Jennifer Grey

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Jennifer Grey (born March 26 1960 in New York City) is a Jewish-American actress. She is the daughter of well known stage and screen actor Joel Grey and the granddaughter of comedian and musician Mickey Katz.

Grey had a spate of good roles in the late 1980s. After small roles in The Cotton Club and American Flyers, she played Ferris' bitchy sister Jeanie in Ferris Bueller's Day Off, and then gained her greatest fame in the lead role of Frances "Baby" Houseman in the 1987 hit movie Dirty Dancing.

Grey also appeared in the TV movie The West Side Waltz in 1995 on Thanksgiving evening on CBS, written by acclaimed playwright Ernest Thompson, also starring Shirley Maclaine, Liza Minnelli, and Kathy Bates.

Grey appeared in the short-lived ABC sitcom It's Like, You Know... (1999-2000) as a struggling actress named Jennifer Grey, who pokes fun at herself after a much-publicized nose job (parodying Grey's own plastic surgery):

Arthur Garment: You know, you look different somehow.
Jennifer Grey: Well, you see a movie ten years ago…
Arthur Garment: I saw it just recently.
Jennifer Grey: … on a small TV screen…
Arthur Garment: This was a revival. Huge movie screen.
Jennifer Grey: … sitting so far back…
Arthur Garment: Front row. Right up close.
Jennifer Grey: Nose job!
Arthur Garment: Oh. [pauses] Just one?

Grey is an alumna of The Dalton School, a highly elite private school in New York City.

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