Jennifer Beals actress
- All known tv series 32
- Total known movies 63
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 Peoples 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.
Alex Owens
Movie 1983
Julie Sanders
Movie 2000
Self
Movie 1993
Joyce Ferranti
Movie 1992
Sonja Vogler
Movie 1990
Eva
Movie 1985
FBI Agent Beck
Movie 2006
L’Américaine
Movie 2009
Elizabeth Storey
Movie 2005
Dolly Rose
Movie 2001
Angela Fox
Movie 2010
Barbara Uribe
Movie 1988
Elizabeth
Movie 1999
Melanie
Movie 2010
Xinia Kelly
Movie 1998
Virginia
Movie 1992
Sarah Winston
Movie 2007
Clementine
Movie 2013
Juliet
Movie 2005
Patty Meredith
Movie 1990
Lisa Wren
Movie 2016
Valorie Kondos-Field
Movie 2015
Liz
Movie 2014
Officer Jenny Capitanas
Movie 2001
Julia
Movie 1993
Sloan McBride
Movie 2002
Amanda Dickson
Movie 2000
Self - Reader (segment "Crime Reporter")
Movie 2013
Cinderella
Movie 1985
Samantha Wilkes
Movie 2000
Vivian
Movie 2018
Karen Gibson
Movie 2019
Transvestite
Movie 1990
Lisa
Movie 2000
Movie 1985
Clifford's Friend (uncredited)
Movie 1980
Judith
Movie
Sofia Archer
Tv 1990
Sophia Turner
Tv 2009
Tv 2004
Self
Tv 1996
Self
Tv 1997
Tv 1996
Zoe Landau
Tv 2009
Self
Tv 1999
Robin Dysart
Tv 1995
Bette Porter
Tv
Self
Tv 2005
Sophia Balfour
Tv 2013
Garsa Fwip
Tv 2021
Dr. Anne Ranberg
Tv 1993
Justine Madsen Judd
Tv 1997
Self - Guest
Tv 2009
Dr. Syd Jennings
Tv 2014
Bette Porter
Tv 2019
Self - Guest
Tv 2014
Lucilia Cable
Tv 2019
Self
Tv 2014
self
Tv 1987
Self
Tv 1944
Self - Nominee
Tv 1944
