Jennifer Grey was born on March 26, 1960, in Manhattan, the daughter of stage and screen actor Joel Grey and former actresssinger Jo Wilder. She made her acting debut starring as Cathy Bennario in the film Reckless. In 1986 she played the role of jealous sister Jeanie Bueller in the John Hughes comedy film Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, opposite Matthew Broderick. In 2007 she 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”
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Jennifer Grey was born on March 26, 1960, in Manhattan, the daughter of stage and screen actor Joel Grey and former actresssinger Jo Wilder. She made her acting debut starring as Cathy Bennario in the film Reckless. In 1986 she played the role of jealous sister Jeanie Bueller in the John Hughes comedy film Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, opposite Matthew Broderick. The following year, she reunited with Patrick Swayze, her co-star in Red Dawn, to play Frances \”Baby\” Houseman in Dirty Dancing. In 2007 she 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” She won season eleven of the dancing competition series Dancing with the Stars.
In September 2011, Grey appeared in the movie Bling Ring as Iris Garvey, mother of Zack Garvey’s mother, on Lifetime’s The Ring. She also starred as Judy Meyers in the Prime Video comedy Red Oaks. She had a small role in the 2000 film Bounce with Gwyneth Paltrow and Ben Affleck. Grey’s sole Broadway theatre credit is her 1993 appearance in The Twilight of the Golds. In the early 1990s, Grey underwent two rhinoplasty procedures. 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. She briefly considered changing her name in order to start her career anew, but ultimately decided against this.
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