Jennifer Grant

Cary Grant and Dyan Cannon's only daughter was born February 26, 1966 in Burbank, California; two months premature and weighed only 4.5 pounds. 'She's my best production', "the most winsome, captivating girl I've ever known, and I've known quite a few girls", Cary told the reporters, "the most beautiful baby in the world". Her parents decided to name her Jennifer.
After her birth, whenever Grant was approached for a new project, he just smiled, shook his head, and explained that he was no longer interested. When they asked him why, he would reach into his pocket and produce a picture of Jennifer: "This is why".
"My life changed the day Jennifer was born", Grant said, "I've come to think that the reason we're put on this earth is to procreate. To leave something behind. Not films, because you know that I don't think my films will last very long once I'm gone. But another human being. That's what's important."
Jennifer's parents divorced when she was two years old, but she had a close relationship with her father for the rest of his life. Her first school was Buckley, a private school in Van Nuys. Cary Grant never wanted his daughter to go into show business. Dyan Cannon was less reserved, and encouraged her to do what was in her heart. Jennifer decided to study law at Stanford University, where she received her Bachelor of Arts degree.
While attending Stanford University, she often spent weekends with her father and stepmother in Los Angeles. "She has to to what she wants to do", Grant said of his daughter. "I can't, nor would I, impose my wishes on her. I love her and I pray for her. But she has her own life to live. I can merely spend the rest of my life loving her, enjoying her, hoping she enjoys me."
After graduating from Stanford University in 1987 with a degree in history and political science, she worked for a law firm, but followed that with a job as a chef.
In 1993, seven years after Cary Grant's death, she got her first acting role in the hit Aaron Spelling television teen drama Beverly Hills, 90210, in the recurring role of Celeste Lundy and has guest-starred on such television series as "Ellen" and "Friends". Grant made her big-screen debut opposite Shirley MacLaine and Jack Nicholson in "The Evening Star," the sequel to "Terms of Endearment". Her other film credits include the independent thriller "Savage" and the 1997 black comedy "Eraseable You". On her hiatus from "Movie Stars", she shot the independent film "A View from the Swing". Additionally, she completed the independent romantic comedy "My Engagement Party", which won the Feature Film Award from the New York International Independent Film & Video Festival.
She was married to TV executive Randy Zisk for three years, but the marriage ended in divorce in 1996.
In her spare time, Grant enjoys practicing and teaching yoga, going on hikes with her dog, Oliver, and watching movies. She currently resides in Los Angeles.
Jennifer Grant has volunteered as an actress and mentor with the Young Storytellers Program.

Cary Grant's only child, Jennifer Grant, is writing a memoir, the first time she has offered an in-depth look at her famous father.
"It's going to be a loving portrait of this man who was sort of an amazing daddy. But as you're reading it, you're also saying, 'This is Cary Grant!; " said Victoria Wilson, a vice-president and senior editor at Alfred A. Knopf, which plans to publish the book, "Good Stuff," in 2008 at the earliest.
Jennifer Grant, 40, is the daughter of Grant and actress Dyan Cannon, who were married briefly in the 1960s before separating and bitterly divorcing.
Wilson told The Associated Press on Tuesday that Jennifer Grant was not planning to write about her parents' breakup, focusing instead on her close relationship with father, who was in his early 60s when she was born, in 1966, and retired from acting the same year. Cary Grant died in 1986 at age 82.
"Good Stuff" will include letters and photographs that have never been published before, reminiscences from family friends and audiotapes of household conversations, recorded by the actor.
Wilson said she has met with Jennifer Grant, whose acting credits include "Beverly Hills 90210" and "Friends," and found her "very smart, very appealing. She has a sort of winsomeness about her. She's very disarming.
"The book will bring together this highly polished invention who was Cary Grant and the human being who was both a daddy and a son. No one's ever been able to do that before," Wilson said.