Happy Birthday 🎂 🥳 🎉 🎈 🎁 🎊 To You
The Iconic & Radiant BiRacial FlashDance 💃🤎 Actress Of The 80's
Born On December 19th, 1963.
Beals was born and raised in the South Side of Chicago, Illinois, the daughter of Jeanne (née Anderson), an elementary school teacher, and Alfred Beals, who owned grocery stores. Beals's father was African-American, and her mother is Irish-American.
She 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), for which she won NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Actress in a Motion Picture and was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Comedy or Musical.
Beals has appeared in several films including Vampire's Kiss (1988), Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle (1994), Devil in a Blue Dress (1995), The Last Days of Disco (1998), Roger Dodger (2002), The Book of Eli (2010), Before I Fall (2017), and Luckiest Girl Alive (2022). On television, she starred in shows such as The Chicago Code (2011), Proof (2015), Taken (2017), and The Book of Boba Fett (2021). She is best known for her portrayal of Bette Porter on the Showtime drama series The L Word (2004–2009), which earned her a nomination for the Satellite Award for Best Actress – Television Series Drama. She reprised her role as Bette Porter and served as an executive producer on the sequel series The L Word: Generation Q (2019–2023).
Please Wish This Iconic & Radiant BiRacial Actress Of The 80's, A Very Happy Birthday 🎂 🥳 🎉 🎈 🎁 🎊
YOU KNOW HER
YOU LOVE HER ON THE DANCE FLOOR.
& SHE'S DEFINITELY A MANIAC WHEN COMES TO ACTING
THE 1 & ONLY
MS. JENNIFER BEALS AKA ALEXANDRA OWENS OF FLASHDANCE 💃🤎 & BETTE PORTER OF THE L WORD
HAPPY 60TH BIRTHDAY 🎂 🥳 🎉 🎈 🎁 🎊 TO YOU MR. BEALS & HERE'S TO MANY MORE YEARS TO COME.
#JenniferBeals #FlashDance #AlexandraOwens #TheLWord #BettePorter
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i got tagged in that thing about ‘post 8 shows to get to know me better’ which like... i feel like none of this makes any sense and i am dating myself here. but nevertheless.
1. buffy the vampire slayer (1997 - 2003). listen. it’s iconic. i have complicated feelings about it now, given everything we know about what the actresses went through on set with joss whedon, but at the time, it was formative. faith in the leather pants eating twizzlers in that apartment that the mayor put her up in is one of my earliest “oh i’m kinda gay” moments. belonging pt 2 still makes me cry. willow and tara. i’ll never be over it.
2. queer as folk (1999 - 2005) obviously, in the late 90s / early 2000s i was searching for queer rep anywhere i could find it. we had just gotten direct tv, i think so my dad could watch the sopranos. little did he know, i was watching 30 year old brian fucking 18 year old justin taylor on the lowest tv volume possible after sneaking into the living room at 2 in the morning after everyone else had gone to bed. is it good representation? is it fucked up that the relationship that anchored the show was between a grown man and a teenager? i wasn’t thinking about it like that when i watched it. i was just absolutely in awe.
3. the l word (2004 - 2009) listen. if you watched the l word and wanted to bang shane, you were probably straight. if you watched the l word and wanted to get railed by jennifer beals, you were just a mortal. if you watched the l word and wanted to be jenny schecter before she got that little dog... you were me. i may have been the only one in the world? i don’t know what that says about me.
4. charmed (og) (1998 - 2006) i watched charmed reruns literally every single day after school. i adored charmed. beautiful powerful women living in san francisco with the most bonkers late-90s / early 2000s fashion fighting demons? i was all in. i remember my dad telling me that he thought holly marie combs was “plain looking” and i’m still offended. Its been 25 years.
5. south of nowhere (2005 - 2008) i feel like i was the only person in the world who watched this show. it was on nickelodeon (???). it had 3 seasons. gabrielle christian moves from ohio to los angeles and falls in love with mandy musgrave. it disappeared and tbqh i can barely believe it aired when and where it did.
6. crazy ex girlfriend (2015 - 2019) a show about older ppl for an older me. i obviously relate a lot to a california attorney with a complicated relationship with her body and mental health struggles. so. i stopped watching before the last season so i could continue to live in my fantasy world where rebecca was with nathaniel. i know i’m in the minority, but i thought they were perfect together. the chemistry was off the charts. he matched her intellect. i loved it.
7. orange is the new black (2013 - 2020). i mean, it basically started off the rise of netflix’s original content, right? i mean, now, looking at how netflix treats their original content creators, it’s bad. but still. and i think about danielle brooks saying "so I'm sitting there, bbq sauce on my tiddies" all the time. and i’ll never be over what they did to poussey. and how they handled it the next season by painting the killer corrections official as sympathetic. i didn’t watch anything after that season.
8. skins uk (2007-2013). this is another one that i have complicated feelings about, given what the now-adult actors have said about their experience filming the show as teens. the star power this show brought us though. dev patel. daniel kaluuya. jack o’connell. kaya scodelario. it was really something. i remember downloading it and watching it on my first laptop sitting on my fire escape and smoking as a college student and thinking that i was just so deep and grown up. how embarassing lmfao fml
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fav gifs/photos - other actresses and ships
MIRANDA OTTO
Zelda Spellman (Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, 2018-2020)
serving cheetah print - S04xE01
walking
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VERA FARMIGA
Norma Bates (Bates Motel, 2013-2017)
hands
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REBECCA HALL and BELLA HEATHCOTE
Olive Byrne and Elizabeth Hollaway Marston (Professor Marston and The Wonder Women, 2017)
“i see you in everything you do”
calling in sick
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SURANNE JONES and SOPHIE RUNDLE
Anne Lister and Ann walker (Gentleman Jack, 2019-)
anne being hot pt.2
morning after
variety of intimate moments pt.2
hands
angsty ann
eyef*cking each other
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LILLY RABE and ANGELA BASSETT
Misty Day and Marie Laveau (AHS, 2018)
apocalypse
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SANDRA OH and JODIE COMER
Eve Polastri and Villanelle (Killing Eve, 2018-2022)
the kiss pt.2 pt.3
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KATHRYN HAHN
Eve Fletcher (Mrs.Fletcher, 2019)
variety
Agatha Harkness (WandaVision, 2021-)
80s
witchy pt.2
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ANGELINA JOLIE and ELIZABETH MITCHELL
Gia Carangi and Linda (Gia, 1998)
dreamy lesbian sigh
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JENNIFER BEALS and LAUREL HOLLOMAN
Bette Porter and Tina Kennard (The L Word, 2004-2009)
hot damn
slow dance
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MICHELLE PFEIFFER, HELENA BONHAM CARTER, BELLA HEATHCOTE, and EVA GREEN
Elizabeth Collins Stoddard, Julia Hoffman, Victoria Winters, and Angelique Bouchard (Dark Shadows, 2012)
icons
girlfriends
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ROSAMUND PIKE and EIZA GONZALEZ
Marla Grayson and Fran (I Care A Lot, 2020)
they’re so cute i can’t
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HANNAH WADDINGHAM
“you’re a lotta woman”
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YAEL GROBGLAS and ROSARIO DAWSON
Petra Solano and J.R./Jane Romos (Jane the Virgin, 2014-2019)
smooch pt.2
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DARCY CARDEN and ABBI JACOBSON
Greta Gill and Carson Shaw (A League of Their Own, 2022)
smexy time
smooch pt.2
booty tap
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LILLI PALMER
hot so very hot hot hot pt.2
villa in switzerland
pretty babyyyy
Elizabeth von Bernburg (Mädchen in Uniform, 1958)
just kiss already
gay panic
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The very first scene of Flashdance has Jennifer Beals petting a stray kitten.
(I've never seen this movie despite being aware of the iconic scene.)
Oh my goodness, Beals is so young.
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