Richard Gere

Acting · Born 1949-08-31 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

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…

Filmography

• Pretty Woman as Edward Lewis
• Chicago as Billy Flynn
• Primal Fear as Martin Vail
• An Officer and a Gentleman as Zack Mayo
• Hachi: A Dog's Tale as Parker Wilson
• Days of Heaven as Bill
• Sommersby as John Robert Sommersby / Horace Townsend
• Breathless as Jesse
• The Cotton Club as Richard 'Dixie' Dwyer
• Unfaithful as Edward Sumner

TV

• The Simpsons as Richard Gere (voice)
• Cosmos as Clair Patterson (voice)
• Inside the Actors Studio as Self
• The Daily Show as Self
• LIVE with Kelly and Mark as Self - Guest
• The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
• Kojak as Geno Papas
• The Early Show as Self - Guest
• Charlie Rose as Self
• Celebrities Uncensored as Self