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Helen Shaver

Helen Shaver was born on the 24th February 1951 in St. Thomas in Ontario in Canada. In 1978 she won a Canadian Film Award for her role as "Ann MacDonald" in the film In Praise of Older Women.
In 1985, she appeared in the film Desert Hearts as Vivian Bell with Audra Lindley and Patricia Charbonneau as a 1950s university professor, who falls in love with another woman, for which she won the Bronze Leopard Award at the Locarno International Film Festival.
In 1986, Helen starred alongside Paul Newman, as his love interest Janelle in The Color Of Money which also stars Tom Cruise and Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio.
Helen has starred in the films called The Craft with Fairuza Balk, Robin Tunney and Neve Campbell, The Park Is Mine opposite Tommy Lee Jones and Harry Tracy with Bruce Dern and Michael Gwynne.
Other roles include The Osterman Weekend as Virginia Tremayne alongside John Hurt, Rutger Hauer and Dennis Hopper and in Best Defense as Clair Lewis opposite Dudley Moore, Eddie Murphy and Kate Capshaw.
She has also appeared in The Edison Twins in the episodes called Gems And Jelly Beans, The Case Of The Friendly Fugitive and The Maharajah Of Weston as Phyllis Dayton along with Andrew Sabiston, Marnie McPhail, Sunny Besen Thrasher and Elva Mai Hoover.
She has also appeared in The Believers as Jessica Halliday with Martin Sheen, Robert Loggia and Jimmy Smits, Murder So Sweet opposite Harry Hamlin and in The Keeper again alongside Dennis Hopper and Asia Argento.
Helen has been in Sniper - 23 Days Of Fear In Washington D.C. along with Charles S. Dutton, Jay O. Sanders, Bobby Hosea and Trent Cameron, The Land Before Time as Lightfoot's mother opposite Gabriel Damon, Candace Hutson, Judith Barsi, Will Ryan and Pat Hingle and The Sweetest Gift as Mrs Martin with Diahann Carroll.
Another role was as Carolyn in The Amityville Horror with Margot Kidder, James Brolin and Rod Steiger and in Many Happy Returns as Sally Robinson alongside George Segal.
Other roles were in High Ballin as Pickup with Peter Fonda, Starship Invasions as Betty Duncan alongside Robert Vaughn and Christopher Lee and in Numb as Audrey with Matthew Perry, Lynn Collins and Kevin Pollak.
Other tv roles include playing the part of a murderer in Columbo: Rest In Peace, Mrs. Columbo, and also starring in T. J. Hooker with William Shatner and Heather Locklear, Hill Street Blues, and in the title role of the short lived series Jessica Novak with Lara Parker and Kip Gilman.
In 2000, she won a Genie Award for her portrayal of a drug-addicted prostitute, in the independent feature We All Fall Down as Sherry opposite Martin Cummins and Darcy Belsher.
In 2003, Helen won a Gemini award for best direction in a dramatic tv series for the drama called Just Cause.
Helen Shaver is also a director, and has worked on The Outer Limits, Judging Amy, Joan of Arcadia, Medium, The OC, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, The L Word and Jericho.
She has also worked on The Unit with Robert Patrick, Scott Foley, Dennis Haysbert, Audrey Marie Anderson and Regina Taylor - this series is listed on lovefilm as Unit, The - Season 1 and Unit, The - Season 3 for anyone interested in watching it.
She has also been in Journeyman with Reed Diamond, Moon Bloodgood, Brian Howe and Kevin McKidd.
She made her feature-length directorial debut in 1999 with Summer's End. This film won an Emmy.
Helen starred in Tremors 2 - Aftershocks as Kate "White" Reilly alongside Fred Ward and Christopher Gartin.
She has also starred as Dr. Rachel Corrigan, in Poltergeist The Legacy - Season 1, Poltergeist The Legacy - Season 2, Poltergeist The Legacy - Season 3 and Poltergeist The Legacy - Season 4 with Derek de Lint, Martin Cummins and Robbi Chong. She stars as a psychiatrist who is helped by the Legacy in the pilot episode. Impressed by her skills and strength of character, Derek the leader of The Legacy, invites Rachel to join his team.
Further tv director roles were in th shows Private Practice and Crusoe.
Another role was in A Very Merry Daughter Of The Bride as Rose opposite Joanna Garcia, Luke Perry and Jason Priestley.


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  • Desert Hearts
  • Desert Hearts review by from UK
    Rated - 4 stars Classic! 22 April 2006
    ... the use of Patsy Cline songs! Quite sexy, and great central perfomance from Helen Shaver. ...  

Helen Shaver - filmography


  • Numb
  • Numb on DVD (2007)
    Starring: Matthew Perry,  Lynn Collins,  Kevin Pollak
    Director: Harris Goldberg
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Hudson Milbank (Matthew Perry) is convinced that he's going insane. But he's just met the perfect girl (Lynn Collins, The Lake House) and struggles to be his most charming self. Meanwhile, he frantically seeks a cure for his anxieties and goes through a string of therapists who turn out to be ..read more »
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  • The Keeper
  • The Keeper on DVD (2003)
    Starring: Dennis Hopper,  Asia Argento,  Helen Shaver
    Director: Paul Lynch
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    An exotic dancer, Gina (Asia Argento) is attacked in her motel after the show. Her boyfriend is killed during the attack, but the assailant is interrupted and flees before he can kill Gina as well. The police investigators are both sympathetic. The young and enthusiastic Sgt. Burns is determined to ..read more »
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  • The Craft
  • The Craft on DVD (1996)
    Starring: Fairuza Balk,  Robin Tunney,  Neve Campbell
    Director: Andrew Fleming
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Four teenage girls, outsiders in their clique-ridden religious school, find an outlet for their pent-up hostilities when they form a supernatural coven. Armed with the power of "the craft," these novice witches gleefully take vengeance on their enemies, but ultimately their indiscriminate use of ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 65% from 7,008 members
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  • Craft, The - BLU-RAY Version
  • Craft, The - BLU-RAY Version (1996)
    Starring: Fairuza Balk,  Robin Tunney,  Neve Campbell
    Director: Andrew Fleming
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Four teenage girls, outsiders in their clique-ridden religious school, find an outlet for their pent-up hostilities when they form a supernatural coven. Armed with the power of the craft, these novice witches gleefully take vengeance on their enemies, but ultimately their indiscriminate use of ..read more »
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  • Tremors 2 - Aftershocks
  • Tremors 2 - Aftershocks on DVD (1995)
    Starring: Fred Ward,  Christopher Gartin,  Helen Shaver
    Director: S.S. Wilson
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    The foul-smelling "Graboids" from the original comedy-science-fiction-thriller return to snack on more people in this long-awaited sequel. The original worm hunter is called out of retirement to save Mexican oil fields from the pesky subterranean critters, but they prove to be a bit tougher this ..read more »
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  • Murder So Sweet
  • Murder So Sweet on DVD (1993)
    Starring: Harry Hamlin,  Helen Shaver
    Director: Larry Peerce
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Three ex-wives become suspicious when their ex-husband becomes a widower. Especially when it appears that his mother has stipulated in her will that another divorce will mean no inheritance.
    Rate this: 2 stars out of 5 40% from 15 members
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  • Desert Hearts
  • Desert Hearts (1985)
    Starring: Audra Lindley,  Helen Shaver,  Patricia Charbonneau
    Director: Donna Deitch
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    A repressed English professor goes to Reno intent on ending her twelve-year marriage in a quickie divorce. There she meets up with a fiery yet sensitive casino worker who forces her to confront emotions she has not experienced in years...
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  • Best Defense
  • Best Defense on DVD (1984)
    Starring: Dudley Moore,  Eddie Murphy,  Kate Capshaw
    Director: Willard Huyck
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Wylie Cooper (Dudley Moore) is an Army engineer who is convinced a new super tank he designed bears some faulty equipment. T.M. Landry (Eddie Murphy) is an Army soldier who tests Cooper's tank in a combat zone in Kuwait two years later. The action cuts back and forth between the past and present as ..read more »
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  • The Osterman Weekend
  • The Osterman Weekend (2 discs) on DVD (1983)
    Starring: Rutger Hauer,  John Hurt,  Dennis Hopper
    Director: Sam Peckinpah
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Once a year John Tanner spends a long weekend with his three best friends from college. When he is approached by a CIA agent who has evidence proving that his three pals are actually spy's working with the Soviet Union, he reluctantly allows, his house to be wired with video surveillance equipment ..read more »
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Helen Shaver facts

5 most recent films

Numb - 3.0 stars
Unit, The - Season 3 - 4.5 stars
Unit, The - Season 1 - 4.0 stars
Sniper - 23 Days Of Fear In Washington D.C. - 2.5 stars
The Keeper - 2.0 stars

5 highest-rated films

Unit, The - Season 3 - 4.5 stars
Unit, The - Season 1 - 4.0 stars
Desert Hearts - 3.5 stars
The Craft - 3.5 stars
The Color Of Money - 3.0 stars

5 lowest-rated films

Murder So Sweet - 2.0 stars
Harry Tracy - 2.5 stars
Craft, The - BLU-RAY Version - 3.5 stars
The Keeper - 2.0 stars
Best Defense - 2.5 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Christine Taylor - 2 times - show films
Neve Campbell - 2 times - show films
Assumpta Serna - 2 times - show films
Fairuza Balk - 2 times - show films
Cliff De Young - 2 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Andrew Fleming - 2 times - show films
Martin Scorsese - 1 times - show films
Vahan Moosekian - 1 times - show films
S.S. Wilson - 1 times - show films
Tom McLoughlin - 1 times - show films