American actor and producer Bruce Willis is one of the consistently highest-paid leading actors in the Hollywood industry. Over the years he has earned millions of dollars through films and from his role in the 1999’s The Sixth Sense, his net worth totaled $100 million, which is the second highest salary ever paid an actor from a single movie. As of 2021, his net worth sits at about $200 million dollars.
Early Life and Career
Bruce Willis was born on March 19, 1955, in the town of Idar-Oberstein which was previously a part of West Germany. Will’s mother was a bank teller by profession and his father was an American serviceman. He was brought up in Penns Grove, New Jersey. He even worked as security at a nuclear power plant and then as a driver transporting workers at a DuPont factory, after doing his graduation.
He shortly worked as a private investigator before devoting his career to acting. He got admitted to the Montclair State University before pursuing his full-time acting career in New York City.
In 1988 he made his debut as John McClane in Die Hard. Bruce gathered a sum of $52 million from the Die Hard franchise. His other notable films include Quentin Tarantino’s Pulp Fiction, 1995’s 12 Monkeys, The Fifth Element in the same year, Sin City, Red, Moonrise Kingdom, The Expendables 2, Looper, Unbreakable, Split, Glass, etc. The actor won two Emmys and a Golden Globe Award.
Personal Life
Willis tied knot with actress Demi Moore in 1987 and got separated in 2000. The couple had three daughters, whose names go by- Rumer, Scout, and Tallulah Belle. He was then married to famous model Emma Heming in 2009 and the pair has two daughters. However, irrespective of everything, Bruce and his ex-wife Demi have always shared a good bonding over the years.
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