Helen Shaver

Helen Shaver (born February 24, 1951) 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). 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.

In the mid-1990s, Shaver began working as a television director, directing more than 50 shows. She won three Directors Guild of Canada Awards, one Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directing – Miniseries or TV Film, two Canadian Screen Awards, and three Women's Image Network Awards. She was nominated for an Emmy Award for directing the 1999 television movie ''Summer's End'' and in 2020 made her big screen debut with the drama film ''Happy Place''. In 2004, Shaver was inducted into Canada's Walk of Fame. Provided by Wikipedia