Jeff Conaway
Jeffrey Charles William Michael Jeff Conaway was an American actor known for his role of Kenickie in the movie Grease and his roles in two US television series, Taxi and Babylon 5. Conaway was also featured in the first and second season of the reality television series Celebrity Rehab with Dr. Drew.
Conaway was born in the New York City borough of Manhattan and raised in the Astoria, Flushing, and Forest Hills neighborhoods of the borough Queens. His father, Charles, was an actor, producer and publisher. His mother, Helen, an actress who went by the stage name Mary Ann Brooks, taught music at New York Citys Brook Conservatory. They divorced when he was three, and Conaway and his two older sisters lived with his mother. He also spent time living with his grandparents in South Carolina, which gave him enough of a Southern accent that when he accompanied his mother to a casting call for director Arthur Penns Broadway play All the Way Home, a story set in Knoxville, Tennessee, the 10yearold Conaway landed a featured role as one of four boys. The 1961 Pulitzer Prizewinning play was nominated for a Tony Award for Best Play and ran 333 performances and one preview from November 29, 1960, to September 16, 1961. Conaway remained for the entire run, then toured with the national company of
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