After spending full sessions with the Provincetown Playhouse and Seattle Repertory Theatre, he performed in a number of New York plays, notably the title role in "Richard Farina: Long Time Coming and Long Time Gone, in addition to two plays by Sam Shepard, Back Bog Beast Bait and Killers Head." While at school, Gere caught the acting bug and left college after 2 years to pursue acting, landing a lead role of Danny Zuko in the London production of the rock musical Grease in 1973.
Gere won gymnastics scholarship to the University of Massachusetts in Amherst, where he was philosophy major.
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Earlier that year Gere was seen playing a reporter drawn to a small West Virginia town to investigate a series of strange events in the psychological thriller MOTHMAN PROPHECIES opposite Debra Messing.īorn in Philadelphia, Richard Gere showed his artist ability at a young age, by playing a number of instruments and writing music for high school productions. The film, which also stars Diane Lane and Olivier Martinez, centers on a couple living in the New York City suburbs whose marriage goes dangerously awry when the wife indulges in an adulterous fling. In 2001, Gere was seen in the critically acclaimed dramatic thrilled UNFAITHFUL, directed by Adrian Lyne. In 2004 Gere teamed up with, Susan Sarandon and Jennifer Lopez to in the romantic comedy, SHALL WE DANCE and in 2005, Gere was seen in the well respected film, BEE SEASON, based on the book by the same name. The musical all-star cast includes Catherine Zeta Jones as Velma and Renee Zellweger as Roxie Hart. In January of 2003, Gere won his first Golden Globe Award as Best Actor in a Musical or Comedy for his performance. The film costars Claire Danes and is set to be released Summer 2007.Ĭhristmas of 2002, Gere sang and danced his way onto the big screen in the Academy Award winning film adaptation of CHICAGO, playing the infamous lawyer Billy Flynn.
Also he completed work on, THE FLOCK, about a hyper-vigilant federal agent who, while training his young female replacement, has to track down a missing girl who he is convinced is connected to a paroled sex offender he is investigating. The film costars Alfred Molina and Marcia Gay Harden. The film is based on the true story of Clifford Irving (Gere) who sells his bogus biography of Howard Hughes to a premiere publishing house in the early 1970s. Humanitarian, actor, and Golden Globe winner, Richard Gere is one of the most well-known and respected actors of his generation, with roles in films such as: AN OFFICER AND A GENTLEMAN, DAYS OF HEAVEN, AMERICAN GIGOLO, PRETTY WOMAN, FIRST KNIGHT, and in the highly successful courtroom drama PRIMAL FEAR.Įarlier this year, Gere starred in Lasse Hallström's directed film THE HOAX.
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