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.
Fotos
Filmes (24)
The 80s: A Motion Picture Special
2026 · Songs
Bring Back... Fame
2008 · Self
Disco Explosion - Flash Back
2007 · Self
Get Down Tonight: The Disco Explosion - Vol. 1
2006 · Self
All Dogs Go to Heaven
1989 · Theme Song Performance
Happily Ever After
1989 · Snow White (voice)
Caged in Paradiso
1989 · Eva
Friend to Friend: Armenian Earthquake Relief
1989 · Self
Busted Up
1986 · Simone, Songs
The Longshot
1986 · Theme Song Performance
Certain Fury
1985 · Tracy
City Heat
1984 · Ginny Lee, Songs
Style Wars
1984 · Self
D.C. Cab
1983 · Irene Cara
Flashdance
1983 · Songs
For Us, the Living: The Story of Medgar Evers
1983 · Myrlie Evers
Killing 'em Softly
1982 · Jane
Trans
1982 · Songs
Sister, Sister
1982 · Sissy Lovejoy
On Location with: FAME
1980 · Self - ‘Coco’
Fame
1980 · Coco Hernandez, Songs
Apple Pie
1976 · Dancer
Sparkle
1976 · Sparkle, Songs
Aaron Loves Angela
1975 · Angela
Séries (19)
Gone Country
2008 · Self
Hit Me, Baby, One More Time
2005 · Self
Die ultimative Chartshow
2003 · Self
I Love 1980's
2001
Where Are They Now?
1999 · Self
4 gegen Willi
1986 · Self
Going Bananas
1984 · Theme Song Performance
Champs-Elysées
1982 · Self
American Playhouse
1982 · Myrlie Evans
Wetten, dass..?
1981 · Self
Show-Express
1980 · Self
Solid Gold
1980 · Self
Guyana Tragedy: The Story of Jim Jones
1980 · Alice Jefferson
Verstehen Sie Spaß?
1980 · Self
Roots: The Next Generations
1979 · Bertha Palmer Haley, Bertha Palmer (archive footage)
What's Happening!!
1976 · Maria
Kojak
1973 · Amy
The Electric Company
1971 · Iris - Member of the Short Circus
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1962 · Self