Richard Gere

Richard Gere

Richard Tiffany Gere

Birth Date

8/31/1949 (77)

Birth Place

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

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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 Gold...

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Acting

Gender

Male

Total Credits

49

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Edward Lewis

Parker Wilson

Martin Vail

Edward Sumner

John Klein

Billy Flynn

Frequent Collaborators

Oren Moverman

Oren Moverman

5 films together

Paul Schrader

Paul Schrader

4 films together

Terrence Malick

Terrence Malick

2 films together

Garry Marshall

Garry Marshall

2 films together

Nicholas Jarecki

Nicholas Jarecki

2 films together

Richard Shepard

Richard Shepard

2 films together

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