luke perry

Luke Perry Born Coy Luther Perry III

October 11, 1966 (1966-10-11) (age 42)

Mansfield, Ohio, United States

Luke Perry (born Coy Luther Perry III on October 11, 1966, in Mansfield, Ohio)[1] is an American actor.

He was raised in Fredericktown, Ohio, where Perry was the school mascot, the Fredericktown High School Freddie. He likes to get home yearly for the Fredericktown Tomato Show, an annual street fair. For the 2009 Tomato Show, he has agreed to be Grand Marshall of the parade. Perry starred as Dylan McKay in the long-running TV series Beverly Hills, 90210, a role he played from 1990-95, and then from 1998-2000. Much publicity was garnered over the fact that even though he was playing a sixteen year old when 90210 began, Perry was actually in his mid-twenties at that time. Perry returned to 90210 in 1998 (this time billed as a permanent "Special Guest Star") and remained with the series until its conclusion in 2000. In 2001 he released an album "Baby I Need You." Contents [hide] 1 Biography 1.1 Television and film career 1.2 Guest work 1.3 The stage 2 Personal Life 3 External links 4 References //

Biography

Television and film career

After appearing in the music video 'Be Chrool To Your Scuel' for the band Twisted Sister alongside Alice Cooper, Perry's earliest roles were in the daytime soap operas Loving (1987-88) and Another World (1988-89). In an interview with Whoopi Goldberg, he confirmed that he'd auditioned for 217 jobs before landing his first role on a daytime drama.

Following this, he then won the role of brooding millionaire's son Dylan McKay on Beverly Hills 90210. While starring on 90210, Perry then won a supporting role in the original film version of the Joss Whedon-written Buffy The Vampire Slayer (1992). Although the film was not a success, Perry had already become a popular teen idol in the early 1990s. In the mid 1990's he released a music album called "Let Me Be Your Lady". In 1998 he wrote a variety of songs, such as "i cry" but were not made into an album.

Perry starred as Lane Frost in 8 Seconds in 1994. In an attempt to find more mature roles, he decided to leave Beverly Hills 90210 in 1995. In the same year, he took a part in the Italian movie Vacanze di Natale '95, playing himself. Although he announced that 90210 was behind him, his departure would eventually turn out to be for only three years. During that time, Perry starred in the TV sci-fi movie Invasion (1997), a Rodney King-era drama Riot (1997) and also had a small role in Luc Besson's sci-fi adventure film The Fifth Element (1997).

Perry starred in the 1999 film Storm

He starred in a 2002 television movie called The Triangle.

From 2002 to 2004, he starred in the post-apocalyptic TV series Jeremiah. In 2006, Perry co-starred in the ensemble drama series Windfall, about a group of friends who win the lottery. The series ran for 13 episodes during the summer of 2006 on NBC.

He starred in the 2007 film The Sandlot: