In the movie Staying Alive, Cynthia Rhodes danced with John Travolta. In Dirty Dancing, she danced with Patrick Swayze.
Rhodes, who will be 67 years old in November 2023, gracefully stepped away from the spotlight at the height of her career, leaving behind a legacy of parts in classic dance dramas from the 1980s.
Cynthia Rhodes was born in Nashville, Tennessee. She sings and dances, and her first playing job was in Xanadu, a musical fantasy movie from 1980, with the late Olivia Newton-John and Gene Kelly.
In 1983, she played dancer Tina Tech in the movie Flashdance. That same year, she got an even bigger part as John Travolta’s love interest, a Broadway dancer, in Sylvester Stallone’s follow-up to Saturday Night Fever called Staying Alive.
