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She achieved icon status in 1982 for her [[popular girl]] role in ''Fast Times at Ridgemont High'', particularly the monumental [[Nudity in film#famous nude scenes|nude scene]] in which she sheds her [[bikini]] top in a slow-motion fantasy sequence. As ''Fast Times'' became a defining early-'80s [[cult classic]], this image of her became inextricably [[Imprinting (psychology)|imprinted]] on generations of teenage boys.
That same year, in the romance film ''[[Paradise (1982 film)|Paradise]]'', and in contrast to the coyness of [[Brooke Shields]] in the similarly themed ''[[The Blue Lagoon (1980 film)|The Blue Lagoon]]'', Cates displayed copious [[Nudity in film|nudity]], although a [[body double]] may have been used in some of the close-ups. In a ''[[People (magazine)|People]]'' magazine article, Cates said she had expressed reservations about this situation to her father, who advised her to play it in whatever way she felt was artistically and financially honest. She is quoted as saying "I was only 17 when I did my nude scenes in Paradise. They were serious and more difficult because they were not easily justified. But the topless scene in Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982) was funny, which made it easy."<ref>[http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000121/bio Phoebe Cates Bio]</ref>
In 1985 Cates appeared [[Off-Broadway]] in ''Rich Relations'' by David Henry Hwang at [[Second Stage Theatre]].
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