Helen Shaver
Birthday: 1951-02-24
Place of Birth: Saint Thomas, Ontario, Canada
Biography: Helen Shaver is a Canadian stage, film and television actress and director. She attended the Banff School of Fine Arts and studied Acting at the University of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. She started acting at 18, collaborating with industry giants like Scorsese and Spielberg. Her performances earned awards—Theatreworld Award for "Jake’s Woman," Genies for "In Praise of Older Women" (Best Actress) and "Who Has Seen the Wind" (Best Supporting Actress). Transitioning to directing, she helmed episodes for various series and directed Emmy-winning films like "Summer’s End." Despite childhood illness, her resilience led her to study acting and excel in her craft.
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Desert Hearts
While waiting for her divorce papers, a repressed literature professor finds herself unexpectedly at...
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D.C. Sniper: 23 Days of Fear
Based on the known events that shook the United States for 23 days in 2002. Within 24 hours six peop...
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Tremors 2: Aftershocks
Earl Bassett's celebrity after defeating the Graboid attack against the town of Perfection has prove...
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Best Defense
An engineer fails to get the bugs out of a tank before an Army officer has to use it in Kuwait....
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The Color of Money
Former pool hustler "Fast Eddie" Felson decides he wants to return to the game by taking a pupil. He...
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The Believers
Mourning the accidental death of his wife and having just moved to New York with his young son, laco...
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The Osterman Weekend
The host of an investigative news show is convinced by the CIA that the friends he has invited to a ...
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The Craft
A Catholic school newcomer falls in with a clique of teen witches who wield their powers against all...
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That Night
A coming-of-age story about an eleven-year-old girl who idolizes her troubled sixteen-year-old neigh...
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Countdown to Looking Glass
A fictional confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union over the Strait of Hormuz, ...
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The Keeper
When an apparently exemplary cop abducts and secretly imprisons a beautiful dancer, a deadly battle ...
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Outrageous!
Gay hair stylist Robin Turner does a lot of work for drag queens, all the while dreaming that he'll ...
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Starship Invasions
Captain Rameses and his Legion of the Winged Serpent brigade are out to claim Earth for their dying ...
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The Overlanders
The year is 1862. The settings. The Canadian northwest. The lure is gold. Nine men, two women (one o...
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Bear with Me
An orphaned bear cub is adopted by little Emily and her family. They name the cub Masha, raise her a...
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Without Consent
After being sent to an abusive psychiatric facility by her well-meaning parents, a rebellious teenag...
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Born to Be Wild
Rick Heller is a juvenile delinquent who keeps getting himself into trouble. To keep him out of trou...
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The Park Is Mine
A Vietnam vet takes forceful control of Central Park to remember those who served and died in the Vi...
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A Very Merry Daughter of the Bride
A wedding planner looks to persuade her mother not to marry a man she's only known for a brief perio...
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High-Ballin'
When a rash of targeted hijackings threatens to derail the independent trucking business, rig driver...
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Harry Tracy, Desperado
By the turn of the 20th century, Butch Cassidy, the Sundance Kid, Billy the Kid and virtually all of...
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Rowing Through
Based on the real-life story of American rower Tiff Wood (Colin Ferguson), an athlete determined to ...
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In Praise of Older Women
Andras Vayda grows up in a turbulent, war-torn Hungary, where he procures local girls for the occupy...
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Falling For You
When Meg gets thrown out of her apartment window by a serial killer, she's determined to make him pa...
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No Blame
Amy Donaldson, a successful fashion editor of City Magazine, is married to Carl, an accountant, and ...
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The Sweetest Gift
Two neighboring families in Florida, one black and one white, struggle with the problems of race, po...
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Down River
Down River is the emotionally stirring story of three young women teetering on the edge between crea...
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The Land Before Time
An orphaned brontosaurus named Littlefoot sets off in search of the legendary Great Valley. A land o...
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The Risen
A pregnant woman has an emergency operation to save her life but comes out of the procedure with amn...
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Survive The Night
On their way home from Brooklyn, psychiatrist Vic, daughter Julie and sister Stacey run short of gas...
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Lovey: A Circle of Children, Part II
A sequel to "A Circle of Children" (1977). A teacher of "emotionally disturbed" children takes on a ...
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Bethune: The Making of a Hero
True story of Norman Bethune, a medical doctor who fought for justice in China during Mao's rise to ...
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Fatal Memories
Fact based story about a woman who after 20 years starts having memories of her own molestation by h...
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Murder So Sweet
A hometown heartthrob (Harry Hamlin) marries the local beauties and then poisons them in this true s...
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Pair of Aces
A Texas Ranger has to protect his two daughters as he investigates a serial killer who is attacking ...
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Between Two Brothers
Bob Frazer is a prominent attorney who compulsively tries to make amends with his younger, less poli...
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Morning Glory
An ex-convict who is on parole is accused of murdering a loose woman in the town where he works....
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Numb
Hudson Milbank is a successful Hollywood screenwriter who suddenly and strangely finds himself witho...
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Who Has Seen the Wind
The coming-of-age of adolescent Brian O'Connal in small town Depression-era Saskatchewan is told. Th...
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Shoot
When boredom, pride and a mad second of misjudgement leaves a hunter shot dead by one of five combat...
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Birthday Cake
Soap actor Steven and his husband Daniel decide to throw the ultimate first birthday party for their...
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Common Ground
This movie contains three short stories dealing with the theme of homosexuality. In "A Friend of Dor...
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The Forget-Me-Not Murders
A detective tries to track down a serial killer who is thought to be targeting the policeman's god-d...
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The Grand Knockout Tournament
The Grand Knockout Tournament (colloquially also known as It's a Royal Knockout) was a one-off chari...
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The Naked Man
Indian child grows up to seek revenge on the man that raped and murdered his parents....
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Mothers, Daughters and Lovers
A single mother struggles to raise two teenage daughters in a small town in America....
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Many Happy Returns
In this satire of the I.R.S., George Segal plays an Average Joe targeted for the Audit from Hell. Hi...
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Gas
Susan Anspach stars in this comedy as a news reporter who investigates a story about stolen milk cau...
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The War Boy
The 12-year-old son of a freedom fighter grows up fast in World War II Yugoslavia....
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The Wishing Tree
When her storyteller mother (Mary Alice) dies, attorney Clara Collier (Alfre Woodard) returns to her...
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The Amityville Horror
George Lutz, his wife Kathy, and their three children have just moved into a beautiful, and improbab...
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Women in Love: Desert Hearts
Actors Patricia Charbonneau and Helen Shaver discuss the making of with groundbreaking film of queer...
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Lost!
Bob and his wife Linda accompany his brother Jim on a sailing cruise to Costa Rica, where Jim will s...
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Tree of Hands
A woman is attempting to cope with her son's tragic death when her mother arrives on an ill-timed vi...
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We All Fall Down
In this dark independent drama, Michael (Darcy Belsher) is an out of work actor who has been trying ...
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Body Double
After losing an acting role and his girlfriend, Jake Scully finally catches a break: he gets offered...
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The Supreme Kid
Two Canadian drifters (Frank Moore, Jim Henshaw) become involved in crime after meeting unsavoury ch...
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Ride with the Wind
Frank Shelby is a motorcycle racer for whom age, personal tragedy and a love for the bottle have sup...
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Calling the Shots
Documentary about women in the film industry. Numerous notable actresses and female directors share ...
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Janek: The Silent Betrayal
Police lieutenant Frank Janek is investigating a series of murders in a building owned by a famous B...
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Alpha to Omega: Exposing 'The Osterman Weekend'
Testimony of the cast, the producers and other participants of the shootings of "The Osterman Weeken...
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Open Season
When the television ratings machines suddenly malfunction, public television suddenly, but mistakenl...
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Trial & Error
The young and ambitious district attorney Peter Hudson is convinced that the defendant Andrew Barnes...
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The Men's Club
Seven men have a group session and share their feelings on women, love, life and work....
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Trial and Error
The young and ambitious district attorney Peter Hudson is convinced that the defendant Andrew Barnes...
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