Irene Cara
Born: 1959-03-18 in The Bronx, New York City, New York, USA
Died: 2022-11-25
Known For: Acting
Biography
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.
Filmography
2008
- Bring Back... Fame as Self
- Gone Country as Self
2007
- Disco Explosion - Flash Back as Self
2006
2005
- Hit Me, Baby, One More Time as Self
2003
- Die ultimative Chartshow as Self
1999
- Where Are They Now? as Self
1994
- The Jungle King as Leonette
1992
- Beauty and the Beast as Beauty (voice)
1989
- Happily Ever After as Snow White (voice)
- Caged in Paradiso as Eva
1986
- Busted Up as Simone
- 4 gegen Willi as Self
1985
- Certain Fury as Tracy
1984
- City Heat as Ginny Lee
- Style Wars as Self
- Going Bananas ... (Theme Song Performance)
1983
- D.C. Cab as Irene Cara
- For Us, the Living: The Story of Medgar Evers as Myrlie Evers
1982
- Champs-Elysées as Self
- Sister, Sister as Sissy Lovejoy
- Killing 'em Softly as Jane
1981
- Wetten, dass..? as Self
1980
- Fame as Coco
- Solid Gold as Self
- Verstehen Sie Spaß? as Self
- Guyana Tragedy: The Story of Jim Jones as Alice Jefferson
- Show-Express as Self
1979
- Roots: The Next Generations as Bertha Palmer Haley
1976
- Sparkle as Sparkle
- Apple Pie as Dancer
- What's Happening!! as Maria
1975
- Aaron Loves Angela as Angela
1973
- Kojak as Amy
1971
- The Electric Company as Iris - Member of the Short Circus
1962
1951
- Love of Life as Daisy Allen