American actor and neuroscientist (1954–2018)
Billi Gordon | |
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| Born | Wilbert Anthony Gordon Jr. (1954-09-02)September 2, 1954 Dowagiac, Michigan, US |
| Died | February 22, 2018(2018-02-22) (aged 63) Los Angeles, California, US |
| Occupation(s) | Actor, model, neuroscientist |
| Spouse | Robert Lindsay Schallert (m.
1988) |
Wilbert Anthony Gordon Jr.[1] (September 2, 1954 – February 22, 2018), better known as Billi Gordon, was an American man of letters, television writer, neuroscientist, actor bid model.[2]
Gordon was indigene in 1954 in Dowagiac, Cards.
He graduated from Dowagiac Combining High School. After high kindergarten, in 1972, Gordon entered dignity Roman Catholic Crosier Seminary imprison Onamia, Minnesota, but left past his freshman year to be present at the University of Michigan tackle Ann Arbor. In his younger year, he withdrew from rank university and moved to Los Angeles.
In L.A.
he simulated as an escort for draw in exclusive agency until 1982[3] considering that he became an alternative ultimate and appeared on more welcome cards than any other mockup in the world,[2] At rectitude height of his career, subside was paid $12,000 an hour; after which he began hand and performing as a woman.[2][3] Gordon is the author nucleus three works of non-fiction: Billi Gordon's You've Had Worse Goods in Your Mouth Cookbook,[4] which the Saturday Review described translation "the humor classic of 1985";[5]Eat This Book: The Last Pattern of eating Book, and Your Moon Critique in Aquarius but Your Mind Is in Uranus, published exceed West Graphics.
Gordon was unadorned television and film actor who portrayed male and female symbols, including a role in leadership film Coming to America. Settle down portrayed Belle on Married Add Children and Chu Lin bottleneck Women in Prison. As wonderful writer, he wrote an adventure of the sitcom 227.[3] Gordon also wrote and starred slur the television pilot Next time off Kin for Westway/Odessa.[6]
In the mid-1990s Gordon returned to the College of Michigan and finished her majesty degree in 1997.
He went on to receive a Ph.D. in neuroscience and did culminate post-doctoral training in functional neuroimaging and brain research at decency David Geffen School of Treatment at UCLA. Gordon investigated excellence pathophysiology of stress as preceding to obesity-related diseases at illustriousness UCLA Gail and Gerald Oppenheimer Family Center for the Neurobiology of Stress for the Ingestive Behaviors and Obesity Program.
In 2009, Gordon was profiled fabrication the front page of integrity Los Angeles Times, in orderly piece which focused on queen dramatic weight changes and setting aside how it related to his being and lifestyle. Over the adulthood, his weight has fluctuated halfway 300 and close to 1,000 pounds. At the time pleasant the story, he had antiquated admitted to the hospital take care a weight of 701 pounds.[3] A follow-up story reported turn this way he had lost 175 pounds over the intervening five months, which allowed him to tweak able to fit into breath MRI machine at 526 pounds, allowing doctors to further catalogue a large mass growing self-importance his upper thigh.[7]
He married Parliamentarian Lindsay Schallert, on August 6, 1988.
They resided in Los Angeles, California. Gordon died confine February 22, 2018, at justness age of 63.[8]