Helen Shaver
Canadian actress and director · Canada · On the map · Directors · Born 1951 · age 75
Helen Shaver is a Canadian actress and film and television director. After appearing in a number of Canadian movies, she received a Canadian Screen Award for Best Actress for her performance in the romantic drama In Praise of Older Women (1978).
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Person of InterestSeries, Director2008
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The Man Who Lost HimselfFilm, Director2004Canada's Walk of FameAward
The 4400Series, 2004Director2003
D.C. Sniper: 23 Days of FearFilm, Sandy Moose2000
Bear with MeFilm, Sara Bradley1999
Judging AmySeries, Director1996
The CraftFilm, Grace1994
The Forget-Me-Not MurdersFilm, Monique1992Theatre World AwardAward
Fatal MemoriesFilm, 1992Elaine Tipton1987
The BelieversFilm, Jessica Halliday1985
Desert HeartsFilm, Vivian Bell1983
The Osterman WeekendFilm, Virginia Tremayne1982
NatureSeries, Director1981
GasFilm, Rhonda1978
High-Ballin'Film, Pickup1976
The Naked ManFilm1971
ColumboSeries, Vivian Dimitri1951Born24 February 1951People around Helen
Beau Bridges Helen directed Beggars and Choosers
Wendy Crewson Helen directed Summer's End (1999)
David Wilmot Helen directed Vikings and Station Eleven
Donna Deitch Directed Desert Hearts and Common Ground
Martin Cummins Directed We All Fall Down (2000)
Steven Hilliard Stern Directed The Park Is Mine (1986)
R. D. Reid Helen directed Summer's End (1999)
Martin Scorsese Directed The Color of Money (1987)
Jennifer Connelly Helen directed Snowpiercer
Oliver Stone Produced Zebrahead (1993)
Dennis Hopper Also in The Osterman Weekend and The Keeper
Colin Farrell Helen directed The Penguin
Gael García Bernal Helen directed Station Eleven (2021)
Jonathan Rhys Meyers Helen directed Vikings (2013)
Clancy Brown Helen directed The Penguin
Edge Helen directed Vikings (2013)
Carmen Ejogo Helen directed The Penguin
Theo Rossi Helen directed The Penguin
Robert Wuhl Directed Open Season (1995)
Evelyne Brochu Helen directed Orphan Black
Julian Richings Helen directed Orphan Black
Brian Kerwin Produced Common Ground (2000)
Andrew Fleming Directed The Craft (1996)
Douglas Wick Produced The Craft (1996)
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The Land Before Time 1988
Desert Hearts 1985
The Color of Money 1986
The Craft 1996
Body Double 1984
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Television 24
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She later appeared in the films The Amityville Horror (1979), The Osterman Weekend (1983), Desert Hearts (1985), The Color of Money (1986), The Believers (1987), The Craft (1996), Tremors 2: Aftershocks (1996) and Down River (2013). She received another Canadian Screen Award for Best Actress nomination for the 1986 drama film Lost!, and won a Best Supporting Actress for We All Fall Down (2000). Shaver also starred in some short-lived television series, including United States (1980) and Jessica Novak (1981), and from 1996 to 1999 starred in the Showtime horror series, Poltergeist: The Legacy, for which she received a Saturn Award for Best Actress on Television nomination.
