From: Favorite Hunks & Other Things
AHHH, Michael Paré in Eddie and the Cruisers, one of the hottest guys from the 80's!
Still looking hot today. Michael is another one of those actors who should have been a bigger star.
Michael Kevin Paré (born October 9, 1958) is an American actor.
Paré was born in Brooklyn, New York, the son of Joan, a homemaker, and Francis Paré, who owned print shops. He has six sisters and three brothers. Paré's father was of French-Canadian ancestry and his mother of Irish ancestry. His father died from leukemia when Paré was five, leaving his mother to raise the large family of children. Paré was working as a chef in New York when he met an agent, Yvette Bikoff, who convinced him to try acting.
His first starring role was as Tony Villicana on the television series The Greatest American Hero. His best-known film roles were as Eddie Wilson in Eddie and the Cruisers (1983) and its sequel Eddie and the Cruisers II: Eddie Lives! (1989), as well as Streets of Fire (1984) and The Philadelphia Experiment (1984). Other films included Moon 44 (1990), Village of the Damned (1995), Bad Moon (1996), Hope Floats (1998), and The Virgin Suicides (1999).
Won the best actor Award at PollyGrind Film Festival for the film Road to Hell playing again the role of Tom Cody.
On television, Paré starred with Michael Beck in the CBS police drama Houston Knights in 1987–88, as well as the short-lived 2001 science fiction television series Starhunter.
He has starred in television commercials in Japan. He has married three times. His first wife, from 1980 to 1982, was film producer Lisa Katselas Paré. He was married to Marisa Roebuck from 1986 to 1988, and in 1992 he married his present wife, Marjolein, a former fashion model.
Some pics from a great Michael Site found HERE:
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