Jennifer Beals
Acting
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.
The Thief and the Cobbler
as Princess YumYum (voice)
Age 29 (now 62)
The L Word: Generation Q
Executive Producer
Age 55 (now 62)
The Night Before the Night Before Christmas
as Angela Fox
Age 46 (now 62)
They Shoot Divas, Don't They?
as Sloan McBride
Age 38 (now 62)
Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle
as Gertrude Benchley
Age 30 (now 62)
The Thief and the Cobbler
as Princess YumYum (voice)
Age 29 (now 62)
Terror Stalks the Class Reunion
as Virginia
Age 28 (now 62)
Nelson Mandela 70th Birthday Tribute
as Self
Age 24 (now 62)
Law & Order: Organized Crime
as Cassandra Webb
Age 57 (now 62) The L Word: Generation Q
Executive Producer
Age 55 (now 62)
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
as Self - Guest
Age 50 (now 62)
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
as Self - Guest
Age 45 (now 62)
The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
as Self
Age 41 (now 62)
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