Beverly Heather D'Angelo

Beverly D'Angelo's career has been fascinating, inspiring, and always fascinating for over four decades. Maybe deserving of better films than she generally found herself in, she nevertheless was always a source of fascination and the one to watch...whatever the role. Hollywood loved her lively character, casual manner of life, and scene-stealing abilities. Beverly Heather D'Angelo is the daughter of Eugene Constantino "Gene", musician and bass player, who also served as the director of a TV station. Her birthplace was in Columbus, Ohio on November 15th the 15th of November, 1951. Howard Dwight Smith was her maternal grandfather, and also the designer of the Ohio ("Horseshoe") Stadium. Her mother was of English, Irish, Scottish and German roots, while her father was of Italian descent. Beverly went to an American school in Florence. Beverly was initially drawn to art and became animator and cartoonist for Hanna-Barbera Productions. She then moved to Canada to pursue a career in rock singing. In order to make ends meet, she sang anywhere she could from topless bars to coffeehouses. Ronnie Hawkins invited Beverly to join his band in one point. Beverly's acting career began after she quit Hawkins and joined the Charlottetown Festival. She was traveling across Canada as Ophelia in "Kronborg 1582", a musical rock adaptation of Shakespeare's "Hamlet" when the world-renowned Colleen Dewhurst saw a performance and noticed the potential in Beverly and the show. Then the musical director Gower Champion was added to the equation and the show was completely revamped, becoming the rock musical "Rockabye Hamlet" that eventually came to Broadway in the year 1976. The show ran for a short time, but Beverly's Ophelia garnered fine notices. Soon, she was in the West Coast, with TV and film opportunities. After this point she never returned to the stage, but she did appear with Ed Harris in the 1995 off-Broadway show of Sam Shepard's "Simpatico", which earned her an Theatre World Award. The role she played in the TV miniseries Captains and the Kings (1976) led to bit parts in The Sentinel (1977) and in the Woody Allen classic Annie Hall (1977). A sequence of co-starring parts followed with First Love (1977), the Clint Eastwood starrer Every Which Way but Loose (1978) and the film adaptation of the popular counterculture musical Hair (1979). Beverly's most memorable role was as Patsy Cline, the only coal miner's daughter (1980). She and Sissy Spacek, a friend of fellow country music star Loretta Lynn, both provided their vocals with skill.




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