Phoebe Cates

[Limahong]

Phoebe Cates (born July 16, 1963) is an American film actress who, by her own description, has retired from acting to be a full-time mother.

Cates was born Phoebe Belle Katz in New York City; her father is director Joseph Cates and her uncle is Gilbert Cates, also a director. Her father is of Jewish heritage; her maternal grandfather was a Chinese Filipino and her maternal grandmother was a Russian Jew. Cates attended the Professional Children's School. She followed in the steps of her father and uncle in changing her surname for professional reasons.

She achieved icon status in the early 1980s for her role in the teen comedy Fast Times at Ridgemont High, in which she stripped off her bikini top in a slow-motion fantasy sequence. Harper's Bazaar magazine, in 1984, included her in their list of America's 10 Most Beautiful Women.

That same year, in the romance film Paradise, and in contrast to the coyness of Brooke Shields in the similarly themed and more popular The Blue Lagoon, Cates appeared nude, although she was said to have used a body double in some of the close-ups. In a People magazine article, Cates said she had expressed reservations about this situation to her father, who advised her to play it in whatever way she felt was artistically honest.

Her later roles were more modest and largely oriented toward younger audiences, who remember her best as the female lead in the two Gremlins films. Her face made the covers of teen magazines such as Seventeen, Tiger Beat, Teen Beat and others.

In 1989, she married actor Kevin Kline, whom she had originally met while auditioning for the part that Meg Tilly ultimately won in The Big Chill. In 1991, she was slated to be in Father of the Bride, but dropped out due to pregnancy. In 1996, she narrated the award-winning documentary short, The Flame, a film about the nonprofit world hunger organization Heifer International.

Kline and Cates make their home in New York City and have two children, Owen, born in 1991 (who recently received rave reviews for his performance in The Squid and the Whale) and Greta, born in 1994. They all appeared in Cates' most recent film, The Anniversary Party (2001). The film was an ensemble comedy written and directed by Scottish actor Alan Cumming and Cates' real-life best friend of the past 25 years, Fast Times at Ridgemont High co-star Jennifer Jason Leigh, and in it Cates played, fittingly enough, a Hollywood actress who has retired from acting to be a full-time mother.

In 2005, Cates opened her own gift store/boutique emporium called Blue Tree on New York's Madison Avenue

Pop Culture

Pop/Rock band Fenix TX wrote a song entitled "Phoebe Cates" on their album called Lechuza. The song contains lyrics such as "I'm looking for a fast time, Watching out for bright lights, Send me off to private school, When I'm with you it's paradise." This is a play on words containing four of her movie titles. Another line reads: "Wasting time... going blind.... I've been in love since the day I saw Fast Times, It's on a permanent rewind and can you guess my favorite part?, I used to like tossing off to her pool scene, Now I'm kissing TV screens..."

Selected filmography

Paradise (1982)
Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982)
Private School (1983)
Lace (1984, TV)
Gremlins (1984)
Date with an Angel (1987)
Bright Lights, Big City (1988)
Shag (1989)
I Love You to Death (1990)
Gremlins 2: The New Batch (1990)
Drop Dead Fred (1991)
Bodies, Rest and Motion (1993)
Princess Caraboo (1994)
The Anniversary Party (2001)

[sikatz]

World class pinoy ha.....


regards,

[tonychel]

Phoebe Cates  was one of my teen idol few years back.
I even bought a poster (see photo below) in National Bookstore
in Recto and put inside our room.

I didn't know that time she's Pinay....kaya pala maganda eh.

[sikatz]

may asawa na ba sya?  nagtatanong lang...

[Jasmine]

may asawa na ba sya?  nagtatanong lang...

according to limahong's post

In 1989, she married actor Kevin Kline, whom she had originally met while auditioning for the part that Meg Tilly ultimately won in The Big Chill. In 1991, she was slated to be in Father of the Bride, but dropped out due to pregnancy. In 1996, she narrated the award-winning documentary short, The Flame, a film about the nonprofit world hunger organization Heifer International.

[Mystica Michelle]

she's beautiful....
Pinay pala sya.

[Limahong]

Phoebe Cates  was one of my teen idol few years back.
I even bought a poster (see photo below) in National Bookstore
in Recto and put inside our room.

I didn't know that time she's Pinay....kaya pala maganda eh.

You mean for all these years, you've been keeping this picture? Wow!

[tonychel]

I think, last na napanood ko sya sa

Date with An Angel.....

pero di sya yung angel dun.

[Limahong]

may asawa na ba sya?  nagtatanong lang...

according to limahong's post

In 1989, she married actor Kevin Kline, whom she had originally met while auditioning for the part that Meg Tilly ultimately won in The Big Chill. In 1991, she was slated to be in Father of the Bride, but dropped out due to pregnancy. In 1996, she narrated the award-winning documentary short, The Flame, a film about the nonprofit world hunger organization Heifer International.

Kevin Kline is one of the respected actors in Hollywood. He may be best remembered from the movie "Wild Wild West" as Artemus Gordon opposite Will Smith.

[diana]

sila pa rin ba? swerte nya.

[Limahong]

sila pa rin ba? swerte nya.

Sino swerte si Phoebe o si Kevin? Just askin'

[diana]

oops....sorry

si kevin po syiempre. Di ba sya yung bading  sa In and Out?

[Limahong]

Palagay ko parehas lang silang swerte. Not that they are not only talented but both of them are real nice and beautiful human beings.

I remember when she hit the screen in the 80s, dami kong classmates na gumaya nung hairstyle niya. Speaking of hairstyles, the following also made some great impact concerning hairstyle history in the Philippines. No. 1 for me is Demi Moore after the movie Ghost, then Sharon Cuneta and Farrah Fawcett nung high school naman kami (napaghahalata yata yung edad natin nito).

Sino pa nga ba? Ikaw original ba yung hairstyle mo o favourite mo rin hairstyle ni Charlene Gonzales?

[leenskie]

Phoebe Cates  was one of my teen idol few years back.
I even bought a poster (see photo below) in National Bookstore
in Recto and put inside our room.

I didn't know that time she's Pinay....kaya pala maganda eh.

ows talaga, idol mo sya? after seeing date with an angel, i copied her haircut....di mo ba napapansin resemblance naming dalawa? 

[leenskie]

Palagay ko parehas lang silang swerte. Not that they are not only talented but both of them are real nice and beautiful human beings.

I remember when she hit the screen in the 80s, dami kong classmates na gumaya nung hairstyle niya. Speaking of hairstyles, the following also made some great impact concerning hairstyle history in the Philippines. No. 1 for me is Demi Moore after the movie Ghost, then Sharon Cuneta and Farrah Faucet nung high school naman kami (napaghahalata yata yung edad natin nito).

Sino pa nga ba?

Bembol Roco?