Jennifer Beals Net Worth

Jennifer Beals's Quotes

• It's been perfect. I can still ride a subway and work with great people. I can't imagine being Julia Roberts. I don't have the fortitude to withstand that kind of attention.
• I'm always shocked that gay marriage is such a big deal. You have to realize how precious human life is, when there are tsunamis and mudslides, when there are armies and terrorists - at any moment, you could be gone, and potentially in the most brutal fashion. And then you have to realize that love is truly one of the most extraordinary things you can experience in your life. To begrudge someone else their love of another person because of gender seems to be absolutely absurd. It's based in fear, fear of the other, fear of what is not like you. But when you are able to see lives on a day-to-day basis, rather than reducing it to politics, then it humanizes a whole community of people that were otherwise invisible.
• [on who inspires her] My role models are Bettie Page and Mia Kirshner (co-star on The L Word (2004)). Every day when Mia comes to work she raises the bar for us all.

Interesting Facts about Jennifer Beals

1. In Devil in a Blue Dress (1995), she played a woman passing for white, who is actually the daughter of an interracial couple. Beals herself is the daughter of a white mother, Jeanne Anderson, and an African-American father, Alfred Leroy Beals.
2. Turned down the opportunity to play herself in It's Like, You Know... (1999).
3. She put her career on hold to attend Yale University.
4. While at Yale University, she was classmates with David Duchovny, who suggested her for a role on The X Files (1993) (which went to Gillian Anderson).
5. In the film The Anniversary Party (2001), Beals plays a character who takes photographs of performers which she then gives away, usually to the subjects of the photos. Beals actually does this.
6. Has two brothers and at least four half-siblings from her father's other relationships.
7. In Flashdance (1983), the birth date that she fills out on the application form is her actual birth date in real life.
8. While still a teenager, before she went into show business, she worked as a babysitter for one of her neighbors - Steve Edwards.
9. Good friends with Elizabeth Berkley. They each appeared in a Joe Eszterhas-written film (Berkley: Showgirls (1995); Beals: Flashdance (1983)), and they appeared together in Roger Dodger (2002). and the last season of The L Word (2004).
10. Stepmother to her husband, Ken Dixon's, two children.
11. 18 October 2005: Gave birth to her first child, a girl. Father is Beals' husband of seven years, Canadian entrepreneur Ken Dixon.
12. She and her character on The L Word (2004), Bette Porter, are both Yale graduates with an African-American father and a Caucasian mother.
13. Was offered the role of Apollonia for Purple Rain (1984). She turned down the role because she wanted to concentrate on college.
14. Worked at Baskin-Robbins as a teenager.
15. She was the original choice for the lead role in Pretty in Pink (1986), but the role went to Molly Ringwald.
16. Close friends with Quentin Tarantino. He often stayed at her home while struggling as a director before making Pulp Fiction (1994).
17. Thieves took nearly $1,000 from her hotel room while she was on location in Manila, Philippines, shooting the movie Tinikling ou 'La madonne et le dragon' (1990) (aka "Madonna and the Dragon"), in 1989.
18. Close friends with Jon Stewart and Marlee Matlin.
19. Is a huge fan of Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1997) and wanted the cast to guest star on The L Word (2004).
20. Good friends with Jennifer Jason Leigh.