Edith
"Didi" Conn (née Bernstein;
born July 13, 1951) is an American actress. She is best known for her work as
Frenchy in Grease, Denise Stevens Downey in Benson and Stacy
Jones in Shining Time Station. Edith Bernstein was born on July 13, 1951, in Brooklyn, New York. She had a Conservative "holiday Jewish"
upbringing, and is the daughter of a clinical psychologist; "Didi"
was her childhood nickname. She attended Midwood High School. Her
brother is opera singer Richard Bernstein.[
Conn made her debut as an
actress in the 1960s. Her notable characters since the 1970s, when she first
became prominent, include Laurie Robinson in You Light Up My Life (1977;
for which Kasey Cisyk provided the character's
singing voice), Frenchy in the feature films Grease (1978) and Grease 2 (1982), Helen on The Practice (1976–77),
Denise Stevens Downey on Benson (1981–84),
and Stacy Jones on Shining Time Station (1989–95).
Conn provided the voice for Raggedy Ann in
the animated feature Raggedy Ann
& Andy: A Musical Adventure (1977) directed by Richard Williams.
Her voice is one of her trademarks. She appeared as a celebrity guest on game
shows like Match Game, The $20,000, $25,000, $50,000, and
$100,000 Pyramids, Chain Reaction,
and Go. In 2013, she
starred as Pearl in the play A Heap of Livin' by Elliot
Shoenman at the Odyssey Theatre in Los Angeles, California.[ In January 2016, she had a cameo as Vi
in the Grease: Live television special
on Fox, thus being the only
actress to appear in all three screen adaptations of the franchise. In
addition, she has appeared in numerous other roles on television. In 2019, Conn was a contestant on the eleventh series of
the British television series Dancing on Ice. At 67, she was the oldest person ever to
compete on the show. She, alongside her professional partner Łukasz Różycki, were
eliminated in Week 4, after the judges saved Saara Aalto and Hamish Gaman in the skate-off.