Helen Shaver
Helen Shaver was born in St. Thomas, Ontario, Canada on February 24th, 1951 and is the Movie Actress. At the age of 73, Helen Shaver biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, movies, and networth are available.
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Helen Shaver (born February 24, 1951) is a Canadian actress and film and television director.
She has received Emmy and Saturn Award nominations, among other honours.
Early life
Shaver was born and raised, with five sisters, in St. Thomas, Ontario, Canada, a small city located near London, Ontario. As a child, she suffered from chronic rheumatic fever and, between the ages of five and twelve, was forced to spend six months of each year in bed or in hospitals, which she said fostered her introspective side. She attended the Banff School of Fine Arts as a teenager and studied acting at the University of Victoria in British Columbia.
Personal life
Shaver dated screenwriter Stephen C. Peters, and is now married to Steve Smith, the key grip she met during the filming of Desert Hearts. They have a son, Mackenzie.
Career
Outrageous! 1977) Starship Invasions (1977), Who Has Seen the Wind (1977) and High Ballin' (1978), Shaver was named Best Lead Actress opposite Tom Berenger in In Praise of Older Women (1978).
Shaver appeared in director Sam Peckinpah's last film, 1983's The Osterman Weekend. Shaver appeared in Desert Hearts as a 1950s university professor who falls in love with another woman. Shaver received the Bronze Leopard Award at the Locarno International Film Festival, and her co-star Patricia Charbonneau earned critical acclaim. In 1986, Paul Newman's Oscar-winning portrayal of "Fast" Eddie Felson in Scorsese's The Color of Money, a sequel to 1961's The Hustler, was another common cinema appearance during that period.
Shaver appeared in the short-lived NBC TV series United States, produced by Larry Gelbart in 1980. Jessica Novak, a year later, appeared in the short-lived drama series Jessica Novak. She was in the Countdown to Looking Glass, 1984. She appeared on television programs including Hill Street Blues and T. J. Hooker. She appeared in Rest in Peace, Mrs. Columbo, in 1990, and later that year, she co-starred on the short-lived series WIOU as a television journalist (as she also did on Jessica Novak). Shaver appeared on the TV show Poltergeist: The Legacy, playing Dr. Rachel Corrigan, a widowed psychiatrist with an eight-year-old daughter who is aided by the Legacy; her appearance earned her a Saturn Award nomination. In 2000, she received a Genie Award for her role as a drug-addicted prostitute in the independent film We All Fall Down.
Shaver made her feature-length directorial debut in 1999 with the television film Summer's End, which received an Emmy and a directorial nomination. Shaver has produced a number of television shows and cable movies, including The Outer Limits, Judging Amy, Joan of Arcadia, Medium, The Unit, The Law & Order, Special Victims Unit, The L Word, Jericho, Journeyman, Private Practice, The Unit, Crusoe, Orphan Black Vikings (2013 TV series), 13 Reasons Why (2013 TV series), and Westworld. For the Just Cause television series episode "Death's Details," she received a Gemini award for Best Direction in a Dramatic Series in 2003.
Shaver was inducted into the Walk of Fame in Canada in 2004.
Happy Place, her first theatrical feature film after directing for television, premiered at the Cinéfest Sudbury International Film Festival and was screened at the 2020 Vancouver International Film Festival.
Helen Shaver received The Living Legend Tribute at the 23rd Women's Image Network Awards, alongside fellow honoree JoJo Siwa's Rising Musical Star recipient.