Luke Perry (born Coy Luther Perry III on October 11, 1965, in Mansfield, Ohio) is an American actor.

He was raised in Fredericktown, Ohio, where Perry was the school mascot, the Fredericktown High School Freddie. He likes to get home yearly for the Fredericktown Tomato Show, an annual street fair. For the 2009 Tomato Show, he has agreed to be Grand Marshall of the parade. Perry starred as Dylan McKay in the long-running TV series Beverly Hills, 90210, a role he played from 1990-95, and then from 1998-2000. Much publicity was garnered over the fact that even though he was playing a sixteen year old when 90210 began, Perry was actually in his mid-twenties at that time. Perry returned to 90210 in 1998 (this time billed as a permanent "Special Guest Star") and remained with the series until its conclusion in 2000. In 2001 he released an album "Baby I Need You."

After appearing in the music video 'Be Chrool To Your Scuel' for the band Twisted Sister alongside Alice Cooper, Perry's earliest roles were in the daytime soap operas Loving (1987-88) and Another World (1988-89). In an interview with Whoopi Goldberg, he confirmed that he'd auditioned for 217 jobs before landing his first role on a daytime drama.