Most Recent Role: n/a on Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
Gender: Female
Birthplace: St. Thomas, Ontario Canada
Birthday: 2-24-1951
Gender: Female
Birthplace: St. Thomas, Ontario Canada
Birthday: 2-24-1951
Known for making gutsy career choices, well-respected actor/director Helen Shaver has worked with such influential directors as Sam Peckinpah, Martin Scorsese, Steven Spielberg and Brian Depalma. Her most celebrated role as a 1950's university professor who falls in love with another woman in the 1985 milestone DESERT HEARTS won Shaver the prestigious Bronze Leopard Award at the Locarno...
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Most Recent Appearance
Streetwise
Tuesday 1 January 2008 on NBC
A Park Avenue socialite's body is found in NYC'S Central Park, and Detectives Benson and Stabler initially suspect her wealthy boyfriend.
Other Appearances
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Jessica Novak
Jessica Novak |
Poltergeist: The Legacy
Dr. Rachel Corrigan |
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Search and Rescue
Dr. Liz Warren |
The Education of Max Bickford
Erica Bettis |
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United States
Libby Chapin |
W.I.O.U.
Kelby Robinson |
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The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
Herself |
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Amazing Stories
Mirror, Mirror Karen |
B.L. Stryker
The Dancer's Touch Diane Decker |
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Columbo
Rest in Peace, Mrs. Columbo Vivian Dimitri |
Dead Man's Gun
Next of Kin Dianna McKinney |
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Dr. Simon Locke
Death Holds the Scale Bonnie |
Hill Street Blues
Officer of the Year Teresa |
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Ultra
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Jessica Novak
drama canceled after only five weeks more Poltergeist: The Legacy
Poltergeist: The Legacy was a show that tried to capture the style and success of The X-Files but move it more fully into the horror genre. 'Since the beginning of time mankind has... more Search and Rescue
Animals like a hawk and a bear are trained to perform rescues by a man and his two teenage sons calling themselves the Alpha Team. Together they rescue hikers trapped in quicksand, a motorcyclist... more The Education of Max Bickford
Academy Award winner Richard Dreyfuss stars along side Academy Award winning actress Marcia Gay Harden, Golden Globe winner Regina Taylor, veteran actress Helen Shaver and actress Katee Sackhoff in... more United States
This show about married life was one of TV's first ungainly crosses between comedy and drama. Billed as a half-hour sitcom but with no jokes, no laugh track and no theme tune, it was cancelled... more W.I.O.U.
Hank Zaret was the new news director at TV station WNDY, sent by executives at the network which owned the station to boost its falling ratings. Hank, who had gotten his start there years before,... more
drama canceled after only five weeks more Poltergeist: The Legacy
Poltergeist: The Legacy was a show that tried to capture the style and success of The X-Files but move it more fully into the horror genre. 'Since the beginning of time mankind has... more Search and Rescue
Animals like a hawk and a bear are trained to perform rescues by a man and his two teenage sons calling themselves the Alpha Team. Together they rescue hikers trapped in quicksand, a motorcyclist... more The Education of Max Bickford
Academy Award winner Richard Dreyfuss stars along side Academy Award winning actress Marcia Gay Harden, Golden Globe winner Regina Taylor, veteran actress Helen Shaver and actress Katee Sackhoff in... more United States
This show about married life was one of TV's first ungainly crosses between comedy and drama. Billed as a half-hour sitcom but with no jokes, no laugh track and no theme tune, it was cancelled... more W.I.O.U.
Hank Zaret was the new news director at TV station WNDY, sent by executives at the network which owned the station to boost its falling ratings. Hank, who had gotten his start there years before,... more
