Garcelle Beauvais
Garcelle Beauvais (French pronunciation: [gaʁsɛl bovɛ]: born November 26, 1966)[1] is a Haitian–born American actress, reality television personality, author, and former fashion model. She is best known for her roles as Francesca "Fancy" Monroe on The WB television sitcom, The Jamie Foxx Show, which ran from 1996 to 2001, and as Valerie Heywood on the ABC crime drama, NYPD Blue. She also appeared in the 2017 film Spider-Man: Homecoming as Doris Toomes. In 2020 Beauvais became a main cast member of the Bravo reality television series The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills.
Garcelle Beauvais | |
---|---|
![]() Beauvais at the Heart Truth’s Red Dress Collection 2011 | |
Born | Saint-Marc, Haiti | November 26, 1966
Occupation |
|
Years active | 1984–present |
Spouse(s) | Daniel Saunders
( m. 1991; div. 2000)Mike Nilon
( m. 2001; div. 2011) |
Children | 3 |
Early life
Beauvais was born in Saint-Marc, Haiti,[1] to Marie-Claire Beauvais, a nurse, and Axel Jean Pierre, a lawyer. After her parents divorced when she was a child, she moved with her mother to the United States at age seven along with her six elder siblings, and settled in Peabody, Massachusetts where she enrolled in elementary school. Upon her arrival to the United States, Beauvais originally only spoke French and Creole, but learned English from watching Sesame Street on television.[2][3] She attended Peabody Veterans Memorial High School until she was 16.
Career
Modeling
Beauvais moved to Miami at 16 in an attempt to pursue a career in modeling. After driving down from Massachusetts, Beauvais hoped to interview for a modeling agency without an appointment. She was approached at a red light while putting on lipstick by the very owner of the agency she sought to see.[3] After modeling with this agency for about a year, Beauvais, now seventeen, went to New York City to pursue a career as a fashion model, after signing with the Ford agency living with Eileen Ford and later modeled with Irene Marie Models. She modeled print ads for Avon, Mary Kay, and Clairol and in catalogs for Lerner New York Clothing Line, Neiman Marcus, and Nordstrom and walked the runway for Calvin Klein and Isaac Mizrahi and also shot TV commercials for Burdines.[2][4]
Beauvais has appeared magazines for Essence and Ebony, and was the cover model for Jet’s June 6, 2011 issue. She also posed for Playboy's August 2007 issue.[5]
Film and television
In 1994, Beauvais first gained national attention as an actress playing the role of Cynthia Nichols in the primetime Aaron Spelling soap opera Models Inc.. From 1996 to 2001, she co-starred in The Jamie Foxx Show as hotel employee Francesca "Fancy" Monroe and the love interest of Jamie Foxx's character, Jamie King. From 2001 to 2004, she played Assistant District Attorney Valerie Heywood and the love interest of Detective Baldwin Jones, played by Henry Simmons on NYPD Blue. In 2011 and 2012, Beauvais played Hanna Linden on the TNT law drama Franklin & Bash. In 2013, Beauvais once again played the love interest to Jamie Foxx, playing the First Lady while he played the President in White House Down. In 2017, she played the role of Doris Toomes, wife of Adrian Toomes aka Vulture, played by Michael Keaton, in Spider-Man: Homecoming[6].
She starred in R. Kelly's music video for "Down Low (Nobody Has to Know)", as the wife of Ronald Isley and the lover of R. Kelly, delivering the title line as inducement for an affair. In 2001, after the Jamie Foxx Show ended its run, Beauvais appeared in Luther Vandross' music video, "Take You Out," playing Vandross' girlfriend.[7]
She also appeared on some episodes of Grimm as Henrietta.
In 2016, Beauvais was named as one of the co-hosts of the syndicated infotainment discussion series Hollywood Today Live after a month-long period of guest hosting the show.[8]
In 2019, Bravo announced that Beauvais will join the cast of the reality-television series The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills for its 10th season, which premiered on April 15, 2020.[9]
In 2019-2020, Beauvais portrayed Veronica Garland, the “Wicked Stepmother” character from Cinderella, on the second season of the CBS All Access American psychological thriller web television anthology series Tell Me a Story.
Awards
- 2013 MPAH Haiti Movie Awards - Honorary Award from the Motion Picture Association of Haiti
Other
In 2008, Garcelle launched her children's jewelry line called Petit Bijou.[5] In 2013, she published a children's book, I Am Mixed, which was about racial diversity.
Personal life
She was married to producer Daniel Saunders; their marriage ended in divorce. They have a son, Oliver Saunders, born in 1991.[10][11] Beauvais married Mike Nilon, a talent agent with Creative Artists Agency, in May 2001. Their twin sons, Jax Joseph and Jaid Thomas Nilon, were born on October 18, 2007. They had dealt with treatment over five years for infertility.[11][12][13] In April 2010, Beauvais publicly accused Nilon of infidelity after he admitted he had been having an affair for 5 years.[14][15] Beauvais filed for divorce on May 10, 2010, seeking joint custody of their sons.[16]
Filmography
Film
Year | Title | Role | Notes |
---|---|---|---|
1986 | Manhunter | Young woman housebuyer | |
1988 | Coming to America | Rose bearer | |
1999 | Wild Wild West | Belle | |
2001 | Double Take | Chloe | |
2002 | Bad Company | Nicole | |
2004 | Barbershop 2: Back in Business | Loretta | |
2005 | American Gun | Sarah | |
2007 | I Know Who Killed Me | Agent Julie Bascome | |
2009 | Women in Trouble | Maggie | |
2010 | Eyes to See | Marie | Short film |
2012 | Flight | Deana Coleman | |
2013 | White House Down | Alison Sawyer | |
2013 | And Then There Was You | Natalie Gilbert | |
2014 | Small Time | Linda | |
2015 | A Girl Like Grace | Lisa | |
2017 | Spider-Man: Homecoming | Doris Toomes | |
2020 | Coming 2 America | Rose bearer | Post-production |
Television
Year | Title | Role | Notes |
---|---|---|---|
1984–1985 | Miami Vice | Gabriella/Waitress | Episodes: "The Maze", "Give a Little, Take a Little" |
1991 | Family Matters | Lulu | Episode: "Old and Alone" |
1992 | Down the Shore | Liat | Episode: "Schwing Time" |
1992 | Dream On | Danica | Episode: "Red All Over" |
1992 | The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air | Veronica | Episode: "That's No Lady, That's My Cousin" |
1993 | Hangin' with Mr. Cooper | Keeler | Episode: "Boy Don't Leave" |
1993 | Where I Live | Terry | Episode: "Married... with Children" |
1993 | Family Matters | Garcelle | Episode: "Scenes from a Mall" |
1994 | Family Matters | Young Estelle "Mother" Winslow | Episode: "To Be or Not to Be; Part 2" |
1994–1995 | Models Inc. | Cynthia Nichols | Main role (25 episodes) |
1995 | The Wayans Bros. | Rachel | Episode: "Fatal Subtraction" |
1995 | The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air | Herself | Episode: "For Whom the Wedding Bells Toll" |
1995 | The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air | Sandra | Episode: "Not, I Barbeque" |
1996 | Family Matters | Nicole Moses | Episode: "A Ham Is Born" |
1996–2001 | The Jamie Foxx Show | Francesca "Fancy" Monroe | Main role (100 episodes) |
2000 | Opposite Sex | Ms. Maya Bradley | Regular role (6 episodes) |
2001 | Titans | Tina | Episode: "She Stoops to Conquer" |
2001–2004 | NYPD Blue | A.D.A. Valerie Heywood | Regular role (81 episodes) |
2002 | Second String | Larissa Fullerton | TV film |
2003 | The Bernie Mac Show | Vicki | Episode: "Bernie Mac Rope-a-Dope" |
2004 | Curb Your Enthusiasm | Renee | Episode: "The Surrogate" |
2004 | Life with Bonnie | Dr. Gamz | Episode: "Therabeautic" |
2005–2007 | Eyes | Nora Gage | Main role (12 episodes) |
2006 | 10.5: Apocalypse | Natalie Warner | TV miniseries |
2006 | CSI: Miami | Katrina Iverson | Episode: "Death Pool 100" |
2007 | The Cure | Trudie Ericson | TV film |
2009 | Maneater | Suzee Saunders | TV miniseries |
2009 | Crash | Connie | Episode: "Johnny Hit and Run Pauline" |
2010 | Human Target | Vivian Cox | Episode: "Lockdown" |
2011 | State of Georgia | Gwen Dressel | Episode: "Foot in the Door" |
2012 | The Exes | Kendra | Episode: "Shall We Dance" |
2011–2012 | Franklin & Bash | Hanna Linden | Main role, 20 episodes |
2013 | Psych | Miranda Sherrod | Episode: "Dead Air" |
2013 | Arrested Development | Ophelia Love | Episode: "Off the Hook" |
2013 | Necessary Roughness | Lana Langer | Episode: "Swimming with Sharks" |
2013 | Playing House | Dr. Jay | Episode: "Let's Have a Baby" |
2014 | The Mentalist | Danitra Cass | Episode: "The Greybar Hotel" and "Orange Blossom Ice Cream" |
2015 | Grimm | Henrietta | 5 episodes |
2016 | Hell's Kitchen | Herself | Episode: "10 Chef's Compete" |
2016 | Hollywood Today Live | Co-host | |
2016–2019 | The Magicians | Our Lady Underground | 6 episodes |
2017–2018 | Chicago Med | Lyla Dempsey | Episodes: "Ctrl Alt", "Over Troubled Water" |
2018 | RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars | Herself | Episode: "My Best Squirrelfriend's Dragsmaids Wedding Trip" |
2018 | The Arrangement | Mason | Episodes: "The Long Game", "Surface Tension", "The Sessions" |
2018 | Power | Linda | Episode: "Are We On The Same Team?" |
2018–present | Siren | Susan Bishop | 9 episodes |
2019 | Merry Happy Whatever | Nancy | Recurring role, 6 episodes |
2019 | Middle School Moguls | Mrs. Pierre | Episode: "Mogulize, and a Side of Fries" |
2019–2020 | Tell Me a Story | Vernoica Garland | Recurring role, 9 episodes |
2020–present | The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills | Herself | Main Cast (Season 10–present) |
2020 | Carol's Second Act | Tina | Episode: "Plus One" |
2020 | Sugar Rush | Herself | Episode: "Tropical Vacation" |
See also
References
- "Garcelle Beauvais". TVGuide.com. Archived from the original on May 9, 2016. Retrieved July 24, 2016.
- Weinstein, Farrah, ed. (7 January 2001). "GARCELLE BEAUVAIS". New York Post. Retrieved 15 April 2020.
- Al-Jamie, Anthony, ed. (13 March 2015). "Model/Actress Garcelle Beauvais". Tokyo Journal. Retrieved 15 April 2020.
- Todisco, Eric, ed. (30 August 2019). "Everything to Know About Garcelle Beauvais, RHOBH's Famous New Housewife". Yahoo! Entertainment. Retrieved 15 April 2020.
- "Garcelle Beauvais Nilon and Her Petit Bijoux" Archived 2009-02-05 at the Wayback Machine, blackcelebkids.com, 17 November 2008.
- Jennifer Drysdale (June 30, 2017). "EXCLUSIVE: Garcelle Beauvais on Diversity in 'Spider-Man: Homecoming' and Refusing to Be 'Boxed In'". etonline.com. Retrieved 7 June 2020.
- Garcelle Beauvais pics Archived 2007-01-28 at the Wayback Machine, AskMen.com
- Wagmeister, Elizabeth (2 February 2016). "TV News Roundup: 'Hollywood Today Live' Renewed, Garcelle Beauvais Named Co-Host". Variety. Retrieved 27 March 2016.
- Rosenfeld, Laura (August 29, 2019). "Garcelle Beauvais and Sutton Stracke Join The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills for Season 10". Bravo. Retrieved September 1, 2019.
- Staff (July 5, 2013). "Celebrity Pregnancies". Us Weekly. Archived from the original on September 1, 2019. Retrieved September 1, 2019.
- Beauvais, Garcelle (June 19, 2012). "Garcelle Beauvais's Blog: Meet Me and My Boys!". Archived from the original on September 1, 2019. Retrieved September 1, 2019.
I had my first son, Oliver, when I was very young. I was modeling in New York when I met his dad. We immediately fell in love and got married after only two months. ... Two years later, Oliver appeared on the scene. ...Oliver is now 21 years old [as of June 2012] and an up-and-coming rapper. (His stage name is Jayson Rose.) ... [O]n Oct. 18, 2007, I had a c-section and got to meet my yummy boys, Jax and Jaid. ... [T]hey’re fraternal twins...)
- "Garcelle Beauvais-Nilon Welcomes Twins". People. 2007-10-22. Retrieved 2010-06-02.
Her husband is an agent for Creative Artists Agency. The couple wed in a private ceremony in Los Angeles in May 2001.
- "A Double Blessing". People. 2008-01-21. Retrieved 2010-06-02.
- Staff (April 9, 2010). "Garcelle Beauvais-Nilon Accuses Husband of Cheating in Mass Email". Us Weekly. Retrieved September 1, 2019.
- "NYPD Blue's Garcelle Beauvais-Nilon: "My Focus Is on My Kids & Healing the Pain"". E! News. 2010-04-09. Retrieved 2010-06-02.
- "Garcelle Beauvais-Nilon Files for Divorce". People. 2010-06-02. Retrieved 2010-06-02.