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Jennifer Beals
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BIRTHDAY
December 19, 1963
Chicago, IL
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BIOGRAPHY
This biracial beauty was studying American literature at Yale when picked to star in the 1983 romantic blockbuster
Flashdance
. Playing a straight man's fantasy — welder by day, sexy dancer by night — Beals became an instant pinup girl with her exotic beauty and signature sweatshirt-off-the-shoulder style. But her career soon faltered, and although she worked....
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This biracial beauty was studying American literature at Yale when picked to star in the 1983 romantic blockbuster
Flashdance
. Playing a straight man's fantasy — welder by day, sexy dancer by night — Beals became an instant pinup girl with her exotic beauty and signature sweatshirt-off-the-shoulder style. But her career soon faltered, and although she worked consistently in mostly low-level projects for the next two decades — notably as a femme fatale in
Devil in a Blue Dress
and a slew of independent films, many directed by her ex-husband, Alexandre Rockwell — she remained indelibly linked to her seminal role. In 2004 she shattered that 20-year-old image when she signed on to
The L Word
as a workaholic lesbian, a part that revitalized her career and landed her on
People
magazine's 50 Most Beautiful People list.
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Family
Brother:
Bobby Beals
Brother:
Gregory Beals
Ex-husband:
Alexandre Rockwell ((filmmaker; married 1986-96))
Father:
Alfred Beals ((died when Jennifer was 9))
Husband:
Ken Dixon ((married in 1999))
Mother:
Jeanne Cohen
Stepfather:
Edward Cohen
Education
Francis W. Parker School, Chicago, IL
Yale University, New Haven, CT (BA in American Literature, 1987)
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