Beverly Heather D'Angelo

The career of Beverly D'Angelo has been intriguing, inspirational, and always fascinating for more than four years. While she may have been better than the roles she performed, she was an intriguing character to be watched no matter the role she played. Hollywood loved her lively charisma, affable manner of speaking and her ability to steal scenes. Beverly Heather D'Angelo is the daughter of Eugene Constantino "Gene", an artist and bass player, who also served as the director of a TV station. Her birthplace was in Columbus, Ohio on November 15th 1951. Howard Dwight Smith was her maternal grandfather, and also the designer of the Ohio ("Horseshoe") Stadium. Her mother is from German, Irish, Scottish and German descent, and her father was Italian. Beverly was a student at an American school in Florence. Beverly was at first drawn to art and was employed as animator/cartoonist at Hanna-Barbera Productions. She then relocated to Canada to pursue an opportunity in rock singing. In order to make ends meet she would sing wherever she could anywhere from topless bars to cafes. The teen was asked to sing with Ronnie Hawkins, a rockabilly legend. Beverly started her career in acting when she was a part of the Charlottetown Festival repertory troupe and quit Hawkins. While on tour in Canada, Ophelia was playing the part of Ophelia in "Kronborg 1582" which was a musical rock adaptation of Shakespeare's Hamlet. Colleen Dewhurst saw potential in Beverly and the production. The show was changed to Rockabye Hamlet after Gower Champion who was the musical director was added to the mix. The show, though short-lived, Beverly's Ophelia was a hit and she soon found herself in the West coast with TV and film opportunities. She never returned to the stage following the show, however she did appear with Ed Harris in 1995's off-Broadway production of Sam Shepard's "Simpatico" which earned her a Theatre World Award. The roles of The Sentinel (1977), and Annie Hall (1977) were her first TV role. First Love (1977), Clint Eastwood's Every Which Way but Loose (1978) as well as the films adaptations of the popular counterculture musical Hair (1979) were only some of the co-starring parts. Beverly's most memorable performance came in the role of Patsy Cline, the only coal miner's daughter (1980). She as well as Sissy Spacek, who was a co-star with country music star Loretta Lynn, both performed their voices with skill.