Helen Shaver is one of the most popular and richest Movie Actress who was born on February 24, 1951 in Canada. For her role in The Praise of Older Women, 1978 film The Praise of Older Women, she won a Canadian Film Award for Best Lead Actress.
During the Oscar-winning performance of She starred as the love interest of Paul Newman during his Oscar-winning performance in the 1986 film The Color of Money. in 1986’s The Color of Money, she starred as his love interest.
After roles in such Canadian features as Outrageous! (1977), Starship Invasions (1977), Who Has Seen the Wind (1977) and High Ballin’ (1978), Shaver won a Canadian Film Award as Best Lead Actress opposite Tom Berenger (for her performance as “Ann MacDonald”) in In Praise of Older Women (1978).
In 1980, Shaver starred with Beau Bridges in the short-lived NBC TV series United States developed by Larry Gelbart. A year later she starred in the short-lived drama series Jessica Novak. She subsequently appeared on such television shows as Hill Street Blues and T. J. Hooker. In 1990, she guest-starred as the murderer in 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 1996-1999, Shaver co-starred on the TV series Poltergeist: The Legacy, playing Dr. Rachel Corrigan, a widowed psychiatrist with an eight-year-old daughter who is helped by the Legacy in the pilot episode; her performance earned a Saturn Award nomination. In 2000, she won a Genie Award for her portrayal of a drug-addicted prostitute in the independent feature We All Fall Down.
Steve Smith, a key grip she married, was a key character on the set of Desert Hearts in 1985. Mackenzie was their son.
