Beatrice Alda is an American actress and

filmmaker Filmmaking (film production) is the process by which a motion picture is produced. Filmmaking involves a number of complex and discrete stages, starting with an initial story, idea, or commission. It then continues through screenwriting, castin ...

who appeared in '' The Four Seasons'' and ''

Men of Respect ''Men of Respect'' is a 1990 crime drama film, an adaptation of William Shakespeare's play ''Macbeth''. It stars John Turturro as Mike Battaglia, a Mafia hitman who climbs his way to the top by killing his boss. The film also stars Rod Steiger, ...

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Career

Alda played Lisa in the 1981 film, ''The Four Seasons'', directed by her father, and reprised the role in the 1984 television series of the same name. She played Judy, the daughter of Steve, played by her real life father, in the 1988 film ''A New Life''. Alda and her wife filmmaker Jennifer Brooke co-directed and produced the 2008 documentary film ''Out Late'', which follows the lives of people who came out as gay, lesbian, and transgender while they were senior citizens. They also co-directed and produced the 2016 documentary ''Legs: a Big Issue in a Small Town'' about a controversy surrounding a giant

Larry Rivers Larry Rivers (born Yitzroch Loiza Grossberg) (1923 – 2002) was an American artist, musician, filmmaker, and occasional actor. Considered by many scholars to be the "Godfather" and "Grandfather" of Pop art, he was one of the first artists ...

sculpture in a small American town.

Personal life

Alda is the daughter of actor

Alan Alda Alan Alda (; born Alphonso Joseph D'Abruzzo; January 28, 1936) is an American actor, screenwriter, and director. A six-time Emmy Award and Golden Globe Award winner, he is best known for playing Captain Benjamin "Hawkeye" Pierce in the war come ...

and author and photographer Arlene Weiss. Her sisters are Eve and actress Elizabeth Alda. Alda has four children with wife Jennifer Brooke.

Filmography

Acting

Film

Television

Filmmaker Credits

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* * Living people Actresses from New York City American film actresses American people of Irish descent American people of Italian descent Jewish American actresses American LGBT actors 21st-century American Jews 21st-century LGBT people 21st-century American women Year of birth missing (living people) {{US-film-actor-1960s-stub