Garcelle Beauvais was born on November 26, 1966. She is presently 49 years, 8 months old. Garcelle Beauvais was born in Saint Marc, in Haiti to Haitian parents Marie-Claire Beauvais, a Nurse and Axel Jean Pierre, a Lawyer. After the divorce of her parents, her mother moved with her and her other seven siblings, she being the youngest of them to the United States of America. Their first port of call in the USA was in Massachusetts and thereafter they moved into Miami. She could be called a Haitian-American, for she has lived all her life in the United States of America.
Education
She had her education in North Miami Beach High School and as well in Norland High School also in Miami. There is no record of this actress and a former fashion model had any tertiary education.
Career Experience
She started her journey into stardom, when at the age of 17, went to New York City to pursue a career in Fashion Modeling. She had herself signed on with Ford Models and Irene Marie Models, both in Miami. Big names in beauty care products such as Avon, Clairol and Mary Kay got her on their account as their model by doing prints adverts for them. Her career in modeling went as far into other sector of fashion. She modeled in catalogs for Lerner New York Clothing Line, Neiman Marcus and Nordstrom. This actress did catwalk for notable names in the fashion industries, like Calvin Klein and Isaac Mizrahi.
She has had appearances in TV Commercials for Burdines. Magazines owners as well have had her face covered their pages in advertorials as symbol of beauty and fashion such as Ebony and Essence. She was at a time the cover model for Jet magazine in their edition of June 6th 2011. Playboy was not left out of the piece of the action of having this beautiful model and actress, when she posed in well received pictorials in their August 2007 edition.
It was in the year 1994 that this celebrity gained national attention as an actress when she acted the role of Cynthia Nichols in the primetime Aaron Spelling soap opera. She was one of the rose bearers in “Coming to America” a film by Eddie Murphy. Thereafter in 1996 to 2001, she co-starred in the Jamie Foxx Show as hotel employee Francesca “Fancy” Monroe. This role is acted as the love interest of Jamie Foxx character, Jamie King. The career of this actress is filled with enormous professional details that cannot be exhausted in one biography. Mentioning a few of them will be sufficient to give information about her personality.
Personal Life
Most often, celebrities’ personal life almost the world over, are tainted with either palatable or unpalatable news. She was once married to Daniel Saunders. Their marriage was in the year 1991 and lasted till year 2001 when they got divorced. She remarried in 2001 to Mike Nilon, yet again marriage broke in the year 2011. She accused her husband of infidelity and that was the reason she filed for divorce, this was granted in early April in 2011. She had twin boys for Mike Nilon, Jax Joseph and Jaid Thomas Nilon on October 18, 2007. She has three children in total, perhaps one of them was from the first marriage.
Birth Date: | 26 Nov, 1966 |
Age: | 53 yrs |
Citizenship: | United States of America Haiti |
Birth Place: | Saint-Marc |
Gender: | Female |
Description: | Haitian-American actress and former fashion model |
Net Worth 2021: | 8 million |