Jennifer Beals

format_quote I'm always shocked that gay marriage is such a big deal. You have to realize how precious human life is, when there are tsunamis and mudslides, when there are armies and terrorists - at any moment, you could be gone, and potentially in the most brutal fashion. And then you have to realize that love is truly one of the most extraordinary things you can experience in your life. To begrudge someone else their love of another person because of gender seems to be absolutely absurd. It's based in fear, fear of the other, fear of what is not like you. But when you are able to see lives on a day-to-day basis, rather than reducing it to politics, then it humanizes a whole community of people that were otherwise invisible.

stars  Stepmother to her husband, Ken Dixon's, two children.

stars  Gave birth to her first child, a girl, in October, 2005.

stars  In Flashdance (1983), the birth date filled out in the application form is her actual birth date in real life.

stars  While still a teenager, before she went into show business, she worked as a babysitter for one of her neighbors - Steve Edwards.

stars  Is a close friend of Quentin Tarantino. He often stayed at her home while struggling as an director before making Pulp Fiction.