The 1990s saw Gere star in successful films including Sommersby (1993) (opposite Jodie Foster), Primal Fear (1996) and Runaway Bride (1999) (which reunited him with his Pretty Woman co-star Julia Roberts). His career rebounded with the releases of Internal Affairs (1990) and Pretty Woman (1990), the latter of which earned him his second Golden Globe Award nomination. For the remainder of the 1980s, Gere appeared in films of varying critical and commercial reception. The crime drama American Gigolo (1980) significantly boosted his profile and the romantic drama An Officer and a Gentleman (1982) (co-starring Debra Winger) cemented Gere's ascent to stardom, grossing almost $130 million and winning two Academy Awards out of six nominations Gere himself received his first Golden Globe Award nomination. Goodbar (1977) and starred in director Terrence Malick's well-reviewed drama Days of Heaven (1978). He played a small but significant part in Looking for Mr. Originally cast in a starring role in The Lords of Flatbush (1974), he was replaced after fighting with his co-star Sylvester Stallone. Gere began appearing in Hollywood films in the mid-1970s. He was one of the first notable Hollywood actors to play a homosexual character, starring as a gay Holocaust victim in the 1979 Broadway production of Bent, for which he earned a Theatre World Award. His first major acting role was in the original London stage version of Grease, in 1973. Gere first worked professionally at the Seattle Repertory Theatre and the Provincetown Playhouse on Cape Cod in 1969, where he starred in Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead. Career Gere with Lobsang Nyandak during The Tibet Fund annual gala in 2016 He attended the University of Massachusetts Amherst on a gymnastics scholarship, studying philosophy after two years, he left and did not graduate. In 1967, he graduated from North Syracuse Central High School, where he excelled at gymnastics and music and played the trumpet. Both of Gere's parents were Mayflower descendants his ancestors include Pilgrims such as John Billington, William Brewster, Francis Eaton, Francis Cooke, Degory Priest, George Soule and Richard Warren. One of his ancestors, also named George, was an Englishman who came from Heavitree, England, and settled in the Connecticut Colony in 1638. His paternal great-grandfather, George Lane Gere (1848–1932), changed the spelling of his surname from "Geer". Gere was raised Methodist in Syracuse, New York. His father originally intended to become a minister. Gere was born in Philadelphia on August 31, 1949, the eldest son and second child of homemaker Doris Ann ( née Tiffany 1924–2016) and NMIC insurance agent Homer George Gere (1922–2023). For portraying Billy Flynn in the musical Chicago (2002), he won a Golden Globe Award. His other films include An Officer and a Gentleman (1982), The Cotton Club (1984), Pretty Woman (1990), Sommersby (1993), Primal Fear (1996), Runaway Bride (1999), I'm Not There (2007), Arbitrage (2012) and Norman (2016). He came to prominence with his role in the film American Gigolo (1980), which established him as a leading man and a sex symbol. Goodbar (1977) and a starring role in Days of Heaven (1978). He began in films in the 1970s, playing a supporting role in Looking for Mr. Richard Tiffany Gere ( / ɡ ɪər/ GEER born August 31, 1949) is an American actor.
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