An American actor from Mansfield, Ohio, Luke Perry became a heartthrob of the early 1990s as Dylan McKay on the hit series 'Beverly Hills, 90210'. Born in 1966, he parlayed that television fame into film, appearing in 'The Fifth Element' (1997) and, decades later, in Quentin Tarantino's 'Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood' (2019). In his later years he found a new generation of fans on the series 'Riverdale'. He died in 2019, remembered as a warm, charismatic screen presence who bridged teen stardom and mature character work.
Luke Perry
52 years (Oct 11, 1966 – Mar 4, 2019)Mansfield, Ohio, USA
44 Movies35 Series
An American actor from Mansfield, Ohio, Luke Perry became a heartthrob of the early 1990s as Dylan McKay on the hit series 'Beverly Hills, 90210'. Born in 1966, he parlayed that television fame into film, appearing in 'The Fifth Element' (1997) and, decades later, in Quentin Tarantino's 'Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood' (2019). In his later years he found a new generation of fans on the series 'Riverdale'. He died in 2019, remembered as a warm, charismatic screen presence who bridged teen stardom and mature character work.
Coy Luther "Luke" Perry III (October 11, 1966 – March 4, 2019) was an American actor. He became a teen idol for playing Dylan McKay on the Fox television series Beverly Hills, 90210 from 1990 to 1995, and again from 1998 to 2000. Perry also starred as Fred Andrews on the CW series Riverdale. He had guest roles on shows such as Criminal Minds, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, The Simpsons, and Will & Grace, as well as a recurring role voicing Rick Jones in The Incredible Hulk (1996–1997) from Marvel Comics, and also appeared in various films, including Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1992), 8 Seconds (1994), The Fifth Element (1997), The Final Storm, The Beat Beneath My Feet (2016), and Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (2019), which was his final feature performance and earned him a Screen Actors Guild Award nomination.
Perry died at the age of 52 from complications following a massive stroke.