Beverly Heather D'Angelo

Intriguing, inspiring and always intriguing -- are the main adjectives to describe the work of Beverly D'Angelo, which has well passed the four-decade mark. Even though she was in more prestigious films than she often appeared in, Beverly D'Angelo was still a captivating character and the one to be on the lookout for regardless of what role she was in. Hardly the shrinking violet type, Hollywood counted on her because of her vivid appearance, affable manner and ability to steal scenes. Beverly Heather D'Angelo is the daughter of Eugene Constantino "Gene", an artist and bass player, who also served as the director of a television station. Her birthplace was 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 is of German, Irish, Scottish and German origin, while her father was Italian. Beverly was a student at an American school in Florence. Beverly was at first drawn to the arts and was animator and cartoonist for Hanna-Barbera Productions. She then relocated to Canada to pursue a career in rock singing. In order to make ends meet she would sing wherever she could anywhere from topless bars to cafes. At some point, the teenager was asked to sing with the rockabilly legend Ronnie Hawkins. Beverly started her acting career when she was a part of the Charlottetown Festival repertory troupe and was dismissed by Hawkins. She was performing in Canada as Ophelia in "Kronborg: 1582", a musical rock version of Shakespeare's "Hamlet" when the world-renowned Colleen Dewhurst stumbled across a show and recognized the potential in Beverly and the show. Finally, Gower Champion was hired as the musical director. The show was completely revamped, and it became the musical rock "Rockabye Hamlet". It was able to make it to Broadway in 1976. While the show ran for a short time, Beverly's Ophelia received fine notices and soon she was finding herself on the West coast with TV and film opportunities. After this point, she seldom returned to the stage, but she did appear alongside Ed Harris in the 1995 off-Broadway production of Sam Shepard's "Simpatico" which won 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 films adaptations of the hit counterculture musical Hair (1979) were but some of the co-starring parts. Beverly's finest performance was of Patsy Cline (the one and only) in the biopic Coal Miner's Daughter (1980). She as well as Sissy Spacek, a fellow country singer Loretta Lynn, each provided their voices with skill.




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