🎬Jennifer Beals

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. She has two brothers, Bobby and Gregory.Her father died when Beals was nine years old, and her mother married Edward Cohen in 1981. Beals has said her biracial heritage had some effect on her, as she "always lived sort of on the outside", with an idea "of being the other in society". She got her first job at age 13 at an ice cream store, using her height at the time (she is now nearly 5 ft 9 in (1.75 m)), to convince her boss she was 16.

Beals was inspired to become an actress by two events: doing a high school production of Fiddler on the Roof and seeing Balm in Gilead with Joan Allen while volunteer-ushering at the Steppenwolf Theatre.

Beals graduated from the progressive Francis W. Parker School. She also was chosen to attend the elite Goodman Theatre Young People's Drama Workshop. Beals attended Yale University, receiving a B.A. in American literature in 1987; she deferred a term so she could film Flashdance. While at Yale, Beals was a resident of Morse College.

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Recent movies

#	Name	Character	Rating
1	Luckiest Girl Alive (2022)	Lolo Vincent		6.2
2	After (2019)	Karen Gibson		5.7
3	The White Orchid (2018)	Vivian	-	-
4	Before I Fall (2017)	Mrs. Kingston		6.2
5	Manhattan Night (2016)	Lisa Wren		6.3
6	A Wife's Nightmare (2014)	Liz		7
7	The Book of Eli (2010)	Claudia		7.2
8	The Night Before the Night Before Christmas (2010)	Angela Fox		6
9	Queen to Play (2009)	L’Américaine		8
10	The Grudge 2 (2006)	Trish Kimble		5.9
11	Troubled Waters (2006)	FBI Agent Beck		5
12	Break a Leg (2005)	Juliet	-	-
13	Desolation Sound (2005)	Elizabeth Storey	-	-
14	Catch That Kid (2004)	Molly Phillips		3
15	Runaway Jury (2003)	Vanessa Lembeck		6.9
16	They Shoot Divas, Don't They? (2002)	Sloan McBride	-	-
17	Roger Dodger (2002)	Sophie		6.9
18	13 Moons (2002)	Suzi		6
19	Feast of All Saints (2001)	Dolly Rose		8
20	The Anniversary Party (2001)	Gina Taylor		8
21	Something More (2000)	Lisa	-	-
22	A House Divided (2000)	Amanda Dickson	-	-
23	Wishful Thinking (1999)	Elizabeth		5
24	The Prophecy II (1998)	Valerie Rosales		7.7
25	The Last Days of Disco (1998)	Nina	-	-
26	Four Rooms (1995)	Angela		7.1
27	Devil in a Blue Dress (1995)	Daphne Monet		7.3
28	The Search for One-eye Jimmy (1994)	Ellen		6
29	Night Owl (1993)	Julia	-	-
30	The Thief and the Cobbler (1993)	Princess YumYum (voice)		8.7
31	Caro diario (1993)	Jennifer Beals		1
32	In the Soup (1992)	Angelica Pena		5.7
33	Indecency (1992)	Ellie Shaw	-	-
34	The Big Pardon 2 (1992)	Joyce Ferranti		5
35	Blood and Concrete (1991)	Mona	-	-
36	Dr. M (1990)	Sonja Vogler	-	-
37	Vampire's Kiss (1989)	Rachel		6.2
38	The Bride (1985)	Eva		8
39	Cinderella (1985)	Cinderella	-	-
40	Flashdance (1983)	Alex Owens		6.3
41	My Bodyguard (1980)	Clifford's Friend (uncredited)		7