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Helen Shaver (b February 24, 1951 St. Thomas, Ontario) is a Canadian actress and director who began acting in her teens and may be best remembered by genre fans for her role on the series Poltergeist: The Legacy as Dr. Rachel Corrigan. Shaver has been nominated three times for a Gemini award and won in 2001 for directing the episode Death's Details for the series Just Cause. She had been previously nominated for her directing on The Outer Limits and the miniseries We All Fall Down. She was also nominated for a Daytime Emmy for the children's special Summer's End. Though best known for her acting opposite popular actors such as Tom Cruise and Paul Newman in The Color of Money, Peter Boyle in Born to be Wild and Martin Sheen in The Believers, Shaver has also directed episodes of Judging Amy, Joan of Arcadia, Dead Like Me and The 4400 on which she also guest starred as reporter, Barbara Yates.

Genre Credits

• Starship Invasions (1977)
• The Amityville Horror (1979 movie)
• Amazing Stories (TV series)

"Mirror, Mirror" (1986)

• The Ray Bradbury Theatre

"The Emissary"

• The Land Before Time (1988)
• Amazing Stories: Book Four (1992)
• The Outer Limits

"Sandkings"

• Tremors II: Aftershocks (1996)
• The Craft (1996)
• Poltergeist: The Legacy (1996-1998)
• The Risen (2003)
• The 4400 (2004)

"Trial by Fire"

"Becoming"

Directing

• Poltergeist: The Legacy

"Brother's Keeper"

• The Outer Limits (1998 - 2000)
• Dead Like Me

"Rest in Peace"

• The 4400
• Joan of Arcadia

"The Uncertainty Principle" (2003)

"The New and Improved Carl Morrisey

• Medium

"Doctor's Orders" (2006)

• Jericho

"Black Jack" (2007)