Jennifer Beals
Beals in 2011, photo by DFree / Shutterstock.com
Place of Birth: Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
Date of Birth: December 19, 1963
Ethnicity:
*African-American (father)
*Irish (mother)
Jennifer Beals is an American actress and model. She is known for her roles in the movies Flashdance and Devil in a Blue Dress. Her father, Alfred Leroy Beals, was African-American. Her mother, Jeanne Anderson, was white, and had Irish ancestry. Jennifer is married to Canadian entrepreneur Ken Dixon, with whom she has a daughter.
A picture of Jennifer’s parents can be seen here.
Jennifer’s paternal grandfather was named Leroy or Henry Beals.
Jennifer’s paternal grandmother was Susan “Susie” Ford (the daughter of Joseph “Joe” Ford and Francis/Frances Shipp). Francis was the daughter of Milam Shipp and Mary Brooks.
Source: Information on Jennifer’s father – http://www.findagrave.com
Her mother IS Irish and fully Irish NOT Jewish, AT ALL. LOL. Look at this: Her father died when Beals was ten years old, and her mother remarried, to Edward Cohen. So that’s why. Her mother took after her next husband’s last name.
You’re right Cohen is a Jewish name but it is also possibly an Anglicized form of two Gaelic Irish surnames – O Cadhain of Connacht
http://www.surnamedb.com/surname.aspx?name=Cohen
And to Kira, Beals is a stunning looking woman no doubt.
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utter crap.
Shes gorgeous,she has my mothers skintone exactly! My mum is half black like her:)
Um, Cohen is not a very common Irish name. In fact, it’s not Irish at all. It’s Jewish. Unless her mother’s name was Cowan and is misspelled, this needs a bit more research.
wow…i did not know that she was mixed…she just seems white. lord forgive me