Jennifer Beals
- Schauspiel
- 19. Dezember 1963 · Chicago, Illinois, USA
Biografie
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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Filmografie
- Joy Will Prevail · Esther Kahn
- NCIS: New York · Robyn Wells
- Hello Out There · Judith
- Ich. Bin. So. Glücklich. · Lolo Vincent
- Das Buch von Boba Fett · Garsa Fwip
- Law & Order: Organized Crime · Cassandra Webb
- Sweet Thing · Produktion
- The L Word: Generation Q · Bette Porter, Ausführende Produktion
- The Kelly Clarkson Show · Selbst
- Swamp Thing · Lucilia Cable
- After Passion · Karen Gibson
- Hollywood: No Sex, Please!
- The White Orchid · Vivian
- Wenn du stirbst, zieht dein ganzes Leben an dir vorbei, sagen sie · Mrs. Kingston
- Taken · Christina Hart
- Manhattan Nocturne - Tödliches Spiel · Lisa Wren, Koproduktion
- Die unglaubliche Geschichte der Ariana Berlin · Coach Valorie Kondos-Field
- Proof · Dr. Carolyn Tyler
- A Wife's Nightmare · Liz
- The Night Shift · Dr. Syd Jennings
- The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon · Selbst
- Off Camera with Sam Jones · Selbst
- Cinemanovels · Clementine
- A Fuller Life · Selbst
- Motive · Sophia Balfour
- The Chicago Code · Teresa Colvin
- Eine Vorweihnachtsgeschichte · Angela Fox
- A Night for Dying Tigers · Melanie
- The Book of Eli · Claudia
- Die Schachspielerin · L’Américaine
- Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen · Selbst
- Castle · Sophia Turner
- Lie to Me · Zoe Landau
- Starz Inside: Fashion in Film · Selbst
- My Name Is Sarah · Sarah Winston
- Troubled Waters · FBI Agent Beck
- Der Fluch - The Grudge 2 · Trish Kimble
- Desolation Sound · Elizabeth Storey
- Break a Leg · Juliet
- The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson · Selbst
- Mission: Possible - Diese Kids sind nicht zu fassen! · Molly Phillips
- Best Week Ever
- The L Word - Wenn Frauen Frauen lieben · Bette Porter
- Das Urteil - Jeder ist käuflich · Vanessa Lembeck
- Jimmy Kimmel Live! · Selbst
- They Shoot Divas, Don't They? · Sloan McBride
- 13 Moons · Suzi
- Sex für Anfänger · Sophie
- Out of Line · Officer Jenny Capitanas
- Feast of All Saints · Dolly Rose
- Beziehungen und andere Katastrophen · Gina Taylor
- Something More · Lisa
- Militia · Julie Sanders
- Körper und Geist · Gina
- A House Divided · Amanda Dickson
- Without Malice · Samantha Wilkes
- Turbulence 2: Fear of Flying · Jessica
- Wishful Thinking · Elizabeth
- Where Are They Now? · Selbst
- Last Days of Disco - Nachts wird Geschichte gemacht · Nina
- The Spree · Xinia Kelly
- God's Army 2 - Die Prophezeiung · Valerie Rosales
- Nothing Sacred · Justine Madsen Judd
- The View · Selbst
- Begierde - The Hunger · Jane
- Zeit der Zweifel · Suzanne Stein
- E! True Hollywood Story
- The Daily Show · Selbst
- Four Rooms · Angela
- Let It Be Me · Emily Taylor
- Teufel in Blau · Daphne Monet
- Outer Limits - Die unbekannte Dimension · Robin Dysart
- Auf der Suche nach Jimmy Hoyt · Ellen
- Dead on Sight - Tödliche Träume · Rebecca Darcy
- Pulp Fiction · Dank
- Mrs. Parker und ihr lasterhafter Kreis · Gertrude Benchley
- Liebes Tagebuch · Jennifer Beals
- Der Dieb und der Schuster · Princess YumYum (Stimme)
- Frasier · Dr. Anne Ranberg
- Lockruf des Todes · Julia