Jennifer Beals (born December 19, 1963, height 5' 8½" (1,74 m)) is an American actress and a former teen model. She is known for her roles as Alexandra "Alex" Owens in the 1983 film Flashdance, and as Bette Porter on the Showtime drama series The L Word. She earned an NAACP Image Award and a Golden Globe Award nomination for the former. She has appeared in more than 50 films. Beals was born on the South Side of Chicago, the daughter of Jeanne (née Anderson), an elementary school teacher, and Alfred Beals, who owned grocery stores. She is multiracial; her father was African American, and her mother is Irish American. She has two brothers, Bobby and Gregory.Her father died when Beals was nine years old, and her mother married Edward Cohen in 1981. Beals has said her biracial heritage had some effect on her, as she "always lived sort of on the outside", with an idea "of being the other in society". She got her first job at age 13 at an ice cream store, using her height at the time (she is now nearly 5 ft 9 in (1.75 m)), to convince her boss she was 16. Beals was inspired to become an actress by two events: doing a high school production of Fiddler on the Roof and seeing Balm in Gilead with Joan Allen while volunteer-ushering at the Steppenwolf Theatre. Beals graduated from the progressive Francis W. Parker School. She also was chosen to attend the elite Goodman Theatre Young People's Drama Workshop. Beals attended Yale University, receiving a B.A. in American literature in 1987; she deferred a term so she could film Flashdance. While at Yale, Beals was a resident of Morse College. Description above from the Wikipedia article Jennifer Beals, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia. ​

Jennifer Beals plays as Bette Porter in The L Word: Generation Q.
Jennifer Beals is the top #1 member of the cast and appears in 28 episodes.

Katherine Sian Moennig (born December 29, 1977) is an American actress best known for her role as Shane McCutcheon on The L Word, as well as Jake Pratt on Young Americans. In 2009, she starred as Dr. Miranda Foster on CBS Three Rivers. Moennig was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to Broadway dancer Mary Zahn and violin maker William H. Moennig III. Moennig is of German, Scottish, and Irish ancestry. Moennig moved to New York City at the age of 18 to study at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts. Moennig has played multiple lesbian roles in The L Word, Everybody's Fine, Art School Confidential. She has also pursued transgender roles, auditioning for the part of Brandon Teena in Boys Don't Cry, and playing Cheryl Avery, a young transgender woman in Law and Order. In 2007, the documentary My Address: A Look At Gay Youth Homelessness in New York was launched with Moennig in cooperation with the Hetrick-Martin Institute (HMI).

Katherine Moennig plays as Shane McCutcheon in The L Word: Generation Q.
Katherine Moennig is the top #2 member of the cast and appears in 28 episodes.

Leisha Hailey plays as Alice Pieszecki in The L Word: Generation Q.
Leisha Hailey is the top #3 member of the cast and appears in 28 episodes.

Arienne Mandi is an actress.

Arienne Mandi plays as Dani Nùñez in The L Word: Generation Q.
Arienne Mandi is the top #4 member of the cast and appears in 28 episodes.

Leo Sheng plays as Micah Lee in The L Word: Generation Q.
Leo Sheng is the top #5 member of the cast and appears in 28 episodes.

Jacqueline Toboni plays as Sarah Finley in The L Word: Generation Q.
Jacqueline Toboni is the top #6 member of the cast and appears in 28 episodes.

Rosanny Zayas plays as Sophie Suarez in The L Word: Generation Q.
Rosanny Zayas is the top #7 member of the cast and appears in 28 episodes.

Sepideh Moafi is an actress.

Sepideh Moafi plays as Gigi Ghorbani in The L Word: Generation Q.
Sepideh Moafi is the top #8 member of the cast and appears in 10 episodes.