1. Coy Luther "Luke" Perry III was an American actor.
34 Facts About Luke Perry
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Luke Perry 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.
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Luke Perry was born on October 11,1966, in Mansfield, Ohio, the second of three children to Ann Perry, a homemaker, and Coy Luther Perry Jr.
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Luke Perry had an older brother, Thomas Perry, and a younger sister, Amy Coder.
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Luke Perry's father died of a heart attack in 1980.
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Luke Perry was raised in Fredericktown, Ohio, and played Freddie Bird, the school mascot for Fredericktown High School.
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In 1984, Luke Perry moved to Los Angeles shortly after high school to pursue acting.
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Luke Perry worked odd jobs, including for an asphalt paving company and in a doorknob factory.
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Luke Perry appeared in the 1985 music video of "Be Chrool to Your Scuel" for the band Twisted Sister.
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Luke Perry had auditioned for 256 acting jobs before receiving his first acceptance in 1988.
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In 1990, Luke Perry got the role of the brooding millionaire's son Dylan McKay on Fox's teen drama Beverly Hills, 90210.
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Luke Perry originally auditioned for the role of Steve Sanders but lost to Ian Ziering.
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Luke Perry starred in Terminal Bliss in 1992, and as Lane Frost in 8 Seconds in 1994.
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At 1992 MTV Video Music Awards' Luke Perry presented the award for best Metal Music Video along with Howard Stern dressed as Fartman, generating much press.
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Luke Perry had a small role in Luc Besson's science fiction adventure film The Fifth Element.
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From 2001 to 2002, Luke Perry starred in the HBO prison drama Oz, as Reverend Jeremiah Cloutier.
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Luke Perry went on to star in a 2002 television film called The Triangle.
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In 2006, Luke Perry co-starred in the ensemble drama series Windfall, about a group of friends who win the lottery.
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Luke Perry appeared in the 2007 HBO series John from Cincinnati.
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Luke Perry starred in the Swedish film Antligen Midsommar, which was released in the summer of 2009.
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Luke Perry did considerable voice-over work for various animated series, usually playing himself.
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Luke Perry played himself in "Krusty Gets Kancelled", an episode of The Simpsons.
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Luke Perry voiced himself in an episode of Johnny Bravo, giving Johnny dating advice after Johnny saved him from a stampede of fan girls.
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Luke Perry parodied himself in "The Story on Page One", an episode of Family Guy, in which he sues Peter Griffin for calling him gay in a newspaper article.
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In 2005, Luke Perry was reunited with former 90210 co-star Jennie Garth when he guest-starred on What I Like About You in a loose parody of their 90210 characters' relationship.
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Luke Perry guest-starred as cult leader Benjamin Cyrus in an episode of Criminal Minds.
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Luke Perry appeared on Broadway in 2001 in a revival of The Rocky Horror Show, playing Brad Majors.
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From 2017 until his death in 2019, Luke Perry starred as Frederick "Fred" Andrews, Archie's father and owner of Andrews Construction, on The CW series Riverdale.
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Luke Perry married Rachel Minnie Sharp on November 20,1993, in Beverly Hills.
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Luke Perry became an advocate for colorectal cancer testing after undergoing a colonoscopy in 2015 that revealed pre-cancerous growths.
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At the time of his death, Luke Perry was engaged to Wendy Madison Bauer.
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On February 27,2019, Luke Perry suffered a massive ischemic stroke at his home in Sherman Oaks, Los Angeles, and was taken to Providence Saint Joseph Medical Center in Burbank.
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Luke Perry is buried at the Perry Family Farm in Vanleer, Tennessee, where he had owned a home since 1995.
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Luke Perry is buried in an eco-friendly mushroom burial suit which the manufacturer states can remove polluting toxins from the body while naturally breaking it down.