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                 Birth Place: Chicago, Illinois, USA  
                  Birthday:December 19, 1963 
                  Height:5' 9" 
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          - In Devil in a Blue Dress (1995), she plays a woman passing for white who is actually the daughter of an interracial couple. In real life, this is Beals's racial background, too.
 - Film debut was in the 1980 film, My Bodyguard (1980), in which she is uncredited.
 - Turned down the opportunity to play herself in "It's Like, You Know..." (1999).
 - She put her career on hold to graduate from Yale.
 - While at Yale, she was classmates with David Duchovny, who suggested her for a part on "The X Files" (1993) (which went to Gillian Anderson).
 - 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.
 - Has an African-American father and an Irish mother.
 - In Flashdance (1983), the birth date filled out in the application form is her actual birth date in real life.
 - While still a teenager, before she went into show business, she worked as a babysitter for one of her neighbors - Steve Edwards.
 - Good friends with Elizabeth Berkley. The each appeared in a Joe Eszterhas-written film (Berkley: Showgirls (1995); Beals: Flashdance (1983)), and they appeared together in Roger Dodger (2002).
 - Stepmother to her husband, Ken Dixon's, two children.
 - Gave birth to her first child, a girl, in October, 2005.
 - She and her character on The L Word, Bette Porter, are both Yale graduates with an African-American father and a Caucasian mother.
 
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