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Jennifer Beals is an American actress. She made her film debut in My Bodyguard (1980), before receiving critical acclaim for her performance as Alexandra Owens in Flashdance (1983), for which she won NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Actress in a Motion Picture and was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Comedy or Musical.
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entertainment · African-American actress (born 1963) · actor · model · film actor · television actor · voice actor · also Jennifer Beals, Beals
Born 19 December 1963 · Q181229
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HELLO! Magazine: Meet 80s it girl Jennifer Beals' only child - who followed her into showbiz
UPI: Ming-Na Wen, Jennifer Beals join 'Percy Jackson' S3
AOL: Jennifer Beals, 61, Stuns Fans with 'Quietly Sexy' Appearance on Kelly Clarkson Show
Us Weekly: Jennifer Beals Reveals Which ‘Flashdance’ Items She Still Has — and What Someone Stole (Exclusive)
Yahoo: “The L Word” Star Jennifer Beals Reveals Secret Skill with New Book (Exclusive)
Deadline.com: Jennifer Beals Joins Chloe Bennet, Phil Dunster In Area 51 Dramedy ‘Hello Out There’
Yahoo: Jennifer Beals Has Done a Lot Since 'Flashdance' — See What the Stunning Star Has Been Up To
Beals appeared as art gallery owner Cassandra Webb in the NBC series Law & Order: Organized Crime for five episodes
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Beals, who is married to a Canadian, became a Canadian citizen in 2022.
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Played the role of Karen in the romantic film After
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Beals played the leader of a small group of specially trained government operatives for the new series Taken, which serves as a prequel to the Taken film series
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Beals played the role of Samantha Kingston's mother, in the film version of Before I Fall
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It was announced that Beals would star as Dr
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Beals signed on for the main role of the ABC drama pilot Westside produced by McG and developed by Ilene Chaiken
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Digital Spy: Jennifer Beals to guest star in 'Castle'
Women's Wear Daily: Jennifer Beals Lights Up the Big Screen
Beals reunited with Denzel Washington in the post-apocalyptic action drama The Book of Eli, where she played a blind woman who is the mother of Mila Kunis' character and a consort of a local despot played by Gary Oldman
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Beals served as the Grand Marshal of the McDonald's Thanksgiving Parade in Chicago, during which she spoke of the two charities important to her: the Matthew Shepard Foundation and Pablove Foundation
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Appeared in the small TV drama My Name Is Sarah, in which she plays Sarah Winston, a sober woman who inadvertently walks in on an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting and is mistaken for an alcoholic, but finds herself falli
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She has been a vocal advocate for gay rights, saying, "I think after playing Bette Porter on The L Word for six years I felt like an honorary member of the community." Beals was a Celebrity Grand Marshal at the 2006 San Francisco Pride Parade.
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Beals gave birth to their daughter
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Beals made a brief cameo in the final episode of Frasier
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“Inside every woman there is a Kali. [Hindu goddess who morphed into seven hidden beings to win a battle] Do not mistake the exterior for the interior.”
Played one of the sequestered jury members in the film adaptation of Runaway Jury
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“Love is the most dangerous thing in the world.”
“Love is large; love defies limits. People talk about the sanctity of love -- love is by definition sacred. Not some love between some people, but all love between all people.”
“There is no wasted effort. There is no wasted effort. It will all add to the path. It will all add to the journey. Somehow. You just can't even imagine how it will. But you just need to do things fully to the best of your ability. And you go towards the thing that you love. What you love to do.”
“At any given moment in your life, you have the choice between love and fear. And that’s a choice you make. You make the choice of how you react to events.”
“…The L Word reaffirmed that good storytelling has a way of creating community. Fans everywhere have been connecting with each other online, in public and at home-viewing parties.”
“I'm interested when people will stand up for themselves. I'm always interested in that moment when someone decides it's not good enough, and even though it's painful, they're willing to make a change.”
“It behooves all of us to have everyone experience their deepest, most beautiful, most profound and powerful self, because those people are more apt to give their gift to everyone else rather than shudder in fear.”
“Just when you think you know something, it gets turned around and challenged in some way. But those changes are welcome because you end up learning more.”
“One of the things that the show did for me was bring up so many women’s issues and the notion that homophobia is a form of misogyny. The women’s community and the gay community are interrelated, whether you’re straight or not. It also made me realize how connected women are everywhere. Women who are gay are repressed in similar ways as women who are straight.”
“Every set is a man's world. Even on 'The L Word,' the crew was primarily men. The whole world is a man's world, unless you're in a nunnery. And even that is colored by what you're allowed, what doctrine you're allowed to practice.”
“[Speaking about women’s friendships] If two women go to a bar and they are fighting over men, it makes it much easier for the men. If two women are very close and they act as… it makes it very difficult for the men to pull one over on anybody.”
“Women are so often segregated to their sexuality, and how they appear. In fact, there’s a lot of talk, even now, I think in most jobs this is true…people will say, when a woman rises to power, they ask, ‘who did she sleep with?’ You know, it couldn’t possibly be about her acumen, it couldn’t possibly be about her intelligence. It’s got to be about her body, because that’s how women get ahead.”
“The ways in which we are similar are far more numerous than the ways in which we are different.”
Married Ken Dixon, a Canadian entrepreneur
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Beals and Denzel Washington co-starred in Devil in a Blue Dress, a period film based on a Walter Mosley novel featuring L
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Appeared in 2000 Malibu Road as attorney Perry Quinn
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Spent some time in Haiti photographing the elections
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Beals resumed her acting career, playing the love interest in the boxing film Split Decisions opposite Craig Sheffer
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“always lived sort of on the outside”
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Born 1963-12-19.
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There is no wasted effort. There is no wasted effort. It will all add to the path. It will all add to the journey. Somehow. You just can't even imagine how it will. But you just need to do things fully to the best of your ability. And you go towards the thing that you love. What you love to do.
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