{"id":976,"date":"2019-03-12T09:31:00","date_gmt":"2019-03-12T09:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/drmirkin.com\/2019\/03\/12\/luke-perry-young-strokes\/"},"modified":"2019-03-12T09:31:00","modified_gmt":"2019-03-12T09:31:00","slug":"luke-perry-young-strokes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/drmirkin.com\/?p=976","title":{"rendered":"Luke Perry: Young Strokes"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\n\t\"lukeLuke Perry was a television actor and movie star for more than 35 years, most famous as Dylan McKay, a brooding and alcoholic teenager who was the son of a millionaire on the TV series Beverly Hills, 90210,<\/em> from 1990 to 1995, and again from 1998 to 2000.  He was ranked #6 in the list of "TV's 25 Greatest Teen Idols" (TV Guide<\/em>, January 23, 2005).  He starred in a wide variety of films and television shows, most recently in the CW series Riverdale<\/em>. He was hospitalized with a stroke on February 27, 2019, and died five days later. <\/div>\n
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\n\tEarly Life and Career<\/strong><\/div>\n
\n\tCoy Luther Perry III was born in 1966, in Mansfield, Ohio. His father was a steel worker and his mother was a housewife.  His parents divorced when he was six and when his mother remarried, they moved to Fredricktown, Ohio.  His biological father died of a heart attack in 1980.  In high school, Perry was a mediocre student but did play on the baseball team and was voted "Biggest Flirt" by his classmates. He said that he was "something of a prankster; one time I put a ski mask on my head and used a fake gun on the school secretary so that I could get some of my friends out of detention."  <\/div>\n
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\n\tAfter high school, he moved to Los Angeles to pursue a career in acting.  To support himself, he worked as a road paver and in a doorknob factory.  Finding no success with acting in Hollywood, he moved to New York. He said that he had auditioned for 256 acting jobs before he finally got a role in a television commercial. His first major parts were in the daytime soap operas Loving<\/em> (1987–88) and Another World<\/em> (1988–89).  He then moved back to Los Angeles and made his major breakthrough at age 24 when he was chosen to play Dylan McKay in Beverly Hills, 90210<\/em>.  He became an instant teenage heartthrob, which opened the door to his being offered several movie roles.  At age 29 he left the TV series to further his career in the movies.  In 1998, at age 32, an offer of increased income enticed him to return to the TV show that had made him famous, and he continued in his role as Dylan McKay for three more years. After that series ended, he appeared in theater productions, movies, and television productions. From 2017 until his death in 2019, he played Fred Andrews, the father of Archie on the popular CW series, Riverdale.<\/em><\/div>\n
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