Jennifer Beals

Jennifer Beals

Jennifer Beals (born December 19, 1963, height 5' 8½" (1,74 m)) 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. ​
    Known for
    Acting
    Place of birth
    Chicago, Illinois, USA
    Birthday
    12/19/1963
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Night Owl
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6
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Cinderella
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4.2
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Blood and Concrete
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Terror Stalks the Class Reunion
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Cinemanovels
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Let It Be Me
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A House Divided
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Vampire's Kiss
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Devil in a Blue Dress
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The Prophecy II
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The Thief and the Cobbler
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The Big Pardon 2
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In the Soup
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Turbulence 2: Fear of Flying
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Body and Soul
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The Gamble
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6.6
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Feast of All Saints
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The Twilight of the Golds
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Manhattan Night
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Before I Fall
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Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle
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Roger Dodger
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Desolation Sound
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The Last Days of Disco
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Queen to Play
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The Search for One-eye Jimmy
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That's Dancing!
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Luckiest Girl Alive
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Dear Diary
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The Grudge 2
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The Anniversary Party
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Runaway Jury
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After
After
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Sons
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My Bodyguard
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