Movie Awards for "Best Male Performance" and "Best On-Screen Duo".
In 2000, Willis won an Emmy for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series for his work on Friends.
In February 2002, Willis was awarded the Hasty Pudding Man of the Year award from Harvard's Hasty Pudding Theatricals. According to the organization, the award is given to performers who give a lasting and impressive contribution to the world of entertainment.
Also in 2002, Willis was appointed as national spokesman for Children in Foster Care by President George W. Bush. Willis wrote online: "I saw Foster Care as a way for me to serve my country in a system by which shining a little bit of light could benefit a great deal by helping kids who were literally wards of the government."
In April 2006, he was honored by French government for his contributions to the film industry. Willis was named "Officier Dans L'ordre Des Arts Et Des Lettres" (Officer in the Order of Arts and Letters) in a ceremony in Paris. The French Prime Minister stated "This is France's way of paying tribute to an actor who epitomizes the strength of American cinema, the power of the emotions that he invites us to share on the world's screens and the sturdy personalities of his legendary characters."
On October 16, 2006, Willis was honored with a star of the Hollywood Walk of Fame. The star is located at 6915 Hollywood Boulevard and it was the 2,321st star awarded in its history. Willis, reacting to his reception of the star, stated "I used to come down here and look at these stars and I could never quite figure out what you were supposed to do to get one...time has passed and now here I am doing this, and I'm still excited. I'm still excited to be an actor."
In 2011, Willis was inducted into the New Jersey Hall of Fame.

Bruce Willis Biography

Born: March 19, 1955

Birthplace: Idar-Oberstein, West Germany

Born Walter Willison -- an Army brat to parents stationed in Idar-Oberstein, West Germany -- on March 19, 1955, Bruce Willis grew up in New Jersey from the age of two. As a youngster, he developed a stutter that posed the threat of social alienation, but he discovered an odd quirk: while performing in front of large numbers of people, the handicap inexplicably vanished. This led Willis into a certified niche as a comedian and budding actor. After high-school graduation, 18-year-old Willis decided to land a blue-collar job in the vein of his father, and accepted a position at the DuPont Chambers Works factory in Deep Water, NJ, but withdrew, shaken, after a co-worker was killed on the job. He performed regularly on the harmonica in a blues ensemble called the Loose Goose and worked temporarily as a security guard before enrolling in the drama program at Montclair State University in New Jersey. A collegiate role in +Cat on a Hot Tin Roof brought Willis back in touch with his love of acting, and he instantly decided to devote his life to the profession.
Willis made his first professional appearances on film with minor roles in projects like The First Deadly Sin, starring Frank Sinatra, and Sidney Lumet's The Verdict. But his big break came when he attended a casting call (along with 3000 other hopefuls) for the leading role on Moonlighting, an ABC detective comedy series. Sensing Willis' innate appeal, producers cast him opposite the luminous Cybill Shepherd. The series, which debuted in 1985, followed the story of two private investigators working for a struggling detective agency, with Willis playing the fast-talking ne'er-do-well David Addison, and Shepherd playing the prim former fashion model Maddie Hayes. The show's heavy use of clever dialogue, romantic tension, and screwball comedy proved a massive hit with audiences, and Willis became a major star. The show ultimately lasted four years and wrapped on May 14, 1989. During the first year or two of the series, Willis and Shepherd enjoyed a brief offscreen romantic involvement as well, but Willis soon met and fell in love with actress Demi Moore, who became his wife in 1987.In the interim, Willis segued into features, playing geeky Walter Davis in the madcap 1987 comedy Blind Date. That same year, Motown Records -- perhaps made aware of Willis' experiences as a musician -- invited the star to record an LP of blue-eyed soul tracks. The Return of Bruno emerged and became a moderate hit among baby boomers, although as the years passed it became better remembered as an excuse for Willis to wear sunglasses indoors and sing into pool cues.
Then in 1988, Willis broke major barriers when he convinced studios to cast him in the leading role of John McClane in John McTiernan's explosive action movie Die Hard. Though up until this point, action stars had been massive tough guys like Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sylvester Stallone, execs took a chance on Willis' every-guy approach to the genre - and the gamble paid off. Playing a working-class cop who confronts an entire skyscraper full of terrorists when his estranged wife is taken hostage on Christmas Eve, Willis' used his wiseacre television persona to constantly undercut the film's somber underpinnings, without ever once damaging the suspenseful core of the material. This, coupled with a smart script and wall-to-wall sequences of spectacular action, propelled Die Hard to number one at the box office during the summer of 1988, and made Willis a full-fledged movie star.
Willis subsequent projects would include two successful Die Hard sequels, as well as other roles the 1989 Norman Jewison drama In Country, and the 1989 hit comedy Look Who's Talking, in which Willis voiced baby Mikey. Though he'd engage in a few stinkers, like the unsuccessful Hudson Hawk and North, he would also continue to strike told with hugely popular movies like The Last Boyscout , Pulp Fiction, and Armageddon.Willis landed one of his biggest hits, however, when he signed on to work with writer/director M. Night Shyamalan in the supernatural thriller The Sixth Sense. In that film, Willis played Dr. Malcolm Crowe, a child psychologist assigned to treat a young boy (Haley Joel Osment) plagued by visions of ghosts. The picture packs a wallop in its final minutes, with a now-infamous surprise that even purportedly caught Hollywood insiders off guard when it hit U.S. cinemas in the summer of 1999. Around the same time, tabloids began to swarm with gossip of a breakup between Willis and Demi Moore, who indeed filed for divorce and finalized it in the fall of 2000.Willis and M. Night Shyamalan teamed up again in 2000 for Unbreakable, another dark fantasy about a man who suddenly discovers that he has been imbued with superhero powers and meets his polar opposite, a psychotic, fragile-bodied black man (Samuel L. Jackson). The movie divided critics but drew hefty grosses when it premiered on November 22, 2000. That same year, Willis delighted audiences with a neat comic turn as hitman Jimmy the Tulip in The Whole Nine Yards, which light heartedly parodied his own tough-guy image. Willis followed it up four years later with a sequel, The Whole Ten Yards.
In 2005, Willis was ideally cast as beaten-down cop Hartigan in Robert Rodriguez's graphic-novel adaptation Sin City. The movie was a massive success, and Willis was happy to reteam with Rodriguez again the next year for a role in the zombie action flick Planet Terror, Rodriguez's contribution to the double feature Grindhouse. Additionally, Willis would keep busy over the next few years with roles in films like Richard Donner's 16 Blocks, Richard Linklater's Fast Food Nation, and Nick Cassavetes' crime drama Alpha Dog. The next year, Willis reprised his role as everyman superhero John McClane for a fourth installment of the Die Hard series, Live Free or Die Hard, directed by Len Wiseman. Though hardcore fans of the franchise were not overly impressed, the film did expectedly well at the box office.
In the latter part of the decade, Willis would keep up his action star status, starring in the sci-fi thriller Surrogates in 2009, but also enjoyed poking fun at his own persona, with tongue-in-cheek roles in action fare like The Expendables, Cop Out, and Red. Nathan Southern, Rovi

Filmography

Range of Movie T-meters: 4% - 96%

Number of Movies: 89

Box Office Since 2001: $1380.7M

Year	Rating	Title	Credit	Box Office
2013		G.I. Joe: Retaliation	General Joe Colton	--
2013		A Good Day To Die Hard	John McClane	--
2013		Red 2	Frank Moses	--
2013		Kane & Lynch	Adam "Kane" Marcus	--
2012	26%	Lay the Favorite	Dink	--
2012	10%	The Cold Light of Day	Martin Shaw	--
2012		Looper	Actor	--
2012		The Expendables 2	Mr. Church	--
2012	94%	Moonrise Kingdom	Captain Sharp	$32.5M
2011		Setup	Biggs	--
2011		Catch .44	Mel	--
2010		Morgan's Summit	Actor	--
2010	19%	Cop Out	Jimmy	$44.0M
2010		The Last Full Measure	Actor	--
2010	47%	The A-Team	Actor	$77.2M
2010	71%	Red	Frank Moses	$90.4M
2009	50%	Assassination of a High School President	Principal Kirkpatrick	--
2009		Pinkville	Actor	--
2009	39%	Surrogates	Greer	$38.5M
2008	51%	What Just Happened?	actor	$1.0M
2007	82%	Live Free or Die Hard	John McClane Producer	$134.5M
2007	74%	Planet Terror (Grindhouse Presents: Robert Rodriguez's Planet Terror)	Muldoon	--
2007	57%	The Astronaut Farmer	The Colonel	$11.0M
2007	83%	Grindhouse	Actor	$24.9M
2007	11%	Perfect Stranger	Harrison Hill	$23.7M
2006	51%	Lucky Number Slevin	Mr. Goodkat	$22.4M
2006	57%	The Hip Hop Project	Actor Producer	--
2006	54%	Alpha Dog	Sonny Truelove	$15.1M
2006	13%	Just My Luck	Producer	$17.2M
2006		Tony Bennett: An American Classic	Actor	--
2006		Hammy's Boomerang Adventure	Actor	--
2006	75%	Over the Hedge	RJ	$155.0M
2006	50%	Fast Food Nation	Harry Rydell	$0.9M
2006	55%	16 Blocks	Jack Mosley	$36.9M
2005		Wildwood Days	Actor	--
2005	35%	Hostage	Jeff Talley	$34.6M
2005	78%	Sin City	Hartigan	$74.0M
2004		Me Again	Actor	--
2004		Don't Start Me Talkin': The Junior Wells Story	Actor	--
2004	4%	The Whole Ten Yards	Jimmy 'The Tulip' Tudeski	$16.2M
2004	56%	Ocean's Twelve	Actor	$125.4M
2003	34%	Tears of the Sun	Lt. A.K. Waters Producer	$43.4M
2003	40%	Rugrats Go Wild	Spike the Dog	$39.3M
2003	44%	Charlie's Angels - Full Throttle	William Rose Bailey	$100.7M
2002	60%	Hart's War	Col. William McNamara	$19.0M
2001	65%	Bandits	Joe Blake	$41.2M
2000	68%	Unbreakable	David Dunne	$92.9M
2000	45%	The Whole Nine Yards	Jimmy "The Tulip" Tudeski	--
2000	49%	The Kid	Russ Duritz	$68.5M
1999	28%	The Story of Us	Ben Jordan	--
1999	24%	Breakfast of Champions	Dwayne Hoover	--
1999	85%	The Sixth Sense	Dr. Malcolm Crowe	--
1998	17%	Mercury Rising	Art Jeffries	--
1998	45%	The Siege	William Devereaux	--
1998	40%	Armageddon	Harry S. Stamper	--
1997	73%	The Fifth Element	Korben Dallas	--
1997	12%	The Jackal	The Jackal	--
1996	37%	Last Man Standing	Actor	--
1996		Last Man Standing	John Smith	--
1996		Bruno the Kid: The Animated Movie	Actor	--
1996	71%	Beavis and Butt-Head Do America	Muddy Grimes	--
1995	50%	Die Hard 3: With a Vengeance	John McClane	--
1995	14%	Four Rooms	Leo ["The Man from Hollywood"]	--
1995	88%	Twelve Monkeys (12 Monkeys)	James Cole	--
1994	26%	Color of Night	Bill Capa	--
1994	90%	Nobody's Fool	Carl Roebuck	--
1994	95%	Pulp Fiction	Butch Coolidge	--
1994	11%	North	Narrator	--
1993	13%	National Lampoon's Loaded Weapon 1	Home Owner	--
1993	15%	Striking Distance	Tom Hardy	--
1992		Player, The	Himself	--
1992	45%	Death Becomes Her	Ernest Menville	--
1991	22%	Hudson Hawk	Screenwriter Hudson Hawk	--
1991	47%	Billy Bathgate	Bo Weinberg	--
1991	57%	Mortal Thoughts	James Urbanski	--
1991	44%	The Last Boy Scout	Joe Hallenbeck	--
1990	23%	The Bonfire of the Vanities	Peter Fallow	--
1990	17%	Look Who's Talking, Too	Mikey	--
1990	65%	Die Hard 2 (Die Hard 2: Die Harder)	John McClane	--
1989		That's Adequate	Actor	--
1989	76%	In Country	Emmet Smith	--
1989	58%	Look Who's Talking	Mikey	--
1988	94%	Die Hard	John McClane	--
1988		Bruce Willis - The Return of Bruno	Actor	--
1988	17%	Sunset	Tom Mix	--
1988		The Return of Bruno	Actor	--
1987	22%	Blind Date	Walter Davis	--
1982	96%	The Verdict	Courtroom observer (uncredited)	--
1980	57%	The First Deadly Sin	Man entering diner as Delaney leaves (uncredited)	--