Birth Name: Richard Tiffany Gere

Birth Date: August 31, 1949

Birth Place: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

Height: 6'11''

Why he is a Golden Beau: He is one of those talented leading men who has successfully transitioned through several generations and is still considered a sexy man of Hollywood.

Movies you should see: Pretty Woman, Unfaithful, Chicago

Other Stuff:
-Married to Carey Lowell (9 November 2002 - present) 1 child

-Married to Cindy Crawford (12 December 1991 - 1995) (divorced)

-Is the second of five children born to Homer and Doris Gere

-People Magazine's Sexiest Man Alive [1999]

-Won a gymnastics scholarship to the University of Massachusetts Amherst, where he majored in philosophy; he dropped out in 1969 to pursue acting.

-A Buddhist for over a decade, Gere was banned from the Oscars once after making anti-China comments on the air at the 1993 ceremony.

-Cindy and Richard were married 12 December 1991 by Rev. Wes McPherson at the Little Church of the West, Las Vegas

-An accomplished pianist and music writer.

-His son, with actress Carey Lowell, Homer James Jigme Gere was born on 6th February 2000 in New York City weighing in at 8 pounds, 12 ounces. "Jigme" means "fearless" in Tibetan.

-Irish-American

-Gere trained for five months for the tap dance scene in Chicago (2002).