Grease actress Susan Buckner is totally unrecognisable 45 years after the hit musical burst onto screens.

In the beloved 1978 basic, Buckner portrayed a cheerleader alongside Sandy Olsson (performed by Olivia Newton-John) and Danny Zuko (John Travolta).

Her character Patty Simcox welcomed Sandy to Rydell High, however steered away from the notorious Pink Ladies.

She was usually thought of a punchline by the likes of Rizzo (Stockard Channing) and Frenchie (Didi Conn).

Even so, she nonetheless made an impression together with her signature excessive ponytail and cat glasses.

Patty additionally stood out from the gang with distinctive crimson lipstick, and was generally known as a ‘goodie two-shoes’ amongst her classmates.

Buckner filmed her scenes when she was 25, and admitted the solid usually acted like highschool college students regardless of being a number of years older.

“We were so bad,” she instructed People journal in a latest interview.

“Almost everybody would come in two, three hours late. They had to bring us all in and give us a lecture.”

Performing got here naturally to Buckner, whose mom was a dancer and father was a musician.

Her profession started when she began collaborating in magnificence pageants, and he or she was topped Miss Washington in 1971.

She then grew to become a high ten finalist within the Miss America pageant the next yr.

In addition to Grease, Buckner has appeared in a spread of TV and movie roles throughout the Nineteen Seventies and 80s.

Before touchdown the long-lasting position she carried out as a part of The Krofftettes on The Brady Bunch Hour.

She has additionally appeared in The Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries, Starsky & Hutch and had a primary position as Lucy Davis in When the Whistle Blows.

In her ultimate movie position, she appeared reverse Maren Jensen and Sharon Stone within the 1981 slasher movie, Deadly Blessings.

However, Grease stays by far her most iconic efficiency to today and the movie shall be celebrating its forty fifth anniversary this yr.