Jennifer Beals?
Jennifer Beals
🎂 Dec 19, 1963 (62)
Chicago, Illinois, USA
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.
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The Book of Eli
2010
Flashdance
1983
Runaway Jury
2003
Four Rooms
1995
The Grudge 2
2006
My Bodyguard
1980
Luckiest Girl Alive
2022
Before I Fall
2017
Manhattan Night
2016
The Bride
1985
Vampire's Kiss
1989
Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle
1994
The Last Days of Disco
1998
In the Soup
1992
The Thief and the Cobbler
1993
The Prophecy II
1998
Catch That Kid
2004
Militia
2000
Devil in a Blue Dress
1995
Roger Dodger
2002
Dr. M
1990
Break a Leg
2005
The Anniversary Party
2001
The Twilight of the Golds
1996
Let It Be Me
1995
Blood and Concrete
1991
Cinemanovels
2013
Split Decisions
1988
Full Out
2015
13 Moons
2002
Turbulence 2: Fear of Flying
1999
The Gamble
1988
Feast of All Saints
2001
The White Orchid
2018
Queen to Play
2009
A Night for Dying Tigers
2010
Without Malice
2000
The Search for One-eye Jimmy
1994
Something More
2000
Desolation Sound
2005
Wishful Thinking
1999
Dead on Sight
1994
The Big Pardon 2
1992
TV Shows
The L Word: Generation Q
2019
Taken
2017
The Chicago Code
2011
Proof
2015
Swamp Thing
2019
Nothing Sacred
1997
The Night Shift
2014
Lie to Me
2009
Law & Order: Organized Crime
2021
The Book of Boba Fett
2021
Castle
2009
Frasier
1993
Law & Order
1990
Faerie Tale Theatre
1982
The Outer Limits
1995
Motive
2013
The Hunger
1997
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Jennifer Beals
1963-12-19 · Chicago, Illinois, USA
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.Jennifer Beals, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.