DENNIS QUAID - 'I'M ENJOYING THE RIDE'

WITH A NEW GOSPEL ALBUM, ONE OF THE BUSIEST STARS IN SHOWBIZ REFLECTS ON FAITH, LOVE AND HIS JOURNEY TO REDEMPTION

- JULIE JORDAN

...and Peaches, is too!

Put a guitar in Dennis Quaid’s hands, and the man is going to sing. Doesn’t matter if he’s just in the backyard of the serene home he shares with wife Laura Savoie in Nashville, surrounded by a cover-shoot crew on a beautiful day in June. Or that he’s just flown in from New York City and will head to L.A. in a few hours to take his twin teenagers Thomas and Zoe to summer camp. Or that his bulldog Peaches is photobombing every shot, determined to get a belly rub. With that familiar wolfish grin, the actor, 69, strums out a few chords and croons to his pup. “Go lay down, sweetheart,” he tells her. “You’ve got to be tired.”

Not so much for Quaid. After more than four decades in Hollywood, the actor is showing no signs of taking it easy anytime soon. Beloved for classic films like 1983’s The Right Stuff and 1998’s The Parent Trap, Quaid stars in a wide array of films and TV projects this year, including the Max limited series Full Circle, the sports drama The Hill and the animated movie Strays, in which he has a hilarious cameo. He’ll also play Ronald Reagan in an upcoming biopic (he calls it his most challenging role yet) and costar in Lawmen: Bass Reeves, a Paramount+ series from Yellowstone’s Taylor Sheridan. Throw in his music career— he’s been singing and playing guitar and piano with his country-rock band the Sharks on and off for 23 years—and Quaid is still finding new roads to travel. On July 28 he’s taking on another genre with his solo album