Richard Lewis Springthorpe (born 23 August 1949) is an Australian-American
musician and actor, known by his stage name Rick Springfield. He was a member of
the pop rockgroup Zoot from 1969 to 1971, then started his solo
career with his debut single "Speak to the Sky" reaching the
top 10 in Australia in mid-1972, when he moved to the United States. He
had a No. 1 hit with "Jessie's Girl" in 1981 in both Australia
and the U.S., for which he received the Grammy Award for Best Male Rock
Vocal Performance. He followed with four more top 10 U.S. hits, "I've
Done Everything for You", "Don't Talk to Strangers", "Affair
of the Heart" and "Love Somebody". Springfield's two U.S.
top 10 albums are Working Class Dog(1981) and Success
Hasn't Spoiled Me Yet (1982). As an actor, he starred in the
television series High Tide, from 1994 to 1997, and has appeared in
supporting roles in Ricki and the Flash and True
Detective (both in 2015). He portrayed Dr. Noah Drake on the
daytime drama General Hospital, from 1981 to 1983 and during 2005
to 2008 and 2012, returning in 2013 for the show's 50th anniversary with son
and actor Liam Springthorpe. He played a depraved version of himself in Californication (2009).
In 2010, Springfield published his autobiography, Late, Late at Night:
A Memoir. In 2016 he starred as Vince Vincente/Lucifer in season
12 of the The CW series Supernatural. In 2017, he
starred as Pastor Charles in the American Horror Story episode
entitled "Winter of Our Discontent".