Jennifer Beals

Jennifer Beals (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

Born: Chicago, Illinois, USA, 1963-12-19

Died: null

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1980	My Bodyguard	Clifford's Friend (uncredited)	63
2	1983	Flashdance	Alex Owens	65
3	1985	That's Dancing!		70
4	1985	Faerie Tale Theatre: Cinderella	Cinderella	0
5	1985	Cinderella	Cinderella	71
6	1985	The Bride	Eva	53
7	1988	Split Decisions	Barbara Uribe	51
8	1988	The Gamble	Lady Olivia Candioni	17
9	1989	Vampire's Kiss	Rachel	59
10	1990	Sons	Transvestite	50
11	1990	Dr. M	Sonja Vogler	47
12	1990	The Madonna and the Dragon	Patty Meredith	60
13	1991	Blood and Concrete	Mona	57
14	1992	Terror Stalks the Class Reunion	Virginia	43
15	1992	Indecency	Ellie Shaw	40
16	1992	In the Soup	Angelica Pena	66
17	1992	The Big Pardon 2	Joyce Ferranti	59
18	1993	Night Owl	Julia	23
19	1993	The Thief and the Cobbler	Princess YumYum (voice)	71
20	1993	Dear Diary	Self	74
21	1994	Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle	Gertrude Benchley	58
22	1994	Dead on Sight	Rebecca Darcy	39
23	1994	The Search for One-eye Jimmy	Ellen	56
24	1995	Devil in a Blue Dress	Daphne Monet	65
25	1995	Let It Be Me	Emily Taylor	50
26	1995	Four Rooms	Angela	59
27	1996	The Twilight of the Golds	Suzanne Stein	56
28	1998	The Prophecy II	Valerie Rosales	60
29	1998	The Spree	Xinia Kelly	50
30	1998	The Last Days of Disco	Nina	62
31	1999	Wishful Thinking	Elizabeth	50
32	1999	Turbulence 2: Fear of Flying	Jessica	43
33	2000	Without Malice	Samantha Wilkes	42
34	2000	A House Divided	Amanda Dickson	50
35	2000	Body and Soul	Gina	13
36	2000	Militia	Julie Sanders	40
37	2000	Something More	Lisa	47
38	2001	The Anniversary Party	Gina Taylor	57
39	2001	Feast of All Saints	Dolly Rose	47
40	2001	Out of Line	Officer Jenny Capitanas	70
41	2002	Roger Dodger	Sophie	61
42	2002	13 Moons	Suzi	53
43	2002	They Shoot Divas, Don't They?	Sloan McBride	43
44	2003	Runaway Jury	Vanessa Lembeck	69
45	2004	Catch That Kid	Molly Phillips	56
46	2005	Break a Leg	Juliet	34
47	2005	Desolation Sound	Elizabeth Storey	44
48	2006	The Grudge 2	Trish Kimble	55
49	2006	Troubled Waters	FBI Agent Beck	38
50	2007	My Name Is Sarah	Sarah Winston	76
51	2008	Starz Inside: Fashion in Film	Self	0
52	2009	Queen to Play	L’Américaine	66
53	2010	The Book of Eli	Claudia	68
54	2010	A Night for Dying Tigers	Melanie	54
55	2010	The Night Before the Night Before Christmas	Angela Fox	54
56	2013	A Fuller Life	Self - Reader (segment "Crime Reporter")	66
57	2013	Cinemanovels	Clementine	47
58	2014	A Wife's Nightmare	Liz	65
59	2015	Full Out	Valorie Kondos-Field	72
60	2016	Manhattan Night	Lisa Wren	59
61	2017	Before I Fall	Mrs. Kingston	70
62	2018	The White Orchid	Vivian	56
63	2019	After	Karen Gibson	71
64	2022	Luckiest Girl Alive	Lolo Vincent	65
65		Hello Out There	Judith	0

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1944	Golden Globe Awards	Self	72
2	1944	Golden Globe Awards	Self - Nominee	72
3	1982	Faerie Tale Theatre	Cinderella	81
4	1987	Seitenblicke	self	0
5	1990	Law & Order	Sofia Archer	74
6	1992	2000 Malibu Road	Perry Quinn	65
7	1993	Frasier	Dr. Anne Ranberg	77
8	1995	The Outer Limits	Robin Dysart	77
9	1996	The Daily Show	Self	64
10	1996	E! True Hollywood Story		81
11	1997	The Hunger	Jane	58
12	1997	The View	Self	45
13	1997	Nothing Sacred	Justine Madsen Judd	90
14	1999	Where Are They Now?	Self	75
15	2004	The L Word	Bette Porter	76
16	2004	Best Week Ever		56
17	2005	The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson	Self	68
18	2009	Lie to Me	Zoe Landau	79
19	2009	Castle	Sophia Turner	80
20		The L Word: New York	Bette Porter	0
21	2009	Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen	Self - Guest	51
22	2011	The Chicago Code	Teresa Colvin	75
23	2013	Motive	Sophia Balfour	64
24	2014	Off Camera with Sam Jones	Self	40
25	2014	The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon	Self - Guest	59
26	2014	The Night Shift	Dr. Syd Jennings	75
27	2015	Proof	Dr. Carolyn Tyler	65
28	2017	Taken	Christina Hart	65
29	2019	Swamp Thing	Lucilia Cable	74
30	2019	The Kelly Clarkson Show	Self	65
31	2019	The L Word: Generation Q	Bette Porter	77
32	2021	Law & Order: Organized Crime	Cassandra Webb	79
33	2021	The Book of Boba Fett	Garsa Fwip	75

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