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In the iconic 1984 comedy-horror film Gremlins and its 1990 sequel, Gremlins 2: The New Batch, Phoebe Cates also played Kate Beringer.

Cates played Patty Winston in Date with an Angel, a fantasy rom-com that received negative reviews, in 1987.

Despite coming from a New York family of Broadway producers, Cates didn’t start acting in plays until the middle of the 1980s. She performed in the off-Broadway musicals Rich Relations and The Nest of the Wood Grouse during this decade, and The Tenth Man marked her Broadway debut.

Phoebe Cates has frequently stated that, despite the popularity that came with her roles in Fast Times and Paradise, she greatly loves performing on stage over film. She has also noted that there are more fascinating and varied roles for women in theater than there are in movies.