Garcelle Beauvais

Garcelle Beauvais is a HaitianAmerican actress and former fashion model. She is best known for her roles as Francesca Fancy Monroe on The WB television sitcom, The Jamie Foxx Show, which ran from 1996 to 2001, and as Valerie Heywood on the ABC crime drama, NYPD Blue.

Beauvais was born in Haiti, to MarieClaire Beauvais, a nurse, and Axel Jean Pierre, a lawyer. After her parents divorced, Garcelle and her six elder siblings moved with their mother to the United States, first to Massachusetts and later to Miami.

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