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Jennifer Beals
Born: Jennifer Beals,
December 19, 1963,
Chicago, Illinois, USA
Height: 5'5"
Father:
Grocery store owner; African-American; died 1974
Mother: Irish Caucasian
Husband: Ken, 1998-present
Children: two step-children
Ex-husband: Alexandre Rockwell,
writer, director; married 1986, divorced 1996.
Dog: Cereberus, lab-terrier mix.
Education:
Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut; B.A., American Literature, 1987; graduated with honors;
The Goodman School of Drama, DePaul University, Chicago, Illinois; studied stage acting
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Jennifer Beals was born in Chicago to a bi-racial couple who owned a grocery store. Her film debut was in the 1980 film, My Bodyguard (1980), in which she is uncredited.
Beals appeared in Flashdance (1983) while a freshman at Yale studying American literature. While at Yale, she also starred in Franc Roddam's The Bride.
She married independent filmmaker Alexandre Rockwell in the mid 80s, and has appeared in several of his films. Most notably, she starred in his In the Soup (1992), which won the 1992 Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival and the Audience Award at the Deauville Film Festival. |
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*Jennifer
on TV
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"And what is so incredibly interesting is that I've played vampires, murderers, and morally bankrupt people and no one has ever asked me if I had reservations for playing those characters."
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