Jennifer Beals is an American actress and former teen model. She made her film debut in My Bodyguard, before receiving critical acclaim for her role in Flashdance, for which she won NAACP Image Award.
After she filmed Flashdance, Beals resumed her studies, making only one film during that time: playing the titular character The Bride with singer-actor Sting, a gothic horror film loosely based on the 1935 classic Bride of Frankenstein,shot during her summer break. She also appeared as Cinderella in the eponymous episode of Faerie Tale Theatre, opposite Matthew Broderick.
Where did Jennifer Beals go to high school?
Beals had a minor role in the 1980 film My Bodyguard,Beals was inspired to become an actress by two events: working on a high school production of Fiddler on the Roof and seeing Balm in Gilead with Joan Allen while volunteer-ushering at the Steppenwolf Theatre.
Beals graduated from Francis W. Parker School, then participated in Goodman Theatre Young People’s Drama Workshop.She graduated from Yale University with a B.A. in American Literature in 1987. She deferred a term so she could film Flashdance.While at Yale, Beals was a resident of Morse College.
