Beverly Heather D'Angelo

The career of Beverly D'Angelo has been fascinating, inspiring and always fascinating for the past four decades. Although she might have been in better films than she typically appeared in, she was an intriguing person to keep an eye on no matter what the role. Hollywood loved her bright charisma, easygoing personality, 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 in 1951. 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 went to an American school in Florence. Beverly was initially drawn to art and became an animator/cartoonist for Hanna-Barbera Productions. She then relocated to Canada to pursue a career in rock music. To make ends work she performed wherever she could, from topless bars to coffeehouses. Ronnie Hawkins invited Beverly to join his rockabilly group at some point. Beverly's acting journey began when she left the Hawkins group and became part of the Charlottetown Festival repertory company. While on tour in Canada, Ophelia was playing the role of Ophelia in "Kronborg 1582", a musical rock adaptation of Shakespeare's Hamlet. Colleen Dewhurst saw potential in Beverly and the show. The show was later renamed Rockabye Hamlet after Gower Champion as the musical director became part of the cast. The show was short-lived however Beverly's Ophelia received acclaim. The show soon found her in the West Coast, with television and film roles. She didn't return to the stage after this, but she was part of Ed Harris' 1995 off-Broadway production of Sam Shepard's "Simpatico, which earned her an Theatre World Award. Parts of The Sentinel (1977), and Annie Hall (1977) were her first TV part. First Love (1977), Clint Eastwood-starrer Every Which Way but Loose (78) as well as the film version of the popular Counterculture Hair (1979) were a few of her co-starring roles. Beverly's best performance was that of Patsy Cline (the one and only) in the biopic Coal Miner's Daughter (1980). She as well as Sissy Spacek, who is a close friend of country music star Loretta Lynn, provided their vocals with skill.