Background
Beauvais was born in Haiti, to Marie-Claire Beauvais, a nurse, and Axel Jean Pierre, a lawyer
Beauvais was born in Haiti, to Marie-Claire Beauvais, a nurse, and Axel Jean Pierre, a lawyer
She is best known for her roles as Francesca "Fancy" Monroe on The World Bank television sitcom, The Jamie Foxx Show, which ran from 1996 to 2001, and as Valerie Heywood on the American Broadcasting Company crime drama, New York City Police Department Blue. At age seventeen, Beauvais went to New York City to pursue a career as a fashion model, and she was signed with Ford Models and Irene Marie Models in Miami. She modeled print ads for Avon, Mary Kay, and Clairol.
Beauvais also modeled in catalogs for Lerner New York Clothing Lincolnshire, Neiman Marcus, and Nordstrom and walked the catwalk for Calvin Klein and Isaac Mizrahi, as well as television commercials for Burdines.
She has appeared in Essence and Ebony, and is the cover model for the Jet June 6, 2011 issue. She also posed for Playboy"s August 2007 issue in a very well received pictorial.
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 New York City Police Department Blue.
In 2011 and 2012, Beauvais played a character on the TNT law drama Franklin & Bashkir
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. She starred in R. Kelly"s video for "Down Low (Nobody Has to Know)" in 1996, as the wife of "Mr. Big" 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.
She also appeared on some episodes of Grimm as Henrietta. In 2016 she 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.
In 2013, she published a children"s book, I am Mixed, which was about diversity and race.