Date of Birth : Dec 19th 1963
Beals had a minor role in the 1980 film My Bodyguard, then came to fame with her starring part in Flashdance. The third-highest grossing U.S. film of 1983, it was the story of 18-year-old Alex, a welder by day and exotic dancer by night, whose dream is to someday be accepted at an illustrious school of dance. Beals was cast for this key role while still a student at Yale. She was nominated for a Golden Globe and the film received an Academy Award for Best Song.
A number of interesting roles came Beals’ way following that breakout performance. She and singer-actor Sting were cast as the leads in 1985’s The Bride, a gothic horror film loosely based on the 1935 classic Bride of Frankenstein. Beals was cast as Eva, quite literally a beautiful creature, brought to life by Dr. Frankenstein to be a mate for his monster.
Starring opposite Nicolas Cage, the actress portrayed a lusty and thirsty vampire who may or may not be a figment of a man’s imagination in 1989’s Vampire’s Kiss.
In 1995, Beals and Denzel Washington co-starred in Devil in a Blue Dress, a period film based on a Walter Mosley novel featuring L.A. private detective, Easy Rawlins. Beals played a biracial woman passing for white. She has played similar roles throughout her career. That same year she appeared with Tim Roth in a segment of the four-story anthology Four Rooms directed by her then-husband, Alexandre Rockwell.
Rockwell had previously directed her in the 1992 independent film In the Soup, which was a Grand Prize winner at the Sundance Film Festival.
Recently, she had a leading role in 2006’s The Grudge 2, sequel to the hit horror film of two years earlier.
CAREER
A Fuller Life ( 2015 )
The Book Of Eli ( 2010 )
The Grudge 2 ( 2006 )
Catch That Kid ( 2004 )
Runaway Jury ( 2004 )
Roger Dodger ( 2003 )
The Last Days of Disco ( 1998 )
Devil in a Blue Dress ( 1996 )
Four Rooms ( 1995 )
The Bride ( 1985 )
Flashdance ( 1983 )