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Phoebe Cates
Filmography
-
The Anniversary Party (2001)
- Sophia Gold
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Scratch the Surface (1997)
- Herself
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My Life's in Turnaround (1994)
- Herself
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Princess Caraboo (1994)
- Princess Caraboo
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Bodies, Rest and Motion (1993)
- Carol
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Drop Dead Fred (1991)
- Elizabeth Cronin
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Gremlins 2: The New Batch (1990)
- Kate Beringer
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Heart of Dixie (1989)
- Aiken Reed
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Shag: The Movie (1989)
- Carson McBride
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Bright Lights, Big City (1988)
- Amanda
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Date With an Angel (1987)
- Patty Winston
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Gremlins (1984)
- Kate
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Private School (1983)
- Christine Ramsay
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Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982)
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Fast Times At Ridgemont High (1982)
- Linda Barrett
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Paradise (1982)
- Sarah
Phoebe Cates Biography
After shooting to stardom during the '80s in a string of
youth-orientated movies, former model Phoebe Cates hit her stride in the
'90s as a featured player in ensemble films. Born Phoebe Belle Katz on
July 16, 1963 in New York City, Cates is the daughter of television
producer Joseph
Cates (The
$64,000 Question) and the niece of film director Gilbert
Cates (1970's I
Never Sang for My Father). Joan
Crawford was her godmother. While growing up in Manhattan, Cates
attended New York's prestigious Professional Children's School. An
exceptional dancer, she studied with the School of American Ballet until
a knee injury forced her to quit in 1977. At the suggestion of the
family for which she babysat, she began modeling in teen magazines and
commercials. A few years later, director Stuart
Gillard saw Cates dancing with friends at New York's Studio 54 and
offered her the lead role in his Blue Lagoon
(1980) knock-off, Paradise
(1982). She then gave a standout performance as Jennifer
Jason Leigh's sexually mature best friend in Amy
Heckerling's Fast
Times at Ridgemont High (1982), before starring in Private
School (1983). Besides appearing in the film's infamous "mooning"
scene (during which the cast flashes the audience), Cates recorded two
songs for Private
School's soundtrack, "Just One Touch" and "How Do I Let You Know."
In 1984, with her star on the rise, Cates portrayed a young actress
bent on destroying her deadbeat mother in the notoriously tasteless
television film Lace
(1984). That same year, she signed on to play the love interest in Joe Dante's
horror-comedy Gremlins.
Written by Chris
Columbus and produced by Steven
Spielberg's Amblin Entertainment, the bizarre, special
effects-laden film about a group of strange and violent creatures was a
colossal success -- despite premiering only two weeks after Indiana
Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984) and on the same day as Ghostbusters
(1984). After returning for Lace 2 (1985),
Cates appeared as Michael
J. Fox's model wife in Bright
Lights, Big City (1988) and as a young bride-to-be in the
coming-of-age film Shag (1989).
Cates began the '90s at a personal low, starring in the sequel to Gremlins, Gremlins
2: The New Batch (1991), and in Ate de Jong's
disastrous Drop Dead
Fred (1991). She quickly revived her career opposite Bridget
Fonda, Eric Stoltz,
and Tim
Roth in the Generation X comedy Bodies,
Rest & Motion (1993), before earning rave reviews for her
performance as the mysterious title character in Princess
Caraboo (1994). The film also starred Cates' husband, actor Kevin Kline.
The actress appeared as herself in Scratch
the Surface (1997), a documentary about teen fashion models in the
'80s, and then opted to take a short break from show business in order
to care for her children. After a four-year hiatus, Cates returned to
the screen in The
Anniversary Party (2001), an ensemble film co-written and
co-directed by her friend and Fast
Times at Ridgemont High co-star Jennifer
Jason Leigh and actor Alan
Cumming. Acting opposite Kline
(who portrayed her fictional husband in the film), Cates played none
other than an actress who has left show business to raise a family.
In addition to her screen work, Cates has also appeared frequently
on the stage. Her numerous theater credits include The Tenth Man at
Lincoln Center, Much Ado About Nothing at the New York Shakespeare
Festival, The Seagull and The Three Sisters at the La Jolla Playhouse,
and Romeo and Juliet at the Goodman Theater. ~ Aubry Anne D'Arminio, All
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