Garcelle Beauvais

In 2019, Bravo announced that Beauvais will join the cast of the reality-television series The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills for its 10th season, which premiered on April 15, 2020.

Beauvais was born in Saint-Marc, Haiti, to Marie-Claire Beauvais, a nurse, and Axel Jean Pierre, a lawyer. After her parents divorced when she was a child, she moved with her mother to the United States at age seven along with her six elder siblings, and settled in Peabody, Massachusetts where she enrolled in elementary school. She shortly attended Peabody Veteran’s Memorial High School until she 16. Upon her arrival, Beauvais briefly only knew how to speak French and Creole, but learned how to speak English from watching Sesame Street on television.

In 2019-2020, Beauvais portrayed Veronica Garland, the “Wicked Stepmother” character from Cinderella, on the second season of the CBS All Access American psychological thriller web television anthology series Tell Me a Story.

In 2016, Beauvais 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 has appeared magazines for Essence and Ebony, and was the cover model for Jet’s June 6, 2011 issue. She also posed for Playboy' s August 2007 issue.

In 2008, Garcelle launched her children's jewelry line called Petit Bijou. In 2013, she published a children's book, I Am Mixed, which was about diversity and race.

She was married to producer Daniel Saunders; their marriage ended in divorce. They have a son, Oliver Saunders, born in 1991. Beauvais married Mike Nilon, a talent agent with Creative Artists Agency, in May 2001. Their twin sons, Jax Joseph and Jaid Thomas Nilon, were born on October 18, 2007. They had dealt with treatment over five years for infertility. In April 2010, Beauvais publicly accused Nilon of infidelity after he admitted he had been having an affair for 5 years. Beauvais filed for divorce on May 10, 2010, seeking joint custody of their sons.

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.

In 1994, Beauvais first gained national attention as an actress playing the role 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 (Henry Simmons) on NYPD Blue. In 2011 and 2012, Beauvais played a character on the TNT law drama Franklin & Bash. In 2013 Beauvais once again played the love interest to Jamie Foxx, playing the First Lady while he played the President in White House Down.

Garcelle Beauvais (French pronunciation: ​[gaʁsɛl bovɛ] : born November 26, 1966) is a Haitian–American actress, reality television personality, author and former fashion model. She is best known for her roles as Francesca "Fancy" Monroe on The WB television sitcom, The Jamie Foxx Show, which ran from 1996 to 2001, and as Valerie Heywood on the ABC crime drama, NYPD Blue. As of 2020, Beauvais has appeared as a main cast member of the Bravo reality television series The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills.