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Known For
Acting
Birthday
December 19, 1963
Place of Birth
Chicago, Illinois, USA
Jennifer Beals
4.4 Popularity
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. 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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Jennifer Beals, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
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Judith
Hello Out There
2025
6.5
Lolo Vincent
Luckiest Girl Alive
2022
7.5
Garsa Fwip
The Book of Boba Fett
2021
7.9
Cassandra Webb
Law & Order: Organized Crime
2021
7.6
Bette Porter
The L Word: Generation Q
2019
6.3
Self
The Kelly Clarkson Show
2019
7.4
Lucilia Cable
Swamp Thing
2019
7.1
Karen Gibson
After
2019
5.5
Vivian
The White Orchid
2018
7.0
Mrs. Kingston
Before I Fall
2017
Credits
Hello Out There
as Judith
2025
0.0
Luckiest Girl Alive
as Lolo Vincent
2022
6.5
The Book of Boba Fett
as Garsa Fwip
2021
7.5
Law & Order: Organized Crime
as Cassandra Webb
2021
7.9
The L Word: Generation Q
as Bette Porter
2019
7.6
The Kelly Clarkson Show
as Self
2019
6.3
Swamp Thing
as Lucilia Cable
2019
7.4
After
as Karen Gibson
2019
7.1
The White Orchid
as Vivian
2018
5.5
Before I Fall
as Mrs. Kingston
2017
7.0
Taken
as Christina Hart
2017
6.5
Manhattan Night
as Lisa Wren
2016
5.9
Full Out
as Valorie Kondos-Field
2015
7.2
Proof
as Dr. Carolyn Tyler
2015
6.5
A Wife's Nightmare
as Liz
2014
6.1
The Night Shift
as Dr. Syd Jennings
2014
7.5
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
as Self - Guest
2014
5.9
Off Camera with Sam Jones
as Self
2014
4.0
Cinemanovels
as Clementine
2013
4.5
A Fuller Life
as Self - Reader (segment "Crime Reporter")
2013
6.6
Motive
as Sophia Balfour
2013
6.4
The Chicago Code
as Teresa Colvin
2011
7.6
The Night Before the Night Before Christmas
as Angela Fox
2010
5.4
A Night for Dying Tigers
as Melanie
2010
5.4
The Book of Eli
as Claudia
2010
6.8
Queen to Play
as L’Américaine
2009
6.6
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
as Self - Guest
2009
5.1
Castle
as Sophia Turner
2009
8.0
Lie to Me
as Zoe Landau
2009
7.9
🎬
Starz Inside: Fashion in Film
as Self
2008
0.0
My Name Is Sarah
as Sarah Winston
2007
7.6
Troubled Waters
as FBI Agent Beck
2006
3.7
The Grudge 2
as Trish Kimble
2006
5.6
Desolation Sound
as Elizabeth Storey
2005
4.2
Break a Leg
as Juliet
2005
3.1
The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
as Self
2005
6.7
Catch That Kid
as Molly Phillips
2004
5.6
Best Week Ever
2004
5.6
The L Word
as Bette Porter
2004
7.6
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
as Self
2003
5.5
Runaway Jury
as Vanessa Lembeck
2003
6.9
They Shoot Divas, Don't They?
as Sloan McBride
2002
4.2
13 Moons
as Suzi
2002
5.3
Roger Dodger
as Sophie
2002
6.1
Out of Line
as Officer Jenny Capitanas
2001
7.0
Feast of All Saints
as Dolly Rose
2001
4.4
The Anniversary Party
as Gina Taylor
2001
5.6
Something More
as Lisa
2000
3.8
Militia
as Julie Sanders
2000
4.0
Body and Soul
as Gina
2000
1.3
A House Divided
as Amanda Dickson
2000
5.0
Without Malice
as Samantha Wilkes
2000
4.2
Turbulence 2: Fear of Flying
as Jessica
1999
4.4
Wishful Thinking
as Elizabeth
1999
5.0
Where Are They Now?
as Self
1999
7.5
The Last Days of Disco
as Nina
1998
6.2
The Spree
as Xinia Kelly
1998
4.3
The Prophecy II
as Valerie Rosales
1998
6.0
Nothing Sacred
as Justine Madsen Judd
1997
9.0
The View
as Self
1997
4.3
The Hunger
as Jane
1997
5.9
The Twilight of the Golds
as Suzanne Stein
1996
5.4
E! True Hollywood Story
1996
8.1
The Daily Show
as Self
1996
6.4
Four Rooms
as Angela
1995
5.9
Let It Be Me
as Emily Taylor
1995
5.0
Devil in a Blue Dress
as Daphne Monet
1995
6.5
The Outer Limits
as Robin Dysart
1995
7.7
The Search for One-eye Jimmy
as Ellen
1994
5.5
Dead on Sight
as Rebecca Darcy
1994
3.6
Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle
as Gertrude Benchley
1994
5.8
Dear Diary
as Self
1993
7.3
The Thief and the Cobbler
as Princess YumYum (voice)
1993
7.1
Frasier
as Dr. Anne Ranberg
1993
7.7
Night Owl
as Julia
1993
2.0
The Big Pardon 2
as Joyce Ferranti
1992
5.8
In the Soup
as Angelica Pena
1992
6.5
Indecency
as Ellie Shaw
1992
4.0
2000 Malibu Road
as Perry Quinn
1992
6.5
Terror Stalks the Class Reunion
as Virginia
1992
4.2
Blood and Concrete
as Mona
1991
5.5
Law & Order
as Sofia Archer
1990
7.4
The Madonna and the Dragon
as Patty Meredith
1990
6.0
Dr. M
as Sonja Vogler
1990
4.4
Sons
as Transvestite
1990
5.0
Vampire's Kiss
as Rachel
1989
5.9
The Gamble
as Lady Olivia Candioni
1988
1.8
Split Decisions
as Barbara Uribe
1988
5.0
🎬
Seitenblicke
as self
1987
0.0
The Bride
as Eva
1985
5.3
Cinderella
as Cinderella
1985
7.0
Faerie Tale Theatre: Cinderella
as Cinderella
1985
0.0
That's Dancing!
1985
7.0
That's Dancing!
as Self (archive footage)
1985
7.0
Flashdance
as Alex Owens
1983
6.5
Faerie Tale Theatre
as Cinderella
1982
8.1
My Bodyguard
as Clifford's Friend (uncredited)
1980
6.3
Golden Globe Awards
as Self
1944
7.2
Golden Globe Awards
as Self - Nominee
1944
7.2
🎬
Joy Will Prevail
as Esther Kahn
N/A
0.0
乱麻
N/A
0.0