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Bruce Willis is born the 19 March of 1955. When he was young, he was the son of an American soldier and a German banker. He had left the Germany at 2 years old because his father was a American soldier, two years later he was born, his father left the army and afterthey back to the U.S.A in Penns Grove, in the New Jersey.

Bruce has managed to build a reputation fairly constant during his life.

During the 1970s, Bruce Willis decides to start an acting career and follows a drama training at Montclair State University. Bruce Willis took his cinematic success to try a singing career. He has recorded two albums, The Return of Bruno (1987) and If It Don't Kill You, It Just Makes You Stronger (1989).

After that he wishes to vary his directory, he co-starred with Tom Hanks and Morgan Freeman in "The Bonfire of the Vanities" by Brian De Palma and he started an action comedy “The Last Boy Scout” by Tony Scott and “Hudson Hawk”, he wrote the screenplay. Then he takes the lead in “Death Becomes Her” by Robert Zemeckis, starring Meryl Streep and Goldie Hawn. However, these films are commercial failures and hinder its popularity. Bruce Willis found success by taking the role of a boxer in Pulp Fiction.

        

        Besides the Die Hard saga that continues to bear successfully, it chains the ambitious films like:

-The Twelve Monkeys by Terry Gilliam, he travels back in time and finds himself interned with Brad Pitt.

-In The Fifth Element by Luc Besson, it must escort Milla Jovovich an alien.

-And in Armageddon by Michael Bay, he commands a team of astronauts composed of others actors like Ben Affleck, Owen Wilson and Steve Buscemi to destroy a meteor that threatens humanity.

He uses these three science fiction films with big success to appear as the archetype of the rescuer of the world to the general public.

Recently he(it) also had a role in the saga " the Expandable " with big actors as Sylvester Stallone and Jason Statham

Awards:

1987: Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series for Moonlighting (1985)

1987: Best Performance by an Actor in a TV-Series - Comedy / Musical Moonlighting (1985)

1987: Awarded a Sour Apple

1992: Worst Screenplay for Hudson Hawk (1991) with Steven E. de Souza, Daniel Waters, Robert Kraft.

1995: Best Supporting Actor for Samuel L. Jackson and Bruce Willis in Pulp Fiction (1995)

1999: Worst Actor for Armageddon (1998) Mercury Rising (1998) and The Siege (1998).

2000 : Favorite Motion Picture Star in a Drama

2000 : Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series for the role of Paul Stevens in Friends (1999)

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