IT’S FAMOUS FRIDAY! Jennifer Beals Jennifer Beals was born on December 19, 1963, and 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). Beals was born and raised in the South side of Chicago, the daughter of Jeanne (née Anderson), an elementary school teacher, and Alfred Beals, who owned grocery stores Beals' father was African American, and her mother is Irish American. She has two brothers, Bobby and Gregory.[5] Her father died when Beals was nine. Beals had a minor role in the 1980 film My [...]
