Irene Cara
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.
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Acting History
2008
Bring Back... Fame as Self
2008Gone Country as Self
2007Disco Explosion - Flash Back as Self
2006Get Down Tonight: The Disco Explosion - Vol. 1 as Self
2005Hit Me, Baby, One More Time as Self
2003Die ultimative Chartshow as Self
1999Where Are They Now? as Self
1994The Jungle King as Leonette
1992Beauty and the Beast as Beauty (voice)
1989Happily Ever After as Snow White (voice)
1989Caged in Paradiso as Eva
19864 gegen Willi as Self
1986Busted Up as Simone
1985Certain Fury as Tracy
1984City Heat as Ginny Lee
1984Style Wars as Self
1983D.C. Cab as Irene Cara
1983For Us, the Living: The Story of Medgar Evers as Myrlie Evers
1982Killing 'em Softly as Jane
1982Sister, Sister as Sissy Lovejoy
1982Champs-Elysées as Self
1981Wetten, dass..? as Self
1980Show-Express as Self
1980Solid Gold as Self
1980Fame as Coco
1980Guyana Tragedy: The Story of Jim Jones as Alice Jefferson
1980Verstehen Sie Spaß? as Self
1979Roots: The Next Generations as Bertha Palmer Haley
1979Roots: The Next Generations as Bertha Palmer (archive footage)
1976Apple Pie as Dancer
1976What's Happening!! as Maria
1976Sparkle as Sparkle
1975Aaron Loves Angela as Angela
1973Kojak as Amy
1971The Electric Company as Iris - Member of the Short Circus
1962The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson as Self
1951Love of Life as Daisy Allen
—On Location with: FAME as Self - ‘Coco’