Action films would not be the same had it not been for Bruce Willis. He is your typical action hero who is tough on one hand and soft and vulnerable on the other. His roles have often placed him in a very emotional or tragic situation where he has to fight not only the enemy outside but also the demons within. These roles have catapulted Willis into becoming one of the highest paid Hollywood stars.
Bruce Willis was born in West Germany on 19 March, 1955, as Walter Bruce Willis, and moved to New Jersey when he was two years old. In high school he acted in plays and was the school council president. Bruce has managed to pack quite a bit into his career. Apart from being a bartender after he moved to New York, he was a member of an R&B band called Loose Goose. He has also performed in stage productions and did auditions which won him an off-Broadway production Heaven and Earth .
Willis moved to California where he auditioned for television series Moonlighting and was selected for the romantic comic role. This role won him an Emmy and a Golden Globe. He was offered a few lucrative roles, one of which was a major one starring Kim Basinger in Blind Date (1987). But it was Bruce Willis’s single-handed destruction of his enemy in the film Die Hard (1988) that gave him his first biggest commercial success. This commercial success ensured further sequels with Die Hard 2 (1990), Die Hard with a Vengeance (1995) and the last Live Free or Die Hard or otherwise called Die Hard 4.0 (2007).
Bruce Willis’s reputation as an action hero was soon established and he went on to do more action films such as Armageddon (1998), Twelve Monkeys (1995), Pulp Fiction (1994), and The Fifth Element (1997).
Willis’s varied roles show a talent that only a few directors could tap. His critically acclaimed and commercially successful film The Sixth Sense (1999), which was written and directed by M. Night Shyamalan, revived his career again after a series of flops which included films such as Death Becomes Her (1992), Hudson Hawk (1991) and The Bonfire of the Vanities (1990). He did another film for Shyamalan, Unbreakable (2000), which wasn’t as successful as the first. He combined his gangster persona with comedy very well in The Whole Nine Yards (2000), starring Mathew Perry. Willis is probably the only Hollywood star who has given voice to an infant. He did so in Look Who’s Talking (1989) and its sequel Look Who’s Talking Too (1990).
Currently, Willis is busy filming and looking after his three daughters from his marriage to Demi Moore.
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