Garcelle Beauvais

**Garcelle Beauvais** (born November 26, 1966) is a Haitian-American actress, television personality, author and model. She is well known for starring in the Bravo reality series The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills.

## Early Life

Beauvais was born in Saint-Marc, Haiti to parents Alex Jean Pierre and Marie-Claire Beauvais. She moved to the United States at aged seven after her parents divorced. She has six older siblings. When she arrived in the United States she only spoke French and Creole, but learned English from watching Sesame Street.

## Career

### Modelling

Beauvais moved to Miami at age 16 in an attempt to pursue a career in modelling. After driving down from Masschusetts, she hoped to interview for a modelling agency without an appointment. She was approached at a red light while putting lipstick on by the very owner of the agency she sought to see. After modelling with this agency for about a year, Beauvais, now 17, went to New York City to pursue a career as a fashion model, after signing with the Ford agency living with Eileen Ford and later modeled with Irene Marie Models. She modelled print ads for Avon, Mary Kay and Clairol and in catalogs for Lerner New York Clothing Line, Neiman Marcus and Nordstrom and walked the runway for Calvin Klein and Isaac Mizrahi and also shot TV commercials for Burdines.

She has appeared on the covers of numerous magazines such as CV Lux, Harper's Bazaar, VIVmag, Essense, Jet, Playboy, Vibe and Hype Hair. In 2017, she was featured on five different magazine covers.

### Acting

She first appeared in Miami Vice.

Beauvais portrayed her first acting role in the romantic comedy film Coming to America at aged 19. In 1994, she rose to prominence as an actress for her portrayal of Cynthia Nichols in the primetime Aaron Spelling soap opera Models Inc.. From 1996 to 2001, she co-starred in The Jamie Foxx Show as hotel employee Francesca "Fancy" Monroe and the love interest of Jamie Foxx's character, Jamie King. From 2001 to 2004, she played Assistant District Attorney Valerie Heywood and the love interest of Detective Baldwin Jones, played by Henry Simmons on NYPD Blue. In 2011 and 2012, she played Hanna Linden on the TNT law drama Franklin & Bash. In 2013, Beauvais portrayed the First Lady opposite Foxx as the President in the action thriller film White House Down. In 2017, she played the role of Doris Toomes, wife of Michael Keaton's character, Adrian Toomes, in Spider-Man: Homecoming.

She starred in R. Kelly's music video for "Down Low (Nobody Has to Know)", as the wife of Ronald Isley and the lover of R. Kelly, delivering the title line as inducement for an affair. In 2001, after the Jamie Foxx show ended its run, Beauvais appeared in Luther Vandross' music video, "Take You Out", playing Vandross' girlfriend. She also appeared on some episodes of Grimm as Henrietta. In 2016, she was named as one of the co-hosts of the syndicated infotainment discussion series Hollywood Today Live after a month-long period of guest hosting the show.

Beauvais recurred as Veronica Garland, the Wicked Stepmother character from Cinderella, on the second season of the web television series Tell Me a Story. She also portrayed Dennis Quaid's love interest in the web television series Merry Happy Whatever. She began co-hosting the daytime talk show The Real for its seventeenth season in September 2020. Beauvais reprised her role as Rose Bearer in the sequel to the romantic comedy film Coming to America, titled Coming 2 America.

### Other Ventures

In 2008, she launched a children's jewellery line called Petit Bijou. In 2013, she published a children's book titled I Am Mixed, which tells the story of twins exploring "the thoughts and emotions of being of mixed ethnicities." She hosts the weekly late-night talk show podcast Going to Bed with Garcelle, in which she discusses dating, sex, and relationships with guests.

### The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills

In 2020, Garcelle joined the cast of the Bravo reality television series for the tenth season. She has appeared in every season since.

#### **RHOBH Taglines**

* Season 10 - "Life is an audition and honey I am getting that part."

## Personal Life

### Marriages and Children

Beauvais has been married twice. She married her first husband, producer Daniel Saunders in 1991 and together they have one son, Oliver (born 1991). The couple divorced in 2000.

She married her second husband, talent agent Mike Nilon in 2001 and together they have two sons: twins Jax Joseph and Jaid Thomas (born October 18, 2007). The couple divorced in 2010 after Mike's adultery was discovered.

## Family

**Husbands and Partners**

* Daniel Saunders (Ex-husband; 1991-2000)
* Mike Nilon (Ex-husband; 2001-2010)

**Children**

* Oliver Saunders
* Jax Nilon
* Jaid Nilon

**Parents**

* Axel Jean Pierre
* Marie-Claire Beauvais

**Siblings**

* 6 Unknown Siblings