Beverly Heather D'Angelo

 Beverly D'Angelo's career has been captivating, inspiring, and always intriguing for the past four years. Although she was most likely than the roles she performed, she was an amazing character to watch no matter what role. Hollywood loved her lively personality, down-to earth demeanor and ability to steal scenes. Beverly Heather D'Angelo is the daughter of Eugene Constantino "Gene", a bass player and musician, who also served as the director of a TV station. She was born in Columbus, Ohio on November 15th 1951. Howard Dwight Smith was her maternal grandfather, and also the architect of the Ohio ("Horseshoe") Stadium. Her mother was of English, Irish, Scottish, and German ancestry, and her father was of Italian descent. Beverly was educated at the American school in Florence, Italy. Beverly was at first attracted by art and worked as animator and cartoonist for Hanna-Barbera Productions. She then moved to Canada to pursue a career in rock music. To pay the bills she performed wherever she could including topless bars and cafes. The teenager was invited to sing with Ronnie Hawkins, a rockabilly legend. Beverly began her acting career when she was a part of the Charlottetown Festival repertory troupe and quit Hawkins. She was performing in Canada as Ophelia in "Kronborg 1582" A musical rock version of Shakespeare's "Hamlet" when the famous Colleen Dewhurst stumbled across a show and saw promise in both Beverly and the production. Then, 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. Although the show was short-lived Beverly's Ophelia was given a lot of attention, and soon she found herself on the West coast with TV and film opportunities. She rarely returned to the stage following her time on stage, but she did perform alongside Ed Harris in 1995's off-Broadway production, Sam Shepard's "Simpatico" which earned her a Theatre World Award. She was a part of the TV miniseries Captains and the Kings (1976) and then played only a small part in The Sentinel (1977), and Annie Hall (1977), both Woody Allen classics. First Love (1977), Clint Eastwood's Every Which Way but Loose (1978) and the film adaptations of the hit counterculture musical Hair (1979) were only several of the co-starring roles. Beverly's best performance was that of Patsy Cline (the one and only) in the biopic Coal Miner's Daughter (1980). SissySpacek who was another country star and Loretta Lynn's Oscar winner, also expertly performed their roles.




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