Patrick Swayze's Dancing Family

Perhaps, there wouldn’t be even one person, who didn’t know a sex symbol of 1980s Patrick Swayze, who performed the main role in Dirty Dancing. He had an unbelievable charisma as well as masculine appearance. On top of all of that, he could boast of an absolute acting gift that was easily seen in all of the movies and projects he took part in. The actor’s versatility knew no bounds and so, apart from the filmmaking world, he was passionate about singing. In spring of 2008, Swayze was diagnosed with cancer and almost immediately had a surgery. After it, he began feeling much better but within a year, was hospitalized once again with suspected pneumonia. Unfortunately, it turned out cancer returned with multiple metastasis. He passed away in 2009, at the age of 57.

Patrick’s father Jesse was a draftsman by profession. Apart from the main job, he was interested in boxing and rodeo. Together with a wife Patsy, he raised four kids. He died in 1982, aged 57.

The mother Patsy was a founder of a ballet company and it was she, who taught Patrick different kinds of dancing. She had always been a supporting, loving and caring mom to all children, including an adopted girl from South Korea. She died of stroke in 2013, being 86.

As for the legendary dirty dancer’s siblings, he had three blood ones and one adopted.

Vicky was an older sister and she was involved in different arts like dancing and acting. She was also married twice and had three children. She was successful both professionally and personally however, suffered from depression and in 1994, aged 45 committed a suicide. In one of the interviews, Patrick mentioned that it was a huge loss for him and that he even felt guilty as he couldn’t save a sister.

Don is a younger brother to the late actor. He is also into the moviemaking business, being a stuntman and an actor. He was married twice and has one child.

The third blood sibling is a brother Sean and he is also an actor. He resides in California, is married and is a father to three children.

Bambi is an adopted sister from South Korea and she joined the family at the age of 4. She is a dancer and an actress by profession. Unfortunately, there is no information about her personal life.

A famous movie star had been married to a writer, director and dancer Lisa Niemi since 1975 and up till his death in the year 2009. They got to know each other during one of the dancing lessons of Patrick’s mom in 1970 and five years later got married. Lisa had been with a spouse through good and bad times until the end. It is known that she has been married to Albert DePrisco, who deals with the jewelry business since 2017.

After walking Lisa down to the altar, both lovers dreamt of becoming parents, yet all their efforts were not successful. They also considered adopting a child but didn’t have enough time for that as the actor got seriously ill.
 
That is all.
Don’t forget to subscribe to our channel.
https://www.youtube.com/theskeleton

Видео Patrick Swayze's Dancing Family канала The Skeleton