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Kelly Bishop

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Biography

Carole "Kelly" Bishop is an American actress, who is best known for her role as matriarch Emily Gilmore on the series Gilmore Girls, and for her role as Jennifer Grey's mother in the film Dirty Dancing. She is also well remembered for her Tony-winning performance as Sheila in A Chorus Line.

Notable films

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Highlights from credits and KinoChain journeys.

Dirty Dancing

Appears in a KinoChain journey

Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life

As Emily Gilmore

Wonder Boys

As Amanda Leer

Six Degrees of Separation

As Adele

Chains

KinoChain journeys

Public chains that pass through their films — or name them as a bridge.

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Dancing Against the Current: Eight Films of Rebellion in Motion

From the steel mills of Pittsburgh to the streets of Baltimore, these films trace the dancer's fight for selfhood against the weight of expectation. A curated j...

8 films

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