Phoebe Belle Cates Kline (born July 16, 1963) is an American businesswoman and retired actress and model. She’s the wife of actor Kevin Kline and the mother of actor/filmmaker Owen Kline and singer/songwriter Greta Kline.
She made her film debut in Paradise (1982), with Willie Ames; and gained wider fame in Amy Heckerling’s Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982), with Sean Penn, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Judge Reinhold, Brian Backer, Robert Romanus, and Ray Walston.
Other notable films of the 1980s include Private School (1983), with Betsy Russell, Matthew Modine, Michael Zorek, Ray Walston, and Sylvia Kristel; Joe Dante’s Gremlins (1984), with Zach Galligan, Phoebe Cates, Hoyt Axton, Polly Holliday, Frances Lee McCain, Reinhold, Corey Feldman, Dick Miller, Jackie Joseph, and the voices of Howie Mandel and Frank Welker; Date with an Angel (1987), with Michael E. Knight, Emmanuelle Béart, and David Dukes; James Bridges’s Bright Lights, Big City (1988), with Michael J. Fox, Kiefer Sutherland, Swoosie Kurtz, and Dianne Wiest; Shag (1988), with Scott Coffey, Bridget Fonda, Annabeth Gish, Page Hannah, Robert Rusler, and Tyrone Power Jr.; and Heart of Dixie (1989), with Ally Sheedy, Virginia Madsen, Don Michael Paul, Kurtwood Smith, Richard Bradford, and Treat Williams.
Films in the 1990s and early 2000s include an uncredited role in Lawrence Kasdan’s I Love You to Death (1990), with Kline, Tracey Ullman, Joan Plowright, River Phoenix, William Hurt, and Keanu Reeves; Gremlins 2: The New Batch (1990), with Galligan, John Glover, Robert Prosky, Robert Picardo, and Christopher Lee; Drop Dead Fred (1991), with Rik Mayall, Marsha Mason, Tim Matheson, and Carrie Fisher; Princess Caraboo (1994), with Jim Broadbent, Wendy Hughes, Kline, John Lithgow, and Stephen Rea; and The Anniversary Party (2001), with Alan Cumming (who also directed), Leigh (who also directed), Kline, John C. Reilly, Jane Adams, Parker Posey, Jennifer Beals, and Gwyneth Paltrow.
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(*seen originally in theaters)
(**seen rereleased in theaters)
- Paradise (1982) – directed by Stuart Gillard
- Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982) – directed by Amy Heckerling
- Baby Sister (1983) – directed by Steven Hilliard Stern – TV movie
- Private School (1983) – directed by Noel Black
- Lace (1984) – directed by William Hale – miniseries
- Gremlins (1984)** – directed by Joe Dante
- Lace II (1985) – directed by William Hale – TV movie
- Date with an Angel (1987) – and directed by Tom McLoughlin
- Bright Lights, Big City (1988) – directed by James Bridges
- Shag (1988) – directed by Zelda Barron
- Heart of Dixie (1989) – directed by Martin Davidson
- I Love You to Death (1990) – directed by Lawrence Kasdan – uncredited
- Gremlins 2: The New Batch (1990) – directed by Joe Dante
- Drop Dead Fred (1991) – directed by Ate de Jong
- Bodies, Rest & Motion (1993) – directed by Michael Steinberg
- My Life’s in Turnaround (1993) – directed by Eric Schaeffer & Donal Lardner Ward – cameo as herself
- Princess Caraboo (1994) – directed by Michael Austin
- The Anniversary Party (2001) – directed by Alan Cumming & Jennifer Jason Leigh
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