Irene Cara
Birthday: Born in 1959-03-18 in The Bronx, New York City, New York, USA
Deathday: 2022-11-25
Irene Cara Escalera (March 18, 1959 - November 25, 2022) was an American singer, songwriter and actress. Cara sang and co-wrote the song Flashdance... What a Feeling from the film Flashdance. She won an Oscar for Best Original Song as a co writer. Cara rose to fame as Coco Hernandez in the 1980 film Fame, and the hit song "Fame" spawned from the movie.
TV Credits
What's Happening!!
Character: Maria
What's Happening!! is an American television sitcom that aired on ABC from August 5, 1976 to April 28, 1979. The show premiered as a summer series. With good ratings and reviews, and after the failure of several other shows on the network, What's Happening!! returned in November 1976 as a weekly series. It remained a regular show until 1979; ratings were modest. What's Happening!! was loosely based on the motion picture Cooley High, also written by Eric Monte....
Solid Gold
Character: Self
Solid Gold was an American syndicated music television series that debuted on September 13, 1980. Like many other shows of its genre, such as American Bandstand, Solid Gold featured musical performances and various other elements such as music videos. What set Solid Gold apart was a group of dancers in revealing costumes who at various points in the program performed various dances to the top ten hits of the week. Many other specials aired in which the dancers would dance to older pop hits as we...
Kojak
Character: Amy
A bald, lollipop sucking police detective with a fiery righteous attitude battles crime in New York City....
The Electric Company
Character: Iris - Member of the Short Circus
The Electric Company is an educational American children's television series that was produced by the Children's Television Workshop for PBS in the United States. PBS broadcast 780 episodes over the course of its six seasons from October 25, 1971 to April 15, 1977. After it ceased production that year, the program continued in reruns from 1977 to 1985, the result of a decision made in 1975 to produce two final seasons for perpetual use. CTW produced the show at Teletape Studios Second Stage in M...
Roots: The Next Generations
Character: Bertha Palmer Haley
Roots: The Next Generations is a television miniseries, introduced in 1979, continuing, from 1882 to the 1960s, the fictionalized story of the family of Alex Haley and their life in Henning, Lauderdale County, Tennessee, USA. This sequel to the 1977 miniseries is based on the last seven chapters of Haley's novel entitled Roots: The Saga of an American Family plus additional material by Haley. Roots: The Next Generations was produced with a budget of $16.6 million, nearly three times as large as...
Wetten, dass..?
Character: Self
A long-running German-language entertainment television show based on the format of the British show You Bet! and the American show Wanna Bet?....
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
Character: Self
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson is a talk show hosted by Johnny Carson under The Tonight Show franchise from 1962 to 1992. It originally aired during late-night. For its first ten years, Carson's Tonight Show was based in New York City with occasional trips to Burbank, California; in May 1972, the show moved permanently to Burbank, California. In 2002, The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson was ranked #12 on TV Guide's 50 Greatest TV Shows of All Time....
Guyana Tragedy: The Story of Jim Jones
Character: Alice Jefferson
The story of the Peoples Temple led by Jim Jones and the 1978 mass suicide at Jonestown....
Verstehen Sie Spaß?
Character: Self
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Gone Country
Character: Self
John Rich of Big & Rich will give one of seven celebrities a chance at a country music career. The celebrities move into a Nashville mansion together to embark on a two-week adventure. Each celebrity will be paired up with some of Nashville's finest songwriters in an attempt to prepare them for a career in country music. In each episode, the cast competes against each other in challenges that will test them musically and physically to adapt to a country music lifestyle, both on and off the stage...
Die ultimative Chartshow
Character: Self
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Champs-Elysées
Character: Self
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Movie Credits
Fame
Character: Coco
A chronicle of the lives of several teenagers who attend a New York high school for students gifted in the performing arts....
Sparkle
Character: Sparkle
Three sisters start out singing in their church choir in Harlem in the late 1950s and become a successful girl group in the 1960s....
Happily Ever After
Character: Snow White (voice)
The Wicked Queen is dead but her brother, Lord Maliss, seeks for revenge. Using the Magic Mirror to locate Snow White and the Prince, he transforms into a dragon and attacks. Maliss takes the Prince to the Realm of Doom. Snow White, with the aid of the Seven Dwarfesses, cousins of the Sevens Dwarves, must embark on a quest to save her true love....
City Heat
Character: Ginny Lee
Set in Kansas City in 1933, Eastwood plays a police lieutenant known simply by his last name, Speer. Reynolds plays a former cop turned private eye named Mike Murphy. Both Speer and Murphy served on the force together and were once good friends, but are now bitter enemies. When Murphy's partner is slain they team up again to fight the mob....
Certain Fury
Character: Tracy
Teenage prostitute Scarlet and minor offender Tracy end up on the run together in the wake of a courtroom shoot-out....
Busted Up
Character: Simone
Prolific actor-stuntman Conrad Palmisano directed this average action-thriller about the owner of an inner-city gym. Earl (Paul Coufos) happens to also be a skilled fighter, and when he is pressured by real-estate developers to close the gym, he fights in order to save it....
Aaron Loves Angela
Character: Angela
Aaron and Angela, two young adults living in the Harlem ghetto of New York City, are deeply in love with each other. The only thing standing in the way of their love is their families. Aaron is black, while Angela is Puerto Rican, and neither family wants one of their own to associate with the others. As the pair rebel against the prejudices of their families, they soon find the conflict spreading out to their friends and neighbors, until the hatred threatens to spiral out of control....
Caged in Paradiso
Character: Eva
A prisoner's wife joins him on an island where a killer satellite and shark-infested waters keep inmates in check....
D.C. Cab
Character: Irene Cara
The tale of a hapless group of cabbies and a rundown cab company owned by Harold. Albert comes to town with a dream of starting his own cab company but needs to motivate Harold's employees to want to make something out of themselves. It is only when Albert is kidnapped that the cabbies must decide whether or not they are loyal to Albert and his cause....
For Us, the Living: The Story of Medgar Evers
Character: Myrlie Evers
This film is the true story of Medgar Evers, a successful insurance agent who moves to Jackson, Mississippi to direct the regional headquarters of the NAACP. Fighting segregation and racist politics, Evers becomes a leader in the black community....
Disco Explosion - Flash Back
Character: Self
Faixas: 01. That´s The Way I Like It 02. Rock Your Baby 03. You Make Me Feel Like Dancing 04. Mr. Big Stuff 05. Le Freak 06. Ain´t No Stopping Now 07. Rock The Boat 08. Best Of My Love 09. We Are Family 10. Boogie Shoes 11. It´s Raining Men 12. Disco Inferno 13. I Will Survive 14. Heaven Must Be Missing An Angel 15. 25 Miles 16. December, 1963 "Oh, What a Night" 17. If Can´t Have You 18. More Than a Woman 19. Fhashdance...What a Feeling 20. Get Down Tonight...
Style Wars
Character: Self
Tony Silver and Henry Chalfant's PBS documentary tracks the rise and fall of subway graffiti in New York in the late 1970s and early 1980s....
The Magic Voyage
Character: Marilyn (voice)
Christopher Columbus decides to go on a journey to prove that the Earth is not flat. His companion is a smart wood worm who's on a quest of his own: to save a beautiful fairy princess from the evil lord Swarm and his insect army....
Sister, Sister
Character: Sissy Lovejoy
Heated confrontations and revelations result when a divorcee returns with her young son to the home of her two sisters....
The Jungle King
Character: Leonette
A reluctant lion king has his paws full trying to save his jungle kingdom in this marvellous animated, song-filled classic for the entire family!...
Beauty and the Beast
Character: Beauty (voice)
A young, beautiful girl awaits the day she will be killed after having asked for a most humble gift....
Killing 'em Softly
Character: Jane
The girlfriend of a man murdered for a debt falls in love with the killer....
Get Down Tonight: The Disco Explosion - Vol. 1
Character: Self
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Apple Pie
Character: Dancer
Gangster Jacques Blinbaum spins the tale of how he began his life of crime, beginning when he faked his own kidnapping in order to scam his father out of the ransom money. From there, Blinbaum moonlights as a costumed crusader, wandering the rooftops of Manhattan....