Irene Cara

She won both the 1983 Best Original Song Academy Award and the 1984 Grammy Award for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance for "Flashdance (What A Feeling)". Other films include Silver Streak, SemiTough, It's My Turn and First Monday in October. She played Coco Hernandez in Fame and Angela in romance thriller classic Aaron Loves Angela. She also received strong reviews for her performance in I'm Dancing as Fast as I Can. She sang the theme from Fame and "Flashdance (What A Feeling)". In 1976 she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress for An Unmarried Woman, and in 1979 for Starting Over. Both her parents were from Puerto Rico and in the early 1950's they migrated to the U.S.. Her first major film role came in 1972 in Portnoy's Complaint.

Irene Cara (born Irene T Escalera March 18, 1959 in New York City) is a singer and actress. She appeared in numerous Broadway productions in the 1960s, including The Rothschilds and Pippin. Born in New York City, she attended Sarah Lawrence College, where she decided that she wanted to be an actress. Jill Clayburgh (born April 30, 1944) is an American actress.