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| Caption | Beals at a fan convention for The L Word in November, 2008. |
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| Birth date | December 19, 1963 |
| Birth place | Chicago, Illinois, U.S. |
| Occupation | Actress Model (former) |
| Years active | 1980–present |
| Spouse | Alexandre Rockwell (m. 1986–1996) Ken Dixon (m. 1998–present) 1 child |
A number of interesting roles came Beals' way following that breakout performance. She and singer-actor Sting were cast as the leads in 1985's The Bride, a gothic horror film loosely based on the 1935 classic Bride of Frankenstein.
Starring opposite Nicolas Cage, the actress portrays a lusty and thirsty vampire who may or may not be a figment of a man's imagination in 1989's Vampire's Kiss.
In 1995, Beals and Denzel Washington co-starred in Devil in a Blue Dress, a period film based on a Walter Mosley novel featuring L.A. private detective, Easy Rawlins. Beals plays a biracial woman passing for white. That same year she appeared with Tim Roth in two segments of the four-story anthology Four Rooms, one of which was directed by her then-husband, Alexandre Rockwell.
Rockwell had previously directed her in the 1992 independent film In the Soup, which was a Grand Prize winner at the Sundance Film Festival. In 2003 she played one of the sequestered jury members in the film adaptation of Runaway Jury
Recently, she had a leading role in 2006's The Grudge 2, sequel to the hit horror film of two years earlier. In 2010, Beals reunited with Denzel Washington in the post-Apocalyptic action drama, The Book of Eli.
In television, she made a brief cameo in the final episode of Frasier. In 2007 she appeared in the small TV drama My Name Is Sarah, in which she plays Sarah Winston, a sober woman who joins Alcoholics Anonymous to conduct research for her book but finds herself falling in love with a recovering alcoholic and - as a result - having to deal with her original deception in joining the group.
Beals starred in Showtime Network's The L Word, where she played Bette Porter, an Ivy League educated lesbian. The series ended in March 2009. She also appears alongside Tim Roth in Lie To Me, as Cal Lightman's ex-wife, Zoe Landau.
Beals will be the female lead in a new TV drama for FOX called The Chicago Code. Her character will be Chicago's first female police chief.
Beals was a Celebrity Grand Marshal at the 2006 San Francisco Pride Parade.
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His first album, inspired by Joe Frank, was called "Tales from the Brown Side". His second album, released in September 2009, is called "The Night Shift" and features a blend of live recorded comedy, studio recordings, and original musical compositions. "
He appeared with a small role in the film "Medicine for Melancholy" in 2008.
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| Name | Barbara Bain |
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| Caption | Barbara Bain (2006) |
| Birth name | Millicent Fogel |
| Birth date | September 13, 1931 |
| Birth place | Chicago, Illinois, U.S. |
| Occupation | Actor |
| Years active | 1958–present |
| Spouse |
Barbara Bain (born September 13, 1931) is an American actress.
Bain is probably best known for her work in the television series as Cinnamon Carter; she played this role from 1966 until 1969 and again in one 1997 episode of . She was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for 'Actress in a Television Series' for her performance in Mission: Impossible in 1968. She won three consecutive Emmys for Best Dramatic Actress for that series in 1967, 1968, and 1969.
Her then husband, Martin Landau, also starred in the series, and her departure from the series in 1969 coincided with his. She starred opposite Landau again in the science fiction television series, (1975–1977), as Dr. Helena Russell. Bain and Landau also performed together on screen in the 1981 made-for-TV film The Harlem Globetrotters on Gilligan's Island.
Bain also appeared in Season 2 of the TV series The Dick Van Dyke Show in the episode "Will You Two Be My Wife?". In 1958, she and Larry Hagman guest starred in the last episode of the adventure/drama television series Harbourmaster, starring Barry Sullivan. She guest-starred as Nen Slausen in the 1959 episode "Fiddle Dee Dead" of Rod Cameron's syndicated series State Trooper.
Barbara Bain also appeared in two episodes of Perry Mason, "The Case of the Nautical Knot" and "The Case of the Wary Wildcatter".
On December 23, 1960, she guest starred in a Christmas episode of James Whitmore's legal drama The Law and Mr. Jones on ABC. Bain appeared on an episode of My So-Called Life, playing main character Angela Chase's grandmother. She also appeared in the episode "Matroyoshka" of Millennium, a late-'90s sci-fi series. In 1998, Bain was a special guest star in the Walker, Texas Ranger episode ("Saving Grace") as Mother Superior. In 2006, Bain had a minor role in an episode of ("Living Legends") which featured a suspect, played by Roger Daltrey, who used stretch rubber face masks similar to those used in the old Mission: Impossible series in which Bain starred. In 2008 Bain appeared in the episode "What Are Little Girls Made Of?" of the TV show as Verdona Tennyson, the grandmother of Ben Tennyson and Gwen Tennyson, alongside her daughter Juliet Landau who voiced the true form of Verdona, an energy being called an Anodyte.
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