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In 1976 she won Best Supporting or Featured Actress in a Musical for her portrayal of Sheila in A Chorus Line. Like her on-screen husband Jerry, Kelly had also won a Tony Award before her role as Baby's mother in Dirty Dancing. Jerry sadly died from prostate cancer in December 2004, aged 69, leaving behind his wife Elaine and sons from his first marriage, Anthony and Christopher.

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Read more: The truth about Patrick Swayze and Jennifer GreyвЂ™s complicated relationshipД«ut to younger TV audiences, Jerry is best known worldwide for his in crime drama Law & Order role as NYPD detective.

Jerry made regular guest appearances in popular television shows, with a recurring role on Murder, She Wrote opposite Angela Lansbury, as detective Harry McGraw. Patrick sadly died from pancreatic cancer in 2009, aged 57.ДЇollowing the breakout success of Dirty Dancing Jerry continued a steady and well-respected career in both stage and screen.Д«efore his role as Baby's father, Jerry had been nominated for multiple Tony Awards winning one for his role in the play Promises, Promises in 1972. They met when she was fourteen and he was eighteen and she was receiving dance lessons from his mother. Patrick was in a relationship with wife Lisa Niemi for 34 years. In 2001 he appeared in Donnie Darko, in 2002 with Billy Bob Thornton and Charlize Theron in Little Rock To Reno and co-produced and starred in fictional dance film One Last Dance in 2003. When filming Letters From a Killer in 1997, Patrick fell from a horse and broke both of his legs, taking three years to recover fully. Why Patrick Swayze hated 'Nobody puts Baby in the corner' line from Dirty Dancing

He entered rehab for alcoholism in the 1990's and took a break from show business, retreating to his ranch in California to breed horses. Patrick's next big film role was in Ghost in 1990 with Demi Moore and Whoopi Goldberg and then opposite Keanu Reeves in smash hit action movie, Point Break.

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Like co-star Jennifer, Patrick Swayze was also nominated for a Golden Globe for his role in Dirty Dancing, and the surprise hit movie propelled him to overnight Hollywood stardom. Jennifer was romantically involved with Matthew Broderick and Johnny Depp has a daughter, Stella, 11, with her husband Clark Gregg who she married in 2001. In 2011 she briefly stood in for head judge Len Goodman on Strictly Come Dancing and most recently Jennifer co-starred in the film Untogether, released in February 2019. The star has had a steady, if under-the-radar, career including playing Jennifer Aniston's friend Mindy in an episode of Friends and won Dancing With The Stars in 2010. It was like being in a witness protection programme or being invisible.' Regarding her drastic transformation, Jennifer, 60, later said: 'I went in the operating room a celebrity-and came out anonymous. Watch this couple's proposal on the Dirty Dancing stage She was so unrecognisable that she even briefly considered changing her name and starting her career all over again, but decided against it. In the early 1990's Jennifer underwent two nose jobs, radically changing her appearance.

A year after her first major film as Matthew Broderick's sister in Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Jennifer's role as Baby in Dirty Dancing earned her a Golden Globe nomination for Best Actress.

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