He was born Richard Tiffany Gere in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on August 31st, 1949. His dad, whose name was Homer, was an insurance salesman, and Doris, his mother, was a housewife. Gere is the second child of the family to have three sisters plus a younger brother in the family. He went to North Syracuse Central High School in his adolescent years, where he proved to be a multi-talented person. Gere was involved there in the gym, the lacrosse and the sky squads. He also worked on the school board and played a variety of musical instruments, such as piano, guitar, bass, and trumpet, very well, and he also composed music for his high school production. In the end, Gere was able to graduate successfully from North Syracuse Central High School in 1967.
Gere later began his education at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst, where he had received a gymnastics scholarship and majored in philosophy. After two years of studying, this-nowadays popular actor eventually found even more interest in acting than in education, leaving the school in 1973 and performing a leading role in the London production of the rock musical “Grease.” Gere acted in other plays in the following years, such as “Taming of the Shrew” and “American Gigolo,” for which he played his main star role that brought him more popularity in the year. During 1982, Gere’s performance was accompanied by his other role in “An Officer and a Gentleman” “Next, he starred in a rather successful hit romance film “Pretty Lady,” co-strarring actress Julia Roberts, in 1990. Given his good looks, Gere even took part in winning the film the People’s Choice Award for Best Movie with “cool and perfect” action.
Gere proceeded to star in “Runaway Bride” (1999), succeeding in playing American Gigolo and Beautiful Lady, from which he received $12 million out of the combined $152 million won by the box office.
Richard Gere was not popular with his first marriage to Cindy Crawford beyond his popularity in acting, whom he married on December 12, 1991 and divorced in 1995. He married actress Carey Lowell seven years after his divorce, and later gave birth to his baby, Homer James Jigme Gere.
Not only does the vegetarian Gere become the first guy ever to pose on the cover of Vogue magazine, he is also cited by the Swedish dance group Alcazar in the 2001 hit single “Crying at the Discoth�que” In addition to include the two, he has won numerous honors as a public recognition of his accomplishment. It was Gere who received the Best Movie People’s Choice prize, and in 1991, he was also named as one of the 50 Most Attractive People in the world by People magazine. He was identified in 1999 as the Sexiest Guy Alive of the People Magazine and an experienced pianist and music writer to become the one who wrote and performed the piano solo featured in Pretty Woman (1991).
Recognized as a humanitarian admirer of Mahatma Gandhi, Richard Gere had puzzled several Palestinians in late January 2005 because of his attempts to run in the country’s new presidential election to succeed the late Yaser Arafat. By way of this, several Palestinians acknowledged that they didn’t know much about the referendum, the candidates, nor did they require Americans to show them who to elect, since the Americans had elected a Moron themselves.