Actor info
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Name :
Richard Gere
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Born :
August 31, 1949 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA (77 years old)
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Known for :
Acting
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Gender :
Male
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Film career :
93 films (1973–2026)
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Also known as :
Richard Tiffany Gere
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Biography
Richard Tiffany Gere (born August 31, 1949) is an American actor and producer. He began in films in the 1970s, playing a supporting role in Looking for Mr. Goodbar (1977) and a starring role in Days of Heaven (1978). He came to prominence with his role in the film American Gigolo (1980), which established him as a leading man and a sex symbol. He went on to star in many well-received films, including An Officer and a Gentleman (1982), The Cotton Club (1984), Pretty Woman (1990), Sommersby (1993), Primal Fear (1996), Runaway Bride (1999), I'm Not There (2007), Arbitrage (2012) and Norman: The Moderate Rise and Tragic Fall of a New York Fixer (2016). For portraying Billy Flynn in the Academy Award-winning musical Chicago (2002), he won a Golden Globe Award and a Screen Actors Guild Award as part of the cast.
Notable films
- Brooklyn's Finest (2010) as Off. Eddie Dugan
- Unfaithful (2002) as Edward Sumner
- Primal Fear (1996) as Martin Vail
- First Knight (1995) as Lancelot
- Pretty Woman (1990) as Edward Lewis
