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.
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as Karen Gibson
The Book of Eli
as Claudia
Four Rooms
as Angela
Flashdance
as Alex Owens
Runaway Jury
as Vanessa Lembeck
The Grudge 2
as Trish Kimble
Devil in a Blue Dress
as Daphne Monet
Before I Fall
as Mrs. Kingston
A Wife's Nightmare
as Liz
Luckiest Girl Alive
as Lolo Vincent
My Bodyguard
as Clifford's Friend (uncredited)
Vampire's Kiss
as Rachel
Manhattan Night
as Lisa Wren
The Prophecy II
as Valerie Rosales
Catch That Kid
as Molly Phillips
13 Moons
as Suzi
Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle
as Gertrude Benchley
The Last Days of Disco
as Nina
The Thief and the Cobbler
as Princess YumYum (voice)
Feast of All Saints
as Dolly Rose
Caro diario
as Jennifer Beals
The Bride
as Eva
Roger Dodger
as Sophie
The Anniversary Party
as Gina Taylor
Split Decisions
as Barbara Uribe
In the Soup
as Angelica Pena
Full Out
as Coach Valorie Kondos-Field
The White Orchid
as Vivian
Dr. M
as Sonja Vogler
That's Dancing!
That's Dancing!
as Self (archive footage)
Nelson Mandela 70th Birthday Tribute
as Self
The Spree
as Xinia Kelly
The Gamble
as Lady Olivia Candioni
Break a Leg
as Juliet
Turbulence 2: Fear of Flying
as Jessica
Blood and Concrete
as Mona
The Search for One-eye Jimmy
as Ellen
Hollywood: No Sex, Please!
Militia
as Julie Sanders
They Shoot Divas, Don't They?
as Sloan McBride
Sons
as Transvestite
Indecency
as Ellie Shaw
Cinemanovels
as Clementine
Queen to Play
as L’Américaine
Cinderella
as Cinderella
A Fuller Life
as Self - Reader (segment "Crime Reporter")
The Twilight of the Golds
as Suzanne Stein
Troubled Waters
as FBI Agent Beck
The Night Before the Night Before Christmas
as Angela Fox
Let It Be Me
as Emily Taylor
The Big Pardon 2
as Joyce Ferranti
Body and Soul
as Gina
Joy Will Prevail
as Esther Kahn
Desolation Sound
as Elizabeth Storey
A Night for Dying Tigers
as Melanie
Wishful Thinking
as Elizabeth
My Name Is Sarah
as Sarah Winston
A House Divided
as Amanda Dickson
Terror Stalks the Class Reunion
as Virginia
Dead on Sight
as Rebecca Darcy
Out of Line
as Officer Jenny Capitanas
Without Malice
as Samantha Wilkes
The Madonna and the Dragon
as Patty Meredith
Night Owl
as Julia
Starz Inside: Fashion in Film
as Self
Hello Out There
as Judith
Something More
as Lisa