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.
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as Self(7 eps)
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as Snow White (voice)
as Eva
as Self(1 ep)
as Simone
as Tracy
as Ginny Lee
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as Irene Cara
as Myrlie Evers
as Jane
as Sissy Lovejoy
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as Myrlie Evans(1 ep)
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as Self - ‘Coco’
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as Coco Hernandez
as Alice Jefferson(2 eps)
as Self(1 ep)
as Bertha Palmer Haley(3 eps)
as Bertha Palmer (archive footage)(1 ep)
as Dancer
as Maria(1 ep)
as Sparkle
as Angela
as Amy(1 ep)
as Iris - Member of the Short Circus(130 eps)
as Self(1 ep)