Beverly Heather D'Angelo

Beverly D'Angelo's life that spans over forty years, is fascinating as well as inspiring and nothing less than intriguing. Although she might have been in better films than she often appeared in, she was still an interesting person to be on the lookout for regardless of the role. She was not the shrinking violet kind, Hollywood counted on her for her colorful persona, casual manner of speaking and ability to steal scenes. Beverly Heather D'Angelo is the daughter of Eugene Constantino "Gene", musician and bass player who also served as the director of a television station. Her birthplace was in Columbus, Ohio on November 15th the 15th of November, 1951. Howard Dwight Smith, her maternal grandfather, was the Ohio ("Horseshoe") Stadium architect at Ohio State University. Her mother was of English, Irish, Scottish, and German heritage, and her father was of Italian descent. Beverly was a student at an American school in Florence. Beverly was at first drawn to the arts and was animator/cartoonist at Hanna-Barbera Productions. She then relocated to Canada to pursue an opportunity in rock singing. To pay the bills she performed wherever she could from topless bars to cafes. Ronnie Hawkins invited Beverly to join his rockabilly group at some point. Beverly began her career in acting when she was a part of the Charlottetown Festival repertory troupe and left Hawkins. She was traveling across Canada in the role of Ophelia in "Kronborg: 1582" which was a musical that was a rock version of Shakespeare's "Hamlet" when the renowned Colleen Dewhurst stumbled across a show and was impressed by the potential of Beverly and the production. The show was changed to Rockabye Hamlet after Gower Champion as the musical director joined the show. While the show itself was only a short run, Beverly's Ophelia received a lot of attention and soon she found herself on the West coast with film and television opportunities. The actress never made it back to the stage following the show, however she did make an appearance alongside Ed Harris in 1995's off-Broadway production of Sam Shepard's "Simpatico" and was awarded the Theatre World Award. The role she played in the TV mini-series Captains and the Kings (1976) brought her small roles in The Sentinel (1977) and in the Woody Allen classic Annie Hall (1977). First Love (1977), Clint Eastwood's Every Which Way but Loose (1978) as well as the film adaptations of the counterculture hit musical Hair (1979) were only several of the co-starring roles. Beverly's most memorable performance came as Patsy Cline, the only coal miner's daughter (1980). Both she as well as Oscar award-winning Sissy Spacek (as her co-star country singer Loretta Lynn) performed with ease and skill. vocals.




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