Age: 62
female
Jennifer Beals (born December 19, 1963) is an American actress and a former teen model. She is known for her roles as Alexandra "Alex" Owens in the 1983 film Flashdance, and as Bette Porter on the Showtime drama series The L Word. She earned an NAACP Image Award and a Golden Globe Award nomination for the former. She has appeared in more than 50 films. Beals was born on the South Side of Chicago, the daughter of Jeanne (née Anderson), an elementary school teacher, and Alfred Beals, who owned grocery stores. She is multiracial; her father was African American, and her mother is Irish American. She has two brothers, Bobby and Gregory.Her father died when Beals was nine years old, and her mother married Edward Cohen in 1981. Beals has said her biracial heritage had some effect on her, as she "always lived sort of on the outside", with an idea "of being the other in society". She got her first job at age 13 at an ice cream store, using her height at the time (she is now nearly 5 ft 9 in (1.75 m)), to convince her boss she was 16. Beals was inspired to become an actress by two events: doing 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 the progressive Francis W. Parker School. She also was chosen to attend the elite Goodman Theatre Young People's Drama Workshop. Beals attended Yale University, receiving 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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Jennifer Beals, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Jennifer Beals
Lilah Brackett
for Lilah Brackett in Halloween 2023 (part 1 of a trilogy)
Suggested by eoindaly
Plays out similar to the original, but with more background & development of the Strode/ Brackett families, plus more scenes in the hospital with Loomis, Wynn & Marion to build up the mystique around Michael pre & post escape. The night before Halloween the Strode's & Brackett's have dinner together, showing they're great, life long friends. Loomis goes to Haddonfield in search of Michael & meets Deputy Hunt, who helps Loomis search. After the dinner party, Annie sneaks out of her house while her parents have sex. She meets up with Laurie & Lynda, where they agree that Laurie will watch Lyndsey tomorrow night, so Annie can have sex with her boyfriend (Paul) for the first time. Lynda tells them how her and Robbie are going to be having sex at her house as her parents will be away. Laurie says she'll have to wait as her boyfriend, Ben, is working as a porter in the hospital. During Halloween day Loomis meets Brackett and tells him about Michael escaping, Hunt tells them that he was Judith's boyfriend, he was the one who had sex with her before she was killed. Loomis, Brackett and his deputies search for Michael. On Halloween night, Lynda, Robbie, Paul & 2 deputies are killed. Annie is brutally attacked, Brackett finds her, saving her life. Saving Laurie, Loomis shoots Michael, falls out the window, but is nowhere to be found.
