Jennifer Grey
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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Jennifer Grey
Filmography
Movies
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96% |
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A Real Pain | Marsha (Character) | $228.9K | 2024 |
No Score Yet |
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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% |
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Untogether | Josie (Character) | - | 2018 |
No Score Yet |
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Duck Duck Goose | Edna (Voice) | - | 2018 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Dirty Dancing 30th Anniversary | Unknown (Character) | - | 2017 |
61% |
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In Your Eyes | Unknown (Character) | - | 2014 |
88% |
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The Wind Rises | Mrs. Kurokawa (Voice) | - | 2013 |
No Score Yet |
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The Bling Ring | Iris Garvey (Character) | - | 2011 |
No Score Yet |
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Keith | Caroline (Character) | - | 2008 |
No Score Yet |
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The Road to Christmas | Claire (Character) | - | 2006 |
0% |
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Ritual | Dr. Alice Dodgson (Character) | - | 2001 |
53% |
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Bounce | Mrs. Guererro (Character) | $36.8M | 2000 |
20% |
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Since You've Been Gone | Patty Reed (Character) | - | 1998 |
No Score Yet |
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Outrage | Sally Casey (Character) | - | 1998 |
No Score Yet |
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Portraits of Innocence | Elaine Taylor (Character) | - | 1996 |
No Score Yet |
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Red Meat | Candice (Character) | - | 1996 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Lover's Knot | Megan Forrester (Character) | $5.0K | 1996 |
No Score Yet |
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The West Side Waltz | Robin Ouiseau (Character) | - | 1995 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | A Case for Murder | Kate Weldon (Character) | - | 1993 |
46% |
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Wind | Kate Bass (Character) | $4.9M | 1992 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Eyes of a Witness | Christine Baxter (Character) | - | 1991 |
No Score Yet |
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If the Shoe Fits |
Kelly Carter/ |
- | 1991 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Una Cenicienta Moderna | Unknown (Character) | - | 1991 |
No Score Yet |
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Murder in Mississippi | Rita Schwerner (Character) | - | 1990 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Criminal Justice | Liz Carter (Character) | - | 1990 |
No Score Yet |
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Bloodhounds of Broadway | Lovey Lou (Character) | $25.8K | 1989 |
No Score Yet |
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Gandahar | Airelle (Voice) | - | 1988 |
72% |
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Dirty Dancing | Frances "Baby" Houseman (Character) | $486.3K | 1987 |
83% |
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Ferris Bueller's Day Off | Jean 'Jeanie' Bueller (Character) | $69.0M | 1986 |
70% |
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American Flyers | Leslie (Character) | - | 1985 |
48% |
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Red Dawn | Toni (Character) | - | 1984 |
0% |
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Reckless | Cathy Bennario (Character) | - | 1984 |
TV
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No Score Yet | 28% | The Drew Barrymore Show | Guest | 2022 |
No Score Yet | 61% | Late Night With Seth Meyers | Guest | 2022 |
No Score Yet | 12% | 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 | 89% | 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 |