Jennifer BealsJennifer Beals (born December 19, 1963) is an American actress. Beals is a former teen model who is probably better known for her role as Alex in the 1983 movie Flashdance. Flashdance made Beals a Hollywood star and made her a household name. Her career was affected by scandal shortly after, however, when it was revealed that some of the scenes in that movie where athletics were required were actually performed not by Beals herself, but by doubles. Beals has since starred in a list of lesser-known films and independent projects. She has participated in little more than 50 movies. Beals also stars in Showtime Network's The L Word. Jennifer Beals is biracial, with an African-American father (deceased since she was 10) and an Irish mother. She is a graduate of Yale University. This page about Jennifer Beals includes information from a Wikipedia article. Additional articles about Jennifer Beals News stories about Jennifer Beals External links for Jennifer Beals Videos for Jennifer Beals Wikis about Jennifer Beals Discussion Groups about Jennifer Beals Blogs about Jennifer Beals Images of Jennifer Beals |
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She is a graduate of Yale University. She has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6840 Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood. Jennifer Beals is biracial, with an African-American father (deceased since she was 10) and an Irish mother. Shirley Booth died after a brief illness at age ninety-four at her home in North Chatham, Massachusetts, on Cape Cod. Beals also stars in Showtime Network's The L Word. Her last Broadway appearance was in a revival of Hay Fever (1970). She has participated in little more than 50 movies. She also did voice work for animated features. Beals has since starred in a list of lesser-known films and independent projects. Booth was a distinguished and versatile performer, equally at home acting in theatre, radio, and on the big and small screen. She had a long and prestigious list of stage credits and made numerous appearances in TV movies and programs. Her career was affected by scandal shortly after, however, when it was revealed that some of the scenes in that movie where athletics were required were actually performed not by Beals herself, but by doubles. For this role, she won two Emmys, in 1962 and 1963, and new stardom with a younger audience. Flashdance made Beals a Hollywood star and made her a household name. In 1961, she began starring in the long-running TV sitcom Hazel, based on a popular comic strip about a sassy, wisecracking and domineering, yet lovable housemaid, Hazel Burke. Beals is a former teen model who is probably better known for her role as Alex in the 1983 movie Flashdance. Leslie (1954), playing Dolly Gallagher Levi in the romance/comedy The Matchmaker (1958), which is the movie version of the non-musical play that Hello, Dolly! was later based on, and playing Alma Duval in the drama Hot Spell (1958). Jennifer Beals (born December 19, 1963) is an American actress. Vivien Leslie in the romance/drama About Mrs. Booth made only four more movies, as herself in the all-star novelty Main Street to Broadway (1953), playing Mrs. On Broadway, she scored personal successes in the musical My Beautiful Sea (1954) and the comedy The Desk Set (1955). She spent the next few years commuting between New York and Southern California. She also received her third Tony, which was her second in the Best Actress in a Play category, for her performance in The Time of the Cuckoo. In 1953, she received the Academy Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role for her performance as Lola Delaney in the successful movie, Come Back, Little Sheba. Booth then returned to New York and played Leona Samish in Time of the Cuckoo (1952) on Broadway. It was her first movie. She then went to Hollywood and recreated her stage role in the motion picture version of Come Back, Little Sheba (1952) with Burt Lancaster playing Doc. Her enormous success in Come Back, Little Sheba was immediately followed by A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1951), in which Booth played the feisty but loveable Aunt Cissy. Her leading man, Sidney Blackmer, received the Tony for Best Actor in a Play for his performance of Doc. Her second Tony was for Best Actress in a Play, which she received for her widely acclaimed performance of the tortured wife, Lola, in the poignant drama Come Back, Little Sheba (1950). Her first Tony, for Best Supporting or Featured Actress (Dramatic), was awarded for her performance as Grace Woods in Goodbye, My Fancy (1948). Booth had two husbands, actor Ed Gardner (married 1929-divorced 1942) and William Baker (married 1943-his death 1951). She also starred on the popular radio series Duffy's Tavern, portraying the light-hearted Miss Duffy on CBS Radio from 1941 to 1942 and on NBC-Blue Radio from 1942 to 1943, and won an audience of fans over the airwaves. She acted with Katharine Hepburn in The Philadelphia Story (1939) and with Ralph Bellamy in Tomorrow the World (1943). During the 1930s and 1940s, she achieved popularity in dramas, comedies and musicals. She debuted on Broadway in the play Hell's Bells opposite Humphrey Bogart on January 26, 1925. Booth began her career on the stage as a teenager acting in stock company productions. Her younger sister was Jean Valentine Ford. She was born Thelma Marjorie Ford in New York City, the daughter of Albert James Ford and Virginia Wright. Shirley Booth (August 30, 1898 – October 16, 1992) was an acclaimed American actress. |