Irene Cara
Acting
Born 1959-03-18 · The Bronx, New York City, New York, USA · Died 2022-11-25
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.
Acting
Bring Back... Fame
Self
Gone Country
Self
Disco Explosion - Flash Back
Self
Get Down Tonight: The Disco Explosion - Vol. 1
Self
Hit Me, Baby, One More Time
Self
Die ultimative Chartshow
Self
Where Are They Now?
Self
Happily Ever After
Snow White (voice)
Caged in Paradiso
Eva
4 gegen Willi
Self
Busted Up
Simone
Certain Fury
Tracy
City Heat
Ginny Lee
Style Wars
Self
D.C. Cab
Irene Cara
For Us, the Living: The Story of Medgar Evers
Myrlie Evers
Killing 'em Softly
Jane
Sister, Sister
Sissy Lovejoy
Champs-Elysées
Self
Wetten, dass..?
Self
On Location with: FAME
Self - ‘Coco’
Show-Express
Self
Solid Gold
Self
Fame
Coco Hernandez
Guyana Tragedy: The Story of Jim Jones
Alice Jefferson
Verstehen Sie Spaß?
Self
Roots: The Next Generations
Bertha Palmer Haley
Roots: The Next Generations
Bertha Palmer (archive footage)
Apple Pie
Dancer
What's Happening!!
Maria
