Billy Crystal's 2 Kids: All About Jennifer and Lindsay

Actor Billy Crystal may be forever known to many as Harry from the 1989 film When Harry met Sallybut to Jennifer Crystal Foley and Lindsay Crystal he was always the dad.

Billy and his wife Janice welcomed their daughters in 1973 and 1977.

In an interview with a British newspaper in 2013 The GuardianBilly said the secret to being a good parent is not trying to be your child’s friend. He explained: “We knew we had to be their parents. A lot of parents today try to be friends with their kids, and I don’t think it works.”

“Ultimately you’ll be friends as they get older, but when they grow up you really have to know who you are and who they are,” he added.

In 2023, Billy was among the 46th annual Kennedy Center Honorees, after which he spoke with CBS Morning about how it feels to be honored in front of his daughters.

“This is what I felt, because looking, I’m wearing the (Kennedy Center Honors) medallion at the dinner. They just put it around your neck. And now, officially as that person, you’re honored. And I look out there, and there are my two beautiful daughters, Jenny and Lindsay,” he told the newspaper.

He also explained how he hoped his approach to work was a lesson to his girls.

“I always wanted them to know that if I had to be away, it was because I was doing what I had to do, and something that made me happy, and that the lesson for your life is what you do, be happy in what you do,” she said. is Crystal.

Billy and Janice are also grandparents of four children. Here’s everything there is to know about their daughters Jennifer and Lindsay Crystal.

Jennifer Crystal Foley, 51

Billy Crystal and Jennifer Crystal Foley at the AFI’s 41st Mel Brooks Lifetime Achievement Awards on June 6, 2013 in Hollywood, California.

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Billy and Janice’s oldest daughter, Jennifer, was born on January 26, 1973. She graduated from Northwestern University in 1994.

Jennifer is also an actress, most notably playing Christie Parker in TV series once and again as Rachael Taub on Houseand in the 2003 film. They would love you in France.

In 2001, Billy invited Jennifer to audition for the role of Pat Maris, the wife of baseball player Roger Maris, in the film 61* in which he starred, according to a later interview the actress gave New York Post.

Jennifer later told the paper about the conversation with her father: “I have to give you an injection; I can’t deny you a chance,’ my dad told me about trying for the role of Pat, Roger Maris’s wife, she said at the time.

She also revealed that Billy didn’t tell Barry Pepper, who played Roger, that Jennifer was his daughter, even though he coached her so she could get the part.

“He said to me, ‘You’ve got to win this, and I hope you’re right for it, but do your job and earn it and hopefully you’ll have a good read with Barry Pepper, [who had been cast as Maris] and align,” Jennifer told New York Post at that time.

Jennifer Crystal Foley arrives at Fox’s “House” Finale Wrap Party on April 20, 2012 in Los Angeles, California.

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She ended up getting the role. Jennifer and her father also worked together in City slickers and Father’s Day.

They also joined forces in 2012 Parental controlabout a pair of grandparents (played by Billy and actress Bette Midler) who are left with a long list of rules by their daughter (Marisa Tomei) when she leaves her three children in their care.

Jennifer and her husband Michael Foley, who according to CNN was her college boyfriend, were married in September 2000. They are the parents of two daughters, Ella Ryan Foley and Dylan Frances Foley.

“When my daughter Jenny was pregnant with our first grandchild, Ella, it was profound for me because Jenny is my first-born daughter,” said Billy The Guardian in 2013.

Lindsay Crystal, 47

Billy Crystal with Janice Crystal and Lindsay Crystal at the premiere of ‘The Last Goodbye’ during the 2004 Tribeca Film Festival.

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Lindsay joined the family on October 21, 1977. Like her father and sister, she is also in the entertainment industry.

Although she made her screen debut in her father’s film City slickers (and even had a role in the sequel, City Slickers 2), these days Lindsay works as a producer and director, including as a producer on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart.

According to IMDB, her credits include projects for HBO, Comedy Central, NBC, Sundance Channel and Disney+, and she has served as co-executive producer of a political podcast Under Save America. According to her website, her documentary My Uncle Burns was an official selection of the Tribeca Film Festival.

In 2012, Lindsay directed her father and Helen Mirren in a short film for Funny or Die When Harry Met Sally 2which also featured her sister Jennifer as well as Mike Tyson and Maya Rudolph.

Janice Crystal, Billy Crystal and Lindsay Crystal.

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The following year, Billy spoke to Today’s Parent about his role as a grandfather to his daughter’s children, including Lindsay’s two sons.

At the time, his last grandchild, Lindsay’s youngest boy, was 3 months old. In addition to welcoming a son in 2013, she already had another boy.

“The girls are 10 and seven years old, and the little boy is three and a half,” Billy explained to the newspaper at the time. “I had to explain what I do and I showed them Monsters Inc. — because I couldn’t show them the orgasm scene from When Harry Met Sally… (he laughs),” he added.

“I had to be Mike Wazowski every time I saw them for about a year after that. I was Mike’s grandfather and I could only talk like him,” he explained about his grandchildren.

“But now they’ve seen me on Oscar posters and they’re used to it. They Came to See (2012 family film) Parental control and my seven-year-old granddaughter said to my daughter, ‘Mom, do people know that Grandma is married to Billy Crystal?’ ”

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