'Dirty Dancing' Star Jennifer Grey's Life and Career In Pictures!

Jennifer Grey started her career at a very young age, co-starring alongside Hollywood stars like Richard Gere and other big names. But Grey's big and international breakthrough happened a few years later in 1987 with THE iconic movie...

…Dirty Dancing! Next to Patrick Swayze, Grey became an international celebrity, after she starred as the cute and beautiful "Frances 'Baby' Houseman".

The movie Dirty Dancing was not only a huge success in its own right, but it also was the foundation for many other dance movies that came after it, due to its phenomenal dancing-scenes and choreography!

In 1987 Jennifer Grey dated the handsome Matthew Broderick. The couple even survived a car-accident together, while two other women succumbed to their injuries. Mr. Broderick wasn’t the one for her though…She would eventually meet her great love later in life…

And this man is Clark Gregg: In July of 2001 Jennifer walked down the aisle and swore love and loyalty to the fellow actor and screenwriter. However, the pair announced their separation in 2020.

Just a few months after Grey and Gregg‘s wedding, their daughter Stella was born. Stella sometimes attends public events together with her parents. She really inherited her mothers beauty and charisma! Maybe we‘ll soon be able to admire her on stage and screen as well.

While Grey obviously found luck and happiness in her private life, her career did not go on as great as everyone had thought. Why, you ask? One of the main reasons is Grey‘s nose job, which happened just a few years after her big success with 'Dirty Dancing'.

The surgery changed Jennifer’s face so much, she was almost not recognizable afterwards. Due to this circumstance, many studios and producers refrained from offering her any more big parts. She’d just lost her natural beauty and her innocence…

Beside some smaller parts in different TV movies, Jennifer Grey appeared one the big screen only one more time. The movie‘s name was Bounce, but it took another format to show everyone she has not lost one bit of her abilities to move over the past few years...

In 2010, Jennifer Grey was a contestant on Dancing with the Stars – and eventually won the season with her dancing partner, Derek Hough!

Aside from her success as a reality show contestant, Jennifer Grey can also be quite excited about another lead role. She starred as "Judy Meyers" in the Amazon Original series Red Oaks from 2014 to 2017, playing the mother of the young protagonist!

Most recently, Jennifer Grey appeared in one episode of 'Grey's Anatomy', as well as in the American-British drama 'Bittersweet Symphony'. Also, in 2020, she was part of the cast of ABC's American sitcom 'The Conner's!