32 Facts About Phoebe Cates

Phoebe Belle Cates Kline was born on July 16,1963 and is an American businesswoman and retired actress and model.

Phoebe Cates appeared in the films Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Gremlins, Gremlins 2: The New Batch, Drop Dead Fred and Princess Caraboo.

Phoebe Cates is the daughter of Lily and Joseph Cates, who was a major Broadway producer and a pioneering figure in television, and who helped create The $64,000 Question.

Phoebe Cates's father was Jewish and her mother was Catholic.

Phoebe Cates is of Eurasian or mixed European and Asian descent.

Phoebe Cates's mother was born in Shanghai, China to a family of Chinese-Filipino heritage.

Phoebe Cates attended the Professional Children's School and the Juilliard School.

Phoebe Cates then began a short, successful career as a model.

Phoebe Cates appeared within the magazine as well, on the editorial pages in 1979 and 1980.

Phoebe Cates was offered her first part in the movie Paradise after a screen test in New York.

Phoebe Cates was uncertain about the nudity the role required, but her father encouraged her to take the job.

Phoebe Cates sang the film's theme song and recorded an album of the same name.

Later that year, Phoebe Cates starred in Fast Times at Ridgemont High, featuring what Rolling Stone has described as "the most memorable bikini-drop in cinema history".

Phoebe Cates said that she had "the most fun" filming that movie.

The next year, Phoebe Cates was in the comedy Private School, co-starring Matthew Modine and Betsy Russell, and where she sang on two songs of the film's soundtrack: "Just One Touch" and "How Do I Let You Know".

In 1984, Phoebe Cates starred in the TV mini-series Lace, based on a novel by Shirley Conran.

Phoebe Cates played the role of Lili "to get away from a sameness in her movie portrayals".

Phoebe Cates struggled with the portrayal of a bitter movie star because, despite her character's vicious persona, she wanted the audience to sympathize with her.

Phoebe Cates did not read Conran's novel, on which the movie was based because she did not want to have a "fixed image".

Phoebe Cates reprised her role of Kate Beringer in the sequel Gremlins 2: The New Batch.

In June 1984, Phoebe Cates made her stage debut in the Off-Broadway play The Nest of the Wood Grouse, a comedy by Soviet writer Viktor Rozov, at the Joseph Papp Public Theater.

Phoebe Cates said that while doing the play she "felt a certain freedom and a certain connection with acting that I had never really felt before".

Phoebe Cates appeared Off-Broadway again two years later in Rich Relations, written by David Henry Hwang, at the Second Stage Theatre.

In December 1989, Phoebe Cates made her Broadway debut in a revival of Paddy Chayefsky's The Tenth Man at the Vivian Beaumont Theater.

Phoebe Cates has appeared steadily in films through the early 1990s, usually in supporting roles or in ensemble casts.

Phoebe Cates was set to play Steve Martin's daughter in the successful comedy Father of the Bride, but her pregnancy with her first child forced her to drop out.

In 1994, Phoebe Cates starred in the fact-based comedy-drama Princess Caraboo with her husband Kevin Kline.

In 2001, Phoebe Cates briefly returned to acting for one film, The Anniversary Party, as a favor to her best friend and former Fast Times at Ridgemont High castmate Jennifer Jason Leigh, who directed it.

In 2005, Phoebe Cates ventured into business and opened a boutique, Blue Tree, on New York's Madison Avenue.

In 2015, Phoebe Cates provided the voice of her Gremlins character Kate Beringer for the video game Lego Dimensions.

Phoebe Cates met him in 1979 after she went to her first night at Studio 54 with family friend Andy Warhol.

In 1983, during her audition for a role in The Big Chill, Phoebe Cates met actor Kevin Kline.