# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/patrick-swayze
# Generated: 2026-08-31T16:43:16.263Z

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url: "https://fame.am/person/patrick-swayze"
name: "Patrick Swayze"
slug: "patrick-swayze"
description: "He slow-danced with Jennifer Grey in the Catskills, then caught waves as a bank-robbing surfer and talked to Demi Moore from beyond the grave — three wildly different films that somehow all feel like him."
tagline: "American actor, producer, singer and dancer (1952–2009)"
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gender: "male"
country:
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1952-08-18"
deathDate: "2009-09-14"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Patrick Wayne Swayze grew up dancing, trained by his mother, and broke through in The Outsiders and Red Dawn before Dirty Dancing made him a romantic lead in 1987 and earned him his first Golden Globe nomination. He followed it with the bar-bouncer cult hit Road House, then Ghost in 1990 — a supernatural romance that landed him another nomination and became one of the decade's biggest films. Point Break came next, cementing his action credentials, and in 1995 he earned a third nomination playing a drag queen in To Wong Foo. People named him "Sexiest Man Alive" that same year. He also co-wrote "She's Like the Wind" for the Dirty Dancing soundtrack, which hit number three on the Billboard Hot 100. Pancreatic cancer took him in 2009 at fifty-seven.