Jennifer Beals
Year Title Role
1980 My Bodyguard Clifford 's Friend
1983 Flashdance Alex Owens
1985 The Bride Eva
1988 The Gamble Lady Olivia Candioni
1988 Split Decisions Barbara Uribe
1989 Vampire 's Kiss Rachel
1989 Sons Transgender
1990 Dr. M Sonja Vogler
1991 Blood and Concrete Mona
1992 In the Soup Angelica Pena
1992 Day of Atonement Joyce
1993 Caro diario Herself
1993 The Thief and the Cobbler Princess YumYum
1994 Dead on Sight Rebecca Darcy
1994 Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle Gertrude Benchley
1994 The Search for One-eye Jimmy Ellen
1995 Four Rooms Angela
1995 Let It Be Me Emily Taylor
1995 Devil in a Blue Dress Daphne Monet
1997 Wishful Thinking Elizabeth
Filmography -- Film
Jennifer Beals (born December 19, 1963) is an American actress and a former teen model. She made her film debut in My Bodyguard (1980), before receiving critical acclaim for her role in Flashdance (1983), for which she won NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Actress in a Motion Picture and was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress - Motion Picture Comedy or Musical. Beals appeared in several notable films including Devil in a Blue Dress (1995), The Last Days of Disco (1998), Roger Dodger (2002), The Book of Eli (2010), and Before I Fall (2017). On television, she starred as Bette Porter on the Showtime drama series The L Word (2004-2009) and later went on to star in the series The Chicago Code (2011), Proof (2015), and Taken (2017). She reprised her role as Bette Porter in The L Word: Generation Q in December 2019.