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Kelly Bishop, born 27 February 1944 in Colorado Springs, is an American dancer, stage actor, film actor, and television actor whose field of work spans acting, film, dance, and ballet. She began her career in 1966 and received the Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Musical. She resides in South Orange. TMDb places her within its Acting department.
Synthesized by Vinony from 23 facts across 4 sources: Wikidata, MusicBrainz, Last.fm, TMDb. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.
Person · Open Library
- Works
- 6
Top works
- Third Gilmore Girl
- Killing Game
- Five Bucks
- Lose Your Belly Diet Smoothies
- Marketing vs. Branding
via Open Library + Wikidata
Film & TV
Acting · Colorado Springs, Colorado, USA
Carole "Kelly" Bishop is an American actress, who is best known for her role as matriarch Emily Gilmore on the series Gilmore Girls, and for her role as Jennifer Grey's mother in the film Dirty Dancing. She is also well remembered for her Tony-winning performance as Sheila in A Chorus Line.
Known for
- Broadway's Leading Ladies — Self2025
- Standby — Glenna2025
- The Watchful Eye — Mrs. Ivey2023
- Shrinking — Susan2023
- Broadway: Beyond the Golden Age — Self2021
- Halston — Eleanor Lambert2021
- Art of Falling in Love — Iris2019
- The Salzburg Story2018
- Saint Janet — Janet2017
- The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel — Benedetta2017
via TMDB
Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Female
- Origin
- United States
- Active from
- 1944
via MusicBrainz · CC0
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 20
- Total plays
- 184
Tags
<a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Kelly+Bishop">Read more on Last.fm</a>
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- PRISMA Extension for Scoping Reviews (PRISMA-ScR): Checklist and Explanation
· 2018 · cited 36,301x
- Global burden of 369 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019
· 2020 · cited 15,988x
- Scoping studies: advancing the methodology
· 2010 · cited 12,273x
- Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for 354 diseases and injuries for 195 countries and territories, 1990–2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017
· 2018 · cited 10,999x
- Neural Networks for Pattern Recognition
· 1995 · cited 9,840x
via Crossref · CC0
Key facts
- Born
- ( 1944-02-28 ) February 28, 1944 (age 82) , Colorado Springs, Colorado , U.S.
- Occupations
- Actress, dancer
- Years active
- 1962–present
- Spouses
- Peter Miller ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1970 ; divorced</span>"}]]}'>div. 1975 ) Lee Leonard ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1981 ; died 2018 )
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Kelly
- Family name
- Bishop
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Colorado Springs
- Occupation
- actor
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Field of work
- ballet
- Image
- Kelly Bishop.jpg
- Residence
- South Orange
Show 3 more facts
- date of birth
- 1944-02-27
- Commons category
- Kelly Bishop
- start of work period
- 1966-00-00
via Wikidata · CC0
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Encyclopedic overview
Kelly Bishop (born Carole Jane Bishop; on February 28, 1944) is an American actress and dancer, best known for her roles as matriarch Emily Gilmore on the series Gilmore Girls and as Marjorie Houseman, the mother of Jennifer Grey's Frances "Baby" Houseman, in the film Dirty Dancing. Bishop originated the role of Sheila in A Chorus Line for which she won a Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Musical. In 2023, she starred as Mrs. Ivey in The Watchful Eye (2023).
Early life
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