• Name: Patrick Swayze
  
• Birth Name: Patrick Wayne Swayze
  
• Height: 5' 10
  
• Sex: M
  
• Nationality: American
  
• Birth Date: August 18, 1952
  
• Birth Place: Houston, Texas, USA
  
• Profession: actor, producer, former dancer
  
• Education: Joffrey Ballet School in New York, New York
  
•   : San Jacinto College in Houston, Texas
  
•   : acting classes with Warren Robertson in New York and Milton Katselas in Los Angeles
  
• Husband/Wife: Lisa Niemi (actress, dancer; born on May 26, 1956; married in 1975)
  
• Father: Jesse Swayze (engineering draftsman; died in 1982)
  
• Mother: Patsy Swayze (choreographer, dancer)
  
• Sister: Vicky Swayze (committed suicide in 1994), Bambi Swayze
  
• Brother: Don Swayze (actor; born on August 10, 1958), Sean Swayze
  
• Claim to fame: as Johnny Castle in Dirty Dancing (1987)
  

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• Good looking people turn me off. Myself included.
• "If you live through the initial stage of fame and get past it, and remember that’s not who you are.....if you live past that, then you have a hope of maybe learning how to spell the word artist."
• Explaining why he went 'off the rails' when DIRTY DANCING fame took off: "The way to screw up somebody's life is to give them what they want."
• Talking about his alcoholism after the initial fame of his part in DIRTY DANCING: "I would be dead if it weren't for Lisa [his wife], on many more levels than drinking. I have a wild-man edge. If my life looks good, I sabotage it. With Lisa, I don't even get a chance to go too far into stupidity."

• ShoWest Convention: ShoWest Award - Male Star of the Year (1992)
• BMI Film & TV Awards: Most Performed Song from a Film, DIRTY DANCING (1989)
• Aftonbladet TV Prize, Sweden: Best Foreign TV Personality - Male (1988)

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