Jennifer Beals
Profile info
Known forActing
GenderFemale
Birthday19 December 1963 (62 years old)
Place of birthChicago, Illinois, USA
Known credits103
Biography
Jennifer Beals (born December 19, 1963) 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.…
NCIS: New York
2026 · Robyn Wells
Hello Out There
2025 · Judith
Luckiest Girl Alive
2022 · Lolo Vincent
The Book of Boba Fett
2021 · Garsa Fwip
Law & Order: Organized Crime
2021 · Cassandra Webb
Sweet Thing
2020 · Producer
The L Word: Generation Q
2019 · Bette Porter
The L Word: Generation Q
2019 · Executive Producer
The Kelly Clarkson Show
2019 · Self
Swamp Thing
2019 · Lucilia Cable
After
2019 · Karen Gibson
Hollywood: No Sex, Please!
2018
The White Orchid
2018 · Vivian
Before I Fall
2017 · Mrs. Kingston
Taken
2017 · Christina Hart
Manhattan Night
2016 · Lisa Wren
Manhattan Night
2016 · Co-Producer
Full Out
2015 · Coach Valorie Kondos-Field
Proof
2015 · Dr. Carolyn Tyler
A Wife's Nightmare
2014 · Liz
The Night Shift
2014 · Dr. Syd Jennings
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
2014 · Self - Guest
Off Camera with Sam Jones
2014 · Self
Cinemanovels
2013 · Clementine
A Fuller Life
2013 · Self - Reader (segment "Crime Reporter")
Motive
2013 · Sophia Balfour
The Chicago Code
2011 · Teresa Colvin
The Night Before the Night Before Christmas
2010 · Angela Fox
A Night for Dying Tigers
2010 · Melanie
The Book of Eli
2010 · Claudia
Queen to Play
2009 · L’Américaine
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
2009 · Self - Guest
Castle
2009 · Sophia Turner
Lie to Me
2009 · Zoe Landau
Starz Inside: Fashion in Film
2008 · Self
My Name Is Sarah
2007 · Sarah Winston
Troubled Waters
2006 · FBI Agent Beck
The Grudge 2
2006 · Trish Kimble
Desolation Sound
2005 · Elizabeth Storey
Break a Leg
2005 · Juliet
The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
2005 · Self
Catch That Kid
2004 · Molly Phillips
Best Week Ever
2004
The L Word
2004 · Bette Porter
Runaway Jury
2003 · Vanessa Lembeck
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
2003 · Self - Guest
They Shoot Divas, Don't They?
2002 · Sloan McBride
13 Moons
2002 · Suzi
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