Jennifer Grey
Jennifer Grey was born in New York City, New York, United States on March 26th, 1960 and is the Movie Actress. At the age of 64, Jennifer Grey biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, movies, and networth are available.
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Jennifer Grey (born March 26, 1960) is an American actress.
She is best known for her appearances in Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986) and Dirty Dancing (1987), for which Grey was given a Golden Globe Award nomination.
She appeared in the Amazon Studios comedy series Red Oaks in 2010. She won season eleven of Dancing with the Stars in 2010 and appeared in season 11.
Early life
Jennifer Grey was born in New York City on March 26, 1960, the daughter of stage and Academy Award-winning screen actor Joel Grey and former actress/singer Jo Wilder (née Brower). Mickey Katz, a comedian and singer, was her paternal grandfather. Both Grey's parents were from Jewish families.
Grey attended Dalton School, a private school in Manhattan where she studied dance and acting, as well as where she met her best friend, actress Tracy Pollan. Grey began training as an actor at the Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre in Manhattan in 1978. She embraced herself waitressing while waiting for roles.
Personal life
Grey suffered significant whiplash in a car accident in Enniskillen, Northern Ireland, on August 5, 1987, while holidaying with actor Matthew Broderick, who had begun dating in semi-secrecy during Ferris Bueller's Day Off filming. The accident, which had made their relationship public, happened when Broderick, 63, and Anna Gallagher, 28, were killed instantly. Broderick was found guilty of careless driving and fined $175. Dirty Dancing was released a few weeks after the crash, bringing Grey to prominence. However, she has stated that her grief and survivor's guilt over the film's success barred her from participating in the film's success, causing her to pull out from acting for some time.
Grey was also romantically involved with actor Michael J. Fox, Johnny Depp, William Baldwin, and then-aide to President Clinton, George Stephanopoulos. Clark Gregg, an actor/director, married her on July 21, 2001. They have a daughter. They lived in Venice, California. In 2006, the two co-starred in the Lifetime film The Road to Christmas. Grey and Gregg announced on July 3, 2020, and that they had separated amicably on January 18, 2020, and that they were in the process of divorce. On February 16, 2021, the couple's divorce became final.
Grey had recently reconnected with Judaism, adding, "I love being a Jew." according to a September Grey profile in Jewish Journal. I've become a lot more Jewish in the last five years since my daughter's bat mitzvah, and I've come to the realization that being a Jew makes me feel good."
Grey had a physical exam to ensure she was healthy enough to play before her 2010 appearances on Dancing with the Stars, and a psychiatrist was consulted by a doctor to fix persistent neck pains caused by the car accident decades ago. Her spinal cord was compressed, and her surgeon stitched a titanium plate into her neck to hold it. He also discovered a tumorous nodule on her thyroid that needed to be removed. Grey said she suspected the cancer before it had metastasizes and that she was now cancer-free.
Grey took part in the Los Angeles 2017 Women's March in January 2017.
Career
Grey's first commercial appearance appeared in a Dr Pepper commercial before her first appearance in Reckless (1984), in a small capacity. She appeared in a small part in Francis Ford Coppola's The Cotton Club (1984). She appeared in Red Dawn, a war film released in 2008. She appeared in the 1985 John Badham Foundation's American Flyers.
She appeared in Ferris Bueller's Day Off, opposite Matthew Broderick in 1986, portraying jealous sister Jeannie Bueller. The film was commercially successful and received a positive critical reception.
In Dirty Dancing, she reunited with Patrick Swayze, her co-star on Red Dawn, to play Frances "Baby" Houseman. The tale is a coming of age love tale: Frances "Baby" Houseman falls in love with Johnny Castle, the resort's dance instructor, throughout the summer. The low-budget film was a surprise hit, was the first film to sell one million copies on video, and is regarded as a masterpiece. The film came to define Grey's career, and she was nominated for a Golden Globe for Best Actress for the role. She was paid $50,000 for her role.
Grey's only Broadway performance credit is her appearance in The Twilight of the Golds in 1993.
Grey, despite the success of Dirty Dancing, believes that her appearances would place limitations on the types of future roles she would be considered for. She underwent two rhinoplasty procedures after consulting her mother and three plastic surgeons in the early 1990s. The second was needed to correct an anomaly caused by the first operation but it was much bigger than what Grey had anticipated. This resulted in a nose that made even close friends to fail to recognize her, and she said the dramatic change in her appearance affected her career. "I went into the operating room and became anonymous," she recalled about the experience. It was like being in a witness protection service or being invisible." Grey was reminded in a 2020 interview that an airline employee who checked her name refused to believe that she and the actress knew from Dirty Dancing were one and the same. Grey briefly considered changing her name in order to begin her career afresh, but ultimately, she did not pursue this.
Grey appeared in the short-lived ABC sitcom It's Like, You Know..., which parodyed her long-publicized nose work as a running gag from March 1999 to January 2000.
In the CBS television film The West Side Waltz, which was adapted by Ernest Thompson from his film, Grey starred Shirley MacLaine, Liza Minnelli, and Kathy Bates. Mindy, a high school friend of Jennifer Aniston's character Rachel, appeared in one episode of Friends as Mindy. With Gwyneth Paltrow and Ben Affleck, she had a small part in the 2000 film Bounce. On the HBO series John from Cincinnati, Grey portrayed Daphne in 2007. In the season seven House episode "Unplanned Parenthood," she appeared Abbey, the mother of a sick child.
On season eleven of Dancing With the Stars, Grey was a contestant. She was partnered with professional dancer Derek Hough. She came out a strong at first, with most of her leadersboards being dominated. However, injuries, exhaustion, and exhaustion took their toll on Grey, and she lacked for a few weeks. However, she improved in week seven, tying with former frontrunner Brandy Norwood. Grey and her partner Hough were crowned champions of the competition on November 23, 2010.
Iris Garvey, the mother of Zack Garvey, appeared in the Lifetime film Bling Ring in September 2011. Grey performed head judge Len Goodman on BBC One's television show Strictly Come Dancing on November 5 and 6.
In the English dub version of Hayao Miyazaki's film The Wind Rises, Grey voiced Mrs. Kurokawa.
Judy Meyers appeared on Red Oaks from 2014 to 2017. Grey co-starred in Untogether in 2018; the film was released on February 8, 2019.
Grey appeared at the 2015 Tony Awards with her father Joel, also presenting a performance from the musical Fun Home.
Out of the Corner, Ballantine Books' memoir, was published on May 3, 2022.