O se ifarahan akoko ninu My Bodyguards ni odun 1980, ki o to gba iyin pataki fun ipa re ninu Flashdance ni odun 1983, eyi si mu gba ami-eye NAACP fun osere tiata to tayo ju lo, won tun yan an fun ami-eye Golden Globe.Beals ti farahan ninu opolopo awon olokiki bii Devils in a Blue Dress ni odun 1995, The Last Days of Disco ni odun 1988, Roger Dodger ni odun 2002, The Book of Eli ni odun 2010, ati Before I Fall ni odun 2017.. 
Brooks himself had been a sportswriter when a young man.. 