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[Serena]

Ladies, it's Richard Gere!

He was born on August 31, 1949, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He spent his childhood in upstate New York with his musical family, he played the piano, guitar, and trumpet, and he composed music for school theater productions. He also excelled in gymnastics.

After highschool, Gere enrolled in the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. He took philosophy as a major and developed an interest in Eastern thought and religion. After two years, he dropped out of college he landed a job at the Provincetown Playhouse, then in Seattle he worked at the Seattle Repertory Theater. Returning to the East, he temporarily joined a musician's commune in rural Vermont, but before long he had moved to New York City and renewed his commitment to becoming an actor.

Gere’s first significant onstage triumphs came after a move to London in the early 1970s. There he performed in The Taming of the Shrew, Grease, and many others. In the mid-1970s, he returned to New York to continue his portrayal of Danny Zuko. He followed up with a performance in Sam Shepard's one-act Killer's Head, which required him to deliver a play-length monologue while blindfolded and strapped into an electric chair.

Soon becoming disenchanted with the theater, he began to look to Hollywood for work. In 1975, Gere landed his first film role in Report to the Commissioner. He then played in Baby Blue Marine, Looking for Mr. Goodbar, Bloodbrothers, Yanks, American Gigolo, Bent, An Officer and a Gentleman, King David, The Cotton Club, Internal Affairs, Primal Fear, Red Corner, The Jackel, Pretty Woman, Final Analysis, Mr. Jones, Sommersby, Intersection, First Knight, Runaway Bride, Autumn in New York, then Dr. T and the Women, and The Mothman Prophecies. (wow, that's a lot)

Gere married supermodel Cindy Crawford in 1991. The couple spent most of the next five years as the focus of unpleasant media attention. The marriage eventually ended in divorce in 1995.

On February 6, 2000, Gere's longtime girlfriend, actress Carey Lowell (formerly of NBC’s Law & Order), gave birth to their son, Homer James Jigme Gere.
In October of 2000, he accepted a humanitarian award named for former first lady Eleanor Roosevelt for his work with Tibet.

I hope you enjoy the day and Richard.

Serena