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Jennifer Grey

Highest Rated: 96% A Real Pain (2024)

Lowest Rated: 0% Ritual (2001)

Birthday: Mar 26, 1960

Birthplace: New York, New York, USA

A versatile and personable screen performer who could transition easily from broad comedy to serious drama, actress Jennifer Grey's career was unfortunately encompassed - and eclipsed - by a single film, the 1987 coming-of-age movie "Dirty Dancing." Her character, Frances "Baby" Houseman, became the idol of millions of teenage girls in the late summer of that year; a shy, pampered city girl who learned to spread her wings and find joy and romance through dancing with her handsome, older "bad boy" instructor (Patrick Swayze). Like so many relative unknowns who found fame early in their careers, Grey struggled to overcome the lingering image of Baby. A botched nose job in the early 1990s made matters worse by rendering her virtually unrecognizable from her most famous role. She worked sporadically in the years that followed, often doing fine work for notable directors, but for many viewers, she remained that teenage girl, blossoming so spectacularly, in the arms of the man she loved in "Dirty Dancing."

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Highest rated movies

96% 81% A Real Pain Watchlist
88% 85% The Wind Rises
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83% 92% Ferris Bueller's Day Off Watchlist 72% 90% Dirty Dancing Watchlist
70% 90% American Flyers
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61% 69% In Your Eyes
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53% 33% Bounce
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48% 65% Red Dawn
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46% 81% Wind
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42% 26% Untogether Watchlist

Filmography

Movies

Credit
No Score Yet No Score Yet Wish You Were Here Unknown (Character) - 2025
96% 81% A Real Pain Marsha (Character) $228.9K 2024
No Score Yet 57% Gwen Shamblin: Starving for Salvation Gwen Shamblin (Character) - 2023
No Score Yet No Score Yet Mortal Kombat Legends: Cage Match Jennifer Grey (Voice) - 2023
No Score Yet No Score Yet Bittersweet Symphony Unknown (Character) - 2019
42% 26% Untogether Josie (Character) - 2018
No Score Yet 40% Duck Duck Goose Edna (Voice) - 2018
No Score Yet No Score Yet Dirty Dancing 30th Anniversary Unknown (Character) - 2017
61% 69% In Your Eyes Unknown (Character) - 2014
88% 85% The Wind Rises Mrs. Kurokawa (Voice) - 2013
No Score Yet 38% The Bling Ring Iris Garvey (Character) - 2011
No Score Yet 81% Keith Caroline (Character) - 2008
No Score Yet 46% The Road to Christmas Claire (Character) - 2006
0% 28% Ritual Dr. Alice Dodgson (Character) - 2001
53% 33% Bounce Mrs. Guererro (Character) $36.8M 2000
20% 34% Since You've Been Gone Patty Reed (Character) - 1998
No Score Yet 53% Outrage Sally Casey (Character) - 1998
No Score Yet 50% Portraits of Innocence Elaine Taylor (Character) - 1996
No Score Yet 0% Red Meat Candice (Character) - 1996
No Score Yet No Score Yet Lover's Knot Megan Forrester (Character) $5.0K 1996
No Score Yet 67% The West Side Waltz Robin Ouiseau (Character) - 1995
No Score Yet No Score Yet A Case for Murder Kate Weldon (Character) - 1993
46% 81% Wind Kate Bass (Character) $4.9M 1992
No Score Yet No Score Yet Eyes of a Witness Christine Baxter (Character) - 1991
No Score Yet 47% If the Shoe Fits Kelly Carter/Prudence (Character) - 1991
No Score Yet No Score Yet Una Cenicienta Moderna Unknown (Character) - 1991
No Score Yet 59% Murder in Mississippi Rita Schwerner (Character) - 1990
No Score Yet No Score Yet Criminal Justice Liz Carter (Character) - 1990
No Score Yet 23% Bloodhounds of Broadway Lovey Lou (Character) $25.8K 1989
No Score Yet 73% Gandahar Airelle (Voice) - 1988
72% 90% Dirty Dancing Frances "Baby" Houseman (Character) $486.3K 1987
83% 92% Ferris Bueller's Day Off Jean 'Jeanie' Bueller (Character) $69.0M 1986
70% 90% American Flyers Leslie (Character) - 1985
48% 65% Red Dawn Toni (Character) - 1984
0% 68% Reckless Cathy Bennario (Character) - 1984

TV

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No Score Yet 28% The Drew Barrymore Show Guest 2022
No Score Yet 55% Late Night With Seth Meyers Guest 2022
No Score Yet 11% The View Guest 2022
93% 47% The Conners Janelle (Guest Star) 2020
84% 72% Grey's Anatomy Carol Dickinson (Guest Star) 2019
93% 92% Red Oaks Judy Meyers (Character) 2014-2017
No Score Yet No Score Yet Who Do You Think You Are? Self 2017
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Chew Guest 2012 2016
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Doctors Guest 2015
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Wendy Williams Show Guest 2011
No Score Yet No Score Yet Dancing With the Stars Contestant 2010
90% 96% House Abbey (Guest Star) 2010
89% 77% The New Adventures of Old Christine Unknown (Guest Star) 2009
No Score Yet 88% Phineas and Ferb Unknown (Guest Voice) 2009
58% 86% John From Cincinnati Daphne, Meyer's Fiancée (Character),
Unknown (Guest Star)
2007
46% No Score Yet It's Like, You Know ... Jennifer Grey (Character) 1999-2000
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Daily Show Guest 1999
No Score Yet No Score Yet Fallen Angels Ginger Allen (Character) 1995
78% 93% Friends Mindy (Guest Star) 1995
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Equalizer Valerie Jacobs (Guest Star) 1986