The name Jane Brucker doesn’t mean anything to many. However, if we mention that she played Lisa Houseman, the sister of “Baby”, in the popular American movie Dirty Dancing, you will surely know. Brucker has not been acting for many years. How has the former actress, who celebrated her 65th birthday in May, changed and what is she doing?
Jane Brucker studied theater and one of their classmates was an American actor Bruce Willis (68). For some time she was active in an improv group in New York.
She first stood in front of the camera as a ten-year-old in the series One Life to Live. Then came an eight-year hiatus, and in 1986 she played a cameo role in the series Miami Vice a Crime stories. A year later, her life-long role as Lisa Housmanová in Sinful dance.
Jane Brucker is done with acting
After that she acted in only three films – Hometown, Murder on Broadway and after a longer break in the film in 2005 Go back to the sink! That was her last shoot ever. He has not been acting for 18 years. But she didn’t go far from the movies. She threw herself into writing screenplays. He is also dedicated to charity and annually participates in a project to support abused children.
From 1986 to 1993, she was married to American actor Brian Edward O’Connor (70). She has a daughter Sally (34) with him. She married a second time in 2001 to a photographer Raula Vega, who has photographed for Vanity Fair, Rolling Stone, Vogue and more. Together they have a daughter, Rachel (20).
Interesting facts about the Sinful Dance
Song Dance Performancewhich at the end Sinful dance sings Lisa, composed by her representative herself. Originally, the song “Some Enchanted Evening” was supposed to be played in the scene, but it was too expensive. They wanted to cut it, but in the end Brucker composed a song during the breaks. At that time, she did not claim authorship of the song. The young actress reportedly didn’t want to upset the producers by insisting on getting paid for writing the song, so she let it float. Then when the movie became a big hit, she had none of it because the statute of limitations ran out. But when they did a stage show in Australia in 2004, she was able to get credit for a song written for the stage show and retroactively any time it’s in the film.
Actor Max Cantor, the representative of the waiter Robbie, who chased Lisa, died already in 1991 at the age of 32 – he overdosed on heroin.
Source: wikipedia.org, imdb.com, movieweb.com
2023-11-16 18:47:15
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