She's half black.

Do your eyes not work?

So?

Oh wow. I had no idea. That's why she aged so well. Black people's skin (for the most part) is much more resistant to the sun, and as a result takes much longer to age than white people's skin.

She's taken roles as white women, and why not?

I vaguely remember one family drama from the 1990s, where she played Brendan Fraser's sister. They were both supposed to be Jewish, if I remember correctly.

In the March 1990 issue of Ebony, Lynn Norment wrote: It is well documented that the father of actress Jennifer Beals was indeed a Black Chicago South Side business owner. However, Beals has never publicly identified with the Black community.

Though Jennifer Beals have never closely identified with the black community, she was nominated for the NAACP Los Angeles chapter's Image Award in 1983 after her successful acting debut in Flashdance. The NAACP emphasized that the Image Awards were created to honor individuals - both black and white - who present a positive image for minorities.

Beals' father, who owned several grocery stores on Chicago's South Side, died when she was 9. Her mother, an Irish school teacher, then moved to Chicago's North Shore and Jennifer grew up in an upper-middle class white environment. At the height of her Flashdance fame, she was a student at Yale University. "I thought I would never get in," she said then. "I thought they only took geniuses. But I was lucky, because I'm a minority. I'm not black, and I'm not white, so I could mark 'other' on my application, and I guess it's hard for them to fill that quota."

The June 1990 issue featured a letter from someone who knew her: "I was at Yale University during the time Jennifer Beals was a student, and it bothered me then how she rarely associated herself with any Afro-Americans."

So is Rebecca Hall. (The Town, Vicki Cristina Barcelona.)

Half-half, maybe. I thought she was mildly Hispanic, or Mediterranean, as much as I thought about it at all...

I had no idea.