Description Jennifer Beals - Interview: George Stroumboulopoulos Tonight (March 14, 2011)!! 'Flashdance, the 1983 movie about a welder and exotic dancer who strives to become a ballet dancer, made Jennifer Beals a star. Except, she never wanted to be famous. After Flashdance, Jennifer walked away from Hollywood to finish her degree at Yale. A few years later she returned to Hollywood with a role on The L Word, a groundbreaking series about openly gay women in Los Angeles. Now Jennifer is back on television with The Chicago Code, a new series that follows Chicago cops through the city's underbelly, as they fight crime and expose corruption'.