Beverly Heather D'Angelo

 Intriguing, inspiring, and never less than fascinating -- the key words for describing the life of Beverly D'Angelo, which has been well past the four-decade mark. While she may have been better at the roles she played, she was still a fascinating character and one worth watching regardless of the role. Hollywood admirers loved her dynamic personality, down-to earth demeanor and her ability to steal scenes. Beverly Heather D'Angelo is the daughter of Eugene Constantino "Gene", a bass player and musician who was also the managing director of a television station. She was born in Columbus, Ohio on November 15 1951. 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 was educated at an American school in Florence, Italy. Beverly was initially drawn to art and became animator/cartoonist at Hanna-Barbera Productions. She then moved to Canada to pursue the career of rock singing. In order to make ends meet, she sang anywhere she could anywhere from topless bars to cafes. Ronnie Hawkins invited Beverly to join his band in one point. Beverly started her career in acting when she was a part of the Charlottetown Festival repertory troupe and left Hawkins. While touring Canada as Ophelia and Ophelia, she was offered the chance to be in "Kronborg  1582" which is a rock musical adaptation of Shakespeare's Hamlet. Colleen dewhurst was there and saw the potential in Beverly. In the end, musical director Gower Champion got into the mix and the show was completely overhauled and became the rock musical "Rockabye Hamlet" which eventually was able to make its way to Broadway in the year 1976. While the show ran for a short time, Beverly's Ophelia received a prestigious review and soon she found herself on the West coast with TV and film opportunities. She did not return to the stage following this, but she was an actor in Ed Harris' 1995 off-Broadway production of Sam Shepard's "Simpatico, which was a winner of an Theatre World Award. She was also a part of the TV miniseries Captains and the Kings (1976), and later played only a small part 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 hit counterculture musical Hair (1979) were but a few of the co-starring parts. Beverly's most memorable performance came as Patsy Cline, the only coal miner's daughter (1980). SissySpacek who was another country star and Loretta Lynn's Oscar winner, also expertly provided their voices.