10 Actors You Had No Idea Were In Recent Movies
2. Jennifer Grey - A Real Pain
When folks were able to stop gushing about how really bloody good A Real Pain is, many expressed surprise upon discovering that one of the more prominent supporting characters was played by none other than Dirty Dancing star Jennifer Grey.
Grey appears throughout the drama as Marcia, a recently divorced American woman who is part of the Jewish heritage tour group which David (Jesse Eisenberg) and his cousin Benji (Kieran Culkin) are a part of.
But why would audiences en masse fail to realise it was Grey? This is a famously decades-old story which Grey herself has spoken extensively about.
Following the release of Dirty Dancing, Grey underwent two rhinoplasty procedures, resulting in substantial changes to her facial profile, enough that even close friends scarcely recognised her - let alone movie audiences.
The change in appearance had an immediately detrimental impact on Grey's career, ensuring few high-profile roles were offered her way in subsequent years.
By the early 2000s she acted only sporadically, most often in TV work, and so it simply wasn't expected to see her showing up in one of the most acclaimed films of 2024, decades removed from the beloved movie role which made her famous.