Jennifer Beals


Jennifer Beals is an American actress and a former teen model. She is best known for her role as Alexandra Alex Owens in the 1983 romantic drama film Flashdance, and starred as Bette Porter on the Showtime drama series The L Word. Beals 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 December 19, 1963 in Chicago, Illinois , the daughter of Jeanne , an elementary school teacher, and Alfred Beals, who owned grocery stores. Beals father was black and her mother is Irish American. She has two brothers, Bobby and Gregory. Her father died when Beals wasyears 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 ageat an ice cream store, using her height at the time , to convince her boss she was 16.

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