Beverly D'Angelo
American actress (born 1951)
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- She doesn’t have social media accounts.
- Between 2018 and 2019, she was cast in the recurring role of Stella Rose Buckley in the dark comedy-drama streaming television series Insatiable.
- She wasn’t initially interested in being cast in National Lampoon’s Vacation as she was disenchanted with Hollywood. However, her husband was partially responsible for getting her interested in the role.
- Beverly got her debut role in Woody Allen’s movie after his casting director had noticed her work in a Broadway production, Rockabye Hamlet.
- Early in her acting career, she wasn’t completed committed to acting as it was a fallback option for her. She wanted to make it as a singer.
- She co-starred as Doris Vinyard in the 1998 crime drama film American History X and this got her nominated for a Satellite Award for “Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture”.
- In 1970, she moved to Toronto to work as a studio vocalist. Eventually, she was hired for background vocals.
- In April 2017, a museum (The Patsy Cline Museum) was opened in Nashville dedicated to Patsy Cline (former country singer), the character she had played in the biopic Coal Miner’s Daughter. She narrated a short biographical movie on Patsy, which is shown to visitors at the museum.
- She brought to life the character of Ellen Priscilla Ruth Smith Griswold, the wife of Clark, in the 1997 comedy film Vegas Vacation, a role for which she was nominated for a Kids’ Choice Award for “Favorite Movie Actress”. She co-starred in the film alongside Chevy Chase, Randy Quaid, Wayne Newton, Ethan Embry, and Wallace Shawn.
- At the age of 18, when she was starting her jazz singing career, she used to perform at a place called Zanzibar, which was essentially a topless bar. She used to perform from 6 p.m. to 2 a.m.
- She started her acting career by doing theater work. Beverly made her professional acting debut with a 1986 Broadway production, Rockabye Hamlet, which was a musical adaptation of the iconic Hamlet play.
- Before starting her acting career, she used to work as an illustrator at Hanna-Barbera Studios. She also toured Canada with the repertory company.
- Friend of Lauren Hutton. Appears on her infomercial for the "Lauren Hutton face disc" cosmetics.
- She comes from a show business family. Her father, Gene, was the General Manager of television station WBNS-TV, channel 10, in Columbus, Ohio.
- Sang all the songs in Coal Miner's Daughter (1980) in which she played the late Patsy Cline.
- Beverly and companion Al Pacino welcomed twins Olivia & Anton, who were born weighing 5lbs each. (25 January 2001)
- Studied visual arts and was an exchange student in Italy before joining Hanna-Barbera Studios in Hollywood as a cartoonist. She toured Canada as a singer and appeared with a rock band called "Elephant."