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Jennifer Beals

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Jennifer Beals Biography

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  • Birth Place: Chicago, IL
  • Date of Birth / Zodiac Sign: 12/19/1963, Sagittarius
  • Profession: Actor
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.
Jennifer Beals Fast Facts:
  • Made her film debut as an unbilled extra in 1980's My Bodyguard.
  • Performed very little of the actual dancing in her breakout 1983 hit Flashdance.
  • Her baggy, off-the-shoulder sweatshirt look in Flashdance sparked a fashion rage.
  • Considered for the role of Dana Scully in The X-Files, which starred fellow Yale classmate David Duchovny.
  • Her ex-husband, indie filmmaker Alexandre Rockwell, directed her in four films: Sons (1989), In the Soup (1992), Four Rooms (1995) and 13 Moons (2002), which was made after they divorced.
  • Gave birth to a girl in October 2005 with husband Ken Dixon. Coincidentally, she was pregnant at the same time that her L Word character's girlfriend was pregnant.
  • Is an avid photographer.
    Jennifer Beals Relationships:
  • Alexandre Rockwell - Ex-husband
  • Alfred Beals - Father
  • Bobby Beals - Brother
  • Edward Cohen - Stepfather
  • Gregory Beals - Brother
  • Jeanne Cohen - Mother
  • Ken Dixon - Husband

    • Jennifer Beals Awards:
  • 1984 Golden Globe: Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy - Nominee

  • College:
  • Yale University, New Haven, CT (BA in American Literature, 1987)
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