Irene Cara

Born: 1959-03-18

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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City Heat

as Ginny Lee
Released: 1984-12-07

Set in Kansas City in 1933, Eastwood plays a police lieutenant known simply by his last name,...

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Fame

as Coco
Released: 1980-05-16

A chronicle of the lives of several teenagers who attend a New York high school for students...

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Beauty and the Beast

as Beauty (voice)
Released: 1992-05-04

A young, beautiful girl awaits the day she will be killed after having asked for a most humble gift.

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Certain Fury

as Tracy
Released: 1985-03-01

Teenage prostitute Scarlet and minor offender Tracy end up on the run together in the wake of a...

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D.C. Cab

as Irene Cara
Released: 1983-12-16

The tale of a hapless group of cabbies and a rundown cab company owned by Harold. Albert comes...

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Happily Ever After

as Snow White (voice)
Released: 1989-06-30

The Wicked Queen is dead but her brother, Lord Maliss, seeks for revenge. Using the Magic Mirror...

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For Us, the Living: The Story of Medgar Evers

as Myrlie Evers
Released: 1983-03-22

This film is the true story of Medgar Evers, a successful insurance agent who moves to Jackson,...

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Sparkle

as Sparkle
Released: 1976-04-07

Three sisters start out singing in their church choir in Harlem in the late 1950s and become a...

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Style Wars

as Self
Released: 1984-01-23

Tony Silver and Henry Chalfant's PBS documentary tracks the rise and fall of subway graffiti in...

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The Magic Voyage

as Marilyn (voice)
Released: 1992-04-09

Christopher Columbus decides to go on a journey to prove that the Earth is not flat. His...

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Aaron Loves Angela

as Angela
Released: 1975-12-25

Aaron and Angela, two young adults living in the Harlem ghetto of New York City, are deeply in...

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The Jungle King

as Leonette
Released: 1994-01-01

A reluctant lion king has his paws full trying to save his jungle kingdom in this marvellous...

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Busted Up

as Simone
Released: 1986-09-10

Prolific actor-stuntman Conrad Palmisano directed this average action-thriller about the owner...

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Caged in Paradiso

as Eva
Released: 1989-05-01

A prisoner's wife joins him on an island where a killer satellite and shark-infested waters keep...

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Disco Explosion - Flash Back

as Self
Released: 2007-03-09

Faixas: 01. That´s The Way I Like It 02. Rock Your Baby 03. You Make Me Feel Like Dancing ...

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Killing 'em Softly

as Jane
Released: 1982-12-10

The girlfriend of a man murdered for a debt falls in love with the killer.

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Apple Pie

as Dancer
Released: 1976-08-08

Gangster Jacques Blinbaum spins the tale of how he began his life of crime, beginning when he...

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Sister, Sister

as Sissy Lovejoy
Released: 1982-06-07

Heated confrontations and revelations result when a divorcee returns with her young son to the...

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The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

as Self
First aired: 1962-10-01

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson is a talk show hosted by Johnny Carson under The Tonight...

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Champs-Elysées

as Self
First aired: 1982-01-16

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Wetten, dass..?

as Self
First aired: 1981-02-14

A long-running German-language entertainment television show based on the format of the British...

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Kojak

as Amy
First aired: 1973-10-24

A bald, lollipop sucking police detective with a fiery righteous attitude battles crime in New...

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The Electric Company

as Iris - Member of the Short Circus
First aired: 1971-10-25

The Electric Company is an educational American children's television series that was produced...

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Verstehen Sie Spaß?

as Self
First aired: 1980-01-31

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What's Happening!!

as Maria
First aired: 1976-08-05

What's Happening!! is an American television sitcom that aired on ABC from August 5, 1976 to...

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Solid Gold

as Self
First aired: 1980-09-13

Solid Gold was an American syndicated music television series that debuted on September 13,...

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Die ultimative Chartshow

as Self
First aired: 2003-05-21

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Roots: The Next Generations

as Bertha Palmer Haley
First aired: 1979-02-18

Roots: The Next Generations is a television miniseries, introduced in 1979, continuing, from...

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Guyana Tragedy: The Story of Jim Jones

as Alice Jefferson
First aired: 1980-04-15

The story of the Peoples Temple led by Jim Jones and the 1978 mass suicide at Jonestown.

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Gone Country

as Self
First aired: 2008-01-25

John Rich of Big & Rich will give one of seven celebrities a chance at a country music career....

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