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Jennifer Grey
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Born in New York City, Jennifer Grey is the daughter of stage and screen actor Joel Grey and the granddaughter of comedian and musician Mickey Katz. Her mother is Jo Wilder. She is an alumna of The Dalton School, an elite private school in Manhattan, and studied both dance and acting. Her commercial debut was at the age of 19, in an ad for the Dr Pepper soft drink. After other small roles, she landed the part of angry sister Jeanie in the hit 1986 film Ferris Bueller's Day Off. The following year she reunited with Patrick Swayze, whom she had played opposite in Red Dawn, for her biggest role ever, Frances "Baby" Houseman in Dirty Dancing.
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Jennifer Grey, Patrick Swayze and a bunch of extras had the time of their life when “Dirty Dancing” was released two decades ago. This year, visitors to the Virginia and North Carolina lakes where the movie was filmed might well find at least some of its cinematic remnants. Plus, the new 20th anniversary DVD is due out in May.
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American actress "Jennifer Grey" grew up among the sort of people who'd be her co-workers later in life. She was the granddaughter of comedian Mickey Katz and the daughter of Broadway star "Joel Grey" and actress Jo Wilder. Childhood dance lessons helped her get a start dancing in television commercials. After spending time with the Neighborhood Playhouse School of Theater in New York, Grey appeared in the off-Broadway production Album. More theatrical experience followed. Grey made her screen debut in the 10th-billed role of Cathy Bennario in the 1984 "brat pack" film "Reckless".
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In Dirty Dancing, Jennifer Grey stars as Frances "Baby" Houseman, a girl who goes on vacation to the Catskills with her father, mother and sister in the summer of 1963. She meets the handsome dance instructor Johnny Castle (Patrick Swayze), who works at the lodge where they're staying, and is smitten with him. When she volunteers to fill in for Johnny's dance partner, Baby experiences love and life firsthand from the free-spirited Johnny.
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Grey werd vooral bekend van haar rol als Frances "Baby" Houseman in de film Dirty Dancing uit 1987. Een jaar eerder had ze al een hoofdrol gespeeld in Ferris Bueller's Day Off. Naast een groot aantal andere films, speelde Grey ook een gastrol in de televisieserie The West Side Waltz en in de sitcom It's Like, You Know.... In die laatste rol speelde een actrice met de naam Jennifer Grey.
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Jennifer Grey plays Jeanie Bueller, the younger, jealous, and angry sister to Ferris Bueller. Jeanie spends most of the film, like Ed Rooney trying to get revenge on Ferris, as she does not understand why everything should go so right for him. She does ... find the errors of her way at the end of the film, not to mention finding love, in Garth Volbeck, a young lad at the police station.
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