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Jennifer Grey

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Also known as Jennifer Elise Grey

American actress

OverviewAI-generated

Jennifer Grey is an American jazz vocalist and film music artist. Her career began in 1984, and she has one child. She is associated with female vocalists and American jazz styles.

A separate musical entity named Jennifer Grey is a Japanese group. This band performs alternative metal, alternative rock, and avant-garde metal. The group is based in Japan.

Jennifer Grey is also an author with sixteen works listed in Open Library. Notable titles include Virgin Butt Ranch, Getting Some Posse, Spy Who Laid Me, Pass Me Around the Locker Room, and First Time with Sheriff Daddy. Crossref records five works under her name.

Synthesized by Vinony from 18 facts across 6 sources: Wikidata, Last.fm, Crossref, MusicBrainz, Open Library, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.

Person · Open Library

Works
16

Top works

  • Virgin Butt Ranch
  • Getting Some Posse
  • Spy Who Laid Me
  • Pass Me Around the Locker Room
  • First Time with Sheriff Daddy

via Open Library + Wikidata

Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Group
Origin
Japan
Active from
1997-02
alternative metalalternative rockavant-garde metaljapanesejapanese bandkote kei

via MusicBrainz · CC0

Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
13
Total plays
58

Tags

americanjazzfemale vocalistsfilm music

<a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Jennifer+Grey">Read more on Last.fm</a>

via Last.fm · Jennifer Grey

Key facts

Born
( 1960-03-26 ) March 26, 1960 (age 66) , New York City, New York, U.S.
Occupation
Actress
Years active
1979–present
Spouse
Clark Gregg ​ ​ ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 2001 ; divorced</span>"}]]}'>div. 2021 ) ​
Parents
Joel Grey (father) Jo Wilder (mother)
Relatives
Mickey Katz (grandfather) Ronald A. Katz (uncle)

via Wikipedia infobox

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Encyclopedic overview

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 earned worldwide fame 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), Bittersweet Symphony (2019), and A Real Pain (2024).

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). Her voice work in film and television includes the 2018 film Duck Duck Goose and the 2008–2014 animated television series Phineas and Ferb.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Jennifer Grey” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.