---
name: "Cynthia Rhodes"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/cynthia-rhodes"
fi1m_id: "cynthia-rhodes"
imdb_id: "nm0722407"
tmdb_id: 724
wikidata_id: "Q250710"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "21 November 1956"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-24T03:23:51.915315+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Cynthia Rhodes

## Identity

Cynthia Rhodes

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/cynthia-rhodes
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** cynthia-rhodes
- **IMDb ID:** nm0722407
- **TMDB ID:** 724
- **Wikidata ID:** Q250710
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cynthia_Rhodes, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q250710, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0722407/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/724

Actor. Born 21 November 1956 in Nashville, Tennessee, USA.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 21 November 1956, Nashville, Tennessee, USA
- **Also known as:** Синтия Родес
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cynthia_Rhodes, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q250710, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0722407/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/724

## Streaming the US now

- **Pluto TV:** [*Dirty Dancing*](https://film.one/film/dirty-dancing.md) (79)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Cynthia Rhodes is an American retired actress, singer and dancer. She began her career in the 1970s as a performer at Opryland USA in Nashville while attending Glencliff High School.

Rhodes appeared in supporting roles in several 1980s films, including Tina Tech in *Flashdance* (1983), Jackie in *Staying Alive* (1983), Officer Karen Thompson in *Runaway* (1984) and Penny Johnson in *Dirty Dancing* (1987). Her final screen credit was in *Curse of the Crystal Eye* (1991).

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Dirty Dancing* (1987), Fi1m 79, as Penny Johnson — [page](https://film.one/film/dirty-dancing.md)

## Complete filmography (5)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Curse of the Crystal Eye* (1991), as Vickie Phillips
- *Dirty Dancing* (1987), as Penny Johnson — Fi1m 79, [page](https://film.one/film/dirty-dancing.md)
- *Runaway* (1984), as Officer Karen Thompson
- *Staying Alive* (1983), as Jackie
- *Flashdance* (1983), as Tina Tech

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© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL. Canonical: https://film.one/person/cynthia-rhodes