Jennifer Grey was left with severe whiplash and subsequently 63-year-old Margaret Doherty and 28-year-old Anna Gallagher were killed when Broderick moved his car to the wrong side of the road. There were other movies like ‘Dirty dancing’ that came out few weeks later.
Jennifer Grey has said she could not celebrate success of the film because she was tormented by survivor’s guilt of the accident.
Early Life
Jennifer Grey was born on 26th March in 1960 in New York City. Her father is Joel Grey an eminent actor who was celebrated with Tony and Academy Award for his role in the musical “Cabaret” while her mother, Jo Wilder is an ex-actress and singer. Jennifer had a brother; James and she was student at Dalton School in Manhattan.
She danced at Dalton and did acting, and got to know Tracy Pollan who later became an actress marrying Michael J Fox. Jennifer completed the high school education in 1978, and thereafter pursued her acting studies at the Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre for two years.
Jennifer Grey Net Worth?
Jennifer Grey is a very talented Hollywood actress belonging to United States of America and her current worth estimation is 10 Million Dollars. Jennifer Grey is widely recognized for her roles appearing as Frances “Baby” Houseman in “Dirty Dancing” (1987) and as Jeanie Bueller in “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off” (1986).
She has acted in more than 40 films and television programs; she also appeared in the play Twilight of the Golds on Broadway in 1993. In 2010, we saw Grey featuring in “Dancing with the Stars” a show she emerged the winner, with her dance partner on the show being Derek Hough.
Career
Jennifer Grey was nineteen years of age when she got her first commercial being a Dr. Pepper commercial Later in the same year, she starred in the big screen movies Reckless, Red Dawn, The Cotton Club and the ABC Afterschool Special known as The Great Love Experiment In the following year.
In 1987, she acted in ‘Dirty Dancing’ with Patrick Swayze; the film tops the charts and earned $214. 6 million against a $4. 5 million budgets. For her performance, she was nominated for a Golden Globe.
After Dirty Dancing her next films were as Airelle in the 1988 French animated film Gandahar along with the films Bloodhounds of Broadway (1989), If the Shoe Fits (1990), and Wind (1992) and in the made-for-television movies Murder in Mississippi (1990), Criminal Justice (1990), If the Shoe Fits (1990), and Eyes of a Witness (1991).
Awards and Nominations
In 1988 Grey received her first Golden Globe nomination for the Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture – Comedy or Musical for ‘Dirty Dancing.’ She was nominated for the Bravo Otto award for Best Actress four times, and won in 1988.
She was nominated Cable ACE Award in the Actress in a Dramatic Series category for “Fallen Angels” in 1995, and Jennifer with the voice actors of “Kaze tachinu” received a BTVA Award nomination in the Best Vocal Ensemble in an Anime Feature Film/Special category in 2015.
