Join us for a 90-minute Career Retrospective with actor Demi Moore. Moderated by David Canfield, Vanity Fair.
BIO:
Demi Moore has proven herself to be one of the industry's most accomplished performers, lending her talents to an array of revered films and television both in front of and behind the camera. The actress set a record in 1995 when she became the highest-paid actress in Hollywood, a testament to her star power and box office appeal.
Moore can recently be seen in the second season of Ryan Murphy’s FX anthology series ‘Feud: Capote vs. The Swans,’ which premiered on Hulu on January 31st. This season tells the true story of how Truman Capote was friends with numerous members of New York high society until he published excerpts of his unfinished novel Answered Prayers, with the excerpts serving as a tell-all about the city’s elite. The actress portrays socialite Ann Woodward, a former showgirl and radio actress who was infamously accused of murdering her husband in 1955.
Moore has been cast in Paramount+ drama Landman from Taylor Sheridan and Christian Wallace, which is currently in production. Moore will play Cami, wife to one of the most powerful oil men in Texas and a friend of Tommy Norris, played by Billy Bob Thornton.
On screen, Moore can be seen in ‘Please Baby Please’, a 1950s-set LGBT musical thriller. The feature from Amanda Kramer tells the story of a straight-passing married couple who begin questioning their conceptions of gender, sexuality, and monogamy after witnessing a murder and becoming involved with a greaser gang known as the Young Gents. The movie premiered at the Rotterdam Film Festival and was released by Music Box Films on October 28, 2022.
She was also seen in NBCUniversal’s ‘Brave New World’, a TV adaptation based on Aldous Huxley's famous book set in a dystopian future, which premiered on Peacock in July 2020. Prior to that, Moore starred in Patrick Brice’s ‘Corporate Animals’ opposite Ed Helms, Sony’s ‘Rough Night’, starring Scarlett Johansson and Kate McKinnon, and Michael Mailer’s ‘Blind’, with Alec Baldwin.
In 2020, Moore added New York Times Best Seller to her list of credits with her memoir ‘Inside Out’, released on September 24, 2019, by HarperCollins. In this emotionally charged memoir, she opens up about her career and personal life – laying bare her defining tumultuous relationship with her mother, her marriages, her struggles balancing stardom with motherhood, and her journey toward open-heartedness. Inside Out is a story of survival, success, and surrender – as well as resilience: a wrenchingly honest portrayal of one woman’s at once ordinary and iconic life. Also in 2020, Moore lent her voice to QCode’s podcast ‘Dirty Diana’, which Amazon picked up and adapted into a series that Moore executively produced and starred in.
In the late 1980s, Moore’s acting career took off when she starred in ‘St. Elmo's Fire’. She then went on to star in such iconic films as ‘A Few Good Men,’ ‘Ghost,’ ‘Indecent Proposal,’ ‘Disclosure,’ and ‘G.I. Jane’. On the small screen, she earned a Golden Globe Award nomination for Best Performance by an Actress in a Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for Television for her role as a single woman seeking a back-alley abortion in the 1950s-set miniseries ‘If These Walls Could Talk,’ which she also produced, received an Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Made for Television Movie.
Moore has also starred in such films as ‘Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle,’ ‘Bobby,’ ‘Flawless Happy Tears,’ and ‘The Joneses’. She then gave what New York Magazine called “the performance of her life” in the 2011 financial thriller ‘Margin Call,’ which received the Robert Altman Independent Spirit Award for Best Ensemble Cast. After appearing in ‘Another Happy Day’ opposite Ellen Barkin, Moore directed the acclaimed Lifetime original movie ‘Five,’ an anthology of five short films exploring the impact of breast cancer on people’s lives. The film landed her a Director’s Guild Nomination.
Moore is a co-founder of Thorn, a non-profit building technology to defend children from sexual abuse, exploitation and trafficking.
Run time: 90 minutes
