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Celebrity Birthdays, July 16
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Great Celebrity Run In
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MY NEW YORK: Tour the Town with Hairspray's Corny, Clarke Thorell
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'We're now busier than ever'
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Rocky Mountain News - Found Aug. 16, 2008 One investor was Lily Cates, mother of actress Phoebe Cates, court papers showed. |
Vilar's complicated legacy
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MOVIE REVIEW: "American Teen"
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Las Vegas Review Journal - Found Aug. 15, 2008 High' (1982) -- From the campus to the mall, California teens (including Sean Penn, Judge Reinhold, Phoebe Cates and Jennifer Jason Leigh... |
An itsy-bitsy, teeny-weeny tribute
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Irish Independent - Found Jul. 27, 2008 Phoebe Cates, Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982) One of the definitive coming-of-age comedies of the 1980s features a sizzling slo-mo fantasy... |
Tokin' laughs
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Phoebe Cates Biography
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Phoebe Cates
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| Phoebe Cates | |
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 Cates and husband Kevin Kline at the Governor's Ball party after the 1989 Academy Awards, March 29, 1989; photo by Alan Light |
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| Born | Phoebe Belle Katz July 16, 1963 New York City, U.S.A. |
| Years active | 1981-2001 |
| Spouse(s) | Kevin Kline (1989-present) |
Phoebe Cates (born July 16, 1963) is an American film actress known for her roles in several teen films, most notably Fast Times at Ridgemont High and Gremlins.
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Biography
Early life
Cates was born Phoebe Belle Katz in New York City, New York, the daughter of Lily and director and producer Joseph Cates (originally "Joseph Katz").[1] Her uncle is producer/director Gilbert Cates and her stepfather was Marshall Naify, a horse breeder.[2] Cates' maternal grandfather was of Chinese Filipino descent, and her father as well as her maternal grandmother were of Russian Jewish origin. Cates attended the Professional Children's School and the Juilliard School.[3]
Career
Cates achieved icon status in 1982 for her popular girl role in Fast Times at Ridgemont High, particularly the topless scene in which she sheds her bikini top in a slow-motion fantasy sequence as Fast Times became a 1980s cult classic. That year, in the romance film Paradise, and in contrast to the coyness of Brooke Shields in the similarly themed The Blue Lagoon, Cates displayed copious nudity, although a body double may have been used in some of the close-ups. In a People magazine article, Cates said she had expressed reservations about this situation to her father, who advised her to play it in whatever way she felt was artistically and financially honest. She is quoted as saying "I was only 17 when I did my nude scenes in Paradise. They were serious and more difficult because they were not easily justified. But the topless scene in Fast Times at Ridgemont High was funny, which made it easy."[4]
Her later film roles were more modest and largely oriented toward younger audiences, who remember her best as the female lead in the two Gremlins films, and the 1991 film Drop Dead Fred. Her face made the covers of teen magazines such as Seventeen, Tiger Beat, Teen Beat and others. In 1991, she was slated to be in Father of the Bride, but dropped out due to pregnancy. In 1994, she starred along with her husband Kevin Kline in Princess Caraboo. In 1996, she narrated the award-winning documentary short, The Flame, a film about the nonprofit world hunger organization Heifer International.[5]
In 1985, Cates appeared Off-Broadway in Rich Relations by David Henry Hwang at Second Stage Theatre.
Personal life
Cates is estranged from her mother.[2] In 1989, Cates married actor Kevin Kline, whom she had originally met while auditioning for the part that Meg Tilly ultimately won in The Big Chill. Kline and Cates make their home in New York City and have two children, Owen Kline, born in 1991 (who, in 2005, received rave reviews for his performance in The Squid and the Whale), and Greta Kline, born in 1994. Owen and Greta appeared in Cates' most recent film, The Anniversary Party (2001). The film was an ensemble drama written and directed by Scottish actor Alan Cumming and Cates' real-life best friend of the past 25 years, Fast Times at Ridgemont High co-star Jennifer Jason Leigh. In the film, Cates played, fittingly enough, a Hollywood actress who has retired from acting to be a full-time mother.
In 2005, Cates opened her own boutique called Blue Tree on New York's Madison Avenue.[6]
Filmography
- Paradise (1982)
- Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982)
- Baby Sister (1983, TV)
- Private School (1983)
- Lace (1984)
- Gremlins (1984)
- Lace II (1985, TV)
- Date with an Angel (1987)
- Bright Lights, Big City (1988)
- Heart of Dixie (1989)
- Shag (1989)
- Largo desolato (1990)
- I Love You to Death (1990)
- Gremlins 2: The New Batch (1990)
- Drop Dead Fred (1991)
- Bodies, Rest and Motion (1993)
- Princess Caraboo (1994)
- The Anniversary Party (2001)
References
- ^ filmreference.com biography
- ^ a b NY Times article
- ^ Yahoo movies
- ^ IMDb biography/collection of quote
- ^ Martinez, Joe. Motion Picture and Television Photo Archive, Former Teen Model and Actress Phoebe Cates, April 19, 2007. Retrieved on October 12, 2007
- ^ ABC News (June 1, 2006): Perfect Gifts, According to Phoebe Cates: Former Teen Starlet Owns Upper East Side Gift Store
External links
- Phoebe Cates at the Internet Movie Database
- Phoebe Cates at TV.com
- Blue Tree Cates' NY boutique website
Phoebe Cates Videos and Clips
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