<P> Born in Nashville, Tennessee, Rhodes began her brief show business career working at Opryland USA as a singer and dancer while attending Glencliff High School during the 1970s . Raised in a Baptist family, Rhodes tried to maintain a clean - cut image in her acting roles and in the media, turning down scripts that required nudity and refusing offers to pose for pictorials in Playboy magazine . Sylvester Stallone, the director of Staying Alive, reinforced these facts by stating that Rhodes "would sooner quit the business before doing anything to embarrass her parents ." </P> <P> Rhodes played a small role in the fantasy musical Xanadu (1980) with her next role as Tina Tech in the musical film Flashdance . After Flashdance, Rhodes was cast opposite John Travolta in Sylvester Stallone's 1983 film Staying Alive, a sequel to the 1977 hit film Saturday Night Fever . Rhodes' character, Jackie, was an ensemble dancer, bar band singer, and some - time love interest of Travolta's character, Tony Manero . While poorly reviewed, the film was commercially successful . </P> <P> Rhodes garnered her first non-dance related role in Michael Crichton's science fiction thriller Runaway with Tom Selleck, Kirstie Alley and Gene Simmons . Her most notable role was as dance instructor Penny Johnson in the hit 1987 motion picture Dirty Dancing with Jennifer Grey and Patrick Swayze . Rhodes' final motion picture role was the character of Vickie Phillips opposite actor Jameson Parker in the sleeper action - adventure movie Curse of the Crystal Eye . </P> <P> Rhodes also appeared as a dancer in music videos, such as "Rosanna" by the band Toto, "The Woman in You" by the Bee Gees, and "Don't Mean Nothing" by Richard Marx . She was a dancer for the glam rock band The Tubes when they toured in the early 1980s . Rhodes later joined the 1980s pop group Animotion, replacing the group's singer Astrid Plane for the recording of its third album of original material . Though the group's single "Room to Move" rose to No. 9 on the Billboard charts, the album failed to match the group's earlier success, peaking at only No. 110 on the pop charts; shortly thereafter, the group disbanded . In 2002, Rhodes co-wrote the smooth jazz track "Perfect Day" with then - husband Richard Marx for December, trumpeter Chris Botti's holiday album . </P>

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