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Beyoncé has released dozens of music videos, working with a number of directors and co-producing several. After her film debut as the lead in Carmen: A Hip Hopera (2001), Beyoncé's first solo music video was the soundtrack single "Work It Out" for the 2002 film Austin Powers in Goldmember, her first theatrical film. Its video, with clips from the film, had a 1970s disco theme with Beyoncé in a curly Afro. After Destiny's Child disbanded, she released her first music video as a solo artist for "Crazy in Love" with longtime boyfriend Jay-Z. The single topped charts worldwide with its iconic, simple theme and walking beat. Videos released from Dangerously in Love included cameo appearances by Sean Paul and Usher.
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In 2006, Beyoncé starred in two films: The Pink Panther, which spawned the chart-topping "Check on It" (and its pink-themed video) and Dreamgirls, which inspired her second album (B'Day). The first single from B'Day, "Déjà Vu", also featured Jay-Z. Although an online petition objected to "unacceptable interactions" between Beyoncé and Jay-Z in the video, it was overshadowed by the video for "Ring the Alarm". She was successful again with her video for "Irreplaceable", and collaborated with old bandmates Kelly Rowland, Michelle Williams, and her sister Solange on "Get Me Bodied". Beyoncé created a video anthology for B'Day, with music videos for all songs on the album.
In 2008, she played Etta James in Cadillac Records and released her third album, I Am... Sasha Fierce, which included the songs "If I Were a Boy", "Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It)", "Ego", and "Video Phone". In the video for "If I Were a Boy", Beyoncé imagines how she would act in a relationship as a member of the opposite sex. Due to the single's video budget, the video for "Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It)" was exotic on a lower budget. It became a generic video for online video-hosting websites, and was known as the present-day "Thriller" because of its many remakes. Beyoncé made her directorial debut on "Ego", which followed the formula of "Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It)". In 2009 she starred in Obsessed and collaborated with Lady Gaga on a remix of "Video Phone", with a more sexual video. Although Beyoncé was expected to release a second video anthology for I Am... Sasha Fierce, she released videos for nearly all the songs on the album as singles.
In early 2010, Beyoncé again collaborated with Lady Gaga on a 9:30 mini-movie for "Telephone", and with Alicia Keys on "Put It in a Love Song" (scheduled for release by summer). She released the final music video from I Am... Sasha Fierce (originally a bonus track), "Why Don't You Love Me", two years after the album's release. The video was filmed as a gift to fans after the song reached number one on the Billboard Hot Dance Club Play chart. Beyoncé has also released Spanish versions of music videos popular worldwide, director's cuts and remix videos for singles.
Miscellaneous videos
Filmography
This is a chronologically-ordered list of films and television shows in which Beyoncé has appeared.