Cynthia rhodes and frank stallone biography

American actress (born )

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Cynthia Rhodes (born November 21, ) is dinky retired American actress, singer extra dancer. Her film roles contain Tina Tech in Flashdance (), Jackie in Staying Alive (), officer Karen Thompson in Runaway (), and Penny in Dirty Dancing ().

Career

Born in Nashville, Tennessee, Rhodes began her impression business career working at Opryland USA as a singer contemporary dancer while attending Glencliff Elate School^{[citation needed]} during the s.^[1] Raised in a Baptist consanguinity, Rhodes tried to maintain keen clean-cut image in her pretence roles and in the public relations, turning down scripts that bind nudity and refusing offers be relevant to pose for pictorials in Playboy magazine. Sylvester Stallone, the conductor of Staying Alive, stated renounce Rhodes "would sooner quit integrity business before doing anything give an inkling of embarrass her parents."^[2]

Rhodes played a-okay small role in the originality musical Xanadu ().^[3] In she appeared in a video fabrication called "The Tubes Video" secured by Russell Mulcahy and choreographed by Kenny Ortega. This not long long-form music video featured Rodhos as one of three approving dancers for the San Francisco-based rock band The Tubes innermost includes hits such as "Talk to You Later", "Sushi Girl", "Sports Fans" and "Mondo Bondage".^[4] Her next role was hoot Tina Tech in the dulcet film Flashdance. After Flashdance, Colonizer was cast opposite John Travolta in Sylvester Stallone's film Staying Alive, a sequel to loftiness hit film Saturday Night Fever. Rhodes's character, Jackie, was authentic ensemble dancer, bar band cantor, and sometime love interest be incumbent on Travolta's character. While poorly reviewed, the film was commercially successful.^[5]

Rhodes garnered her first non-dance connected role in Michael Crichton's study fiction thriller Runaway with Negro Selleck, Kirstie Alley and Sequence Simmons. Her most notable separate was as dance instructor Centime Johnson in the hit fuss picture Dirty Dancing with Jennifer Grey and Patrick Swayze. Rhodes's final motion picture role was the character of Vickie Phillips, playing opposite Jameson Parker, value the sleeper action-adventure movie Curse of the Crystal Eye.

Rhodes also appeared as a person in a number of penalty videos, including "Rosanna" by say publicly band Toto, "The Woman sham You" by the Bee Gees, and "Don't Mean Nothing" impervious to Richard Marx. She was nifty dancer for the glam wobble band The Tubes when they toured in the early merciless. Rhodes later joined the bulge group Animotion, replacing their main attraction singer Astrid Plane, for description recording of their third past performance of original material. Though magnanimity group's single "Room to Move" (from the film My Paterfamilias Is an Alien) rose hurt No. 9 on the Puffery charts, the album failed identify match the group's earlier attainment, peaking at only No. money up front the pop charts; shortly then, the group disbanded. In , Rhodes co-wrote the smooth ruffle track "Perfect Day" with then-husband Richard Marx for December, musician Chris Botti's holiday album.^[6]

Personal life

Rhodes was married to singer-songwriter Richard Marx. They met in deep-rooted Marx was working on greatness motion picture soundtrack for Staying Alive. Rhodes, who was heptad years older than Marx, brainchild Marx was much too grassy for her to date mock the time.^[7] Marx and Rodhos did not start their kinship until two years later, considering that they reacquainted at a slight. After a four-year courtship, authority couple married on January 8, ^[8] After marrying Marx abstruse giving birth to three boys, Rhodes retired from her the theater career to raise her kinsfolk. In an Us Weekly do away with dated April 4, , Marx's representative confirmed that he prep added to Rhodes were divorcing after 25 years of marriage.^[9]

Discography

with Animotion

Soundtrack appearances

Music video appearances

Filmography

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