Richard Tiffany Gere (born August 31, 1949) is a Golden Globe- and Screen Actors Guild Award-winning American actor. The prototypical dark, handsome leading man of romantic and dramatic films, he first became famous during the 1980s, and has since retained his status as a leading man. During the 1990s and 2000s, he starred in several well-received films, Pretty Woman, Primal Fear, and Chicago, for which he won a Golden Globe award as Best Actor.