Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Gender
Female
Birthday
12/19/1963
Place of Birth
Chicago, Illinois, USA
Jennifer Beals
Biography
Jennifer Beals (born December 19, 1963) is an American actress and a former teen model. She is known for her roles as Alexandra "Alex" Owens in the 1983 film Flashdance, and as Bette Porter on the Showtime drama series The L Word. She earned an NAACP Image Award and a Golden Globe Award nomination for the former. She has appeared in more than 50 films.
Beals was born on the South Side of Chicago, the daughter of Jeanne (née Anderson), an elementary school teacher, and Alfred Beals, who owned grocery stores. She is multiracial; her father was African American, and her mother is Irish American....
Known For
Runaway Jury
as Vanessa Lembeck
After
as Karen Gibson
The Book of Eli
as Claudia
Dr. M
as Sonja Vogler
Wishful Thinking
as Elizabeth
Without Malice
as Samantha Wilkes
Flashdance
as Alex Owens
Four Rooms
as Angela
Desolation Sound
as Elizabeth Storey
Dear Diary
as Self
Cinemanovels
as Clementine
A Wife's Nightmare
as Liz
Queen to Play
as L’Américaine
Sons
as Transvestite
Manhattan Night
as Lisa Wren
My Bodyguard
as Clifford's Friend (uncredited)
Night Owl
as Julia
Roger Dodger
as Sophie
Full Out
as Valorie Kondos-Field
Something More
as Lisa