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Bette Porter
Bette Porter is a fictional character on the Showtime television network series "The L Word", played by Jennifer Beals. She was ranked No. 10 in AfterEllen.com's Top 50 Favorite Female TV Characters.
Fictional character biography.
Bette is introduced as an affluent, Ivy League-educated lesbian of African-American and Caucasian heritage. She grew up in Philadelphia and was an art history major at Yale, where she notably had sex with her boyfriend, Coleman. They both realized they were gay shortly
' request, Bette was made biracial, enabling Pam Grier's Kit Porter character to become Bette's half-sister. Beals' initial research for the part focused more on the woman's profession as an art museum director than on her life as a lesbian; "I was much more obsessed by the work that Bette did, because she was so obsessed by the work that she did." The series ran for six seasons and ended in March 2009.
She also appears alongside Tim Roth in "Lie to Me