Jennifer Beals went from wide-eyed acting newcomer to movie star and 1980s fashion icon in "Flashdance" 40 years ... as Pittsburgh steel mill welder Alex Owens, who lives a double life as ...

Jennifer Beals gave one of the most memorable performances of the '80s when she played Alex Owens, the welder by day and dancer by night at the heart of the stylish 1983 blockbuster Flashdance.

Just like 18-year-old Alex Owens — who worked both a steel mill and a stripper pole in Pittsburgh, Penn. before finally getting the chance to live out all her ballerina dreams — “Flashdance ...

Richard “Crazy Legs” Colón (right) performed a difficult break dance routine in the final scene of “Flashdance ... her character, Alex Owens, performs a complicated routine featuring ...

I was trying to explain that the water was going to fly everywhere and her body ... Flashdance had universal appeal because you didn’t have to be a dancer to relate to it. Alex Owens (Beals ...

Kelly: Flashdance is the story of Alex Owens, who works at a steel mill in ... So it's like, 'Ahh ... how does your body adjust?' So that part's been hard but it's been so fun to see the country ...

"Flashdance" is celebrating its 40th anniversary. First released in 1983, the movie follows the story of Alex Owens, an 18-year-old girl working as a welder in a steel mill. Owens has dreams of ...

In the 1983 movie Flashdance, Jennifer Beals played Alex Owens, the Pittsburgh steelworker by day/exotic dancer by night whose dream of attending an elite dance conservatory improbably comes true. In ...