Luke Perry

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BIRTHDAY

October 11, 1966

Mansfield, OH

RECENT CREDITS

John From Cincinnati (TV) Aug. 12, 2007

Windfall (TV) Aug. 31, 2006

Last Call With Carson Daly (TV) Jun. 22, 2006

Jimmy Kimmel Live (TV) Jun. 15, 2006

Late Night With Conan O'Brien (TV) Jun. 8, 2006

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BIOGRAPHY

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Already in his mid-twenties when he shot to stardom playing a James Dean-type high-school rebel on Beverly Hills, 90210, Perry has, like most of the series' costars, struggled to shed his teen-idol image. Cute and brooding, if a bit one-note, the actor pursued a big-screen career and even took a two-season hiatus from 90210 in order to appear in a succession of big-screen projects. But most of his starring roles were in box-office duds (Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Lifebreath) and even his impressive turn as a bull-riding champion in 8 Seconds couldn't jump-start his film career. Perry wisely returned to the small screen, reprising his 90210 role until the series went off the air in 2000, and subsequently tackled a variety of parts on cable shows (a corrupt televangelist on Oz, a postapocalyptic survivor on Jeremiah) and on stage. In 2006 he returned to network TV with the ensemble drama Windfall, in the decidedly mature role of an unhappily married lottery winner.

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