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Jennifer Grey (born March 26, 1960) is an American actress. She made her acting debut with the film Reckless (1984), and had her breakthrough with the teen comedy film Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986). She subsequently earned worldwide fame for starring as Frances "Baby" Houseman in the romantic drama film Dirty Dancing (1987), which earned her a Golden Globe Award nomination. Her other feature films include Red Dawn (1984), The Cotton Club (1984), Bloodhounds of Broadway (1989), Bounce (2000), Redbelt (2008), The Wind Rises (2013), In Your Eyes (2014), Duck Duck Goose (2018), and Bittersweet Symphony (2019). Grey's early television work includes the made-for-TV films Murder in Mississippi (1990), Criminal Justice (1990), and If the Shoe Fits as Kelly Carter / Prudence (1990). She starred as herself in the series It's Like, You Know... (1999–2001), won season eleven of the dancing competition series Dancing with the Stars (2010) and starred as Judy Meyers in the Amazon Prime Video comedy Red Oaks (2014–2017). She has done voice work in film and television, providing her voice in the 2018 film Duck Duck Goose and the 2008–2014 animated television series Phineas and Ferb. Early life Jennifer Grey was born on March 26, 1960, in New York City, the daughter of stage and Academy Award-winning screen actor Joel Grey and former actress/singer Jo Wilder (née Brower). Her paternal grandfather was comedian and musician Mickey Katz. Grey's parents both came from Jewish families. Grey attended the Dalton School, a private school in Manhattan where she studied dance and acting, and where she met her best friend, actress Tracy Pollan. After graduating in 1978, Grey enrolled at Manhattan's Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre for two years of training as an actress. While waiting for roles, she supported herself waitressing. Career Grey's commercial debut was at the age of 19, in an ad for Dr Pepper, before making her film debut in Reckless (1984), in a small role. She appeared in a small role in Francis Ford Coppola's The Cotton Club (1984). That year she starred in the war film Red Dawn. She then appeared in the 1985 John Badham project American Flyers. In 1986 she played the role of jealous sister Jeannie Bueller in the John Hughes comedy film Ferris Bueller's Day Off, opposite Matthew Broderick. The film was commercially successful and received a positive critical reception. The following year, she reunited with Patrick Swayze, her co-star in Red Dawn, to play Frances "Baby" Houseman in Dirty Dancing. The story is a coming of age love story: spending the summer at a Catskills resort with her family, Frances "Baby" Houseman falls in love with the resort's dance instructor, Johnny Castle. The low-budget film was a surprise hit, was the first film to sell one million copies on video, and is considered a classic. Paid $50,000 for her role, the film came to define Grey's career, and she was nominated for a Golden Globe for Best Actress for the role. Grey's sole Broadway theatre credit is her 1993 appearance in The Twilight of the Golds. Despite the success of Dirty Dancing, Grey felt that her looks would place restrictions on the type of future roles she would be considered for. After consulting her mother and three plastic surgeons in the early 1990s, she underwent two rhinoplasty procedures. The second was necessary to correct an irregularity caused by the first operation and ended up more extensive than what Grey had expected. 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. Of the experience, she said, "I went in the operating room a celebrity—and came out anonymous. It was like being in a witness protection program or being invisible." Grey recalled in a 2020 interview that an airline employee who checked her identity refused to believe that she and the actress the employee knew from Dirty Dancing were one and the same. Grey briefly considered changing her name in order to start her career anew, but ultimately decided against this. From March 1999 until January 2000, Grey starred as herself in the short-lived ABC sitcom It's Like, You Know..., which satirized her much-publicized nose job as a running gag. Grey appeared with Shirley MacLaine, Liza Minnelli, and Kathy Bates in the CBS television movie The West Side Waltz, adapted by Ernest Thompson from his play. She appeared in one episode of Friends as Mindy, a high school friend of Jennifer Aniston's character Rachel. She had a small role in the 2000 film Bounce with Gwyneth Paltrow and Ben Affleck. In 2007, Grey 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". Grey was a contestant on season eleven of Dancing With the Stars. She was partnered with professional dancer Derek Hough. She came out very strong at first, frequently topping the leaderboard. However, injuries, stress, and exhaustion took their toll on Grey, and for a couple of weeks, she fell behind. In week seven, however, she improved, tying with previous frontrunner Brandy Norwood. On November 23, 2010, Grey and her partner Hough won the competition, making her the oldest female winner in the competition. In September 2011 Grey appeared in the Lifetime movie Bling Ring as Iris Garvey, the mother of Zack Garvey. On November 5 and 6, 2011, Grey stood in for head judge Len Goodman on the BBC One TV show Strictly Come Dancing. Grey voiced Mrs. Kurokawa in the English dub version of Hayao Miyazaki's film The Wind Rises. From 2014 to 2017, Grey portrayed Judy Meyers on Red Oaks. In 2018, Grey co-starred in the film Untogether; the film was released on February 8, 2019. Grey also appeared at the 2015 Tony Awards alongside her father Joel, presenting a performance from the musical Fun Home. Ballantine Books published Grey's memoir, Out of the Corner, on May 3, 2022. Personal life On August 5, 1987, Grey suffered severe whiplash in a car collision in Enniskillen, Northern Ireland, while vacationing with actor Matthew Broderick, whom she had begun dating in semi-secrecy during the filming of Ferris Bueller's Day Off. The crash, the event through which their relationship became public, occurred when Broderick, at the wheel of a rented BMW, crossed into the wrong lane and collided head-on with a Volvo driven by a local mother and daughter, Margaret Doherty, 63, and Anna Gallagher, 28, who were killed instantly. Broderick was convicted of careless driving and fined $175. Dirty Dancing was released a few weeks after the collision, catapulting Grey to fame. But she has said that her grief and survivor's guilt over the crash prevented her from enjoying the film's success and led her to withdraw from acting for some time. Grey was also romantically involved with actors Michael J. Fox, Johnny Depp, William Baldwin and then-aide to President Clinton, George Stepha.... Discover the Jennifer Grey popular books. Find the top 100 most popular Jennifer Grey books.
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Love in Unlikely Places
Linda BylerWhen Emma leaves the security of her Amish community for a job in North Carolina, she finds herself navigating choices, circumstances, and a relationship that she never could have ...
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A Second Chance
Linda BylerHow long will Edna have to wait for the love of her life? Will God reward her patience? From Linda Byler, bestselling author of Amish Romances, comes a new story with "multifaceted...
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Hope Deferred
Linda BylerWill Daniel and Anna be able to reconcile their faith struggles and their love for each other? Beloved Amish novelist Linda Byler once again writes a compelling and surprising love...
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I Carried a Watermelon
Katy Brand‘Massively enjoyable’ Dawn FrenchI Carried a Watermelon is a love letter to Dirty Dancing. A warm, witty and accessible look at how Katy Brand’s lifelong obsession with the film ha...
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The Christmas Visitor
Linda BylerOne moment, Ben Miller was high up in the rafters at his neighbor's barn raising. The next, his foot slipped and he plunged t...
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Fourteen Monkeys
Melissa StewartTravel to a tropical rainforest where fourteen species of monkeys live in harmony in this playful, factfilled book from awardwinning author Melissa Stewart and Caldecott honoree St...
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Mother and Child
Jan de VriesMOTHER AND CHILD is the long awaited follow up to Jan's phenomenally successful Preganancy and Childbirth and the next instalment in his excellent Well Woman series. In Mother ...
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Little Amish Lizzie
Byler LindaLizzie is a fiveyearold Amish girl in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. She is spunky, sensitive, and not nearly as pious as her older sister Emma. Lizzie sometimes daydreams instead of pra...
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A Plain and Simple Christmas
Amy ClipstonTake a trip to BirdinHand, Pennsylvania, where you’ll meet the women of the Kauffman Amish Bakery in Lancaster County. As each woman’s story unfolds, you will share in her heartach...
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Fire in the Night
Linda BylerOne barn fire might be an accident, the Lancaster County Amish community believes. But two barns burning just weeks apart is suspicious. Sarah Beiler wants to protect her family, e...
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Banished
Linda BylerThe first book in The Long Road Home trilogy, a unique and gripping Amish romance set in the South at the turn of the century. It was the early 1900s when Obadiah (Oba) and Me...
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The More the Merrier
Linda BylerFrom beloved Amish writer Linda Byler, comes a heartwarming Christmas romance set during the Great Depression.It’s 1931, and times are tough for the Miller family, who are raising ...
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A Christmas Engagement
Linda BylerBestselling Amish novelist Linda Byler spins a sweet tale of heartache, disappointment, and ultimately hopes fulfilled at Christmastime. Liz had been in love once, had even been en...
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A Dog for Christmas
Byler LindaOne Christmas morning, while young Amish twins Henry and Harvey are sledding, they find a big black dog wandering in a field. They adopt the Newfoundland and name him Lucky, and he...
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Wish You Were Here
Renée CarlinoSoon to be a major motion picture!A USA TODAY bestselling second chance romance about a young woman who reunites with a soulful artist after their magical onenight standfrom the be...
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Lizzie and Emma
Byler LindaIn Little Amish Lizzie, the first book in the Buggy Spoke series, fiveyearold Lizzie moves to a new home with her family and must adjust to a new school, new house, and lots of new...
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Life in Her Hands
Averil Mansfield'A great read. I am honoured to have worked with such a legend' David Nott'A role model for women' Independent'A wonderful read' Julian Fellowes'Remarkable' Lauren Laverne'Charming...
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Love Conquers All
Linda BylerAmish novelist Linda Byler spins a heartwarming tale about an Amish widow trying to survive in colonial America. Paula has been cursed since birthor so her mother told her for as l...
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Home Is Where the Heart Is
Linda BylerJoin Amish writer Linda Byler on a trip into a world few are allowed to visitthe world of Amish romance.Hannah, feisty and independent as ever, has put everything into building up ...
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Garment of Praise
Linda BylerThe final book in the New Directions series delves into the complexities of a blended Amish family. Are love and faith enough to navigate through relationship tensions, homesicknes...
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Becky Meets Her Match
Linda BylerBecky Esh has lots of spunk. Never mind that she’s Amish, she regularly confronts authority figures. Her beautiful singing touches those who hear her so deeply that even men cry. I...
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Tapestry of Love
Linda BylerThe second book in the New Directions series following Weaving of Life, this Amish romance will keep you guessing until the end! Susan Lapp is back in Lancaster and ready to begin ...
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Together We Caught Fire
Eva V. GibsonA forbidden attraction grows even more complicated when the guy Lane Jamison has crushed on for years suddenly becomes her stepbrother in this sexy and gorgeously written debut nov...
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Disappearances
Linda BylerSadie may be married now, but she's as spirited as ever, and her life is no less tame. In fact, soon after she and Mark are s...
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Where Secrets Lie
Eva V. Gibson“[A] gorgeous and satisfying thriller.” Booklist (starred review)Perfect for fans of Courtney Summers, this seductive and intense thriller unfolds in interwoven timelines of two su...
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Out of the Corner
Jennifer GreyNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A deeply candid and refreshingly spirited memoir of identity lost and found from the star of the iconic film Dirty Dancing“A funny, dishy, occasionally h...
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The Dakota Series Trilogy
Byler LindaThree Amish novels set during the Great Depression, by bestselling Amish romance author Linda Byler Follow feisty and independent Hannah as she grows from a fifteenyearold girl in ...
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The Homestead
Linda BylerHannah is a fifteenyearold Amish girl who lives on her family’s farm in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. When her family, hit hard by the Great Depression, loses their farm, Hannah’s fathe...
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The Healing
Linda BylerA hopeful story of unexpected love in the midst of illness, pain, and family conflict John is the youngest of seven boys and is constantly overshadowed by his big brothers who seem...
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Beacon of Light
Linda BylerThe second book in The Long Road Home series, a unique and gripping Amish romance trilogy set in the South at the turn of the century. At the end of Banished, Clinton has died and ...
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The Jennifer Grey Mysteries Series Collection
Jerry B. JenkinsFrom Jerry B. Jenkins, cowriter of the millions (and millions) selling Left Behind series, comes the story of Jennifer Grey; a police beat reporter for the Chicago Daily. Compiled ...
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Miss Boston and Miss Hargreaves
Rachel MalikSHORTLISTED FOR THE WALTER SCOTT PRIZE 2018'A surprisingly touching account of hidden lives forced out of the shadows' Sunday TimesOne day in 1940 Rene Hargreaves walks out on her ...
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All in Good Time
Linda BylerThis final book in The Long Road Home trilogy is full of unexpected twists. The redemptive ending will leave you smiling for days. As May settles into family life, she has so much ...
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Lizzie Searches for Love Trilogy
Linda BylerContains all three Lizzie Searches for Love books by Linda Byler Ideal gift for readers in search of a love story Excellent choice for fans of Girls of Paper and Fire, Story Thiev...
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Hope on the Plains
Linda BylerFrom beloved Amish writer Linda Byler, comes the sequel to The Homestead, Amish Romance set during the Great Depression.Hannah, a feisty young Amish woman, lives on her family’s fa...
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Amish Romance at Christmastime
Linda BylerBestselling Amish novelist Linda Byler’s three heartwarming Christmas romancesin one affordable volume! Linda Byler is beloved for her skillful story telling and truetolife descrip...
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The Weaving of Life
Linda BylerThe first in a new series about an independent Amish woman and her struggles in career and romance. Susan Lapp is a hardworking Amish woman in her early twenties. She enjoys the fi...
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The Third Gilmore Girl
Kelly BishopA candid and captivating memoir from awardwinning and beloved actress Kelly Bishop, spanning her six decades in show business from Broadway to Hollywood with A Chorus Line, Dirty D...
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A Horse for Elsie
Byler LindaA heartwarming tale of longing and hope in Lancaster by bestselling author Linda Byler Elsie is desperate for a horse of her own, but her family barely has enough money to get by a...
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The Amish Schoolteacher
Jerry EicherWhat will it take for Mary to let go of her pride and see Marcus for who he really is? A swift and heartwarming Amish romance, full of misunderstandings, tragedy, and the...
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A Million Worlds with You
Claudia GrayThe fate of the multiverse rests in Marguerite’s hands in the final installment of the Firebird trilogy by New York Times bestselling author Claudia Gray.Ever since she used the Fi...