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
Anderson is a Scottish surname.
My suggestion is 25%-30% African ancestry
I would’ve thought she’d be like half Italian, French or even Spanish and Portuguese, but never expected Irish or one of those U.K. countries…
Quote( therefore she is clearly not African american or mixed visually)
Well I don’t know about that. When I first saw her in the movie, I thought she was a Latina.
Quote( her love interests were white in that movie)
Well it was more risky in the 50’s and early 60’s, not so much in the 80’s. However now, anytime there’s a black girl or woman in the (movies, cartoons, or commercials), 9 out of 10 times she has a white love interest, which is not the reality over here
_However now, anytime there’s a black girl or woman in the (movies, cartoons, or commercials), 9 out of 10 times she has a white love interest, which is not the reality over here
> according to conspiratorialists it’s part of an agenda to promote a multiracial/ethnic society. Of course in reality at least 95% of relationships are within people belonging to the same ethnic group.
the aforementioned agenda is ny far more common in commercials than in movies, at least in Europe.
*by far
Quote(> according to conspiratorialists it’s part of an agenda to promote a multiracial/ethnic society)
Well even my niece has notice this one direction type of relationship on t.v.. I mean if they truly were trying to (promote a multiracial/ethnic society, then you would have all types of couples being displayed. However they don’t do that.Here most of the time I see a white man, he has a Asian woman . Even a college professor wrote a article about how the multiracial relationship are most in one direction(white man/black woman). He wrote that U.S society is more comfortable with that relationship
Quote( Of course in reality at least 95% of relationships are within people belonging to the same ethnic group.)
I think that depends on where you go
Quote(really ? are you sure ?)
yes if you look at say old 70’s blaxploitation movies, you would have seen alot of that. Even The Omega Man (1971) with Charlton Heston showed him with Rosalind Cash as his love interest, there were a number of other movies, like Frogs with Judy Pace etc.
Quote (i heard that even in 1983 donna summer and MJ were the only black african americans on MTV and that was something new
and on the magazines on that time and on teen shows very few african americans were covered up
but if you look at MTV in the early 80s you can see racially ambiguous people but no african americans
Rick james had a hit with super freak but that video was not played on mtv in 1981 because he was black. The song was perfect blend for the rock mtv era but it was banned)
That why I had a lot of respect for David Bowie. He called MTV out for that when he did a interview with them back in the 80’s when the program was just taking off. He was insulted that he watch the program, and didn’t see a single black person on the show
@neiltenannt
Bowie was a superstar since 1969 (Space Oddity)
She looks Italian or Spanish. She looks 100% Mediterranean.
She could be a Cuban or Puerto Rican woman with Spanish and African ancestry. She looks somewhat Mediterranean but from some features like her eyes you can tell she’s mixed.
phaedra? You’re contradicting yourself. ooooh. LOL.