Patrick Swayze was 34 years old when Dirty Dancing premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in May 1987, and about 35 years old when the movie was released in the United States later that year. The film was released on August 21, 1987, and Swayze was born in 1952, making him 34 or 35 during filming and release. Jennifer Grey, his co-star, was 27 years old at the time, making Swayze about seven years older than her during the filming of Dirty Dancing.
