Richard Gere Net Worth: Early Life, Career, Personal Life, Awards, and Honors!

By Gilbert E. On Dec 19, 2022

Richard Gere Net Worth: Richard Gere is an American actor and producer. Gere started his film career in the 1970s, starring in ‘Mr. Goodbar’, ‘Days of Heaven’ and ‘American Gigolo.’

He went on to star in films including ‘An Officer and a Gentleman,’ ‘The Cotton Club,’ ‘Pretty Woman,’ ‘Sommersby,’ ‘Primal Fear,’ ‘I’m Not There’ and ‘Norman: The Moderate Rise and Tragic Fall of a New York Fixer.’

Richard Gere Early Life

Richard Gere was born on August 31st. 1949 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. You might not know this, but his middle name is Tiffany. That means his full name is Richard Tiffany Gere. His name. Was on his grandfather’s and his middle name came from his grandmother. He came from a normal Blue Collar family.

His mother was a homemaker and his father was an insurance agent. His father wanted him to be in a government job or agent like him so that his future could be secured But Richard Gere wanted to take some risks when he was young. So he moved to Los Angeles when he was just 18 years old.

Richard Gere Net Worth

Net Worth:	$120 Million
Date of Birth:	Aug 31, 1949 (73 years old)
Place of Birth:	Philadelphia
Gender:	Male
Height:	5 ft 10 in (1.8 m)
Profession:	Actor, Film Producer, Pianist, Musician, Composer
Nationality:	United States of America

Richard Gere Career

Richard 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. His first major acting role was in the original London stage version of Grease, in 1973. 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.

Gere began appearing in Hollywood films in the mid-1970s. Originally cast in a starring role in The Lords of Flatbush (1974), he was replaced after fighting with his co-star Sylvester Stallone. He played a small but memorable part in Looking for Mr. Goodbar (1977) and starred in director Terrence Malick’s well-reviewed drama Days of Heaven (1978).

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.

He appeared in films of varying critical and commercial reception for the remainder of the 1980s, 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. Gere had a successful career in the 1990s, appearing in films such as Sommersby (1993) (opposite Jodie Foster), Primal Fear (1996), and Runaway Bride (1999). (which reunited him with his Pretty Woman co-star Julia Roberts). He also played former IRA militant Declan Mulqueen in the action thriller The Jackal (1997), which he played with an Irish accent.

Richard Gere Personal Life

Away from the cameras, Gere has made headlines for his high-profile but brief marriage to supermodel Cindy Crawford from 1991 to 1995, his spiritual beliefs in Buddhism, and his political support for Tibet. From 1971 to 1978, he was in a relationship with Penelope Milford. In the mid-1980s, he had brief relationships with both Priscilla Presley and Kim Basinger. In November 2002, Gere married model and actress Cary Lowell.

Homer James Jigme Gere, their son, was born in February 2000. They divorced in 2013, after a contentious court battle in New York County Supreme Court. In October 2016, the case was settled. Gere married Spanish activist Alejandra Silva in early April 2018 and the two had a baby boy in February 2019.

Awards and Honors

In 1995, Richard Gere was the President of the Jury at the 19th Moscow International Film Festival. However, on May 17, 2012, Albanian President, Bamir Topi awarded the “Medal of Gratitude” to 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.

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