• Jennifer Beals is an American film actress who playing the leading role of Alex Owens in the 1983 smash hit film Flashdance.

• 1. Born: December 19, 1963
  2. Birthplace: Chicago, Illinois
  3. While at Yale, she was classmates with David Duchovny
  4. In Flashdance (1983), the birth date filled out in the application form is her actual birth date in real life
  5. Played the role of Bette Porter in The L Word

• Personal Life

  Jennifer Beals was married from 1986 to 1996 to director Alexandre Rockwell. She married again in 1998 to business man Ken Dixon and had a daughter in October of 2005.

  Beals is good friends with Pulp Fiction and Kill Bill filmmaker, Quentin Tarantino. Beals opened her home to him while he was just an aspiring director.

  Since 1980 Beals has been best friends with actress Marlee Matlin, also staring in The L Word.

  In 2006, Beals was the Grand Marshal at the San Francisco Pride Parade.

  Beals describes herself as grounded and highly spiritual.

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