Grey experienced the spate of proficient roles in the late 1980s. She played Ferris' catty sister inside ''Ferris Bueller's Day Off, but gained her greatest fame in the lead role of Baby Houseman in the 1987 hit movie Dirty Dancing.

Grey besides appeared in the TV pic The West Side Waltz in 1995 on Thanksgiving evening on CBS television, written by acclaimed playwright Ernest Thompson, also starring Shirley Maclaine, Liza Minelli, and Kathy Bates.

Grey appeared in the short-passing ABC sitcom It's Like, You Know...'' (1999-2000), laughing at herself after a much publicized "nose job" (parodying Grey's own plastic surgery) as a struggling actress named Jennifer Grey, in an obvious ironic comment on her own career, as the following dialog suggests:

Grey is an alum of The Dalton School, a extremely elect buck private school inside Up to date York City.