Garcelle Beauvais

Garcelle Beauvais (French pronunciation: ​[gaʁsɛl bovɛ]: born November 26, 1966)[1] is a Haitian–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 Spider-Man: Homecoming as Doris Toomes. In 2020 Beauvais became 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 (1966-11-26) November 26, 1966
Saint-Marc, Haiti
Occupation
  • Actress
  • television personality
  • author
Years active1984–present
Spouse(s)
Daniel Saunders
(m. 1991; div. 2000)

Mike Nilon
(m. 2001; div. 2011)
Children3

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. She shortly attended Peabody Veteran’s Memorial High School until she was 16. Upon her arrival, Beauvais briefly only knew how to speak French and Creole, but learned how to speak English from watching Sesame Street on television.[2][3]

Career

Modeling

Beauvais moved to Miami at 16 in an attempt to pursue a career in modeling, after driving down from Massachusetts and hoped to interview for a modeling agency without an appointment. She was approached while 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 a 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, portrayed 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

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 diversity and race.

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: "A Jury of Their Queers"
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"

See also

References
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  2. Weinstein, Farrah, ed. (7 January 2001). "GARCELLE BEAUVAIS". New York Post. Retrieved 15 April 2020.
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  4. Todisco, Eric, ed. (30 August 2019). "Everything to Know About Garcelle Beauvais, RHOBH's Famous New Housewife". Yahoo! Entertainment. Retrieved 15 April 2020.
  5. "Garcelle Beauvais Nilon and Her Petit Bijoux" Archived 2009-02-05 at the Wayback Machine, blackcelebkids.com, 17 November 2008.
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  11. 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...)
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