IRENE CARA ESCALERA

Cara won a Grammy and an Academy Award for her 1983 song "Flashdance... What a Feeling" from the film Flashdance. Cara played Sparkle Williams in the 1976 film adaption of the musical drama Sparkle.

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.In 1980, Cara was nominated for two Oscars for songs from the same film and sung by the same artist. "Fame," written by Michael Gore and Dean Pitchford, won the award for best original song. The film also won the Academy Award for Best Original Score.

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In 1976, Cara Major Cara was named one of 12 "Promising New Actors of 1976" by John Willis' Screen World. Readers' polls in Right On! magazine named her Top Actress. TV brought Cara international acclaim for her roles in Roots and Guyana Tragedy.

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In 1983, Cara reached the peak of her music career with the title song for the movie Flashdance: "Flashdance... What a Feeling", which she co-wrote with Giorgio Moroder and Keith Forsey. She shared the 1983 Academy Award for Best Original Song.

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In 1984, she was in the comedic thriller City Heat. In 1985, she co-starred with Tatum O'Neal in Certain Fury. She provided the voice of Snow White in the unofficial sequel to Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. That same year, she appeared as Mary Magdalene in a tour of Jesus Christ Superstar.

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Cara Paolozzi died on November 25, 2022, at her home in Largo, Florida, at the age of 63. It is unknown what caused her death. In April 1986, Cara wed stuntman and film director Conrad Palmisano in Los Angeles.

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IRENE CARA ESCALERA