Beverly Heather D'Angelo

Beverly D'Angelo's life has been intriguing, inspirational, and always intriguing for the past more than four decades. While she might have appeared in better films than she usually found herself in, Beverly D'Angelo was a fascinating persona and one to keep an eye on regardless of what role she was in. Hollywood loved her vibrant personality, easy-going demeanor and her ability to steal scenes. Beverly Heather D'Angelo was the daughter of Eugene Constantino Gene "Gene" D'Angelo and Priscilla Ruth Smith she was a violinist as well as bassist, who also ran a television station. Her maternal grandfather, Howard Dwight Smith, was the architect who designed the Ohio ("Horseshoe") Stadium at Ohio State University. Her mother was an English, Irish and Scottish-born mother. Her father was Italian. Beverly attended an American school in Florence. At first, she was drawn to art. Beverly worked as an animator/cartoonist at Hanna-Barbera Productions before moving to Canada to pursue a career in rock to make ends meet. she became the session singer and performed anywhere she could, from coffeehouses to topless bars. The young singer was asked to sing with Ronnie Hawkins, a rockabilly legend. Beverly's acting career began when she left Hawkins and joined Charlottetown Festival. While traveling Canada as Ophelia she saw an chance to be in "Kronborg  1582", which is a rock musical rendition of Shakespeare's Hamlet. Colleen dewhurst was there and saw promise in Beverly. Then, Gower Champion was hired as the musical director. The show was completely modified and became the rock musical "Rockabye Hamlet". The show made it to Broadway in the year 1976. While the show ran for a short time, Beverly's Ophelia received fine notices and soon she found herself on the West coast with TV and film opportunities. She didn't return to the stage after the show, but she did appear as a star in Ed Harris' 1995 off-Broadway production, Sam Shepard's "Simpatico that earned her a Theatre World Award. She appeared in the TV miniseries Captains and the Kings (1976) which she later reprised as a small role 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 counterculture hit musical Hair (1979) were only three of the co-starring parts. Beverly's most memorable performance was 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, both provided their singing with flair.