Beverly D’Angelo is an actress from America. She played Ellen Griswold in the National Lampoon’s Vacation movies from 1983 to 2015. She was born on November 15, 1951, in Columbus, Ohio.
She has acted in more than 60 movies. She got nominated for a Golden Globe Award for playing Patsy Cline in Coal Miner’s Daughter (1980) and an Emmy Award for playing Stella Kowalski in the TV movie A Streetcar Named Desire (1984). She acted in films like Hair (1979) and American History X (1998).
In her early life, D’Angelo lived in Ohio. She went to Upper Arlington High School. Later, she got an award from the Upper Arlington Alumni Association for her achievements.
Before becoming an actress, she worked as an illustrator at Hanna-Barbera Studios and was a singer. She was even a backup singer for a band led by Rompin’ Ronnie Hawkins.
She began acting on Broadway in 1976 and appeared in TV shows like Captains and the Kings. She got her break in movies with Annie Hall (1977) and went on to act in popular films like Every Which Way But Loose, Hair, and Coal Miner’s Daughter.
Her most significant role came in 1983 when she starred in National Lampoon’s Vacation with Chevy Chase. She played Ellen Griswold in four sequels and a short film. In the 1980s, she was in many comedy films, and in the 1990s, she focused on independent films.
D’Angelo also worked on TV, earning an Emmy nomination for A Streetcar Named Desire. She had roles in TV dramas and a recurring role in Law & Order: Special Victims Unit.
In the 2000s, she appeared in the HBO series Entourage and in movies like Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay and The House Bunny.
She was in a relationship with director Milos Forman and later married Don Lorenzo Salviati. After that, she was in a relationship with Anton Furst and later with actor Al Pacino. They have twins born in 2001 through IVF.
D’Angelo also narrated a short film about Patsy Cline for The Patsy Cline Museum in Nashville, Tennessee, which opened in 2017.