• Name: Richard Gere
  
• Birth Name: Richard Tiffany Gere
  
• Height: 5' 10 1/2''
  
• Sex: M
  
• Nationality: American
  
• Birth Date: August 31, 1949
  
• Birth Place: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
  
• Profession: actor, producer
  
• Education: North Syracuse Central High School (graduated)
  
•   : University of Massachusetts (dropped out)
  
• Husband/Wife: Cindy Cawford (married on December 12, 1991; divorced in 1995)
  
• Relationship: Carey Lowell (actress; 1995 until present), Penelope Milford (actress; together five years), Dawn Steel (executive; 1975-1978), Sylvia Martins (Brazillian painter)
  
• Father: Homer Gere (insurance salesman)
  
• Mother: Doris Gere
  
• Son: Homer James Jigme (2000)
  
• Claim to fame: as Tony Lopanto in Looking for Mr. Goodbar (1977)
  

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• "I don't want to be a personality."
• "I honestly do not think about celebrity or image or sexual expectations on me. It only comes up when people have a list of questions. But what I am told is that there is a quality that I have onscreen, where it's a little bit of everything." - US Weekly. 10.23.00.
• "I'm voting for Gore because the other is unthinkable. Which most of us will probably do. I hope all of us. I've always liked Ralph Nader and would like to see a real third party, but the thought of George Bush as president is unthinkable." - US Weekly. 10.23.00.
• "It's the hairspray." [on the secret of his enduring popularity]
• "I have nothing. I live in a hut in Tibet. I don't like things." [what movie prop he's kept to himself]

• American Museum of the Moving Image: Man of the Year (2004)
• Broadcast Film Critics Association Awards: Best Acting Ensemble, CHICAGO (2003)
• Golden Globe: Best Actor for musical or comedy category, CHICAGO (2003)
• Screen Actors Guild Awards: Outstanding Performance by the Cast of a Theatrical Motion Picture, CHICAGO (2003)
• Chicago International Film Festival: Career Achievement Award (2000)
• National Board of Review: Freedom Of Expression Award, RED CORNER (1997)
• ShoWest Award: Male Star of the Year (1983)

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