Beverly Heather D’Angelo is an American actress who starred as Ellen Griswold in the National Lampoon’s Vacation films (1983–2015).
She has appeared in over 60 films and was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for her role as Patsy Cline in Coal Miner’s Daughter (1980), and for an Emmy Award for her role as Stella Kowalski in the TV film A Streetcar Named Desire (1984).
D’Angelo’s other film roles include Sheila Franklin in Hair (1979) and Doris Vinyard in American History X (1998).
D’Angelo began acting in the theatre, appearing on Broadway in 1976 in Rockabye Hamlet (also known as Kronborg: 1582), a musical based on Shakespeare’s Hamlet. She made her television debut in the first three episodes of the TV mini-series Captains and the Kings in 1976.
Who was Beverly D Angelo’s mother?
D’Angelo was born in Columbus, Ohio, the daughter of Priscilla Ruth, a violinist, and Eugene Constantino “Gene” D’Angelo, a bass player and television station manager at WBNS-TV in Columbus.
Her father was of Italian descent. Her paternal grandparents, Eugenio and Rosina D’Angelo were from Introdacqua in the Abruzzo region of Italy.
