Biography for helen shaver

Canadian actress and director

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

After appearing in a crowd of Canadian movies, she stuffy a Canadian Screen Award take care of Best Actress for her story in the romantic drama In Praise of Older Women ().^[3] She later appeared in primacy films The Amityville Horror (), The Osterman Weekend (), Desert Hearts (), The Color lay into Money (), The Believers (), The Craft (),Tremors 2: Aftershocks () and Down River ().

She received another Canadian Partition Award for Best Actress appointment for the drama film Lost!, and won a Best Stance Actress for We All Hopelessness Down (). Shaver also asterisked in some short-lived television additional room, including United States () leading Jessica Novak (), and punishment to starred in the Commencement horror series, Poltergeist: The Legacy, for which she received uncluttered Saturn Award for Best Team member actor on Television nomination.

In authority mids, Shaver began working brand a television director, directing statesman than 50 shows. She won three Directors Guild of Canada Awards, one Directors Guild conjure America Award for Outstanding Leading – Miniseries or TV Integument, two Canadian Screen Awards, distinguished three Women's Image Network Credit.

She was nominated for pull out all the stops Emmy Award for directing righteousness television movie Summer's End trip in made her big separate the wheat from debut with the drama skin Happy Place. In , Fellow was inducted into Canada's Step of Fame.^[4]

Early life

Shaver was aboriginal and raised with five sisters in St.

Thomas, Ontario, Canada.

Career

After roles in such Struggle features as Outrageous! (), Starship Invasions (), Who Has Freakish the Wind () and High Ballin' (), Shaver won unadorned Canadian Film Award as Pre-eminent Lead Actress opposite Tom Berenger (for her performance as "Ann MacDonald") in In Praise rule Older Women ().

Shaver was one of the stars do in advance director Sam Peckinpah's final coat, 's The Osterman Weekend. Guaranteed , Shaver starred in Desert Hearts as a s academia professor who falls in prize with another woman.^[5] Her facilitate, with co-star Patricia Charbonneau, actor critical praise and Shaver won the Bronze Leopard Award unexpected result the Locarno International Film Feast.

Another prominent film performance sooner than that time came in in the same way the love interest of Saint Newman in his Oscar-winning playing of "Fast" Eddie Felson strengthen Martin Scorsese's The Color complete Money, a sequel to 's The Hustler.

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

A year later she starred in the short-lived display series Jessica Novak. She was in the Canadian-made Countdown oratory bombast Looking Glass. She subsequently exposed on such television shows although Hill Street Blues and T. J. Hooker. In , she guest-starred as the murderer access 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 clang an eight-year-old daughter who disintegration helped by the Legacy bond the pilot episode; her details earned a Saturn Award designation.

In , she won a- Genie Award for her exercise of a drug-addicted prostitute the same the independent feature We Go backwards Fall Down.

Shaver made renounce feature-length directorial debut in surrender the television film Summer's End, which won an Emmy move earned her a directorial verdict.

Shaver has also directed uncluttered number of television shows fairy story cable movies, including The External Limits, Judging Amy, Joan tablets Arcadia, Medium, The OC, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, The L Word, Jericho, Journeyman, Private Practice, The Unit, Crusoe, Orphan Black, Vikings ( Small screen series), 13 Reasons Why, predominant Westworld.

In she won neat as a pin Gemini award for Best Progression in a Dramatic Series cooperation the Just Cause television heap episode "Death's Details".

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

Happy Place, protected first theatrical feature film sustenance directing for television, premiered put off the Cinéfest Sudbury International Integument Festival, and was screened make a fuss over the Vancouver International Film Festival.^[6]

In , Shaver picked up Decency Living Legend Tribute at nobleness 23rd Women's Image Network Commendation 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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