Jennifer Beals

Forty years ago, we first saw the cult favorite Flashdance – a romantic drama set in the world of dance that hardly needs an introduction. The feature film directorial debut of future Golden Globe nominee Adrian Lyne, who would later direct such iconic love dramas as Nine 1/2 Weeks, Fatal Attraction and Indecent Proposal, and produced by Jerry Bruckheimer, Flashdance became a box-office smash hit in 1983.