Phoebe Cates
Biography
Phoebe Cates is a retired American actress and model raised in New York City among television and Broadway production insiders. She started modeling at ten and appeared in Seventeen before a New York screen test won her the lead in Paradise (1982). Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982) followed the same year, and she went on to Private School (1983), the box office hit Gremlins (1984), its sequel Gremlins 2: The New Batch (1990), Drop Dead Fred (1991) and Princess Caraboo (1994). She played Lili in the television miniseries Lace, made her Off-Broadway debut in 1984, and reached Broadway in 1989 in The Tenth Man. Later films included Date with an Angel (1987), Bright Lights, Big City (1988) and Bodies, Rest & Motion (1993). She returned to acting for The Anniversary Party (2001) and in 2005 opened the Blue Tree boutique in New York.
63years old
Turns 64 on July 16in 287 days
- Born Manhattan
- Star sign: CancerThe sign runs June 21 to July 22
- Phoebe Belle Katz (birth name)Also credited as Phoebe Belle Cates-Kline, Phoebe Belle Cates and Phoebe Cates-Kline
Movie Career
- Films
- 13
- Career span
- 19 years1982 to 2001
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A first
Cates first appeared on Broadway in a December 1989 revival of Paddy Chayefsky's The Tenth Man, staged at the Vivian Beaumont Theater.
A first
Cates first appeared on stage in June 1984, at the Joseph Papp Public Theater, in the Off-Broadway comedy The Nest of the Wood Grouse.
A change of course
In 2005, Cates opened a boutique called Blue Tree on Madison Avenue in New York, venturing into business with the shop.
Phoebe Cates movies on Netflix
Best known for
The films on Netflix they are best known for, with the part played in each.
Most often with
Joe Dante directed two of these films. Two actors appear in three of them each. Pick a number on the chart or a name in the list to see the films they share.
Films together
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All films by Joe Dante
Also two films together4 more actors
- Keye LukeGremlins 2: The New Batch (1990) and Gremlins (1984)
- Ray WalstonPrivate School (1983) and Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982)
- Zach GalliganGremlins 2: The New Batch (1990) and Gremlins (1984)
- Jackie JosephGremlins 2: The New Batch (1990) and Gremlins (1984)
When several people share the same number of films, the ones with the most films on Netflix are in the chart.
Box office
What Phoebe Cates's films earned in cinemas worldwide.
Combined worldwide box office
$282 million
11 of the 13 films have a worldwide figure.
Of the 13 films: 11 worldwide figure; 2 us gross only.
- 11Worldwide figure
- 2US gross only
Top grosser
Highest grossing
The eight biggest films earned 98% of the total. The bars are drawn to scale.
- 1$153M54.3% of the total
- 2$41M14.7% of the total
- 3$27M9.6% of the total
- 4$16M5.7% of the total
- 5$14M5.0% of the total
- 6$14M4.9% of the total
- 7$5.6M2.0% of the total
- 8$4.9M1.7% of the total
$5.8 millionfrom the other 3 films with a worldwide figure, 2% of the total
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