Bruce Willis

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Recent Role:
Self on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart
Gender:
Male
Born:
3-19-1955
Birthplace:
Idar-Oberstein, West Germany
Birth Name:
Walter Bruce Willis
Bruce Willis grew up in New Jersey. He attended Montclair State College and joined its theatre department. He did many auditions and finally landed a role in the play Heaven and Earth in 1977. This role gave Willis reason to quit school. From there, he moved to Hell's Kitchen to pursue his dreams of being an actor.



Up next for Willis was being cast in off-Broadway plays and also getting roles in television commercials. The first breakthrough in Willis' career would come in 1984, when he replaced the lead in Fool for Love. His and the play's run lasted for 100



More performances off-Broadway.



Later in 1984, Willis took a trip to Los Angeles. He auditioned for the role of David Addison on a show called Moonlighting. Willis was selected from 3,000 contenders and won the role. He starred opposite Cybil Sheppard. Moonlighting became a huge success. Bruce won an Emmy and a Golden Globe Award for his phenomenal work on the show.



Willis' Moonlighting success propelled him into movie stardom. He has starred in many popular movies and is one of today's most well-known and talented actors. Bruce has made such wonderful films as the Die Hard movies, Sixth Sense, Whole Nine Yards, Hostage, and Sin City (to name a few).



Willis has had an amazing career and is truly one of the most versatile actors of his generation.

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    Bruce Willis is one of the best actors of his generation and has made several all time great movies. Die Hard is one of the best action movies, 12 Monkeys is classic SciFi, and Sixth Sense one of the best horror flicks. Willis conveys the rugged yet vulnerable everyman extremely well.

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    Bruce Willis is a man's man. I mean, the guy has starred in some absolutely amazing action films and he has showed no signs of slowing down. While his foray into comedy has been a little shaky, he has done some comedic roles that have worked out well.

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    He is a great actor. He is not those actors that only plays on in action movies because he has done of everything from sitcoms to action movies, and to kind of villains (Pulp Fiction) and even to children movies, (Over the Hedge) which is something worth of mentioning. Bruce Willis is awesome!

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    Bruce Willis has been in so much. I should have seen some of his more recent movies and animations. Out of his long list of credits, my favourite is deffinintly the Die Hard series. I can't wait for the fourth one. He has also been in The Fifth Element which is another one of my all time favourites and a whole lot more!

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    Bruce willis is the best actor in the whole wide world He is very classy and he deserves the best movies there are. I am so glad that he got discovered because he is the reason why i like action movies. Bruce will is very nice too. I am his number one fan hide show

    Bruce willis is my favorite actor I started watching his movies when I saw him in the Kid and I've been renting them ever since. What I like most about him is he can do comedy as well as he can do action. I've only seen 14 of his movies but i rent one every chance i get he has a sort of apppeal that other actors don't i love him and i admmire his work even though i don't keep up with his music and i can't wait for die hard 4 to come out some people may think that since he is getting older, he won't get as many roles but i only think that his acting keeps getting better with each movie that comes out!

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