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But at the time, Cates’ dream job was to become a dancer.
When Phoebe Cates was 15 years old, she suffered a catastrophic knee injury and was forced to stop attending a ballet school.
Phoebe Cates actually began her career in modeling about this time, although she never really enjoyed it because, in her own words, “it was basically the same thing over and over…
I only did it for the money.

The movie Paradise featured Phoebe Cates in her acting debut (1982). During a screen test in her native New York, Cates was chosen to star in this Israeli-produced picture.

According to reports, Cates was embarrassed by the finished product, which is commonly regarded as a Blue Lagoon imitation.

However the same year after this movie, she gave a standout performance as Linda Barrett in Fast Times at Ridgemont High.

Both of these early films featured varying degrees of nudity, but one felt much more difficult to film than the other, Cates said in an interview from 1982.