Beverly Heather D'Angelo

Beverly D'Angelo's career, which spans forty years, is fascinating inspirational, inspiring, and certainly more than captivating. It is possible that she deserves better films that she would have been in, she nevertheless was always a source of fascination and the one to watch...whatever the role. Hollywood loved her vibrant charisma, easygoing personality and her ability to take 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 a bass player, who also operated a television station. Howard Dwight Smith was her maternal grandfather and the designer of the Ohio ("Horseshoe") Stadium. Her mother was an English, Irish and Scottish-born mother. Her father was Italian. Beverly once attended an American school in Florence, Italy. At first, she was awed by art. Beverly worked as a animator/cartoonist at Hanna-Barbera Productions before moving to Canada to pursue a career as a rock singer, To make ends meet she became the session singer and performed wherever she could -- from bars with topless tables to coffeehouses. The young singer was asked to sing with Ronnie Hawkins, a rockabilly legend. Beverly's acting career began when she left the Hawkins group and was a part of the Charlottetown Festival repertory company. While touring Canada as Ophelia She was given the possibility of appearing in "Kronborg : 1582" it is a rock musical rendition of Shakespeare's Hamlet. Colleen dewhurst was there and saw the potential in Beverly. The show was later renamed Rockabye Hamlet after Gower Champion as the musical director was added to the mix. While the show itself was brief, Beverly's Ophelia received a lot of attention and soon she was in the West coast with film and television opportunities. After that she was never back on the stage, but she did appear alongside Ed Harris in the 1995 off-Broadway production of Sam shepard's "Simpatico" that earned her an Theatre World Award. An appearance in the TV miniseries Captains and the Kings (1976) brought her small roles 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) and the film adaptations of the counterculture hit musical Hair (1979) were just several of the co-starring parts. Beverly's best performance was that of Patsy Cline (the one and only) in the biopic Coal Miner's Daughter (1980). SissySpacek, another singer from the country genre and Loretta Lynn's Oscar winner, also expertly provided their voices.