Perhaps best known for her role in the movie Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Phoebe Cates played important roles in Gremlins and Drop Dead Fred towards the early 1980s. However, more than twenty years ago, she quit the world of tremendously competitive showbiz to have children and engage in another sort of work.
Pronounced Phoebe Belle Cates on July 16, 1963, in New York City, Cates comes from an industry background family. Her father was a producer-director while her uncle was the president of the Directors Guild that surely shifted her early year desire in performing arts. First aspiring to become a dancer, she changed her course after a knee problem was detected. Leaving the modeling world at 14, she soon signed with Paradine Studio, got trained under prominent acting trainers and got her film debut in ‘Paradise’ (1982).
KIBIN 1: In Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Cates’s provocative looked around the pool was transformed into a teen idol, which although Cates defended as having to do so in the industry as a sort of tradition for young women. However, as time went on, Cates wanted more out of her life- and her career – than what fame gave her.
Cates gave up her career path after getting married to the talented Kavin Kline in 1989 and has two children namely, Owen, born in1991 and Greta born 1994. Social life: The couple opted that one of them should always be at home tending for the children at any one time. In the end Cates decided that her family was more important than her acting career but occasionally depined Kline at events.
Since 2005 Phoebe continued her activity in a new sphere: she opened her boutique called Blue Tree located near Carnegie Hall in New York. The shop specialises in selling a variety of products starting from perfumes and deodorants, accessories, clothing, footwear to gifts. They revealed that Cates has dedicated herself fully as a shop owner most of the time seen behind the counter, interacting with the clients.
Phoebe Cates now lives in New York City and has divorced David Crosby, both leading a very happy life with her daughter and son at home and working in her own boutique. This is a true story of a girl who did not follow her dream, get a glamorous job and be famous but chose to create value out of what was most important to her – family & having her own creative outlet through her boutique and it’s enough to counter the message of ‘the happy ending’ that is selling the dream of fame and success in the big screen.
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