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The philosophical performer has cultivated a circle of friends whose creative contributions often aim at the fringes of Hollywood; among Beals's close comrades are director Quentin Tarantino and actors Jennifer Jason Leigh and David Duchovney (a Yale classmate). Beals married French filmmaker Alexandre Rockwell in 1986; the union lasted 10 years, and Beals appeared in Rockwell-directed films Sons (as a transvestite) and 1992's In the Soup, a critically acclaimed independent film released amid the height of the American indie era.

Beals' resume also includes various French film and television productions, as well as better-known U.S. projects like Vampire's Kiss (with Sting), TV series 2000 Malibu Road (costarring Drew Barrymore), Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle (with Leigh), Tarantino's Four Rooms, Devil in a Blue Dress (costarring Denzel Washington), Twilight of the Golds (a telefilm with gay themes) and The Anniversary Party (which pal Leigh cowrote and directed with Alan Cumming). More recently Beals appeared in Runaway Jury (pictured), and while her next foray, Catch That Kid, has been described as a Mission Impossible for kids, the academic actress intellectualizes it:

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