| Jennifer Grey  Born: 26-Mar-1960
Birthplace: New York City
Gender: Female
Religion: Jewish
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Actor Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Dirty Dancing In her most famous role, Jennifer Grey played the teenaged girl on vacation with her family, and fell for Patrick Swayze in Dirty Dancing. She was also memorable as the bitchy kid sister of noted truant Matthew Broderick in Ferris Bueller's Day Off, and in Red Dawn she played a guerrilla girl fighting the Soviet Union's invasion and occupation of America.
Grey had always been unhappy with her somewhat distinctive nose, and in the early 1990s she underwent two separate operations to have the nose reconstructed. The rhinoplasty left Grey every bit as pretty as any of 50,000 other actresses in Hollywood, but also left her completely unrecognizable as Jennifer Grey. Even her biggest fans and longtime friends no longer recognized her. Her post-surgical résumé is remarkably free of any memorable movies. In a short-lived 1999 sitcom, It's Like, You Know, Grey played a character named Jennifer Grey, an actress whose nose job had left her unrecognizable. In interviews, she has described the nose job as "a mistake". She has rarely been seen on TV or in films since her sitcom was cancelled.
She is the daughter of stage actor and Cabaret MC Joel Grey, and granddaughter of musical parody performer and Borscht Belt comedian Mickey Katz.
Father: Joel Grey (actor, b. 1932)
Mother: Jo Wilder (singer-actress, m. 1958, div. 1982)
Brother: James Grey (chef)
Boyfriend: Matthew Broderick (broken engagement, dated late 1980s)
Boyfriend: Johnny Depp (broken engagement, 1990)
Boyfriend: George Stephanopoulos (journalist, dated 1992)
Boyfriend: Liam Neeson (actor)
Boyfriend: William Baldwin (actor)
Husband: Clark Gregg (actor/writer, b. 1962, dated 2000-01, m. 21-Jul-2001, one daughter)
Daughter: Stella (b. 3-Dec-2001)
High School: Dalton School, New York City, NY (1978)
Rhinoplasty 1992
Jewish Ancestry
FILMOGRAPHY AS ACTOR
Keith (11-Apr-2008)
Road to Christmas (Jul-2006)
Ritual (2001)
Bounce (15-Nov-2000)
Since You've Been Gone (18-Apr-1998)
Outrage (4-Jan-1998)
Lover's Knot (12-Jul-1996)
Wind (11-Sep-1992)
Murder in Mississippi (5-Feb-1990)
If the Shoe Fits (1990)
Bloodhounds of Broadway (3-Nov-1989)
Dirty Dancing (25-Aug-1987)
Ferris Bueller's Day Off (11-Jun-1986)
Cindy Eller: A Modern Fairy Tale (9-Oct-1985)
American Flyers (16-Aug-1985)
The Cotton Club (14-Dec-1984)
Red Dawn (10-Aug-1984)
Reckless (3-Feb-1984)
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