Lucinda Dickey Net Worth

What Is Lucinda Dickey's Net Worth?

Lucinda Dickey is an American retired actress and dancer who has a net worth of $400 million. That is a combined net worth with her husband, Craig Piligian. Piligian has produced numerous reality series, such as "Survivor" and "Dirty Jobs." In 2015, Craig sold 50% of his company to Lionsgate for $200 million.

Lucinda Dickey is best known for playing the role of Kelly in the 1984 movies "Breakin'" and "Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo." She started dancing at four years old and majored in dance at Kansas State University. Dickey studied on a scholarship with the Roland DuPree Dance Academy and won a role as a lead dancer in the 1982 movie "Grease 2." She has also appeared in the films "Ninja III: The Domination" (1984) and "Cheerleader Camp" (1988), and she served as a choreographer on "Cheerleader Camp" as well. Lucinda was a dancer on the syndicated music series "Solid Gold" from 1982 to 1983 and was a judge on the TLC reality series "Master of Dance" in 2008.

Early Life

Lucinda Dickey was born Lucinda Marie Henninger on July 9, 1960, in Hutchinson, Kansas. When she was four years old, she started dancing at her mother's studio. Lucinda majored in dance at Kansas State University, and during her college years, she competed in the Miss Kansas pageant as Miss Manhattan/Kansas-State. She won the talent portion and was the third runner-up in the pageant. In a 2008 interview with The Black Hollywood File, Dickey said of her childhood, "I grew up in a dance studio. My mother is a dance teacher, and she opened a studio in 1964 when I was four years old, and I started taking (dance) from her. And then I studied for two years at Kansas State University as a dance major, although I didn't do all the requirements to actually be a dance major. I only danced and I went on (with) a performing group and we toured around performing."

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Career

Lucinda moved to Los Angeles in 1980 and received a scholarship to study at the Roland DuPree Dance Academy. Less than a year later, she was cast as one of the lead dancers in the 1982 musical film "Grease 2." From 1982 to 1983, Dickey was a dancer on the syndicated music series "Solid Gold." In 1984, she played Kelly in "Breakin'" and "Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo" and Christie in "Ninja III: The Domination." In 1988, Lucinda appeared in the slasher "Cheerleader Camp" and worked as a choreographer on the film. In 1990, she had an uncredited role in the TV movie "Perry Mason: The Case of the Defiant Daughter," which was her final acting role before retiring. In 2008, Dickey was a judge on the TLC reality series "Master of Dance, and then she appeared in the documentaries "Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films" (2014) and "Demnächst auf VHS" (2022). From 2024 to 2025, she was featured on "Retrofiend Radio," a "video docucast series and podcast showcasing the underrated treasures of pop culture."

Personal Life and Real Estate

Lucinda married Craig Piligian in 1990, and they have welcomed two children together. In 2016, the couple paid $5.325 million for a 1,260-acre Kansas ranch property known as Yaggy Plantation.

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