Joel Grey’s Kids: Meet His 2 Children, Including Famous ‘Dirty Dancing’ Star

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Jennifer Grey dada Joel Grey

Image Credit: Shutterstock Joel Grey is simply a theatre icon, champion known for playing the archetypal Master of Ceremonies successful Cabaret Joel has 2 children with his ex-wife, Jo Joel came retired arsenic cheery astatine the property of 82

Joel Grey is 1 of the astir celebrated Broadway actors of each clip and adjacent won the Tony Lifetime Achievement Award successful 2023. Sweetly enough, his daughter, Dirty Dancing prima Jennifer Grey, personally handed him the grant aft giving an affectional speech. “I’m truthful inspired by my dad. By the sheer breadth of his work, his emotion of life,” she gushed. “As idiosyncratic who has clung to his each determination my full beingness his unthinkable vocation lone pales successful examination to the accomplishment of however helium lives his life, his gigantic heart. This satellite is conscionable markedly amended for him being here.”

Joel, who has besides won an Academy Award, Golden Globe, and BAFTA Award, has 2 kids: Jennifer and his son, James. Joel shares some of his kids with his archetypal and lone wife, Jo Wilder, whom helium joined successful 1958. The brace divorced aft 20 years of marriage, and Joel came retired arsenic gay. Learn much astir Joel’ds kids below, including Jennifer’s absorption to him coming retired aboriginal successful life.

Joel Grey and Jennifer Grey arrived astatine the 76th Annual Tony Awards successful 2023 (Photo: Shutterstock)

Jennifer Grey

Jennifer’s Career

Jennifer is Jo and Joel’s archetypal kid and was calved successful New York City successful 1960. She is champion known for her roles successful 1986’s Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, successful which she frightened the surface with Matthew Broderick, and 1987’s film, Dirty Dancing, successful which she starred other the late Patrick Swayze. Jennifer’s vocation slowed down, interestingly enough, aft she had a chemoreceptor job. “I spent truthful overmuch vigor trying to fig retired what I did wrong, wherefore I was banished from the kingdom,” she reflected successful her 2022 memoir, Out of the Corner (via PEOPLE). “That’s a lie. I banished myself.”

Jennifer had her chemoreceptor done not once, but twice. She said she regretted them some — particularly after Michael Douglas saw her astatine a movie premiere soon aft and had nary thought who she was. “That was the archetypal clip I had gone retired successful public,” she told PEOPLE. “And it became the thing, the thought of being wholly invisible, from 1 time to the next. In the world’s eyes, I was nary longer me.”

Jennifer Grey poses post-rhinoplasty (Photo: Everett)

“And the weird happening was that happening that I resisted my full life, and the happening I was truthful upset with my parent for ever telling maine I should bash my nose. I truly thought it was capitulating,” she continued. “I truly thought it meant surrendering to the force camp. I conscionable thought, ‘I’m bully enough. I shouldn’t person to bash this.’ That’s truly what I felt. ‘I’m beauteous enough.'”

Even if she were “banished” by Hollywood, Jennifer inactive has a vocation that would marque immoderate rising histrion jealous.

Jennifer’s Double Life

Because her begetter is 1 of the biggest actors of each time, Jennifer had the satellite astatine her fingertips increasing up. Sadly, that wasn’t ever a bully thing, arsenic by the property of 16, she was partying similar an big — and dating them. “Yes, determination was tons of drugs and drinking. All the time. I had a boyfriend, we were retired astatine clubs astatine night. I would alteration astatine his location and spell to school. I was surviving a treble life,” she recalled to PEOPLE. “I americium similar conscionable trying to get done the precocious schoolhouse years truthful that I tin get connected with my beingness due to the fact that I americium not dating guys my age. I americium not interested… I ne'er dated a teen successful my life. I don’t deliberation I ever adjacent kissed a teenager.”

Jennifer’s Knew Her Dad Was Gay Before The Public

Joel came retired arsenic a cheery antheral erstwhile helium was 82 years old. “All the radical adjacent to maine person known for years who I am,” helium explained to PEOPLE in 2015, publically talking astir his sexuality for the archetypal time. “[Yet] it took clip to clasp that different portion of who I ever was.”

Jennifer, unsurprisingly, has ever been supportive of her father. Sadly, the Cabaret prima was not the 1 to archer her helium is gay. While speaking astir her memoir, the Red Dawn histrion recalled being perfectly shocked erstwhile her fellow astatine the time, Matthew Broderick’s mom, rather bluntly told her that her begetter is simply a “f**”.

Matthew Broderick and Jennfier Grey successful ‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off’ (Photo: Shutterstock)

“The crushed I enactment that successful the book, was due to the fact that it was 1 of those days that changed me. In the consciousness that however could I not cognize everything determination was to cognize astir my dad? I was the closest to him of anyone successful the world,” she explained to PEOPLE. “And helium would ne'er not archer maine the truth. And that was the lone happening that was hard astir it was due to the fact that I was confused due to the fact that it was 1 of those moments wherever my world was shaken up.”

The histrion besides shared her disgust for people’s obsession with trying to retired Hollywood stars. “I deliberation that sexuality is truthful overmuch much absorbing than cheery oregon straight, bi. And, you cognize what I deliberation astir it each the time: helium said my ma was the emotion of his beingness and I judge she was,” she confirmed.

Jennifer’s Love Life

As mentioned above, Jennifer was successful a narration with Mathew Broderick aft they filmed Ferris Bueller’s Day Off together. They broke up not agelong aft they were successful a tragic car mishap successful Ireland that killed 2 people. She and Matthew were injured. She went connected to concisely day Johnny Depp.

Jennifer Grey poses with her hubby astatine the time, Clark Gregg, successful 2019 (Photo: Shutterstock)

Jennifer joined Clark Gregg successful 2001 and ended their marriage successful 2021. They stock 1 child, a miss named Stella. Stella graduated from precocious school successful May 2020 and has done immoderate enactment with her father.