Richard Gere

• Birthplace: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
• Birthday: August 31, 1949

A talented musician who found his way into musical theater in New York City during the early 1970s, Richard Gere parlayed his photogenic sullenness into a Hollywood career, becoming one of the biggest male screen attractions of the late 70s and early 80s before falling off the A-list, following a long series of critical and commercial flops. He had made a convincing mixed-up young man, but the transition to adulthood was not easy for the brooding actor with an infamous penchant for shedding his clothes onscreen. Proving the naysayers wrong, the…more