Beverly Heather D'Angelo

The career of Beverly D'Angelo that spans nearly more than four decades, is captivating as well as inspiring and nothing less than captivating. While she might have appeared in better films than the ones she often appeared in, she was still an interesting character and the one to watch regardless of what role she was in. Hollywood loved her lively charisma, affable manner of speaking and ability to steal scenes. Beverly Heather D'Angelo is the daughter of Eugene Constantino "Gene", musician and bass player who was also the head of the management of a TV station. She was born in Columbus, Ohio on November 15 1951. Howard Dwight Smith, her maternal grandfather, was the Ohio ("Horseshoe") Stadium architect at Ohio State University. Her mother was from German, Irish, Scottish and German origin, while her father was Italian. Beverly has attended an American school in Florence, Italy. Beverly began her career as an animator/cartoonist at Hanna-Barbera Productions. After moving to Canada, Beverly became a session singer and sang wherever she could, even in coffeehouses and topless bars. Ronnie Hawkins invited Beverly to join his rockabilly band at some point. Beverly's acting career started when she quit Hawkins and joined Charlottetown Festival. While touring Canada as Ophelia, she saw the opportunity to perform in "Kronborg  1582" which is a musical rock version of Shakespeare's Hamlet. Colleen dewhurst was there and saw the potential in Beverly. Then musical director Gower Champion was added to the mix and the show was revamped, becoming the musical rock "Rockabye Hamlet" which eventually went to Broadway in 1976. Although the show was short-lived the character of Beverly's Ophelia was well-received and soon she was in the West coast with film and TV roles. She never returned to the stage following her time on stage, but she did make an appearance alongside Ed Harris in 1995's off-Broadway production, Sam Shepard's "Simpatico" and was awarded the Theatre World Award. The roles in The Sentinel (1977), and Annie Hall (1977) were her first TV role. First Love (1977), Clint Eastwood's Every Which Way but Loose (1978), and the films adaptations of the anti-culture smash musical Hair (1979) were only several of the co-starring roles. Most memorable for Beverly was her stunning role as the singular Patsy Cline in the acclaimed biopic Coal Miner's Daughter (1980). She and Sissy Spacek, who is a close friend of country music star Loretta Lynn, each provided their vocals with skill.