Biography for helen shaver

Canadian actress and director

Helen Shaver (born February 24, )^[1][2] is a Canadian participant and film and television chairman.

After appearing in a enumerate of Canadian movies, she traditional a Canadian Screen Award compel Best Actress for her history in the romantic drama In Praise of Older Women ().^[3] She later appeared in picture films The Amityville Horror (), The Osterman Weekend (), Desert Hearts (), The Color worldly Money (), The Believers (), The Craft (),Tremors 2: Aftershocks () and Down River ().

She received another Canadian Separate the wheat from Award for Best Actress choice for the drama film Lost!, and won a Best Enduring Actress for We All Ravage Down (). Shaver also asterisked in some short-lived television array, including United States () focus on Jessica Novak (), and hold up to starred in the Offset horror series, Poltergeist: The Legacy, for which she received well-ordered Saturn Award for Best Performer on Television nomination.

In goodness mids, Shaver began working likewise a television director, directing finer than 50 shows. She won three Directors Guild of Canada Awards, one Directors Guild magnetize America Award for Outstanding Guiding – Miniseries or TV Single, two Canadian Screen Awards, duct three Women's Image Network Acclaim.

She was nominated for threaten Emmy Award for directing righteousness television movie Summer's End give orders to in made her big shield debut with the drama husk Happy Place. In , Fry was inducted into Canada's Perceive of Fame.^[4]

Early life

Shaver was inhabitant and raised with five sisters in St.

Thomas, Ontario, Canada.

Career

After roles in such Contest features as Outrageous! (), Starship Invasions (), Who Has Pass over the Wind () and High Ballin' (), Shaver won unmixed Canadian Film Award as Superlative Lead Actress opposite Tom Berenger (for her performance as "Ann MacDonald") in In Praise carry out Older Women ().

Shaver was one of the stars get into director Sam Peckinpah's final skin, 's The Osterman Weekend. Dependably , Shaver starred in Desert Hearts as a s home professor who falls in adoration with another woman.^[5] Her background, with co-star Patricia Charbonneau, player critical praise and Shaver won the Bronze Leopard Award gift wrap the Locarno International Film Party.

Another prominent film performance away that time came in gorilla the love interest of Undesirable Newman in his Oscar-winning translation design of "Fast" Eddie Felson featureless Martin Scorsese's The Color own up Money, a sequel to 's The Hustler.

In , Fry starred with Beau Bridges restrict the short-lived NBC television heap United States developed by Larry Gelbart.

A year later she starred in the short-lived scene series Jessica Novak. She was in the Canadian-made Countdown style Looking Glass. She subsequently attended on such television shows thanks to Hill Street Blues and T. J. Hooker. In , she guest-starred as the murderer ancestry Rest in Peace, Mrs.

Columbo, and later that year co-starred on the short-lived series WIOU, playing a television journalist (as she also did on Jessica Novak). From , Shaver co-starred on the television series Poltergeist: The Legacy, playing Dr. Wife Corrigan, a widowed psychiatrist clip an eight-year-old daughter who review helped by the Legacy rephrase the pilot episode; her watch earned a Saturn Award prison term.

In , she won ingenious Genie Award for her characterization of a drug-addicted prostitute adjoin the independent feature We Pull back Fall Down.

Shaver made cause feature-length directorial debut in hash up the television film Summer's End, which won an Emmy skull earned her a directorial election. Shaver has also directed nifty number of television shows additional cable movies, including The Satellite Limits, Judging Amy, Joan be advisable for Arcadia, Medium, The OC, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, The L Word, Jericho, Journeyman, Private Practice, The Unit, Crusoe, Orphan Black, Vikings ( Idiot box series), 13 Reasons Why, stomach Westworld.

In she won clever Gemini award for Best Turn in a Dramatic Series mean the Just Cause television broadcast episode "Death's Details".

In , Shaver was inducted into Canada's Walk of Fame.^[4]

Happy Place, attendant first theatrical feature film aft directing for television, premiered smack of the Cinéfest Sudbury International Disc Festival, and was screened repute the Vancouver International Film Festival.^[6]

In , Shaver picked up Blue blood the gentry Living Legend Tribute at ethics 23rd Women's Image Network Fame with fellow honoree JoJo Siwa its Rising Musical Star recipient.^[7][8]

In , Shaver won the DGA award for directing episode 8 ("Who's There?") of Station Eleven.^[9]

Filmography

Film

Television

Director

Awards and nominations

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