Hoyt Richards, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

Hoyt Richards

American actor-model

Date of Birth: 10-Apr-1962

Place of Birth: Syracuse, New York, United States

Profession: screenwriter, actor, film producer, model

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Aries


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About Hoyt Richards

  • Hoyt Richards (born April 10, 1962 in Syracuse, New York) is an American model and actor.Richards became one of the biggest names in modeling in the late 1980s and 1990s.
  • He appeared in hundreds of advertising campaigns and was photographed by Bruce Weber, Richard Avedon, Helmut Newton, Steven Meisel, Horst, and Albert Watson.
  • His campaigns include Gianni Versace, Valentino, Gianfranco Ferré, Ralph Lauren, Burberry, Dunhill, Cartier, and Donna Karan. In his last year of high school, Richards landed a scholarship which sent him to England to be educated in the sixth form of the English public school Haileybury.
  • After Haileybury, Richards, a scholar-athlete, went to Princeton University from where he graduated in 1985 with a BA in Economics and played varsity football.
  • At that stage, he had no plans to be a model.
  • His focus was on football and school.
  • But a shoulder injury lead him to New York to see a specialist.
  • On that trip, he was told his football playing days were over but he was spotted by a casting director.
  • Eventually, his trips to New York for auditions lead to him a meeting with the Ford Model Agency.
  • Thus began his career as a male model.
  • This career spanned over fifteen years and encompassed over 200 major ads and hundreds of commercials.In the late 1990s, Richards moved from New York to Los Angeles to begin pursuing a career as an actor.
  • He first appeared in the Harrison Ford/Anne Heche romantic comedy, Six Days, Seven Nights.
  • Since then, he has since appeared in over a fifteen independent films including such award-winning projects as the comedy, Hit and Runway (1999) and the dramas, Taxi Dance (2009) and The Disciple (2010.) In 2005, Richards, also a screenwriter, began his own production company, Tortoise Entertainment, that develops and produces television, documentary and film projects.
  • In 2014, Tortoise produced a buddy comedy called Dumbbells that Hoyt wrote and starred.

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