'Dirty Dancing': Jennifer Grey Through The Years

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Jennifer Grey

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...

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Jennifer Grey and Patrick Swayze

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

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Jennifer Grey, Patrick Swayze

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!

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Matthew Broderick and Jennifer Grey

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…

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Clark Gregg and Jennifer Grey

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.

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Stella Gregg, Clark Gregg, and Jennifer Grey

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.

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Jennifer Grey

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.

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Jennifer Grey

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…

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Jennifer Grey

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...

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Jennifer Grey and Derek Hough

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

Most people know Jennifer Grey as "Frances 'Baby' Houseman" from the amazing movie Dirty Dancing. But before she starred in the 1987 cult classic, she had already acted alongside Hollywood great like Richard Gere and Kevin Costner.

Dirty Dancing: Through The Years With Jennifer Grey

After her breakthrough with Dirty Dancing though, her acting career did not take off as much as many had anticipated. The reason for that was plastic surgery, but she never had to leave the limelight completely and still stars on TV today...

Take a look at Jennifer throughout the past few decades right here!