Gere was innate inside Philadelphia to Anglo-Irish parents who were devout Methodists. Withwithin high school he excelled in gymanstic exercise & music (he played the trumpet). He graduated within 1967 from North Syracuse Central High School. Gere attended a University of Massachusetts at Amherst, but he left college fallowing ii years to pursue acting. He besides pursued the agency trump career. He continued to perform within television, moving-picture show & theater throughout a Seventies. He mass produced his 1st impression in the original London stage version of Grease in 1973. His picture show acting career took off inside 1980 with the film American Gigolo.

He was at one time married to supermodel Cindy Crawford from 1991 to 1995. He married Carey Lowell in 2002 after dating for many years. It have a boy, Homer James Jigme Gere, world health organization was natural within 2000. [http://www.canoe.ca/JamMoviesArtistsG/gere_richard.html]

Gere occurs as swell known Buddhist and an active supporter of the Dalai Lama. He has as well been an advocate for better homo rights inside Tibet, and was the co-founder of the Tibet House. He likewise campaigns for ecological drives & AIDS awareness.

He was a number 1 human ever to pop up on the handle of Vogue magazine.

Filmography
Report to the Commissioner (1975) Baby Blue Marine (1976) The Libreg Incident (1976) Looking for Mr. Goodbar (1977) Days of Heaven (1978) Bloodbrothers (1978) Yanks (1979) American Gigolo (1980) Reporters (1981) (documentary) An Officer and a Gentleman (1982) Breathless (1983) Beyond the Limit (1983) The Cotton Club (1984) King David (1985) Power (1986) No Mercy (1986) Miles from Home (1988) Internal Affairs (1990) Pretty Woman (1990) Rhapsody in August (1991) Final Analysis (1992) (also executive producer) Sommersby (1993) (also executive producer) Mr. Jones (1993) (also executive producer) Intersection (1994) Unzipped (1995) (documentary) First Knight (1995) Primal Fear (1996) Red Corner (1997) The Jackal (1997) Junket Whore (1998) (documentary) Runaway Bride (1999) Autumn in New York (2000) Dr. T and the Women (2000) Bollywood Bound (2001) (documentary) Shabana (2002) (short subject) The Mothman Prophecies (2002) Unfaithful (2002) Chicago (2002) Freedom2speak v2.0 (2004) (documentary) Shall We Dance (2004) Bee Season (2005) (currently completed cinematography) Untitled Shekhar Kapur Buddha Project (2006) (currently announced begin of production)