Beverly Heather D'Angelo

The career of Beverly D'Angelo has been captivating, inspiring, and always intriguing for the past over four years. Although she may be deserving of better films than the ones she was typically in, she nevertheless was always a source of curiosity and was a pleasure to watch...whatever the role. Hollywood was impressed by her energetic charisma, affable manner of speaking and her ability to steal scenes. Beverly Heather D'Angelo was born on the 15th of November 1951 in Columbus, Ohio, the daughter of musicians Priscilla Ruth (Smith) violinist as well as Eugene Constantino "Gene" D'Angelo as a bass player. She also managed a TV station. Howard Dwight Smith, her maternal grandfather was the Ohio ("Horseshoe") Stadium architect at Ohio State University. Her mother was an English, Irish and Scottish-born mother. Her father was Italian. Beverly was educated at the American school in Florence, Italy. Beverly was initially drawn to the arts and was an animator/cartoonist for Hanna-Barbera Productions. She then relocated to Canada to pursue a career in rock music. To make ends work she would sing wherever she could, from topless bars to coffeehouses. Ronnie Hawkins invited Beverly to join his rockabilly group at the time. Beverly's acting career started when she left Hawkins and joined the Charlottetown Festival. She was traveling across Canada as Ophelia in "Kronborg 1582", a rock musical version of Shakespeare's "Hamlet" when the world-renowned Colleen Dewhurst saw a performance and noticed the potential in Beverly and the show. In the end, musical director Gower Champion joined the mix and the show was revamped, becoming the rock musical "Rockabye Hamlet" which eventually made its way to Broadway in the year 1976. While the show was only a short run and a few years later, Beverly's Ophelia was well-received and soon she was in the West coast with film and TV roles. She didn't return to the stage following this, but she was an actor in Ed Harris' 1995 off-Broadway production of Sam Shepard's "Simpatico, that earned her an Theatre World Award. The roles in The Sentinel (1977), and Annie Hall (1977) were her first TV roles. A number of co-starring roles 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). Most memorable for Beverly was her stunning character as the only Patsy Cline in the acclaimed biopic Coal Miner's Daughter (1980). SissySpacek from another country artist, Loretta Lynn's Oscar winner, also expertly recorded their voices.