Your Favorite ’80s Stars That Are Still Going Strong: Find Out Where They Are

Jennifer Grey (Born In 1960) – Ferris Bueller’s Day Off

Jen­nifer Grey made her act­ing debut in the 1984 film “Reck­less” but didn’t receive recog­ni­tion until her role in the 1987 hit film “Dirty Danc­ing.” Fol­low­ing its release, Grey had a trag­ic acci­dent with her then-part­ner, Matthew Brod­er­ick, lead­ing to her break from act­ing. 

The Amer­i­can actress went for cos­met­ic surgery in the ear­ly ’90s and con­tin­ued her tele­vi­sion jour­ney most famous­ly in “Since You’ve Been Gone,” “Bounce,” “It’s Like, You Know,” and “Red Oaks.” She is also an acclaimed voice-over artist for the pop­u­lar Dis­ney show “Phineas and Ferb.” In 2022, Grey released her mem­oir “Out of the Cor­ner” with juicy and tense bits about her roman­tic rela­tion­ships.

Marlo Thomas (Born In 1937) – That Girl

Fans of the high­ly regard­ed sit­com “Friends” remem­ber Mar­lo Thomas as Rachel Green’s mom, but that’s just the tip of her long and suc­cess­ful career. The octo­ge­nar­i­an actress has enter­tained the audi­ence for more than 60 years, notably in

That Girl,” “Nobody’s Child,” “LOL,” and “Ocean’s Eight.”The award-win­ning actress and phil­an­thropist began as a stage artist and reg­u­lar­ly per­formed on and off-Broad­way. Thomas is a found­ing mem­ber of the non-prof­it “Ms. Foun­da­tion for Women

She has also received var­i­ous hon­ors for her activism and out­reach pro­grams. She has devot­ed her­self to her father’s ini­tia­tive, “St. Jude Children’s Research Hos­pi­tal,” and just makes casu­al appear­ances in TV com­mer­cials for it.

Johnny Depp (Born In 1963) – 21 Jump Street

Through his affil­i­a­tion with fran­chis­es like “Pirates of the Caribbean,” “Alice in Won­der­land,” and “Fan­tas­tic Beasts,” John­ny Depp doesn’t need an intro­duc­tion. His mas­sive body of work and eccen­tric char­ac­ter choic­es have already gar­nered him glob­al recog­ni­tion. How­ev­er

he became a house­hold name with the defama­tion tri­al against ex-wife Amber Heard in 2022.Depp’s life has been under the micro­scope fol­low­ing the tri­al, but very few know about his aspi­ra­tion to become a musi­cian. Depp came

to LA as a strug­gling singer, but meet­ing Nico­las Cage changed his direc­tion to act­ing. Cage imme­di­ate­ly sensed the poten­tial in Depp and intro­duced him to an agent. With Depp’s ver­sa­til­i­ty, there was no look­ing back.