Beverly D'Angelo

Beverly D'Angelo is one of those actors who quietly built one of the most underrated careers in Hollywood — and I genuinely mean that. Most people know her as the long-suffering, cheerfully optimistic Ellen Griswold in the National Lampoon's Vacation films, and she's hilarious in them, but what really floors me is her Golden Globe-nominated turn as Patsy Cline in Coal Miner's Daughter (1980). She did her own singing, matched Sissy Spacek scene for scene, and somehow walked away without an Oscar conversation that she absolutely deserved. Add an Emmy nomination for A Streetcar Named Desire and a Theatre World Award, and you've got a performer with serious range. Columbus, Ohio produced somebody genuinely special here — a singer-actress who never settled for just one lane.

Name (English)

Beverly D'Angelo

Name (Japanese)

ビヴァリー・ダンジェロ

Reading

びゔぁりー・だんじぇろ

Born

November 15, 1951 (age 74)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Scorpio / Rabbit

Origin

Columbus, Ohio, United States

Occupation

actor / singer / stage actor / television actor / film actor

High school

Whetstone High School

Awards & achievements

• 1995 Theatre World Award

Motto

Private

• Official sitehttps://beverlydangelo.com/
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%93%E3%83%B4%E3%82%A1%E3%83%AA%E3%83%BC%E3%83%BB%E3%83%80%E3%83%B3%E3%82%B8%E3%82%A7%E3%83%AD

Tags

• Ohio
• actor
• singer
• stage actor

Last updated

2026-06-02

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