As per Richard Gere’s Wikipedia bio, he made his first stage debut in the year 1969, in the production of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead at the Provincetown Playhouse on Cape Cod and the Seattle Repertory Theatre.
In the year 1973, he played the title role in the original London theater production of Grease. And in the year 1979 Broadway production of Bent, for which he won a Theatre World Award, he played a gay Holocaust victim, becoming one of the first well-known Hollywood actors to do so.
The actor was born in the United States on August 31, 1949. He made his acting debut in the 1970s, appearing in supporting roles in Looking for Mr. Goodbar and Days of Heaven.
He rose to fame thanks to his performance in the 1980 movie American Gigolo, which made him a leading man and an icon.
