How Old Is Richard Gere? Richard Gere Birthday
Richard Gere was born on August 31, 1949 and is 74 years old now.
Birthday: August 31, 1949
How Old - Age: 74
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Richard Gere - Biography
Richard Tiffany Gere is an American actor and humanitarian activist. He began acting in the 1970s, playing a supporting role in Looking for Mr. Goodbar and a starring role in Days of Heaven. He came to prominence in 1980 for his role in the film American Gigolo, which established him as a leading man and a sex symbol. He went on to star in several hit films, including An Officer and a Gentleman, Pretty Woman, Primal Fear, Runaway Bride, Arbitrage and Chicago, for which he won a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor and a Screen Actors Guild Award for part of the Best Cast.
On May 17, 2012, Albanian President, Bamir Topi awarded the "Medal of Gratitude" to Richard Gere with the citation: "With gratitude and honor outstanding personality of the world art, great humanist and activist for the protection of human rights, which unmasked and the American public made known, and further, inhuman crimes, ethnic cleansing in Kosovo, in 1999, the Serbian military machine against the Albanian civilian population living in its land". On February 16, 2012, the George Eastman Museum honored Gere with the George Eastman Award for distinguished contribution to the art of film.
Gere had a relationship with actress Penelope Milford from 1971-78. He had affairs with Priscilla Presley in 1983 and Kim Basinger in 1986.
Gere was married to supermodel Cindy Crawford from 1991-95. In November 2002, he married model and actress Carey Lowell. They have a son, Homer James Jigme Gere, who was born in February 2000 and is named for his grandfathers as well as the Tibetan name Jigme. In September 2013, the two separated after 11 years of marriage. The couple spent three years in highly contested divorce proceedings in New York County Supreme Court. The case was settled in October 2016.
In early April 2018, he married Spanish activist Alejandra Silva. In August 2018, the couple announced that they were expecting their first child, a baby boy who was born in February 2019.
