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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....
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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