Irene Cara
Biography
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.
Known For
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
Wetten, dass..?
Champs-Elysées
Kojak
The Electric Company
What's Happening!!
Verstehen Sie Spaß?
Solid Gold
All Movies (19)
- Bring Back... Fame2008 · as Self
- Disco Explosion - Flash Back2007 · as Self
- Get Down Tonight: The Disco Explosion - Vol. 12006 · as Self
- Happily Ever After1989 · as Snow White (voice)
- Caged in Paradiso1989 · as Eva
- Friend to Friend: Armenian Earthquake Relief1989 · as Self
- Busted Up1986 · as Simone
- Certain Fury1985 · as Tracy
- City Heat1984 · as Ginny Lee
- Style Wars1984 · as Self
- D.C. Cab1983 · as Irene Cara
- For Us, the Living: The Story of Medgar Evers1983 · as Myrlie Evers
- Killing 'em Softly1982 · as Jane
- Sister, Sister1982 · as Sissy Lovejoy
- On Location with: FAME1980 · as Self - ‘Coco’
- Fame1980 · as Coco Hernandez
- Apple Pie1976 · as Dancer
- Sparkle1976 · as Sparkle
- Aaron Loves Angela1975 · as Angela
All TV Shows (18)
- Gone Country2008 · as Self
- Hit Me, Baby, One More Time2005 · as Self
- Die ultimative Chartshow2003 · as Self
- Where Are They Now?1999 · as Self
- 4 gegen Willi1986 · as Self
- Champs-Elysées1982 · as Self
- Wetten, dass..?1981 · as Self
- Show-Express1980 · as Self
- Solid Gold1980 · as Self
- Guyana Tragedy: The Story of Jim Jones1980 · as Alice Jefferson
- Verstehen Sie Spaß?1980 · as Self
- Roots: The Next Generations1979 · as Bertha Palmer Haley
- Roots: The Next Generations1979 · as Bertha Palmer (archive footage)
- What's Happening!!1976 · as Maria
- Kojak1973 · as Amy
- The Electric Company1971 · as Iris - Member of the Short Circus
- The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson1962 · as Self
- Love of Life1951 · as Daisy Allen