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Jennifer Grey (born March 26, 1960) is an American actress. She made her acting debut with the film Reckless (1984), and had her breakthrough with the teen comedy film Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986). She subsequently earned worldwide fame for starring as Frances "Baby" Houseman in the romantic drama film Dirty Dancing (1987), which earned her a Golden Globe Award nomination. Her other feature films include Red Dawn (1984), The Cotton Club (1984), Bloodhounds of Broadway (1989), Bounce (2000), Redbelt (2008), The Wind Rises (2013), In Your Eyes (2014), Duck Duck Goose (2018), and Bittersweet Symphony (2019).

Jennifer Grey
Grey at the November 30, 2010 Epic Mickey launch party in Manhattan
Born	(1960-03-26) March 26, 1960 (age 62) New York City, U.S.
Occupation	Actress
Years active	1979–present
Spouse	Clark Gregg ​ ​ (m. 2001; div. 2021)​
Children	1
Parent	Joel Grey (father)
Relatives	Mickey Katz (grandfather) Ronald A. Katz (uncle)

Grey's early television work includes the made-for-TV films Murder in Mississippi (1990), Criminal Justice (1990), and If the Shoe Fits as Kelly Carter / Prudence (1990). She starred as herself in the series It's Like, You Know... (1999–2001), won season eleven of the dancing competition series Dancing with the Stars (2010) and starred as Judy Meyers in the Amazon Prime Video comedy Red Oaks (2014–2017). She has done voice work in film and television, providing her voice in the 2018 film Duck Duck Goose and the 2008–2014 animated television series Phineas and Ferb.[1][2]

Early life

Jennifer Grey^[a] was born on March 26, 1960, in New York City, the daughter of stage and Academy Award-winning screen actor Joel Grey and former actress/singer Jo Wilder (née Brower).[3][4] Her paternal grandfather was comedian and musician Mickey Katz. Grey's parents both came from Jewish families.[5][6][7][8]

Grey attended the Dalton School, a private school in Manhattan[9] where she studied dance and acting, and where she met her best friend, actress Tracy Pollan.[10] After graduating in 1978, Grey enrolled at Manhattan's Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre for two years of training as an actress. While waiting for roles, she supported herself waitressing.[11][12]

Career

Grey's commercial debut was at the age of 19, in an ad for Dr Pepper, before making her film debut in Reckless (1984), in a small role. She appeared in a small role in Francis Ford Coppola's The Cotton Club (1984). That year she starred in the war film Red Dawn. She then appeared in the 1985 John Badham project American Flyers.

In 1986 she played the role of jealous sister Jeannie Bueller in the John Hughes comedy film Ferris Bueller's Day Off, opposite Matthew Broderick. The film was commercially successful[13] and received a positive critical reception.[14]

The following year, she reunited with Patrick Swayze, her co-star in Red Dawn, to play Frances "Baby" Houseman in Dirty Dancing. The story is a coming of age love story: spending the summer at a Catskills resort with her family, Frances "Baby" Houseman falls in love with the resort's dance instructor, Johnny Castle. The low-budget film was a surprise hit, was the first film to sell one million copies on video,[15] and is considered a classic.[16] Paid $50,000[17] for her role, the film came to define Grey's career, and she was nominated for a Golden Globe for Best Actress for the role.[18]

Grey's sole Broadway theatre credit is her 1993 appearance in The Twilight of the Golds.

Despite the success of Dirty Dancing, Grey felt that her looks would place restrictions on the type of future roles she would be considered for.[17] After consulting her mother and three plastic surgeons in the early 1990s, she underwent two rhinoplasty procedures. The second was necessary to correct an irregularity caused by the first operation and ended up more extensive than what Grey had expected.[17][19] This resulted in a nose that caused even close friends to fail to recognize her, and the major change in her appearance affected her career.[20] Of the experience she said, "I went in the operating room a celebrity—and came out anonymous. It was like being in a witness protection program or being invisible."[21][22] Grey recalled in a 2020 interview that an airline employee who checked her identity refused to believe that she and the actress the employee knew from Dirty Dancing were one and the same.[17] Grey briefly considered changing her name in order to start her career anew, but ultimately decided against this.[23]

From March 1999 until January 2000, Grey starred as herself in the short-lived ABC sitcom It's Like, You Know..., which satirized her much-publicized nose job as a running gag.[24]

Grey appeared with Shirley MacLaine, Liza Minnelli, and Kathy Bates in the CBS television movie The West Side Waltz, adapted by Ernest Thompson from his play. She appeared in one episode of Friends as Mindy, a high school friend of Jennifer Aniston's character Rachel. She had a small role in the 2000 film Bounce with Gwyneth Paltrow and Ben Affleck. In 2007, Grey portrayed Daphne on the HBO series John from Cincinnati. In 2010, she played Abbey, the mother of a sick child in the season seven House episode "Unplanned Parenthood".[25]

Grey was a contestant on season eleven of Dancing With the Stars. She was partnered with professional dancer Derek Hough.[26] She came out very strong at first, frequently topping the leaderboard. However, injuries, stress, and exhaustion took their toll on Grey, and for a couple of weeks she fell behind. In week seven, however, she improved, tying with previous frontrunner Brandy Norwood. On November 23, 2010, Grey and her partner Hough won the competition.

In September 2011 Grey appeared in the Lifetime movie Bling Ring as Iris Garvey, the mother of Zack Garvey.[27] On November 5 and 6, 2011, Grey stood in for head judge Len Goodman on the BBC One TV show Strictly Come Dancing.[28]

Grey voiced Mrs. Kurokawa in the English dub version of Hayao Miyazaki's film The Wind Rises.[29]

From 2014 to 2017, Grey portrayed Judy Meyers on Red Oaks.[30] In 2018, Grey co-starred in the film Untogether; the film was released on February 8, 2019.[31]

Grey also appeared at the 2015 Tony Awards alongside her father Joel, presenting a performance from the musical Fun Home.

Ballantine Books published Grey's memoir, Out of the Corner, on May 3, 2022.[17]

Personal life

On August 5, 1987, Grey suffered severe whiplash in a car collision in Enniskillen, Northern Ireland, while vacationing with actor Matthew Broderick, whom she had begun dating in semi-secrecy during the filming of Ferris Bueller's Day Off. The crash, the event through which their relationship became public, occurred when Broderick, at the wheel of a rented BMW, crossed into the wrong lane and collided head-on with a Volvo driven by a local mother and daughter, Margaret Doherty, 63, and Anna Gallagher, 28, who were killed instantly. Broderick was convicted of careless driving and fined $175.[11][32] Dirty Dancing was released a few weeks after the collision, catapulting Grey to fame. But she has said that her grief and survivor's guilt over the crash prevented her from enjoying the film's success, and led her to withdraw from acting for some time.[33]

Grey was also romantically involved with actors Michael J. Fox, Johnny Depp, William Baldwin and then-aide to President Clinton, George Stephanopoulos.[34] She married actor/director Clark Gregg on July 21, 2001. They have a daughter.[35] They lived in Venice, California.[36] The couple co-starred in the Lifetime movie The Road to Christmas in 2006. On July 3, 2020, Grey and Gregg announced they had separated amicably on January 18, 2020, and were in the process of divorcing.[37] Their divorce became final on February 16, 2021.[38]

According to a September 2015 Grey profile in Jewish Journal, Grey had recently reconnected with Judaism, saying, "I love being a Jew. I've gotten a lot more Jewish in the last five years because of my daughter's bat mitzvah, and I realized I really care about being a Jew."[39]

Prior to her 2010 appearances on Dancing with the Stars, Grey had a physical examination to ensure that she was fit enough to compete and saw a doctor to address chronic neck problems caused by the car crash decades earlier.[40] Her spinal cord was compressed and her surgeon placed a titanium plate in her neck to stabilize it. He also found a cancerous nodule on her thyroid that he removed. Grey said she believed the cancer was caught before it could metastasize and that she was now cancer-free.[41]

In January 2017, Grey participated in the Los Angeles 2017 Women's March.[42]

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1984	Reckless	Cathy Bennario
	Red Dawn	Toni Mason
	The Cotton Club	Patsy Dwyer
1985	American Flyers	Leslie
1986	Ferris Bueller's Day Off	Jeannie Bueller
1987	Dirty Dancing	Frances "Baby" Houseman
1988	Gandahar	Airelle (voice)
1989	Bloodhounds of Broadway	Lovey Lou
1990	If the Shoe Fits	Kelly Carter/Prudence
1992	Wind	Kate Bass
1995	Lover's Knot	Megan Forrester
1995	Grampa’s Babies	Dottie Kravetz
1996	Portraits of a Killer	Elaine Taylor
1997	Red Meat	Candice
2000	Bounce	Janice Geurrero
2002	Ritual	Dr. Alice Dodgson
2008	Redbelt	Lucy Weiss
	Keith	Caroline
2013	The Wind Rises	Mrs. Kurokawa (voice)	English dub
2014	In Your Eyes	Diane
2018	Duck Duck Goose	Edna (voice)
	Untogether	Joise
2019	Bittersweet Symphony	Eleanor Roberts

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1984	ABC Afterschool Special	Carol Durate	Episode: "The Great Love Experiment"
1985		Laura Eller	Episode: "Cindy Eller: A Modern Fairy Tale"
1986	The Equalizer	Valerie Jacobs	Episode: "A Community of Civilized Men"
1990	Murder in Mississippi	Rita Schwerner	Television film
	Criminal Justice	Liz Carter
	If the Shoe Fits	Kelly Carter / Prudence
1991	Eyes of a Witness	Christine Baxter
1993	A Case for Murder	Kate Weldon	Television film
1995	Friends	Mindy	Episode: "The One with the Evil Orthodontist"
	Fallen Angels	Ginger Allen	Episode: "A Dime a Dance"
	The West Side Waltz	Robin Ouiseau	Television film
1998	Outrage	Sally Casey
	Since You've Been Gone	Patty Reed
1999–2001	It's Like, You Know...	Herself	26 episodes
2006	The Road to Christmas	Claire Jameson	Television film
2007	John from Cincinnati	Daphne, Meyer's Fiancée	3 episodes
2008–2014	Phineas and Ferb	Various voices	8 episodes
2009	The New Adventures of Old Christine	Tracey	Episode: "Love Means Never Having to Say You're Crazy"
2010	House	Abbey	Episode: "Unplanned Parenthood"
	Dancing with the Stars	Herself	Season 11 Winner
2011	The Bling Ring	Iris Garvey	Television film
	Strictly Come Dancing	Herself / Guest Judge	Series 9, Week 6
2014–2017	Red Oaks	Judy Meyers	21 episodes
2016	Lip Sync Battle	Herself	Episode: "Clark Gregg vs. Hayley Atwell"
2017	Who Do You Think You Are?		Episode: "Jennifer Grey"
2019	Grey's Anatomy	Carol Dickinson	3 episodes
2020	The Conners	Janelle	2 episodes
2022	Dollface	Sharon Wiley	Episode: "Homecoming Queen"

Dancing with the Stars performances

Week #	Dance / Song	Judges' score			Result
		Inaba	Goodman	Tonioli
1	Viennese Waltz / "These Arms of Mine"	8	8	8	Safe
2	Jive / "Shake It"	8	8	8	Safe
3	Samba / "A Little Respect"	8	8	8	Safe
4	Argentine Tango / "La Cumparsita"	9/10	9/9	9/10	Safe
5	Foxtrot / "Love and Marriage"	8	8	9	Safe
6	Paso Doble / "So What" Rock 'n' Roll Dance Marathon / "La Grange"	6 Awarded	7 9	7 points	Last to be called safe
7	Tango / "Shut Up" Team Cha-cha-cha / "Bust A Move"	10/9 9	9 9	9 9	Safe
8	Quickstep / "Let's Face the Music and Dance" Rumba / "Waiting for a Girl Like You"	9 10	9 10	9 10	Safe
9 Semi-finals	Cha-cha-cha / "Mercy" Waltz / "Way Over Yonder"	10 10	10 10	10 10	Safe
10 Finals	Paso Doble / "Habanera" Freestyle / "Do You Love Me (Now That I Can Dance)" Viennese Waltz / "These Arms of Mine" Instant Cha-cha-cha / "Raise Your Glass"	10 10 10 9	10 10 10 9	10 10 10 10	Won

Awards and nominations

Year	Award	Category	Work	Result
1988	Golden Globe Award	Best Actress – Motion Picture Comedy or Musical	Dirty Dancing	Nominated

Notes

^ a: Contrary to previous versions of this article, and some of the sources cited in it, Grey indicated in a February 8, 2012 tweet on her verified Twitter account that she does not have a middle name.

References

External links

• Jennifer Grey at IMDb
• Jennifer Grey at AllMovie
• Jennifer Grey at the Internet Broadway Database
• Jennifer Grey at the Internet Off-Broadway Database
• Byrne, Bridget (March 21, 1999). "New Sitcom, New Nose, Same Old Jennifer Grey". The Washington Post.
• "Jennifer Grey: Restoring a Memory of a Grandfather". Ancestry Blog. March 20, 2017.

Awards and achievements
Preceded by Nicole Scherzinger & Derek Hough	Dancing with the Stars (US) winners Season 11 (Fall 2010 with Derek Hough)	Succeeded by Hines Ward and Kym Johnson

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[de] Jennifer Grey

Jennifer Grey (* 26. März 1960 in New York City) ist eine US-amerikanische Schauspielerin. Sie wurde 1987 als Frances „Baby“ Houseman im erfolgreichen Tanzfilm Dirty Dancing weltweit bekannt.

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[es] Jennifer Grey

Jennifer Grey (Manhattan, Nueva York; 26 de marzo de 1961) es una actriz estadounidense. Es conocida por sus papeles en películas de los años 1980 como Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986) y Dirty Dancing (1987), por la cual Grey recibió una nominación al premio Globo de Oro. Su trabajo en televisión incluye su victoria en 2010 en la temporada 11 de Dancing with the Stars, además de protagonizar la serie de comedia de Amazon Studios Red Oaks. Grey es la hija del actor ganador de un Óscar Joel Grey y de la exactriz y cantante Jo Wilder.

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[ru] Грей, Дженнифер

Дже́ннифер Грей (англ. Jennifer Grey; род. 26 марта 1960 (1960-03-26), Манхэттен, Нью-Йорк, США) — американская актриса. Наиболее известна по ролям в фильмах «Феррис Бьюллер берёт выходной» (1986) и «Грязные танцы» (1987). Дочь актёра Джоэла Грея и бывшей актрисы и певицы Джо Уайлдер.

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