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Actor Joel Grey turns 93 years aged today. The actor is best known for his role as the Emcee in the stage and movie version of the film Cabaret.
Grey has been the original actor in many well known musicals, he was the first person to play the Wizard of Oz in Wicked, and also starred Amos Hart in the Broadway revival of Chicago and as Moonface Martin in Anything Goes.
Born in Ohio in , Grey went to High School in Los Angeles and began his acting career in children’s theatre in the ’s. In the ’s and 60’s he appeared in many well known TV shows.
He won the Tony Award for his recital in Cabaret in , he returned to the role for the film version in and won the Foremost Supporting Actor award at the Oscars.
Grey has continued to appear in films and television over the decades. In he appeared in the original production of Larry Kramer’s play The Normal Heart, and he co-directed the revival of the play.
He married in , the couple divorced in His daughter is actress Jennifer Grey who starred in the film Dirty Dancing, an
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"If you don't tell the whole truth about yourself, life is a ridiculous exercise." By the second Joel Grey comes to this conclusion, he has put in pages of autobiography and some seven decades of searching for his authenticity as a person and performer.
He calls his memoir "Master of Ceremonies" after the bad, seductively seedy emcee in Cabaret, unarguably his most iconic creation. "I was always going to employ that title," he says. "It's about both types of mastering: mastering a life and mastering a career.
"The fundamental job of the actor is to tell about the human condition, to be a voice for the truest ideas and deepest emotions. Sometimes they are large ones, such as the nature of death in On Borrowed Time [his first play, at age 9] or they are painful, such as in The Normal Heart, where I first talked to the world as a gay man."
I like how things that gnaw at you in life surface in this book. You're very frank and frontal about how gayness evolved for you. It reads like a human history. It is perhaps the biggest piece of non-news of the year to date: Joel Grey, the Academy Award-winning star of Cabaret and a Broadway legend for roles such as the Wizard in Wicked, has, at age 82, finally comes out publicly as gay, in an interview with People magazine. Legendary Oscar and Tony-winning actor Joel Grey, father of Dirty Dancing actress Jennifer Grey, has appear out publicly as a gay man. The year-old thespian, best known for his role as the Emcee in the film and original Broadway production of the musical Cabaret, made his comments in an interview with People magazine that was posted on Wednesday, ahead of the let go of a planned memoir. "I don't like labels," says Joel, "but if you have to put a label on it, I'm a gay man." The star was married to Jennifer's mother, former actress Jo Wilder, for 24 years. The two, who divorced in , are also parents to a son, James. "All the people lock to me have established for years who I am," Joel told People, adding, "It took moment to embrace that other part of who I always was." "I feel very happy for my dad that he has advance to a point in his life where he feels safe and cozy enough to declare himself in a public way as a gay man," Jennifer, 54, told the magaz .
Joel Grey: Writing this was hard and, at the same time, inevitable. I'd been thinking about it for a long time. I wondered, if there were a right moment, when would that b
If you perceive crickets chirping, I’m not surprised. Despite being the father of actress Jennifer Grey, Joel has frequently been at the fore of gay causes. So why hide it for so long? (As Nathan Lane noted when he came out years ago, “I’m single, I’m 40, I do musical theater …. you do the math!”)
The People interview sheds little light on that matter, other than the fact he grew up “in a alternative time.” But those times have long passed, and now in his ninth decade, you’d think he would have come out long ago. But no.
Ah, well. Better tardy than never. Welcome to the party, Joel! Your toaster oven is on its way. Related
Joel Grey, 82, Comes Out as Gay: Broadway Legend and Father of Jennifer Grey Adds, "I Don't Like Labels"