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Phoebe Cates
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Phoebe Belle Katz was born on July 16th, 1963 in New York City, into a family with Filipino and Russian Jewish roots. Her father and uncle were both producers (who later adopted the stage name "Cates"), so from a young age Phoebe was accustomed to the show business milieu. She attended Professional Children's School in New York City as well as the School of American Ballet, until a knee injury in 1977 forced her to quit.
In the late '70s, Cates had moderate success as a teen model, doing commercials and appearing in magazines like Seventeen. She scored her first movie role in a Blue Lagoon knockoff called Paradise (1982). She played Sarah, a young aristocrat stranded with a young man in a desert oasis, who predictably falls in love with the man. "I was only 17 when I did my nude scenes," Phoebe later explained. "They were serious and more difficult because they were not easily justified."
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