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| birth_place        = New York City, U.S.
| birth_place        = New York City, U.S.
| occupation        = {{hlist|Actress|model|businesswoman}}
| occupation        = {{hlist|Actress|model|businesswoman}}
| years_active      = 1982–2015{{refn|group=nb|Brief returns: 2001, 2015}}
| years_active      = 1982–1994{{refn|group=nb|Brief return: 2001}}
| spouse            = {{marriage|[[Kevin Kline]]|1989}}
| spouse            = {{marriage|[[Kevin Kline]]|1989}}
| children          = [[Owen Kline]]<br>[[Greta Kline]]
| children          = [[Owen Kline]]<br>[[Greta Kline]]
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== Early life and education ==
== Early life and education ==
Cates was born on July 16, 1963, in New York City,<ref>{{cite web|website=TCM|title=Phoebe Cates|url=https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/person/30870%7C0/Phoebe-Cates#overview|accessdate=May 4, 2022}}</ref> to a family of television and Broadway production insiders. She is the daughter of Lily and Joseph Cates (originally Joseph Katz),<ref name="NYT">{{Cite web | last=Thomas | first=Robert McGill Jr. |author-link=Robert McG. Thomas, Jr. |date=October 12, 1998 |title=Joseph Cates, 74, a Producer Of Innovative Specials for TV |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1998/10/12/nyregion/joseph-cates-74-a-producer-of-innovative-specials-for-tv.html |access-date=May 16, 2013 |website=The New York Times}}</ref> who was a major Broadway producer and a pioneering figure in television, and who helped create ''[[The $64,000 Question]]''.<ref name="cates1">{{Cite news |last=Wakin |first=Daniel J. |date=June 3, 2005 |title=Heiress Is Identified as Victim in Case Against Arts Patron |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/03/nyregion/03vilar.html?ex=1275451200&en=63a1abdb4f49f5f5&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss |access-date=June 12, 2019}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=American Greed: Fraudster of the Opera |url=https://www.cnbc.com/id/40535892/ |access-date=July 16, 2013 |publisher=[[CNBC]]}}{{dead link|date=November 2024|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}</ref> Her uncle, [[Gilbert Cates]], produced numerous television specials, often in partnership with Cates's father, as well as several annual [[Academy Awards]] shows. Her father was Jewish and her mother was Catholic.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.irishamerica.com/2000/12/reclining-with-kevin-2/ | title=Reclining with Kevin &#124; Irish America | date=December 2000 }}</ref> Cates is of Eurasian<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Cohen |first=Matthew Isaac |s2cid=147291754 |year=2009 |title=British performances of Java, 1811–1822 |journal=South East Asia Research |publisher=IP Publishing Ltd |volume=17 |issue=1 |pages=87–109 |doi=10.5367/000000009787586389|quote=Due to her dark looks, she enjoyed particular prominence in South East Asia ... Few people in those pre-Internet days, however, knew that Cates's estranged mother was of Chinese Filipino descent. Cates's South East Asian heritage was not featured in 1994 publicity or criticism for the film ... Cates's Caraboo, her last major film role, contributes in no small part to her current celebration as an icon of Eurasian identity.}}</ref> or mixed European and Asian descent. Her mother was born in Shanghai, China<ref>{{Cite web |title=ABC7 Eyewitness News - WABC-TV New York |url=http://7online.com/archive/6456025/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150418174744/http://7online.com/archive/6456025/|archive-date=April 18, 2015}}</ref> to a family of Chinese-Filipino heritage. Cates's father is American and from Manhattan.<ref name="NYT"/><ref>{{Cite news |last=Villasanta |first=Boy |date=June 23, 2010 |title=Pinoys who made it in Hollywood |work=[[ABS-CBN News and Current Affairs]] |url=http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/entertainment/06/23/10/filipinos-also-shine-hollywood |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100625123854/http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/entertainment/06/23/10/filipinos-also-shine-hollywood |url-status=dead |archive-date=June 25, 2010 |access-date=May 28, 2011 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Slater |first=Judith J. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7Oz5cvi3z3EC&q=%22Phoebe%20Cates%22%20Filipino&pg=PA183 |title=Teen life in Asia |publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group |year=2004 |isbn=978-0-313-31532-9 |location=Westport, Connecticut |page=183 |access-date=May 28, 2011}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last=Cohen |first=Matthew Isaac |s2cid=147291754 |year=2009 |title=British performances of Java, 1811–1822 |journal=South East Asia Research |publisher=IP Publishing Ltd |volume=17 |issue=1 |pages=87–109 |doi=10.5367/000000009787586389}}</ref>  
Cates was born on July 16, 1963, in New York City,<ref>{{cite web|website=TCM|title=Phoebe Cates|url=https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/person/30870%7C0/Phoebe-Cates#overview|accessdate=May 4, 2022}}</ref> to a family of television and Broadway production insiders. She is the daughter of Lily and Joseph Cates ({{né}} Katz),<ref name="NYT">{{Cite web | last=Thomas | first=Robert McGill Jr. |author-link=Robert McG. Thomas, Jr. |date=October 12, 1998 |title=Joseph Cates, 74, a Producer Of Innovative Specials for TV |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1998/10/12/nyregion/joseph-cates-74-a-producer-of-innovative-specials-for-tv.html |access-date=May 16, 2013 |website=The New York Times}}</ref> who was a major Broadway producer and a pioneering figure in television, and who helped create ''[[The $64,000 Question]]''.<ref name="cates1">{{Cite news |last=Wakin |first=Daniel J. |date=June 3, 2005 |title=Heiress Is Identified as Victim in Case Against Arts Patron |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/03/nyregion/03vilar.html?ex=1275451200&en=63a1abdb4f49f5f5&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss |access-date=June 12, 2019}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=American Greed: Fraudster of the Opera |url=https://www.cnbc.com/id/40535892/ |access-date=July 16, 2013 |publisher=[[CNBC]]}}{{dead link|date=November 2024|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}</ref> Her uncle, [[Gilbert Cates]], produced numerous television specials, often in partnership with Cates's father, as well as several annual [[Academy Awards]] shows. Her father was Jewish and her mother was Catholic.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.irishamerica.com/2000/12/reclining-with-kevin-2/ | title=Reclining with Kevin &#124; Irish America | date=December 2000 }}</ref> Cates is of Eurasian<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Cohen |first=Matthew Isaac |s2cid=147291754 |year=2009 |title=British performances of Java, 1811–1822 |journal=South East Asia Research |publisher=IP Publishing Ltd |volume=17 |issue=1 |pages=87–109 |doi=10.5367/000000009787586389|quote=Due to her dark looks, she enjoyed particular prominence in South East Asia ... Few people in those pre-Internet days, however, knew that Cates's estranged mother was of Chinese Filipino descent. Cates's South East Asian heritage was not featured in 1994 publicity or criticism for the film ... Cates's Caraboo, her last major film role, contributes in no small part to her current celebration as an icon of Eurasian identity.}}</ref> or mixed European and Asian descent. Her mother was born in Shanghai, China<ref>{{Cite web |title=Actress Phoebe Cates' mother testifies|website=ABC7 New York|date=October 17, 2008 |url=http://7online.com/archive/6456025/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150418174744/http://7online.com/archive/6456025/|archive-date=April 18, 2015}}</ref> to a family of Chinese-Filipino heritage. Cates's father was [[Russian Jewish]] from Manhattan.<ref name="NYT"/><ref>{{Cite news |last=Villasanta |first=Boy |date=June 23, 2010 |title=Pinoys who made it in Hollywood |work=[[ABS-CBN News and Current Affairs]] |url=http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/entertainment/06/23/10/filipinos-also-shine-hollywood |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100625123854/http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/entertainment/06/23/10/filipinos-also-shine-hollywood |url-status=dead |archive-date=June 25, 2010 |access-date=May 28, 2011 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Slater |first=Judith J. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7Oz5cvi3z3EC&q=%22Phoebe%20Cates%22%20Filipino&pg=PA183 |title=Teen life in Asia |publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group |year=2004 |isbn=978-0-313-31532-9 |location=Westport, Connecticut |page=183 |access-date=May 28, 2011}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last=Cohen |first=Matthew Isaac |s2cid=147291754 |year=2009 |title=British performances of Java, 1811–1822 |journal=South East Asia Research |publisher=IP Publishing Ltd |volume=17 |issue=1 |pages=87–109 |doi=10.5367/000000009787586389}}</ref> Cates has a sister.<ref>{{Cite magazine|last=Eisner|first=Ken|url=https://variety.com/1997/tv/reviews/scratch-the-surface-1200450795/|title=Scratch the Surface|magazine=Variety|date=August 10, 1997}}</ref>


Cates attended the [[Professional Children's School]] and the [[Juilliard School]].<ref name="people" /> A few years later, she wanted to become a dancer, and eventually received a scholarship to the [[School of American Ballet]], but quit after a knee injury at age 14.<ref name="people" />  
Cates attended the [[Professional Children's School]] and the [[Juilliard School]].<ref name="people" /> A few years later, she wanted to become a dancer, and eventually received a scholarship to the [[School of American Ballet]], but quit after a knee injury at age 14.<ref name="people" />


== Career ==
== Career ==
At age ten, Cates started modeling, appearing in ''[[Seventeen (American magazine)|Seventeen]]'' and other teen-oriented magazines. She then began a short, successful career as a model.<ref name="seventyfive">Cohen, D. & S. ''Young and Famous: Hollywood's Newest Superstars'', 1987. p.75. {{ISBN|0-671-63493-3}}</ref> She said that she disliked the industry: "It was just the same thing, over and over. After a while, I did it solely for the money."<ref name="people" /> As a teen model, Cates appeared on the cover of ''[[Seventeen (American magazine)|Seventeen]]'' magazine four times, first in the April 1979 issue. She appeared within the magazine as well, on the editorial pages in 1979 and 1980.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.seventeen.com/celebrity/g1713/65th-anniversary-cover-archive/?slide=40 | title=70 Years of Seventeen! | date=February 2013 }}</ref> Dissatisfied with modeling, Cates decided to pursue acting.  
At age ten, Cates started modeling, appearing in ''[[Seventeen (American magazine)|Seventeen]]'' and other teen-oriented magazines, and began a short, successful career as a model.<ref name="seventyfive">Cohen, D. & S. ''Young and Famous: Hollywood's Newest Superstars'', 1987. p.75. {{ISBN|0-671-63493-3}}</ref> She said that she disliked the industry: "It was just the same thing, over and over. After a while, I did it solely for the money."<ref name="people" /> As a teen model, Cates appeared on the cover of ''[[Seventeen (American magazine)|Seventeen]]'' magazine four times, first in the April 1979 issue. She appeared within the magazine as well, on the editorial pages in 1979 and 1980.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.seventeen.com/celebrity/g1713/65th-anniversary-cover-archive/?slide=40 | title=70 Years of Seventeen! |website=Seventeen| date=February 1, 2013 }}</ref> Dissatisfied with modeling, Cates decided to pursue acting.  


Cates was offered her first part in the movie ''[[Paradise (1982 film)|Paradise]]'' (1982) after a screen test in New York. She was uncertain about the nudity the role required, but her father encouraged her to take the job.<ref name="people" />
Cates was offered her first part in the movie ''[[Paradise (1982 film)|Paradise]]'' (1982) after a screen test in New York. She was uncertain about the nudity the role required, but her father encouraged her to take the job.<ref name="people" />


''Paradise'' was filmed in Israel from March to May 1981.<ref name="Paradise Desert">{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1982/05/10/movies/paradise-an-awakening-in-the-desert.html |title=Paradise, An Awakening in the Desert |work=[[The New York Times]] |date= May 10, 1982|access-date=May 20, 2013}}</ref> In the film, Cates performed several full-frontal nude scenes and several rear scenes aged 17. The movie had a plot similar to ''[[The Blue Lagoon (1980 film)|The Blue Lagoon]]''. She also sang the film's theme song and recorded an album of the same name. In a 1982 interview, she recalled having trouble with the career change: As a model, she had to be conscious of the camera; but as an actor, she could not.<ref name="people" /> She later regretted being in the film: "What I learned was never to do a movie like that again."<ref name="seventyfive" /> She claimed that the film's producers used a [[body double]] to film nude close-ups of her character without telling her.<ref name="people" /> According to her co-star [[Willie Aames]], "She will have nothing to do with the film. She's really upset about it. She won't do any promotion with me."<ref>[[Beck, Marilyn]] (March 17, 1982). "Hollywood: Nude scenes too much for Aames." ''[[The Orange County Register]]''. p C3</ref>
''Paradise'' was filmed in Israel from March to May 1981.<ref name="Paradise Desert">{{cite web|last=Canby|first=Vincent|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1982/05/10/movies/paradise-an-awakening-in-the-desert.html |title=Paradise, An Awakening in the Desert |work=[[The New York Times]] |date= May 10, 1982|access-date=May 20, 2013}}</ref> In the film, Cates performed several full-frontal nude scenes and several rear scenes aged 17. The movie had a plot similar to ''[[The Blue Lagoon (1980 film)|The Blue Lagoon]]''. She also sang the film's theme song and recorded an album of the same name. In a 1982 interview, she recalled having trouble with the career change: As a model, she had to be conscious of the camera; but as an actor, she could not.<ref name="people" /> She later regretted being in the film: "What I learned was never to do a movie like that again."<ref name="seventyfive" /> She claimed that the film's producers used a [[body double]] to film nude close-ups of her character without telling her.<ref name="people" /> According to her co-star [[Willie Aames]], "She will have nothing to do with the film. She's really upset about it. She won't do any promotion with me."<ref>[[Beck, Marilyn]] (March 17, 1982). "Hollywood: Nude scenes too much for Aames." ''[[The Orange County Register]]''. p C3</ref>


Later that year, Cates starred in ''[[Fast Times at Ridgemont High]]'' (1982), featuring what ''Rolling Stone'' has described as "the most memorable bikini-drop in cinema history".<ref>{{Cite news |last=''Rolling Stone'' staff |date=November 21, 2006 |title=Escape Your Family: Sneak Upstairs! |magazine=[[Rolling Stone]] |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/12625824/escape_your_family_sneak_upstairs/print |access-date=January 23, 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090915180542/http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/12625824/escape_your_family_sneak_upstairs/print |archive-date=September 15, 2009}}</ref> She said that she had "the most fun" filming that movie.<ref name="seventyfive" />
Later that year, Cates starred in ''[[Fast Times at Ridgemont High]]'' (1982), featuring what ''Rolling Stone'' has described as "the most memorable bikini-drop in cinema history".<ref>{{Cite news |last=''Rolling Stone'' staff |date=November 21, 2006 |title=Escape Your Family: Sneak Upstairs! |magazine=[[Rolling Stone]] |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/12625824/escape_your_family_sneak_upstairs/print |access-date=January 23, 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090915180542/http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/12625824/escape_your_family_sneak_upstairs/print |archive-date=September 15, 2009}}</ref> She said that she had "the most fun" filming that movie.<ref name="seventyfive" />


The next year, Cates was in the comedy ''[[Private School (film)|Private School]]'' (1983), co-starring [[Matthew Modine]] and [[Betsy Russell]], and where she sang on two songs of the film's soundtrack: "Just One Touch" and "How Do I Let You Know".
The next year, Cates was in the comedy ''[[Private School (film)|Private School]]'' (1983), co-starring [[Matthew Modine]] and [[Betsy Russell]], in which she sang on two songs of the film's soundtrack: "Just One Touch" and "How Do I Let You Know".


In 1984, Cates starred in the TV mini-series ''[[Lace (TV series)|Lace]]'', based on a novel by [[Shirley Conran]]. She played the role of Lili "to get away from a sameness in her movie portrayals".<ref name="jacobs">"'Lace' miniseries is soap-opera tangle" by Associated Press, ''[[Star-News]]'', February 24, 1984. p. 5C</ref> During her audition, she so impressed the writer that he wanted to hire her on the spot.<ref name="jacobs" /> She struggled with the portrayal of a bitter movie star because, despite her character's vicious persona, she wanted the audience to sympathize with her.<ref name="lace">"Angela Lansbury leads 'Lace' cast" by Julianne Hastings, ''[[Stars and Stripes (newspaper)|Stars and Stripes]]'', March 7, 1984. p. 12.</ref> She did not read Conran's novel, on which the movie was based because she did not want to have a "fixed image".<ref name="lace" /> Her best-known line in the film, "Which one of you bitches is my mother?", was named the greatest line in television history by ''TV Guide'' in 1993.<ref>''[[TV Guide]]'' April 17–23, 1993. pg. 96</ref> She also starred in the sequel mini-series ''[[Lace (miniseries)#Sequel|Lace II]]''.
In 1984, Cates starred in the TV mini-series ''[[Lace (TV series)|Lace]]'', based on a novel by [[Shirley Conran]]. She played the role of Lili "to get away from a sameness in her movie portrayals".<ref name="jacobs">"'Lace' miniseries is soap-opera tangle" by Associated Press, ''[[Star-News]]'', February 24, 1984. p. 5C</ref> During her audition, she so impressed the writer that he wanted to hire her on the spot.<ref name="jacobs" /> She struggled with the portrayal of a bitter movie star because, despite her character's vicious persona, she wanted the audience to sympathize with her.<ref name="lace">"Angela Lansbury leads 'Lace' cast" by Julianne Hastings, ''[[Stars and Stripes (newspaper)|Stars and Stripes]]'', March 7, 1984. p. 12.</ref> She did not read Conran's novel, on which the movie was based because she did not want to have a "fixed image".<ref name="lace" /> Her best-known line in the film, "Which one of you bitches is my mother?", was named the greatest line in television history by ''[[TV Guide]]'' in 1993.<ref>''[[TV Guide]]'' April 17–23, 1993. pg. 96</ref> She also starred in the sequel mini-series ''[[Lace (miniseries)#Sequel|Lace II]]''.


In the summer of 1984, Cates co-starred in the box office hit ''[[Gremlins]]'' for [[executive producer]] [[Steven Spielberg]], the highest-grossing film of her career. She reprised her role of Kate Beringer in the sequel ''[[Gremlins 2: The New Batch]]''.
In the summer of 1984, Cates co-starred in the box office hit ''[[Gremlins]]'' for [[executive producer]] [[Steven Spielberg]], the highest-grossing film of her career. She reprised her role of Kate Beringer in the sequel ''[[Gremlins 2: The New Batch]]''.
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== Personal life ==
== Personal life ==
[[File:Phoebe Cates 3.jpg|thumb|Cates and [[Kevin Kline]] at an after party for the 1989 [[Academy Awards]]]]
[[File:Phoebe Cates 3.jpg|thumb|Cates and [[Kevin Kline]] at an after party for the 1989 [[Academy Awards]]]]
In the early 1980s, Cates shared an apartment in [[Greenwich Village]] with her then-boyfriend Stavros Merjos. She met him in 1979 after she went to her first night at [[Studio 54]] with family friend [[Andy Warhol]].<ref name="people">{{Cite magazine |last=Hammer |first=Josh |date=June 14, 1982 |title=Paradise Star Phoebe Cates Hangs Her Own Film with a One-Word Review—'rip-Off' |url=https://people.com/archive/paradise-star-phoebe-cates-hangs-her-own-film-with-a-one-word-review-rip-off-vol-17-no-23/ |magazine=People.com |access-date=December 8, 2012}}</ref>
In the early 1980s, Cates shared an apartment in [[Greenwich Village]] with her then-boyfriend Stavros Merjos. She met him in 1979 after she went to her first night at [[Studio 54]] with family friend [[Andy Warhol]].<ref name="people">{{Cite magazine |last=Hammer |first=Josh |date=June 14, 1982 |title=Paradise Star Phoebe Cates Hangs Her Own Film with a One-Word Review—'rip-Off' |url=https://people.com/archive/paradise-star-phoebe-cates-hangs-her-own-film-with-a-one-word-review-rip-off-vol-17-no-23/ |magazine=People.com |access-date=December 8, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170908155205/https://people.com/archive/paradise-star-phoebe-cates-hangs-her-own-film-with-a-one-word-review-rip-off-vol-17-no-23/|archive-date=September 8, 2017}}</ref>


In 1983, during her audition for a role (awarded to [[Meg Tilly]]) in ''[[The Big Chill (film)|The Big Chill]]'', Cates met actor [[Kevin Kline]]. They were both dating other people but became romantically involved two years later. They married in a private New York wedding on March 5, 1989,<ref>{{Cite magazine | last=Richter |first=Erin |date=March 8, 2002  
In 1983, Cates auditioned for a role in ''[[The Big Chill (film)|The Big Chill]]'' which ultimately went to [[Meg Tilly]]. At the auditions, Cates met actor [[Kevin Kline]]. They were both dating other people but became romantically involved two years later. They married in a private New York wedding on March 5, 1989,<ref>{{Cite magazine | last=Richter |first=Erin |date=March 8, 2002 | title=Cates Is Enough |url=https://ew.com/article/2002/03/08/cates-enough/| magazine=Entertainment Weekly |access-date= January 7, 2025|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160511164337/https://ew.com/article/2002/03/08/cates-enough/|archive-date=May 11, 2016}}</ref> and she changed her name to Phoebe Cates Kline.<ref>{{cite web | last=Barilla | first=Lucille | title=Inside Phoebe Cates' Life Today | website=The List | date=May 10, 2021 | url=https://www.thelist.com/405126/inside-phoebe-cates-life-today/ | access-date=January 1, 2025}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=About Blue Tree |url=http://www.bluetreenyc.com/about-us |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151222213924/http://www.bluetreenyc.com/about-us/ |archive-date=December 22, 2015 |access-date=November 13, 2012}}</ref> They moved to the [[Upper East Side]] of [[Manhattan]] in [[New York (state)|New York]], across Fifth Avenue from Central Park, where they raised their two children, son [[Owen Kline|Owen Joseph Kline]] (b. 1991) and daughter [[Greta Kline]] (b. 1994). Owen and Greta appeared with their parents in the 2001 movie ''[[The Anniversary Party]].'' Owen also appeared in the 2005 film ''[[The Squid and the Whale]],'' and made his directorial debut with the coming-of-age black comedy ''[[Funny Pages (film)|Funny Pages]]''. Greta is a musician who fronts the band [[Frankie Cosmos]].<ref>{{cite web|last=Pelly|first=Jenn|title=Frankie Cosmos|date=March 5, 2014 |url=http://pitchfork.com/features/rising/9345-frankie-cosmos|publisher=Pitchfork Media|access-date=March 5, 2014}}</ref>
| title=Cates Is Enough
|url=https://ew.com/article/2002/03/08/cates-enough/| magazine=Entertainment Weekly |access-date= January 7, 2025}}</ref> and she changed her name to Phoebe Cates Kline.<ref>{{cite web | last=Barilla | first=Lucille | title=Inside Phoebe Cates' Life Today | website=The List | date=May 10, 2021 | url=https://www.thelist.com/405126/inside-phoebe-cates-life-today/ | access-date=January 1, 2025}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=About Blue Tree |url=http://www.bluetreenyc.com/about-us |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151222213924/http://www.bluetreenyc.com/about-us/ |archive-date=December 22, 2015 |access-date=November 13, 2012}}</ref> They moved to the [[Upper East Side]] of [[Manhattan]] in [[New York (state)|New York]], across Fifth Avenue from Central Park, where they raised their two children, son [[Owen Kline|Owen Joseph Kline]] (b. 1991) and daughter [[Greta Kline]] (b. 1994). Owen and Greta appeared with their parents in the 2001 movie ''[[The Anniversary Party]].'' Owen also appeared in the 2005 film ''[[The Squid and the Whale]],'' and made his directorial debut with the coming-of-age black comedy ''[[Funny Pages (film)|Funny Pages]]''. Greta fronts the band [[Frankie Cosmos]].<ref>{{cite web|last=Pelly|first=Jenn|title=Frankie Cosmos|date=March 5, 2014 |url=http://pitchfork.com/features/rising/9345-frankie-cosmos|publisher=Pitchfork Media|access-date=March 5, 2014}}</ref>


== Filmography ==
== Filmography ==


=== Film and television ===
=== Film ===
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| rowspan="2" | 1983
| 1983
| ''[[Private School (film)|Private School]]''
| ''[[Private School (film)|Private School]]''
| Christine Ramsey
| Christine Ramsey
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| ''[[Baby Sister (film)|Baby Sister]]''
|1984
| Annie Burroughs
|Television movie
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| rowspan="2" | 1984
| ''[[Lace (miniseries)|Lace]]''
| Elizabeth "Lili" Lace
| Miniseries
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| ''[[Gremlins]]''
| ''[[Gremlins]]''
| Kate Beringer
| Kate Beringer
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| 1985
| ''Lace II''
| Elizabeth "Lili" Lace
| Miniseries
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| 1987
| 1987
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| rowspan="3" | 1990
| rowspan="2" | 1990
| ''[[I Love You to Death]]''
| ''[[I Love You to Death]]''
| Joey's Girl at Disco
| Joey's Girl at Disco
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| Kate Beringer
| Kate Beringer
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|''Largo Desolato''
| Young Philosophy Student
| Television movie
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| 1991
| 1991
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| Sophia Gold
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=== Television ===
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|1983
| ''[[Baby Sister (film)|Baby Sister]]''
| Annie Burroughs
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| 1984
| ''[[Lace (miniseries)|Lace]]''
| Elizabeth "Lili" Lace
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| 1985
| ''Lace II''
| Elizabeth "Lili" Lace
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|1990
|''Largo Desolato''
| Young Philosophy Student
| Television film
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| 1994
| ''[[Sesame Street]]''
| Herself
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| 2000
| ''[[Where Are They Now? (American TV series)|VH1- Where Are They Now?]]''
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| Episode: "Music Movie Stars"
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Phoebe Belle Cates Kline (born July 16, 1963)[1] is an American businesswoman and retired actress and model. She appeared in the films Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982), Gremlins (1984), Gremlins 2: The New Batch (1990), Drop Dead Fred (1991) and Princess Caraboo (1994). In 2005, she founded the Blue Tree boutique.

Early life and education

Cates was born on July 16, 1963, in New York City,[2] to a family of television and Broadway production insiders. She is the daughter of Lily and Joseph Cates (Template:Né Katz),[3] who was a major Broadway producer and a pioneering figure in television, and who helped create The $64,000 Question.[4][5] Her uncle, Gilbert Cates, produced numerous television specials, often in partnership with Cates's father, as well as several annual Academy Awards shows. Her father was Jewish and her mother was Catholic.[6] Cates is of Eurasian[7] or mixed European and Asian descent. Her mother was born in Shanghai, China[8] to a family of Chinese-Filipino heritage. Cates's father was Russian Jewish from Manhattan.[3][9][10][11] Cates has a sister.[12]

Cates attended the Professional Children's School and the Juilliard School.[13] A few years later, she wanted to become a dancer, and eventually received a scholarship to the School of American Ballet, but quit after a knee injury at age 14.[13]

Career

At age ten, Cates started modeling, appearing in Seventeen and other teen-oriented magazines, and began a short, successful career as a model.[14] She said that she disliked the industry: "It was just the same thing, over and over. After a while, I did it solely for the money."[13] As a teen model, Cates appeared on the cover of Seventeen magazine four times, first in the April 1979 issue. She appeared within the magazine as well, on the editorial pages in 1979 and 1980.[15] Dissatisfied with modeling, Cates decided to pursue acting.

Cates was offered her first part in the movie Paradise (1982) after a screen test in New York. She was uncertain about the nudity the role required, but her father encouraged her to take the job.[13]

Paradise was filmed in Israel from March to May 1981.[16] In the film, Cates performed several full-frontal nude scenes and several rear scenes aged 17. The movie had a plot similar to The Blue Lagoon. She also sang the film's theme song and recorded an album of the same name. In a 1982 interview, she recalled having trouble with the career change: As a model, she had to be conscious of the camera; but as an actor, she could not.[13] She later regretted being in the film: "What I learned was never to do a movie like that again."[14] She claimed that the film's producers used a body double to film nude close-ups of her character without telling her.[13] According to her co-star Willie Aames, "She will have nothing to do with the film. She's really upset about it. She won't do any promotion with me."[17]

Later that year, Cates starred in Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982), featuring what Rolling Stone has described as "the most memorable bikini-drop in cinema history".[18] She said that she had "the most fun" filming that movie.[14]

The next year, Cates was in the comedy Private School (1983), co-starring Matthew Modine and Betsy Russell, in which she sang on two songs of the film's soundtrack: "Just One Touch" and "How Do I Let You Know".

In 1984, Cates starred in the TV mini-series Lace, based on a novel by Shirley Conran. She played the role of Lili "to get away from a sameness in her movie portrayals".[19] During her audition, she so impressed the writer that he wanted to hire her on the spot.[19] She struggled with the portrayal of a bitter movie star because, despite her character's vicious persona, she wanted the audience to sympathize with her.[20] She did not read Conran's novel, on which the movie was based because she did not want to have a "fixed image".[20] Her best-known line in the film, "Which one of you bitches is my mother?", was named the greatest line in television history by TV Guide in 1993.[21] She also starred in the sequel mini-series Lace II.

In the summer of 1984, Cates co-starred in the box office hit Gremlins for executive producer Steven Spielberg, the highest-grossing film of her career. She reprised her role of Kate Beringer in the sequel Gremlins 2: The New Batch.

In June 1984, Cates made her stage debut in the Off-Broadway play The Nest of the Wood Grouse, a comedy by Soviet writer Viktor Rozov, at the Joseph Papp Public Theater.[22][23] Cates said that while doing the play she "felt a certain freedom and a certain connection with acting that I had never really felt before".[24] Cates appeared Off-Broadway again two years later in Rich Relations, written by David Henry Hwang, at the Second Stage Theatre.[25] In December 1989, Cates made her Broadway debut in a revival of Paddy Chayefsky's The Tenth Man at the Vivian Beaumont Theater.[26][27]

In 1988, Cates told an interviewer, "There are simply not that many good parts in film", but that theater had "tons of good women's roles...I think of theater as what I like to do most...I've only felt happy as an actress for about two years. I rarely watch my film work."[28]

Cates continued to appear steadily in films through the early 1990s, usually in supporting roles or in ensemble casts. These include Date with an Angel (1987), Bright Lights, Big City (1988), Shag (1988), Heart of Dixie (1989), Drop Dead Fred (1991) and Bodies, Rest & Motion (1993). The films suffered from mixed to poor reviews and failed to make an impact at the box office.[29]

Cates was set to play Steve Martin's daughter in the successful comedy Father of the Bride (1991), but her pregnancy with her first child forced her to drop out.[30]

In 1994, Cates starred in the fact-based comedy-drama Princess Caraboo (1994) with her husband Kevin Kline. It was Cates's last film before she shifted her focus away from acting to raising her children, Owen and Greta.[29]

Post-retirement

In 2001, Cates briefly returned to acting for one film, The Anniversary Party (2001), as a favor to her best friend and former Fast Times at Ridgemont High castmate Jennifer Jason Leigh, who directed it.[31]

In 2005, she ventured into business and opened a boutique, Blue Tree, on New York's Madison Avenue.[32]

Personal life

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Cates and Kevin Kline at an after party for the 1989 Academy Awards

In the early 1980s, Cates shared an apartment in Greenwich Village with her then-boyfriend Stavros Merjos. She met him in 1979 after she went to her first night at Studio 54 with family friend Andy Warhol.[13]

In 1983, Cates auditioned for a role in The Big Chill which ultimately went to Meg Tilly. At the auditions, Cates met actor Kevin Kline. They were both dating other people but became romantically involved two years later. They married in a private New York wedding on March 5, 1989,[33] and she changed her name to Phoebe Cates Kline.[34][35] They moved to the Upper East Side of Manhattan in New York, across Fifth Avenue from Central Park, where they raised their two children, son Owen Joseph Kline (b. 1991) and daughter Greta Kline (b. 1994). Owen and Greta appeared with their parents in the 2001 movie The Anniversary Party. Owen also appeared in the 2005 film The Squid and the Whale, and made his directorial debut with the coming-of-age black comedy Funny Pages. Greta is a musician who fronts the band Frankie Cosmos.[36]

Filmography

Film

Year Film Role Notes
1982 Paradise Sarah
Fast Times at Ridgemont High Linda Barrett
1983 Private School Christine Ramsey
1984 Gremlins Kate Beringer
1987 Date with an Angel Patricia "Patty" Winston
1988 Shag Carson McBride
Bright Lights, Big City Amanda Conway
1989 Heart of Dixie Aiken Reed
1990 I Love You to Death Joey's Girl at Disco Uncredited
Gremlins 2: The New Batch Kate Beringer
1991 Drop Dead Fred Elizabeth "Lizzie" Cronin
1993 Bodies, Rest & Motion Carol
My Life's in Turnaround Herself
1994 Princess Caraboo Princess Caraboo/Mary Baker
2001 The Anniversary Party Sophia Gold

Television

Year Film Role Notes
1983 Baby Sister Annie Burroughs Television film
1984 Lace Elizabeth "Lili" Lace Miniseries
1985 Lace II Elizabeth "Lili" Lace
1990 Largo Desolato Young Philosophy Student Television film
1994 Sesame Street Herself 1 episode
2000 VH1- Where Are They Now? Herself Episode: "Music Movie Stars"

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