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- NAME: Jennifer Grey
- OCCUPATION: Film Actress, Television Actress, Reality Television Star
- BIRTH DATE: March 26, 1960 (Age: 53)
- EDUCATION: Dalton School
- PLACE OF BIRTH: New York City, New York
- Full Name: Jennifer Elise Grey
- AKA: Jennifer Grey
- ZODIAC SIGN: Aries
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Jennifer Grey is an American actress, best-known for her role as Frances "Baby" Houseman in the 1987 hit film Dirty Dancing.
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Ferris Bueller's Day Off - Ben Stein
Producer Michael Chinich describes reading the script and imagining Ben Stein's voice reading the lines. Stein was cast as the teacher, and immediately made movie history with the way he said the name "Bueller."
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The cast talks about John Hughes' negative reaction to early screen tests.
Ferris Bueller's Day Off - The Cutting Room Floor
Many of the scenes and characters shot for the film didn't end up in the final cut, including Ferris' younger siblings.
Ferris Bueller's Day Off - Crashing the Car
Alan Ruck and other cast members discuss filming the car crash scene.
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Synopsis
Jennifer Grey is an American actress born on March 26, 1960 in New York, New York. Her role as “Baby” in the film Dirty Dancing (1987) with Patrick Swayze catapulted her to fame. Grey also appeared in the teen cult classic Ferris Bueller’s Day Off (1987). After a lull in her career, she made a comeback in the reality show Dancing With the Stars (2010) where she was crowned the winner.
Early Career Highlights
Actress Jennifer Grey was born on March 26, 1960, in New York, New York. The daughter of actor-dancer Joel Grey and singer Jo Wilder, she grew up surrounded by show business. She first appeared on screen in 1984 with three films: Reckless, The Cotton Club and Red Dawn, which marked the first time she worked with Patrick Swayze. Two years later, she played the sharp, jealous sister in Ferris Bueller's Day Off with Matthew Broderick. While she gave a strong comedic performance in that film, her next project made her a star.
'Dirty Dancing'
In Dirty Dancing (1987), Grey played Frances "Baby" Houseman, a teenager on a family vacation at a resort in New York's Catskill Mountains. At the age of 27, she did a very convincing job of portraying an adolescent who falls for a dance instructor at the resort played by Patrick Swayze. Set in the 1960s, the movie scored big at the box office as did its retro soundtrack.
Plastic Surgery and Career Revival
Shortly before Dirty Dancing was released, Grey was involved in a serious accident. She and then-boyfriend, actor Matthew Broderick, were involved in a car crash in Ireland. Broderick, who was driving, suffered a broken leg. The two passengers in the other car were killed.
While she earned strong reviews for Dirty Dancing, Grey's film career began to stall soon after its release. In the early 1990s, Grey made a career-altering decision to have plastic surgery done on her nose. She has said that she wanted a minor change, but the results were much more dramatic. The surgery rendered her nearly unrecognizable.
Grey decided to poke fun of herself, her career and her nose job on It's Like, You Know ..., the 1999 television series. The comedy lasted for two seasons. Around that time, Grey also appeared in Bounce, the 2000 film starring Ben Affleck and Gwyneth Paltrow. In 2010, Grey participated in the eleventh season of Dancing with the Stars . Despite various physical setbacks, Grey was crowned the champion of the show.
After having been romantically linked to actors such as Matthew Broderick, Billy Baldwin and Johnny Depp, Grey married to actor Clark Gregg in 2001. Later that year, the couple's daughter Stella was born. One of her most recent roles was a decidedly family affair. In 2006, she appeared in the television movie Road to Christmas with her husband.
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View groupDance pioneers like Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers and Gene Kelly—remembered for his groundbreaking performance in 1952's Singin' in the Rain—truly set the stage for Hollywood's dance-film genre. John Travolta, Jennifer Beals, Patrick Swayze, Jennifer Grey and Natalie Portman are some of the performers who took up where Astaire, Rogers and Kelly left off, repopularizing dance on film for later generations. Biography.com's Famous Movie Dancers group examines the lives and careers of these high-stepping performers who will always be remembered for their unforgettable moves.
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