Cast
Jennifer Beals
Acting
Cast
Jennifer Beals
Known for
Acting
Born
1963-12-19
From
Chicago, Illinois, USA
Biography
Jennifer Beals (born December 19, 1963) is an American actress and a former teen model. She is known for her roles as Alexandra "Alex" Owens in the 1983 film Flashdance, and as Bette Porter on the Showtime drama series The L Word. She earned an NAACP Image Award and a Golden Globe Award nomination for the former. She has appeared in more than 50 films. Beals was born on the South Side of Chicago, the daughter of Jeanne (née Anderson), an elementary school teacher, and Alfred Beals, who owned grocery stores. She is multiracial; her father was African American, and her mother is Irish American. She has two brothers, Bobby and Gregory.Her father died when Beals was nine years old, and her mother married Edward Cohen in 1981. Beals has said her biracial heritage had some effect on her, as she "always lived sort of on the outside", with an idea "of being the other in society". She got her first job at age 13 at an ice cream store, using her height at the time (she is now nearly 5 ft 9 in (1.75 m)), to convince her boss she was 16. Beals was inspired to become an actress by two events: doing a high school production of Fiddler on the Roof and seeing Balm in Gilead with Joan Allen while volunteer-ushering at the Steppenwolf Theatre. Beals graduated from the progressive Francis W. Parker School. She also was chosen to attend the elite Goodman Theatre Young People's Drama Workshop. Beals attended Yale University, receiving a B.A. in American literature in 1987; she deferred a term so she could film Flashdance. While at Yale, Beals was a resident of Morse College. Description above from the Wikipedia article Jennifer Beals, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
★7.1
MOVIE2019
After
as Karen Gibson
★6.8
MOVIE2010
The Book of Eli
as Claudia
★6.5
MOVIE1983
Flashdance
as Alex Owens
★6.9
MOVIE2003
Runaway Jury
as Vanessa Lembeck
★5.9
MOVIE1995
Four Rooms
as Angela
★7.0
MOVIE2017
Before I Fall
as Mrs. Kingston
★5.6
MOVIE2006
The Grudge 2
as Trish Kimble
★6.5
MOVIE2022
Luckiest Girl Alive
as Lolo Vincent
★6.5
MOVIE1995
Devil in a Blue Dress
as Daphne Monet
★6.0
MOVIE1989
Vampire's Kiss
as Rachel
★3.7
MOVIE2006
Troubled Waters
as FBI Agent Beck
★6.3
MOVIE1998
The Last Days of Disco
as Nina
★6.4
MOVIE1980
My Bodyguard
as Clifford's Friend (uncredited)
★5.4
MOVIE1985
The Bride
as Eva
★7.1
MOVIE1993
The Thief and the Cobbler
as Princess YumYum (voice)
★6.4
MOVIE2014
A Wife's Nightmare
as Liz
★4.8
MOVIE1990
Dr. M
as Sonja Vogler
★5.4
MOVIE2010
A Night for Dying Tigers
as Melanie
★5.7
MOVIE1991
Blood and Concrete
as Mona
★6.0
MOVIE1998
The Prophecy II
as Valerie Rosales
★4.8
MOVIE2001
Feast of All Saints
as Dolly Rose
★5.9
MOVIE2016
Manhattan Night
as Lisa Wren
★5.6
MOVIE2001
The Anniversary Party
as Gina Taylor
★6.6
MOVIE2009
Queen to Play
as L’Américaine
★5.5
MOVIE2018
Hollywood: No Sex, Please!
★5.5
MOVIE1992
Indecency
as Ellie Shaw
★7.3
MOVIE1993
Caro diario
as Jennifer Beals
★4.5
MOVIE1999
Turbulence 2: Fear of Flying
as Jessica
★5.7
MOVIE2018
The White Orchid
as Vivian
★6.9
MOVIE1985
That's Dancing!
★6.9
MOVIE1985
That's Dancing!
as Self (archive footage)
★5.1
MOVIE1999
Wishful Thinking
as Elizabeth
★2.8
MOVIE2000
Body and Soul
as Gina
★3.6
MOVIE2005
Break a Leg
as Juliet
★5.6
MOVIE1994
The Search for One-eye Jimmy
as Ellen
★6.1
MOVIE2002
Roger Dodger
as Sophie
★7.2
MOVIE2015
Full Out
as Coach Valorie Kondos-Field
★7.6
MOVIE2007
My Name Is Sarah
as Sarah Winston
★6.7
MOVIE1992
In the Soup
as Angelica Pena
★6.6
MOVIE2013
A Fuller Life
as Self - Reader (segment "Crime Reporter")
MOVIETBA
Joy Will Prevail
as Esther Kahn
★5.6
MOVIE2004
Catch That Kid
as Molly Phillips
★5.1
MOVIE1988
Split Decisions
as Barbara Uribe
★5.9
MOVIE1994
Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle
as Gertrude Benchley
★6.5
MOVIE2000
A House Divided
as Amanda Dickson
★5.5
MOVIE1996
The Twilight of the Golds
as Suzanne Stein
★6.7
MOVIE1985
Cinderella
as Cinderella
★8.0
MOVIE2001
Out of Line
as Officer Jenny Capitanas
★5.4
MOVIE1998
The Spree
as Xinia Kelly
★5.9
MOVIE1992
The Big Pardon 2
as Joyce Ferranti
★6.5
MOVIE1988
Nelson Mandela 70th Birthday Tribute
as Self
★5.4
MOVIE2002
They Shoot Divas, Don't They?
as Sloan McBride
★5.5
MOVIE2002
13 Moons
as Suzi
MOVIE2025
Hello Out There
as Judith
★5.4
MOVIE2010
The Night Before the Night Before Christmas
as Angela Fox
★3.4
MOVIE1988
The Gamble
as Lady Olivia Candioni
★5.6
MOVIE2000
Without Malice
as Samantha Wilkes
★4.7
MOVIE2005
Desolation Sound
as Elizabeth Storey
★4.3
MOVIE1994
Dead on Sight
as Rebecca Darcy
★5.4
MOVIE1995
Let It Be Me
as Emily Taylor
★4.4
MOVIE2000
Militia
as Julie Sanders
★3.2
MOVIE1993
Night Owl
as Julia
MOVIE2008
Starz Inside: Fashion in Film
as Self
★4.8
MOVIE1992
Terror Stalks the Class Reunion
as Virginia
★4.8
MOVIE2000
Something More
as Lisa
★4.5
MOVIE2013
Cinemanovels
as Clementine
★5.3
MOVIE1990
Sons
as Transvestite
★6.7
MOVIE1990
The Madonna and the Dragon
as Patty Meredith