Garcelle Beauvais
Biography
Garcelle Beauvais is a Haitian-American actress and television host who began her career in modeling. Born in Saint-Marc, Haiti, she grew up in Peabody, Massachusetts after her family moved to the United States, and she started modeling in Miami at 16 before signing with the Ford Modeling Agency in New York at 17. She turned to acting with a 1984 appearance on Miami Vice and drew attention as Cynthia Nichols on the soap opera Models Inc. Her profile grew when she played Francesca Monroe, known as Fancy, on The Jamie Foxx Show from 1996 to 2001, followed by Assistant District Attorney Valerie Heywood on NYPD Blue from 2001 to 2004. Her film work includes Coming to America (1988), Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017) and White House Down (2013). In 2020 she was added to the main cast of the reality series The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills, and she co-hosted the talk show The Real from 2020 to 2022.
59years old
Turns 60 on November 26in 45 days
- Born Saint-Marc
- Star sign: SagittariusThe sign runs November 22 to December 21
Movie Career
- Films
- 15
- Career span
- 38 years1986 to 2024
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A change of course
Beauvais drove down from Massachusetts hoping to interview with a modeling agency without an appointment. While she was putting on lipstick at a red light, the owner of the agency she wanted to see approached her.
A first
During its tenth season, which began in April 2020, Beauvais became the first black cast member of The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills.
Languages
Beauvais learned English by watching Sesame Street on television after arriving in the United States speaking only French and Creole.
Garcelle Beauvais movies on Netflix
Best known for
The films on Netflix they are best known for, with the part played in each.
Most often with
Three actors appear in two of them each. Pick a number on the chart or a name in the list to see the films they share.
Films together
Brian Geraghty's page
Michael Ealy's page
Gregory Itzin's page
Box office
What Garcelle Beauvais's films earned in cinemas worldwide.
Combined worldwide box office
$1.7 billion
9 of the 15 films have a worldwide figure.
Of the 15 films: 9 worldwide figure; 4 never in cinemas; 2 figure not found.
- 9Worldwide figure
- 4Never in cinemas
- 2Figure not found
Highest grossing
The eight biggest films earned 99% of the total. The bars are drawn to scale.
- 1$881M53.4% of the total
- 2$222M13.5% of the total
- 3$205M12.4% of the total
- 4$162M9.8% of the total
- 5$66M4.0% of the total
- 6$65M3.9% of the total
- 7$32M1.9% of the total
- 8$9.6M0.6% of the total
$8.6 millionfrom the other 1 film with a worldwide figure, 1% of the total