Beverly Heather D'Angelo
Beverly D'Angelo's career has been captivating, inspiring, and always fascinating for the past four decades. While she may have been better than the roles she performed, she was a fascinating character and one to keep an eye on no matter what role. Hollywood loved her bright personality, easy-going demeanor and her ability to get scenes to steal. Beverly Heather D'Angelo is the daughter of Eugene Constantino "Gene", an artist and bass player who was also the manager of a TV station. Her birthplace was in Columbus, Ohio on November 15, 1951. Howard Dwight Smith was her maternal grandfather and the designer of the Ohio ("Horseshoe") Stadium. Her mother is from German, Irish, Scottish and German descent, while her father was Italian. Beverly went to an American school in Florence. At first, she was drawn to art. Beverly worked as an animator and cartoonist for Hanna-Barbera Productions before moving to Canada to pursue a career in rock in order to earn a living. she was the session singer and performed anywhere she could, from bars with topless tables to coffeehouses. The teenager was invited to join Ronnie Hawkins, a rockabilly legend. Beverly's acting career began after she quit Hawkins and joined Charlottetown Festival. While traveling Canada as Ophelia and Ophelia, she was offered the possibility of appearing in "Kronborg : 1582" it is a rock musical rendition of Shakespeare's Hamlet. Colleen dewhurst was there and noticed the promise of Beverly. Finally, Gower Champion was hired as the musical director. The show was reworked and became the rock musical "Rockabye Hamlet". It was brought to Broadway in the year 1976. The show was short-lived however Beverly's Ophelia received acclaim. Soon, she was on West Coast with opportunities in television and film. From that point on she never made it back to the stage, though she did appear alongside Ed Harris in the 1995 off-Broadway production of Sam Shepard's "Simpatico" which was a huge success and earned her an Theatre World Award. A role in the TV mini-series Captains and the Kings (1976) led to bit parts 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 popular counterculture musical Hair (1979) were only some of the co-starring roles. Beverly's greatest performance was of Patsy Cline (the one and only) in the biopic Coal Miner's Daughter (1980). Both she and Oscar winner Sissy Spacek (as co-country singer Loretta Lynn) proficiently performed their own singing.


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