Garcelle Beauvais-Nilon is a Haitian-American actress and former fashion model. She is best known for her roles as The Hotel Employee 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.

Beauvais was born in Haiti, to Marie-Claire Beauvais, a nurse, and Axel Jean Pierre, a lawyer. After her parents divorced, Garcelle and her six elder siblings moved with their mother to the US, first to Massachusetts and later to Miami.

A marriage to producer Daniel Saunders ended in divorce. They had a son, Oliver, born in 1991.

Beauvais married Mike Nilon, an agent working for the Creative Artists Agency, on May 12, 2001.

Filmography:

Manhunter (1986)
Coming to America (1988)
Every Breath (1993)
Wild Wild West (1999)
Double Take (2001)
Bad Company (2002)
BarberShop 2: Back in Business (2004)
American Gun (2005)
I Know Who Killed Me (2007)
Women in Trouble (2009)

Television work:

Curb Your Enthusiasm (2004)
Life with Bonnie (2004)
Eyes (2005-2007) (canceled after 9 episodes)
10.5: Apocalypse (2006)
Women in Law (2006)
CSI: Miami (2006)
The Cure (2007)
Maneater (2009)
Human Target (2010)
Franklin & Bash (2011)