Luke Perry

Luke Perry interests me less as a nineties pin-up than as a case study in graceful reinvention. Dylan McKay made him a global teen idol, the kind of fame that ruins most careers once it fades, yet Perry simply kept working and eventually became the warm moral center of Riverdale as Fred Andrews. Every co-star tribute after his sudden death in 2019 told the same story: humble, generous, utterly without ego. That consistency of character is rarer than talent in this industry. He died at 52, far too soon, but he achieved something remarkable—being genuinely beloved twice, by two different generations, for two entirely different reasons.

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.

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Name (English)

Luke Perry

Name (Japanese)

ルーク・ペリー

Reading

るーく・ぺりー

Born

October 11, 1966 – March 4, 2019

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Libra / Horse

Origin

Mansfield, Ohio, United States

Blood type

Private

Height

2 cm

Agency

Private

Occupation

actor / voice actor / film producer / model / television actor

Elementary school

Private

Junior high

Private

High school

Fredericktown High School

University

Private

Spouse

Private

Children

Private

Parents

Private

Siblings

Private

Motto

Private

• Official sitehttp://www.lukeperry.com/
• Xhttps://x.com/LukePerryIII
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%AB%E3%83%BC%E3%82%AF%E3%83%BB%E3%83%9A%E3%83%AA%E3%83%BC

Tags

• Ohio
• actor
• voice actor
• film producer

Last updated

2026-06-11

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public items are marked "Private / Unknown". English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.