Garcelle Beauvais

Garcelle Beauvais
Beauvais at Race to Witch Mountain premiere in March 2009
Born	(1966-11-26) November 26, 1966 St. Marc, Haiti
Occupation	Actress, singer, model
Years active	1984–present
Spouse(s)	Daniel Saunders (1991–2000) Mike Nilon (2001–2011)
Children	3

Garcelle Beauvais (French pronunciation: ​[gaʁsɛl bovɛ]: born November 26, 1966) is a Haitian-American actress and former fashion model. She is best known for her roles as Francesca "Fancy" Monroe on The WB television sitcom, The Jamie Foxx Show, which ran from 1996 to 2001, and as Valerie Heywood on the ABC crime drama, NYPD Blue.

Early life

Beauvais was born in Haiti, to Marie-Claire Beauvais, a nurse, and Axel Jean Pierre, a lawyer. After her parents divorced, Garcelle and her six elder siblings moved with their mother to the United States, first to Massachusetts and later to Miami.

Career

At age seventeen, Beauvais went to New York City to pursue a career as a fashion model, and she was signed with Ford Models and Irene Marie Models in Miami. She modeled print ads for Avon, Mary Kay, and Clairol. Beauvais also modeled in catalogs for Lerner New York Clothing Line, Neiman Marcus, and Nordstrom and walked the catwalk for Calvin Klein and Isaac Mizrahi, as well as TV commercials for Burdines. She has appeared in Essence and Ebony, and is the cover model for the Jet June 6, 2011 issue. She also posed for Playboy's August 2007 issue in a very well received pictorial.

From 1996 to 2001, she co-starred in The Jamie Foxx Show as hotel employee Francesca "Fancy" Monroe and the love interest of Jamie Foxx's character, Jamie King. From 2001 to 2004, she played Assistant District Attorney Valerie Heywood and the love interest of Detective Baldwin Jones (Henry Simmons) on NYPD Blue. In 2011 and 2012, Beauvais played a character on the TNT law drama Franklin & Bash. In 2013 Beauvais once again played the love interest to Jamie Foxx, playing the First Lady while he played the President in White House Down.

She starred in R. Kelly's video for "Down Low (Nobody Has to Know)" in 1996, as the wife of "Mr. Big" and the lover of R. Kelly, delivering the title line as inducement for an affair. In 2001, after the Jamie Foxx Show ended its run, Beauvais appeared in Luther Vandross' music video, "Take You Out", playing Vandross' girlfriend.

She also appeared on some episodes of Grimm as Henrietta.

Awards

• 2013 MPAH Haiti Movie Awards Honorary Award * Motion Picture Association of Haiti

Other ventures

In 2008, Garcelle launched her children's jewelry line called Petit Bijou. In 2013, she published a children's book, I am Mixed, which was about diversity and race.

Personal life

She was married to producer Daniel Saunders, their marriage ended in divorce. They had a son, Oliver Saunders, born in 1991.

Beauvais married Mike Nilon, an Agent for the Creative Artists Agency, on May 12, 2001. Their twin sons, Jax Joseph and Jaid Thomas Nilon, were born on October 18, 2007, after a five-year struggle with infertility. In April 2010, it was reported that Beauvais had discovered a five-year extramarital affair by Nilon. She reportedly outed him by sending his co-workers an email, the contents of which were leaked to the New York Post. Beauvais issued a statement on April 9, 2010, explaining that her "focus at this time is on my kids and healing the pain". Beauvais filed for divorce from Nilon on May 10, 2010, seeking joint custody of their sons. The couple's divorce was finalized on April 1, 2011.

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1988	Coming to America	Rose bearer
1999	Wild Wild West	Belle
2001	Double Take	Chloe
2002	Bad Company	Nicole
2004	Barbershop 2: Back in Business	Loretta
2005	American Gun	Sarah
2007	I Know Who Killed Me	Agent Julie Bascome
2009	Women in Trouble	Maggie
2010	Eyes to See	Marie	Short film
2012	Flight	Deana Coleman
2013	White House Down	Alison Sawyer
2013	And Then There Was You	Natalie Gilbert
2014	Small Time	Linda	Completed

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1985	Miami Vice	Gabriella	Episode: "The Maze"
1991	Family Matters	Lulu	Episode: "Old and Alone"
1992	Down the Shore	Liat	Episode: "Schwing Time"
1992	Dream On	Danica	Episode: "Red All Over"
1992	The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air	Veronica	Episode: "That's No Lady, That's My Cousin"
1993	Hangin' with Mr. Cooper	Keeler	Episode: "Boy Don't Leave"
1993	Where I Live	Terry	Episode: "Married... with Children"
1993	Family Matters	Garcelle	Episode: "Scenes from a Mall"
1994	Family Matters	Young Mother Winslow	Episode: "To Be or Not to Be; Part 2"
1994–1995	Models Inc.	Cynthia Nichols	Main role (25 episodes)
1995	The Wayans Bros.	Rachel	Episode: "Fatal Subtraction"
1995	The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air	Herself	Episode: "For Whom the Wedding Bells Toll"
1995	The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air	Sandra	Episode: "Not, I Barbeque"
1996	Family Matters	Nicole Moses	Episode: "A Ham Is Born"
1996–2001	The Jamie Foxx Show	Francesca "Fancy" Monroe	Main role (100 episodes)
2000	Opposite Sex	Ms. Maya Bradley	Regular role (6 episodes)
2001	Titans	Tina	Episode: "She Stoops to Conquer"
2001–2004	NYPD Blue	A.D.A. Valerie Heywood	Regular role (81 episodes)
2002	Second String	Larissa Fullerton	TV film
2003	The Bernie Mac Show	Vicki	Episode: "Bernie Mac Rope-a-Dope"
2004	Curb Your Enthusiasm	Renee	Episode: "The Surrogate"
2004	Life with Bonnie	Dr. Gamz	Episode: "Therabeautic"
2005–2007	Eyes	Nora Gage	Main role (12 episodes)
2006	10.5: Apocalypse	Natalie Warner	TV miniseries
2006	CSI: Miami	Katrina Iverson	Episode: "Death Pool 100"
2007	The Cure	Trudie Ericson	TV film
2009	Maneater	Suzee Saunders	TV miniseries
2009	Crash	Connie	Episode: "Johnny Hit and Run Pauline"
2010	Human Target	Vivian Cox	Episode: "Lockdown"
2011	State of Georgia	Gwen Dressel	Episode: "Foot in the Door"
2012	The Exes	Kendra	Episode: "Shall We Dance"
2011–2012	Franklin & Bash	Hanna Linden	Main role (20 episodes)
2013	Psych	Miranda Sherrod	Episode: "Dead Air"
2013	Arrested Development	Ophelia Love	Episode: "Off the Hook"
2013	Necessary Roughness	Lana Langer	Episode: "Swimming with Sharks"
2013	Playing House	Dr. Jay	Episode: "Let's Have a Baby"
2015	Grimm	Henrietta	3 episodes

See also

• List of people from Miami

External links

• Garcelle Beauvais at the Internet Movie Database