Meet Patrick Swayze’s four siblings – including famous actor brother who starred in The Young and the Restless

The eldest Swayze sibling Vicky studied dance with her younger brother Patrick at their dance instructor mother’s school, the Swayze Dance Studio, “from the time [they] could walk”.

In his memoir, The Time of My Life, Patrick said the studio was like “a second home” for the pair, adding: “My mother never asked Vicky and me if we wanted to study dance — it was just expected of us.” Vicky died in December 1994.

Patrick’s brother Don, known for onscreen appearances in The Young and the Restless, True Blood and NCIS  has an extensive list of screen credits. Don joined his brother on Patrick’s final film, Powder Blue, and has worked on movies like Honey Don’t!. 

He and wife Charlene Lindstrom opened an animal therapy programme called Swayze Ranch in 2018, reportedly home to rescued ponies, goats and alpacas. Don shares one daughter, Danielle, with his ex-wife Marcia.

Sean Swayze joined his elder brother Patrick onscreen with a small part in the 1998 crime thriller Letters from a Killer. Sean passed away at the age of 63 in Los Angeles on 15 December 2025.

His cousin Rachel Leon announced Sean’s death on Instagram, saying: “I’m heartbroken to share that my cousin Sean Swayze passed away today. He was always fun and full of life.”

Patrick’s adopted sister Bambi Swayze, like the rest of her family, went into the performing arts. She’s credited with small appearances in The Other Side (1990) and One Last Dance (2003) as well as crime thriller For Hire (1991).

Patrick starred in One Last Dance opposite his wife Lisa Niemi, who co-wrote and directed the 2003 film. The story follows three dance students forced to reunite in order to save their late teacher’s company.

Patrick opened up about his upbringing in his 2009 memoir The Time of My Life, saying that he and his siblings all “felt the constant pressure to perform”.

They nicknamed it “growing up Swayze”, which he summarises as “an almost manic drive to be the best, do the most, and lead the pack in whatever we attempted”. His mother Patsy was a prominent dance instructor in Patrick’s hometown of Houston and his father was a Golden Gloves boxer-turned-engineer.

Patrick met his wife of more than three decades at his mother’s dance studio and they tied the knot in 1975, when Patrick was 24 and Lisa Niemi was 19, both having taken places at the prestigious Joffrey Ballet.

They were happily married for 34 years and lived across two horse ranches – one outside Los Angeles and another in New Mexico. He told People in 2007: “We’ve always been a team. We raise horses together, run a music business and a wildlife preserve together. We have an unspoken language after all these years.”