ACTOR

Jennifer Beals

1963 - Today

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Jennifer Beals (born December 19, 1963) is an American actress. She made her film debut in My Bodyguard (1980), before receiving critical acclaim for her performance as Alexandra Owens in Flashdance (1983), for which she won NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Actress in a Motion Picture and was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Comedy or Musical. Beals has appeared in several films including Vampire's Kiss (1988), Mrs. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jennifer Beals has received more than 10,944,532 page views. Her biography is available in 44 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 39 in 2019). Jennifer Beals is the 1,231st most popular actor (up from 1,829th in 2019), the 2,128th most popular biography from United States (up from 3,060th in 2019) and the 578th most popular American Actor.

Memorability Metrics

  • 11M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 57.44

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 44

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.89

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.93

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ACTORS

Among actors, Jennifer Beals ranks 1,231 out of 13,578Before her are Nathan Fillion, Josh Brolin, Kurtwood Smith, Michael Jeter, Alex Borstein, and Jim Parsons. After her are John Cusack, Chris Pratt, Richard Bull, George Sanders, Vera Farmiga, and Beba Lončar.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1963, Jennifer Beals ranks 70Before her are Satoshi Kon, David Thewlis, Kevin Mitnick, Gaspar Noé, Yngwie Malmsteen, and Steven Soderbergh. After her are Seal, Mike Pompeo, Joey Tempest, May-Britt Moser, Gosho Aoyama, and Carlos Kaiser.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Jennifer Beals ranks 2,128 out of 20,380Before her are Cochise (1805), John Young (1930), Ricky Nelson (1940), Bill Withers (1938), Thomas Cech (1947), and Jim Parsons (1973). After her are John Cusack (1966), Walt Whitman Rostow (1916), Andrea M. Ghez (1965), Chris Pratt (1979), Will Eisner (1917), and George Smith (1941).

Among ACTORS In United States

Among actors born in United States, Jennifer Beals ranks 578Before her are Farley Granger (1925), Josh Brolin (1968), Kurtwood Smith (1943), Michael Jeter (1952), Alex Borstein (1971), and Jim Parsons (1973). After her are John Cusack (1966), Chris Pratt (1979), Richard Bull (1924), Vera Farmiga (1973), Lance Reddick (1962), and Beau Bridges (1941).

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