Celebrities from music, film, and television are remembering Oscar-winning singer, actress, and songwriter Irene Cara, who died Friday at age 63. Cara won her Academy Award for co-writing the theme song from the 1983 film Flashdance, "Flashdance... What a Feeling". The star of that movie, Jennifer Beals, paid tribute to Cara, whom she called a "brilliant" and "fearless triple threat".
Cara's breakthrough film performance was in 1976's Sparkle about three sisters who form a girl group, but her biggest role was in 1980's Fame as starry-eyed protagonist Coco Hernandez. Debbie Allen co-starred in that film as well as the TV series of the same name as dance instructor Lydia Grant.
Mariah Carey posted a screenshot of Fame along with Cara's hit single from the movie, "Out Here On My Own", which Carey had also covered. "I put on the original Fame in honor of the late, great Irene Cara," she wrote. "Such an inspiration to so many, especially to me. Her beauty and talent is awe-inspiring in this movie. Rest in peace, dear angel."
(Entertainment Weekly)
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