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Richard Tiffany Gere (born August 31, 1949) is an American actor. He began acting in the 1970s, playing a supporting role in Looking for Mr. Goodbar, and a starring role in Days of Heaven. He came to prominence in 1980 for his role in the film American Gigolo, which established him as a leading man and a sex symbol. He went on to star in several hit films, including An Officer and a Gentleman, Pretty Woman, Primal Fear, Arbitrage, and Chicago, for which he won a Golden Globe Award as Best Actor, as well as a Screen Actors Guild Award as part of the Best Cast. Gere first worked professionally at the Seattle Repertory Theatre and Provincetown Playhouse on Cape Cod in 1971 where he starred in Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead. His first major acting role was in the original London stage version of Grease in 1973. He began appearing in Hollywood films in the mid-1970s, co-starring in the thriller Looking for Mr. Goodbar (1977) and playing the leading role in director Terrence Malick's well-reviewed 1978 film, Days of Heaven. In 1979 Gere was one of the first big-name Hollywood actors to play gay, starring as a homosexual Holocaust victim in the Broadway production of Bent. Gere won a Theatre World Award for his performance. In 1980 he became a major star with the film American Gigolo, followed in 1982 by the romantic drama An Officer and a Gentleman with Debra Winger, which grossed almost $130 million.
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Gere's record starts in the theatre a full decade before the film stardom: the Seattle Repertory Theatre and Provincetown Playhouse in 1971, the original London stage version of Grease in 1973, and a Theatre World Award for Bent on Broadway in 1979, where he was one of the first big-name Hollywood actors to play gay. The film build ran in parallel — a supporting role in Looking for Mr. Goodbar (1977) and the leading role in Terrence Malick's Days of Heaven (1978) — before American Gigolo (1980) established him as a leading man. An Officer and a Gentleman (1982), with Debra Winger, grossed almost $130 million, and the later hits run from Pretty Woman and Primal Fear to Arbitrage and Chicago, which brought the Golden Globe for Best Actor and a Screen Actors Guild Award as part of the Best Cast.
This page gathers Richard Gere photos, videos, news and blog posts, with search routes to each through Bing, Google and YouTube. Gere opens the established end of the Male Fashion Celebrities Q-Z range, in the R letter alongside Rob Lowe, Robert Downey Jr. and Russell Crowe. A fashion celebrity in this guide is a person with celebrity status who is often watched and judged for what they wear, and Gere's breakthrough role makes the filing literal: American Gigolo is a film whose leading man's wardrobe is part of its subject.
Gere came to prominence in 1980 for his role in American Gigolo, which established him as a leading man and a sex symbol. He became a major star the same year, followed in 1982 by An Officer and a Gentleman with Debra Winger, which grossed almost $130 million.
For Chicago, Gere won a Golden Globe Award as Best Actor, as well as a Screen Actors Guild Award as part of the Best Cast.
Gere first worked professionally at the Seattle Repertory Theatre and Provincetown Playhouse on Cape Cod in 1971, starring in Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead. His first major acting role was in the original London stage version of Grease in 1973, and he won a Theatre World Award for the Broadway production of Bent in 1979.