Jennifer Grey

Jennifer Grey is proof that one perfect performance can outweigh a hundred good ones. As Baby in Dirty Dancing she captured something almost impossible to act: the exact moment a young woman decides to stop being careful. I also love her sardonic turn in Ferris Bueller's Day Off, which shows a comic edge people forget she has. Her career afterward was complicated, and I respect how openly she has reckoned with it. When she came back decades later, still dancing, still game, it felt less like nostalgia than vindication. That lift in the lake stays with me — earned joy, not movie magic.

Name (English)

Jennifer Grey

Name (Japanese)

ジェニファー・グレイ

Reading

じぇにふぁー・ぐれい

Born

March 26, 1960 (age 66)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Aries / Rat

Origin

New York City, New York, United States

Occupation

actor / film actor / dancer / television actor / voice actor

Motto

Private

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• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B8%E3%82%A7%E3%83%8B%E3%83%95%E3%82%A1%E3%83%BC%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B0%E3%83%AC%E3%82%A4

Tags

• New York
• actor
• film actor
• dancer

Last updated

2026-06-11

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