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The L Word: Generation Q

as Bette Porter

2019
After

as

2019
Taken

as Christina Hart

2017
Before I Fall

as Mrs. Kingston

2017
Manhattan Night

as Lisa Wren

2016
Proof

as Dr. Carolyn Tyler

2015
Full Out

as Valorie Kondos-Field

2015
A Wife's Nightmare

as Liz

2014
Cinemanovels

as Clementine

2013
The Chicago Code

as Teresa Colvin

2011
The Book of Eli

as Claudia

2010
Queen to Play

as L’Américaine

2009
Troubled Waters

as FBI Agent Beck

2006
The Grudge 2

as Trish Kimble

2006
Desolation Sound

as Elizabeth Storey

2005
Break a Leg

as Juliet

2005
The L Word

as Bette Porter

2004
Catch That Kid

as Molly Phillips

2004
Roger Dodger

as Sophie

2002
13 Moons

as Suzi

2002
Feast of All Saints

as Dolly Rose

2001
Militia

as Julie Sanders

2000
The Prophecy II

as Valerie Rosales

1998
Wishful Thinking

as Elizabeth

1999
Four Rooms

as Angela

1995
Devil in a Blue Dress

as Daphne Monet

1995
Jennifer Beals Jennifer Beals

Birthday

1963-12-19

Place of Birth

Chicago - Illinois - USA

Biography

Jennifer Beals (born December 19, 1963, height 5' 8½" (1,74 m)) 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. ​
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