
Richard Gere
Known for department: Acting
Birthday: 1949-08-31
Place of birth: 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 as part of the cast.
Known for

Pretty Woman
1990Edward Lewis
Sommersby
1993John Robert Sommersby / Horace Townsend
Breathless
1983Jesse
Chicago
2002Billy Flynn
The Cotton Club
1984Richard 'Dixie' Dwyer
Primal Fear
1996Martin Vail
Unfaithful
2002Edward Sumner
Autumn in New York
2000Will Keane
Mr. Jones
1993Mr. Jones
An Officer and a Gentleman
1982Zack Mayo
The Mothman Prophecies
2002John Klein
I'm Not There
2007Billy
American Gigolo
1980Julian Kaye
And the Band Played On
1993The Choreographer
Dr. T & the Women
2000Dr. Sullivan Travis / Dr. T
Shall We Dance?
2004John Clark
Runaway Bride
1999Ike Graham
Final Analysis
1992Isaac Barr
The Jackal
1997Declan Mulqueen