Rick Springfield

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Recent Role:
Himself on TMZ on TV
Gender:
Male
Born:
8-23-1949
Birthplace:
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Birth Name:
Richard Springthorpe
AKA:
Richard Springthorpe
In a long and winding road of a career, Rick Springfield has gone from being a teen sensation in the eighties to becoming a well-travelled professional - garnering a GRAMMY Award and selling nearly 20 million recordings along the way (including 17 Top 40 and 5 Top 10 Hits), while also appearing in a number of noted acting roles. In 1972, following his first Top 20 hit, "Speak To The Sky", Rick moved from Australia to the U.S. Although rumors of a payola scandal plagued his early music career, he did star as himself in an ABC Saturday morning cartoon series … More href="http://www.tv.com/mission-magic/show/4972/summary.html">Mission: Magic! - in which, during each episode, he usually performed an original song. By the late-seventies, Rick was concentrating predominantly on his acting career, guest starring on a number of prime-time television shows.

By the early-eighties, during and after a run on General Hospital as Dr. Noah Drake, Rick had returned to music with a string of platinum albums. However, by the late-eighties success faded as family and personal problems took center stage. Over the next decade he surfaced occasionally with either new acting projects or music. Then, he combined them both and resurrected his career on stage - in 1995, appearing as a member of the original Broadway cast of the Tony Award-nominated musical Smokey Joe's Café; and from 200-2002, performing in EFX Alive! at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas.

Recently, Rick is having another run of renewed success in both his music and acting careers. In 2005, after a 23-year absence, he was welcomed back to General Hospital to reprise his recurring role as Dr. Noah Drake. In 2008, he released his first successful album in over twenty years, Venus In Overdrive, which rose to #28 on the U.S. charts. And, in 2009, on Showtime's hit series, Californication, he had a recurring role as what he called a "twisted version of himself", a "hedonistic Rick Springfield" from the early days.

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    What a hottie! hide show

    An incredibly handsome, witty man. He's also very shy. Up close, he has freckles!! Too cute! Wonderfully talented, he acts as well as he sings! He plays multiple instruments, but you mostly see him play guitar. He has a gorgeous wife he's been married to for 20 years and they have 2 handsome sons. Most people don't understand him, but true fans know he's more talented that a lot of people give him credit for. While he was doing his cartoon 'Mission Magice', he was required to write several new songs for each episode, which he accomplished. How many artists could write that many songs on demand and do it well??

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