Biography And Filmography:

Actress and bad-girl Rumer Willis was born August 16th, 1988 to Hollywood A-list celebrities Bruce Willis and Demi Moore, and was named after the British novelist Rumer Godden. Since her birth, Demi Moore has divorced Bruce and is now re-married to the young “That ‘70’s Show” star Ashton Kutcher.  

After attending the Interlochen Arts Academy, in Interlochen, Michigan, and Wildwood Secondary School in Los Angeles, California, Rumer began auditioning for television and movie roles. Her first professional role was at age seven as Angela Albertson in the comedy romance "Now And Then" (1995), starring her mother Demi, Christina Ricci, Rosie O'Donnell, Thora Birch and Melanie Griffith, in a story about four 12-year-old girls who grow up together during an eventful small-town summer in 1970. 

Her next role was in the crime drama "Striptease" (1996), again starring her mother and Burt Reynolds, a story about a stripper and single mother, who gets dragged into a dangerous situation after a congressman takes a fancy to her. The film won six awards, but unfortunately they were Razzie Awards for Worst Actress, Worst Director, Worst Original Song, Worst Picture and Worst Screen Couple. Not the way one wants to start their Hollywood career.

Her next took a small, uncredited role in one of her father's films "The Whole Nine Yards" (2000), starring her father, Rosanna Arquette and Matthew Perry, before taking a more mature and serious role in the independent crime thriller "Hostage" (2005), starring Kevin Pollak, where a failed police negotiator turned small town cop must save the lives of a family held hostage, which draws him into a much more dangerous situation. While the actress, now a teenager, was working in films, she felt she was riding the coat-tails of her mother and father's success, and wanted to make her own career on her own merits. And that is exactly what happened.

After staying away from movie making for a couple of years, but not away from the tabloid magazine covers, she reappeared as a much more mature actress in the mystery thriller film "From Within" (2008), where the residents of a small American town begin to die one-by-one apparently by suicide. Audiences and critics were impressed with the new star, and her Hollywood status got bumped up a notch. Although tabloid gossip persisted about an ongoing drug and alcohol problem, as well as speculation that the actress was gay, she didn't seem to mind and continued to read and audition scripts as she began to break away from her famous parents hold and make a name for herself.

She got her break-out role, and a chance to really show of her funny side in the summer comedy "The House Bunny" (2008), starring Anna Faris, Colin Hanks and Emma Stone, the hilarious film tells the story of young Shelly Darlingson, a Playboy bunny who is tossed out of the Playboy mansion and has nowhere to go until she falls in with the sorority girls from Zeta Alpha Zeta. The members of the sorority - who also have got to be the seven most socially clueless women on the planet - are about to lose their sorority house, and need a help from Shelly to save their world. Audiences and critics applauded her role of Joanne, and it seemed as if her Hollywood career was taking off.

She was next hired and cast in a starring role in the dramatic film "Whore" (2008), a story about a group of young hopeful teenagers who have come to Hollywood in the hopes of an acting career find that the business is harder than they had ever imagined, and are disturbed by the things they feel they must do in order to succeed. Her next role was also a high-profile part, starring as Chase in the comedy "Wild Cherry" (2009), starring  with Rob Schneider and Tia Carrere, where a a virginal high school senior decides to get revenge on her jock boyfriend when she discovers he's only dating her in hopes that she'll end up in his teams' "bang book".

Rumer wrapped her year starring opposite Haylie Duff in the dramatic comedy "Slightly Single In L.A." (2009), the story of Dale Squire, who is a hip, quirky, independent single gal living in the glossy city of Los Angeles and makes ends meet by working in the obscure world of reality television, while pursuing her passion as a photographer. After several failed attempts in quasi-relationships, Dale concludes that finding a meaningful relationship in L.A. is impossible. 

It's clear that the actress has grown out of her parents shadow and is forging a Hollywood career of her own. 

Watch Rumer Willis In "The House Bunny" Movie Trailer 

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