In her Los Angeles home, Annette Charles, who portrayed Charlene “Cha Cha” DiGregorio in the 1978 smash blockbuster Grease, passed away on 3rd August 2011 night from cancer, according to TMZ. She was 63.
After Olivia Newton John’s character is hauled away from the nationally televised school dance, Charles, who played Leo’s (Dennis Stewart) girlfriend, wins it with John Travolta.
The Los Angeles native made appearances in various TV shows before the Paramount release, including The Flying Nun, Gunsmoke, Mod Squad, Bonanza, Barnaby Jones, and The Bionic Woman, after making a cameo on High Chaparral in 1968.