Beverly Heather D'Angelo

Beverly D'Angelo's entire career that spans more than more than four decades, is captivating, inspiring and not less than intriguing. Perhaps deserving better movies that she would have been in, she nevertheless was always the object of curiosity and was a pleasure to watch...whatever the role. Hollywood loved her vibrant persona, relaxed manner of speaking and 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 bass player. She also operated 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 was a student at an American school in Florence, Italy. Beverly was initially attracted to art and worked as animator/cartoonist at Hanna-Barbera Productions. She then relocated to Canada to pursue an opportunity in rock singing. To earn a living singing, she went wherever she could anywhere from topless bars to coffeehouses. Ronnie Hawkins invited Beverly to join his band in one point. Beverly's acting career began after she left Hawkins and joined the Charlottetown Festival. While traveling Canada as Ophelia she saw an opportunity to perform in "Kronborg : 1582" that is a musical rock version of Shakespeare's Hamlet. Colleen dewhurst was there and saw promise in Beverly. In the end, Gower Champion was hired as the musical director. The show was modified and became the rock musical "Rockabye Hamlet". The show made it to Broadway in 1976. Although the show was brief the character of Beverly's Ophelia attracted fine notices and she soon found herself on the West coast with film and TV opportunities. After that she was never back on the stage, though she did appear alongside Ed Harris in the 1995 off-Broadway production of Sam shepard's "Simpatico" which won her a Theatre World Award. The role she played in the TV mini-series 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 films adaptations of the hit counterculture musical Hair (1979) were only some of the co-starring parts. Beverly's most memorable performance was as Patsy Cline, the only coal miner's daughter (1980). She and Oscar award-winning Sissy Spacek (as her co-star country singer Loretta Lynn) effortlessly sung their own vocals.