Jennifer Beals

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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Filmografia

Four Rooms

Flashdance

The Grudge 2

Codice Genesi

Tre ragazzi per un bottino

Mrs. Parker e il circolo vizioso

Militia

Stress da Vampiro

Il diavolo in blu

Caro diario

L'angelo del male

The Anniversary Party

Il Ladro e il Ciabattino

Roger Dodger

Le Grand Pardon II

Doctor M.

La sposa promessa

Sulle tracce di Megan

Joueuse

13 Moons

Crimini nascosti

The Last Days of Disco

In the Soup - Un mare di guai

Feast of All Saints

La notte prima della notte di Natale

Turbulence II

Boxe

Polvere e sangue

Illusioni

A Night for Dying Tigers

The Spree

Body and Soul

Visione di un omicidio

Terror Stalks the Class Reunion

My Name Is Sarah

Cinemanovels

Break a Leg

Il gioco della seduzione

Tinikling ou La madonne et le dragon

La giuria

La partita

L'orgoglio di un figlio

Manhattan Night

Full Out

A Wife's Nightmare - L'incubo di una moglie

Out of Line

Let It Be Me

Night Owl

They Shoot Divas, Don't They?

A House Divided

Prima di domani

A Fuller Life

Cinderella

Without Malice

The White Orchid

After

Sons

Something More

Alla ricerca di Jimmy

That's Dancing!

La ragazza più fortunata del mondo

La mia guardia del corpo

Hello Out There

Starz Inside: Fashion in Film

Joy Will Prevail

Hollywood: No Sex, Please!

Nelson Mandela 70th Birthday Tribute

Law & Order - I due volti della giustizia

Castle - Detective tra le righe

Best Week Ever

The Daily Show

The View

E! True Hollywood Story

The L Word

Il castello delle fiabe