Irene Cara

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Irene Cara is best known as a singer of movie themes, though she worked as an actress since childhood. Raised in New York City, she appeared on Broadway in 1967 in the musical Maggie Flynn at age eight and can be heard on the cast album for the show The Me Nobody Knows. From the age of 16, she was turning up on television and in films, including a part in the TV mini-series Roots 2 in ... Read More

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awdean

awdean

September 25, 2009 - 08:51 PM GMT

Man, Irene was great in the original Fame. She's at Great Friends Greetings, a cool site. Would love to see and hear her all over the place again.