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Beverly D'Angelo(I)

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Beverly D'Angelo in Maid to Order (1987)
When a group of mercenaries attack the estate of a wealthy family, Santa Claus must step in to save the day (and Christmas).
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Intriguing, inspiring, and never less than interesting -- key adjectives in describing the career of Beverly D'Angelo, which has well passed the four-decade mark. Perhaps deserving better movies than she generally found herself in, she nevertheless was always an object of fascination and the one to watch...whatever the role. Hardly the shrinking violet type, Hollywood counted on her for her colorful personality, down-to-earth demeanor and scene-stealing capabilities.

Beverly Heather D'Angelo was born on November 15, 1951 in Columbus, Ohio, the daughter of musicians Priscilla Ruth (Smith), a violinist, and Eugene Constantino "Gene" D'Angelo, a bass player who also managed a TV station. Her maternal grandfather, Howard Dwight Smith, was the architect who designed the Ohio ("Horseshoe") Stadium at Ohio State University. Her mother had English, Irish, Scottish, and German ancestry, and her father was of Italian descent. Beverly once attended an American school in Florence, Italy.

Initially drawn to art, Beverly worked as a animator/cartoonist at Hanna-Barbera Productions before moving to Canada to pursue a rock singing career, To make ends meet she worked as a session vocalist and sang anyplace she could -- from coffeehouses to topless bars. At one point the teenager was invited to join up with rockabilly legend Ronnie Hawkins. Beverly's acting career started up when she left the Hawkins band and joined the Charlottetown Festival repertory company. She was touring Canada as Ophelia in "Kronborg: 1582", a rock musical version of Shakespeare's "Hamlet" when the renowned Colleen Dewhurst caught a performance and saw promise in both Beverly and the show. Eventually musical director Gower Champion got into the mix and the show was completely revamped, becoming the rock musical "Rockabye Hamlet", which made its way to Broadway in 1976. While the show itself was short-lived, Beverly's Ophelia attracted fine notices and she soon found herself on the West coast with film and TV opportunities. After this point, she seldom returned to the stage but did star alongside Ed Harris in the 1995 off-Broadway production of Sam Shepard's "Simpatico", which earned her a Theatre World Award.

A role in the TV miniseries Captains and the Kings (1976) led to bit parts in The Sentinel (1977) and in the Woody Allen classic Annie Hall (1977). A string of co-starring roles followed with First Love (1977), the Clint Eastwood starrer Every Which Way but Loose (1978) and the film adaptation of the hit counterculture musical Hair (1979). Best of all for Beverly was her powerhouse featured performance as the one-and-only Patsy Cline in the acclaimed biopic Coal Miner's Daughter (1980). Both she and Oscar winner Sissy Spacek (as fellow country singer Loretta Lynn) expertly supplied their own vocals.

Playing everything from tough-as-nails prostitutes, party girls and barflies to rich, prim widows and depressed, alcoholic moms, most of Beverly's output was solid during this time. Playing happening kind of gals, she customarily rose above much of the standard comedic or dramatic material given. An interesting gallery of offbeat characters came her way in a number of hit-or-miss features: Paternity (1981), Finders Keepers (1984), Big Trouble (1986), Maid to Order (1987), High Spirits (1988), Cold Front (1989), Daddy's Dyin'... Who's Got the Will? (1990), The Pope Must Diet (1991), Man Trouble (1992), Lightning Jack (1994), The Crazysitter (1994), Merchants of Venus (1998) and Sugar Town (1999). She also sang in a few of these films.

Beverly attracted mainstream notice as Chevy Chase's beleaguered wife in the comedy spoof National Lampoon's Vacation (1983) and its three sequels. Stronger roles came with such films as the English/Irish production The Miracle (1991) and the Neo-Nazi film American History X (1998). She was also a favorite of director John Schlesinger who used her in Honky Tonk Freeway (1981) and Eye for an Eye (1996), among others. In the spoof Pterodactyl Woman from Beverly Hills (1996), in which she served as associate producer, Beverly gamely starred as a chic Beverly Hills housewife who turns into a flying prehistoric reptile by night. Other offbeat independent filming includes Illuminata (1998), Merchants of Venus (1998), Weaver of Claybank (1915), Black Water Transit (2009), The House Bunny (2008), Episode #7.33 (2007), Bounty Killer (2013), Frat Pack (2018) and Dreamland (2016).

On TV, Beverly scored well as matricide victim Kitty Menendez in Menendez: A Killing in Beverly Hills (1994) and earned an Emmy-nomination (and arguably gave the best performance) as Stella Kowalski opposite "Hair" co-star Treat Williams in the TV remake of A Streetcar Named Desire (1984). Other topnotch TV mini-movies included Sweet Temptation (1996) and Judgment Day: The John List Story (1993), in which she played Robert Blake's devout wife. On primetime she has been cast quite assertively in recurring parts -- she has been spotted on Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (1999) as a defense attorney; Entourage (2004) as a talent agent; Shooter (2016) as a national security advisor; and Insatiable (2018) as a scheming beauty contestant coach.

Beverly's off-camera romantic life has been just as interesting. Following her relationship with "Hair" director Milos Forman, she married Lorenzo Salviati, an economics student who also was an Italian duke. She left Hollywood and lived with him in Europe, but separated after two years and returned. A six-year relationship with Irish director Neil Jordan was followed by one with Oscar-winning production designer Anton Furst; this ended tragically when, just weeks after their breakup, he committed suicide. A former union with the volatile Al Pacino produced twins Olivia and Anton, who were born in 2001.

These days, Beverly's career on camera has remained secondary to the raising of her children. Occasionally she has made use of her vocal talents performing at L.A. nightclubs and with a jazz band that included brother Jeff. From time to time she still lights up the screen as a brash professional or somebody's colorful mom; whatever time she has on screen, whether major or minor, it is always welcomed and never, ever less than...interesting.
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Beverly D'Angelo, Edi Patterson, David Harbour, Alex Hassell, Alexis Louder, and Leah Brady in Violent Night (2022)
Beverly D'Angelo and Paul Reubens in Sundays with Sid (2020)
Beverly D'Angelo in Sundays with Sid (2020)
Beverly D'Angelo in The Sentinel (1977)
Beverly D'Angelo, Jeff Lewis, and Megan Weaver in Jeff Lewis Live (2019)
Beverly D'Angelo, Jeff Lewis, and Megan Weaver in Jeff Lewis Live (2019)
Beverly D'Angelo in Jeff Lewis Live (2019)
Beverly D'Angelo, Jamison Scala, Jeff Lewis, and Megan Weaver in Jeff Lewis Live (2019)
Beverly D'Angelo in Jeff Lewis Live (2019)
Beverly D'Angelo, Jamison Scala, Jeff Lewis, and Megan Weaver in Jeff Lewis Live (2019)
Beverly D'Angelo in Jeff Lewis Live (2019)
Chevy Chase, Beverly D'Angelo, Randy Quaid, Ethan Embry, and Marisol Nichols in Vegas Vacation (1997)

Known for

Chevy Chase, Beverly D'Angelo, and Christie Brinkley in National Lampoon's Vacation (1983)
National Lampoon's Vacation
7.3
  • Ellen Griswold
  • 1983
Edward Norton in American History X (1998)
American History X
8.5
  • Doris
  • 1998
Chevy Chase, Beverly D'Angelo, Juliette Lewis, Johnny Galecki, and John Randolph in National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation (1989)
National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation
7.5
  • Ellen Griswold
  • 1989
Chevy Chase, Beverly D'Angelo, Randy Quaid, Ethan Embry, and Marisol Nichols in Vegas Vacation (1997)
Vegas Vacation
5.9
  • Ellen Griswold
  • 1997

Credits

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Actress

  • True Lies
    • In Production
  • The Trainer
    • Post-production
  • Drugstore June
    • Post-production
  • Afterward
    • Pre-production
  • Capps Crossing: Wrong Side of Dead
    • Completed
  • Masha's Mushroom
    • Pre-production
  • David Harbour in Violent Night (2022)
    Violent Night
  • Mariska Hargitay in Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (1999)
    Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
  • Little Ellen (2021)
    Little Ellen
  • The Good House (2021)
    The Good House
  • Chevy Chase and Beverly D'Angelo in Electri-vacation (2020)
    Electri-vacation
  • The Pack Podcast (2020)
    The Pack Podcast
  • Debby Ryan in Insatiable (2018)
    Insatiable
  • Paige Hoffman, Lauren Holt, Jay Lee, Alexandria McGaughey, and Jake Delaney in The Filth (2019)
    The Filth
  • Ryan Phillippe in Shooter (2016)
    Shooter
  • Beverly D'Angelo and Danny Trejo in Frat Pack (2018)
    Frat Pack
  • Nicholas Rutherford, Lucy Hale, Lauren Lapkus, Dree Hemingway, and Beck Bennett in The Unicorn (2018)
    The Unicorn
  • Beverly D'Angelo, Stephanie Simbari, Olivia Luccardi, Allie Gallerani, and Zak Steiner in Lady-Like (2017)
    Lady-Like
  • Hannah New in Under the Bed (2017)
    Under the Bed
  • Lisa Schwartz in Party Girl (2016)
    Party Girl
  • Lisa Schwartz in This Isn't Working (2016)
    This Isn't Working

Producer

  • City 40 (2016)
    City 40
  • Nova (1974)
    Nova
  • Beverly D'Angelo and Brion James in Pterodactyl Woman from Beverly Hills (1996)
    Pterodactyl Woman from Beverly Hills

Soundtrack

  • Julie Kavner, Nancy Cartwright, Dan Castellaneta, and Yeardley Smith in The Simpsons (1989)
    The Simpsons
  • Chevy Chase, Beverly D'Angelo, Randy Quaid, Ethan Embry, and Marisol Nichols in Vegas Vacation (1997)
    Vegas Vacation
  • Beverly D'Angelo and Brion James in Pterodactyl Woman from Beverly Hills (1996)
    Pterodactyl Woman from Beverly Hills
  • Joe Mantegna and Christopher Reeve in Above Suspicion (1995)
    Above Suspicion
  • Beverly D'Angelo, Cuba Gooding Jr., and Paul Hogan in Lightning Jack (1994)
    Lightning Jack
  • Beverly D'Angelo, Niall Byrne, and Lorraine Pilkington in The Miracle (1991)
    The Miracle
  • Daddy's Dyin'... Who's Got the Will? (1990)
    Daddy's Dyin'... Who's Got the Will?
  • Chevy Chase, Beverly D'Angelo, Juliette Lewis, Johnny Galecki, and John Randolph in National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation (1989)
    National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation
    • (uncredited)
  • Cold Front (1989)
    Cold Front
  • Kevin Costner in Field of Dreams (1989)
    Field of Dreams
  • Chevy Chase, Beverly D'Angelo, Dana Hill, and Jason Lively in National Lampoon's European Vacation (1985)
    National Lampoon's European Vacation
    • (uncredited)
  • Honky Tonk Freeway (1981)
    Honky Tonk Freeway
  • The Midnight Special (1972)
    The Midnight Special
  • Sissy Spacek in Coal Miner's Daughter (1980)
    Coal Miner's Daughter
  • Hair (1979)
    Hair

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    • November 15, 1951
    • Columbus, Ohio, USA
    • Lorenzo SalviatiSeptember 8, 1981 - November 5, 1995 (divorced)
    • Jeff D'Angelo(Sibling)
  • Other works
    Appeared in the off-Broadway musical "Zinger", written by Harry Chapin and co-starring Pat Benatar and Christine Lahti. "Zinger" had but a brief run at the P.A.F. Playhouse in Huntington, Long Island.
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    • 8 Pictorials

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    Was in a relationship with Al Pacino (from 1996-2003) by whom she gave birth, at age 49, on January 25, 2001, to twins (Olivia Rose Pacino and Anton James Pacino).
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    To become a star is the beginning of the end. I don't really want to be saddled with a screen persona.

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