Cynthia Rhodes is an actress, singer, and dancer from the United States. She is good at many things. Staying Alive is her most well-known song. Read this article if you want to know Cynthia Rhodes’s age, height, weight, net worth, girlfriend, family, qualifications, bio, and more. Here is everything you need to know about Cynthia Rhodes.
Cynthia Rhodes Bio
Cynthia Rhodes was born in Nashville, Tennessee, in the United States, on November 21, 1956. She lived there with her family as a child. Cynthia L. Rhodes is her full name, but everyone calls her Cynthia. Scorpio is her star sign.
Cynthia Rhodes Career
Rhodes was born in Nashville, Tennessee. While she was going to Glencliff High School in the 1970s, she worked as a singer and dancer at Opryland USA. Rhodes was raised in a Baptist family, so she tried to keep a clean-cut image in her acting roles and the media.
For example, she turned down scripts that required her to be naked and said no when Playboy magazine asked her to pose for a photoshoot. The director of Staying Alive, Sylvester Stallone, added to these facts by saying that Rhodes “would rather quit the business than do anything that would make her parents look bad.” Rhodes had a small part in the 1980 fantasy musical Xanadu.
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In 1982, she played Tina Tech in the musical film Flashdance. After Flashdance, Rhodes was cast opposite John Travolta in Staying Alive, a sequel to the hit movie Saturday Night Fever from 1977 directed by Sylvester Stallone, and released in 1983. Jackie, who was played by Rhodes, was in an ensemble dance group, sang in a bar band, and sometimes liked Tony Manero, who was played by Travolta.
Even though critics didn’t like the movie, it did well at the box office. Rhodes’s first role that wasn’t related to dance was in the 1984 science fiction thriller Runaway, which starred Tom Selleck, Kirstie Alley, and Gene Simmons. Her most famous role was as Penny Johnson, a dance teacher, in the hit movie Dirty Dancing, which starred Jennifer Grey and Patrick Swayze.
In the sleeper action-adventure movie Curse of the Crystal Eye, Rhodes played the part of Vickie Phillips, who was played by Jameson Parker. Rhodes also danced in music videos, like Toto’s “Rosanna,” the Bee Gees’ “The Woman in You,” and Richard Marx’s “Don’t Mean Nothing.” She danced on tour with the glam rock band The Tubes in the early 1980s. Rhodes later joined the pop group Animotion in the 1980s.
He took the place of the group’s singer Astrid Plane when the group recorded its third album of original songs. Even though the group’s single “Room to Move” reached No. 9 on the Billboard charts, the group’s album didn’t do as well, reaching No. 110 on the pop charts, and the group broke up soon after. Rhodes wrote the smooth jazz song “Perfect Day” with her then-husband Richard Marx for Chris Botti’s holiday album December in 2002.
Cynthia Rhodes Personal Life
Richard Marx, a singer, and songwriter was Rhodes’s husband. In 1983, while Marx was making the music for the movie Staying Alive, they met. Rhodes, who was seven years older than Marx at the time, though that Marx was much too young for her to date. Marx and Rhodes didn’t get together until two years later at a party where they ran into each other again.
The couple got married on January 8, 1989, after dating for four years. Rhodes stopped performing after she got married to Marx and had three sons. She did this so she could raise her family. In an Us Weekly article from April 4, 2014, Marx’s rep said that he and Rhodes were getting a divorce after being married for 25 years.
Cynthia Rhodes Net Worth
American actress, singer, and dancer Cynthia Rhodes has a net worth of $9 million. Cynthia Rhodes was born in November 1956 in Nashville, TN. As an actress, she was in the movies Flashdance, Staying Alive, Runaway, Dirty Dancing, and Curse of the Crystal Eye. Rhodes first worked at Opryland USA as a singer and dancer. She danced in music videos for Toto, the Bee Gees, Richard Marx, and other artists, and she also went on tour with The Tubes.
My grandson takes over the track when he gets there trying everyone's event! Put him in coach 🤣 https://t.co/5KAv7RsRu4
— Cynthia Rhodes (@cynthiarhodes) May 7, 2022
She was in the pop group Animotion and was on their 1989 album with the same name. She got married to singer and songwriter Richard Marx in 1989. They had three children and got a divorce in 2014. She was up for a Best Actress Bravo Otto Award in 1983. Cynthia Rhodes also made appearances on Music Hall America and Fantasy Island.
Cynthia Rhodes Education
Not every well-known person dropped out of school. Some famous people go to school and get a degree. People are very curious about where their favorite celebrities went to school. Here, we added information about Cynthia’s educational background.
Real Estate
Richard and Cynthia Rhodes owned a huge piece of land in Lake Bluff, which is a suburb of Chicago, for a long time. They bought the house for $4.7 million in 1997, and when they split up, they put it on the market for an impressive $18 million.
The 5-acre property has a 30,000-square-foot lakefront mansion and is surrounded by a gate. Even more surprising, it took five years and a lot of price cuts before Richard and Cynthia finally agreed to $4.2 million.
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