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Cynthia Rhodes

Born

November 21, 1956 (age 68)

Nashville, Tennessee, United States

Occupation

Actress, singer, dancer

Spouse(s)

Richard Marx (1989–2014; divorced)

Cynthia Rhodes (born November 21, 1956) is an American retired actress, singer and dancer. Her film roles include Tina Tech in Flashdance (1983), Jackie in Staying Alive (1983) and Penny in Dirty Dancing (1987).

Career[]

Born in Nashville, Tennessee, Rhodes began her brief show business career working at Opryland USA as a singer and dancer while attending Glencliff High School during the 1970s. Raised in a Baptist family, Rhodes tried to maintain a clean-cut image in her acting roles and in the media, turning down scripts that required nudity and refusing offers to pose for pictorials in Playboy magazine. Sylvester Stallone, the director of Staying Alive, reinforced these facts by stating that Rhodes "would sooner quit the business before doing anything to embarrass her parents."

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Nashville-born Rhodes had been a dancer at Opryland before breaking into movie musicals with a small role in 1980’s Xanadu. Her role as dancer Tina Tech in Flashdance led to even bigger parts. She played the John Travolta’s love interest, a Broadway dancer, in Staying Alive, and then her most memorable role, resort hotel dance instructor Penny Johnson (pictured) in 1987’s Dirty Dancing. She showed she was equally adept at tearing up the ballroom floor with Patrick Swayze and playing wrenchingly emotional dramatic scenes (Penny was the one whose botched illegal abortion is the catalyst for much of the plot).

The 31-year-old blonde could have had her pick of roles after that. Instead, she married pop star Richard Marx in 1989 and retired from show business to raise their three children. She had no regrets, Marx told the Chicago Sun-Times in 2012, adding that Rhodes now found dancing intensely painful. Still, the 56-year-old mom can boast a lasting legacy of screen roles that continue to wow viewers with their poignance and dazzling dance moves.

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Cynthia Rhodes

Cynthia Rhodes is a retired American actress, singer and dancer. Her film roles include Tina Tech in Flashdance (1983), Jackie in Staying Alive (1983), officer Karen Thompson in Runaway (1984), and Penny Johnson in Dirty Dancing (1987). Born in Nashville, Tennessee, Rhodes began her show business career working at Opryland USA as a singer and dancer while attending Glencliff High School during the 1970s. Raised in a Baptist family, Rhodes tried to maintain a clean-cut image in her acting roles and in the media, turning down scripts that required nudity and refusing offers to pose for pictorials in Playboy magazine. Sylvester Stallone, the director of Staying Alive (1983), stated that Rhodes "would sooner quit the business before doing anything to embarrass her parents."