Irene Cara
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 (1962)
- American Playhouse (1982)
- Champs-Elysées (1982)
- Wetten, dass..? (1981)
- The Electric Company (1971)
- Kojak (1973)
- Verstehen Sie Spaß? (1980)
- Solid Gold (1980)
- What's Happening!! (1976)
- Roots: The Next Generations (1979)
- Roots: The Next Generations (1979)
- Guyana Tragedy: The Story of Jim Jones (1980)
- Fame (1980)
- Gone Country (2008)
- City Heat (1984)
- D.C. Cab (1983)
- Happily Ever After (1989)
- Busted Up (1986)
- Friend to Friend: Armenian Earthquake Relief (1989)
- For Us, the Living: The Story of Medgar Evers (1983)