Belinda Balaski
- Actress
Belinda Balaski began acting at age five. Through her career she has starred in many feature films, movies of the week, and commercials, not to mention making guest appearances on dozens of television series. Honored with an Emmy Award for starring in Best After School Special, "Runaways" (1974), she received two Emmy submissions for "Are You My Mother" (1986) (with Michael York) and Proud Men (1987) (with Charlton Heston and Peter Strauss). Her theatre background earned her the Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award, and two Robbie Awards.
Memorable movie roles include a hippie chick in The Werewolf of Woodstock (1975); as Essie Beaumont in Bobbie Jo and the Outlaw (1976); as an imperiled pregnant woman in Soudain... les monstres! (1976), and as Robert Carradine's surfer girl in Cannonball (1976). She starred in a dozen Joe Dante films: a summer camp counselor in Piranha (1978); a news producer in Hurlements (1981); in Cheeseburger Film Sandwich (1987), and as a harried working class mother in Gremlins (1984) and Gremlins 2 : La Nouvelle Génération (1990). She appeared in such television series as Baretta (1975), Section 4 (1975), Starsky et Hutch (1975), Drôles de dames (1976), Vegas (1978), L'agence tous risques (1983), Matt Houston (1982), Rick Hunter (1984), Simon et Simon (1981), Our House (1986), Falcon Crest (1981), Le père Dowling (1989), Marshall et Simon (1991) and Alerte à Malibu (1989).
In the late 1980s, she created BB's Kids Acting School where she teaches both children, teenagers, and adults in theatrical, commercial and musical workshops; passing on the knowledge she has acquired through her four decades in the entertainment industry. She has been an actress, teacher, painter, photographer, writer and, of course, mother.
Memorable movie roles include a hippie chick in The Werewolf of Woodstock (1975); as Essie Beaumont in Bobbie Jo and the Outlaw (1976); as an imperiled pregnant woman in Soudain... les monstres! (1976), and as Robert Carradine's surfer girl in Cannonball (1976). She starred in a dozen Joe Dante films: a summer camp counselor in Piranha (1978); a news producer in Hurlements (1981); in Cheeseburger Film Sandwich (1987), and as a harried working class mother in Gremlins (1984) and Gremlins 2 : La Nouvelle Génération (1990). She appeared in such television series as Baretta (1975), Section 4 (1975), Starsky et Hutch (1975), Drôles de dames (1976), Vegas (1978), L'agence tous risques (1983), Matt Houston (1982), Rick Hunter (1984), Simon et Simon (1981), Our House (1986), Falcon Crest (1981), Le père Dowling (1989), Marshall et Simon (1991) and Alerte à Malibu (1989).
In the late 1980s, she created BB's Kids Acting School where she teaches both children, teenagers, and adults in theatrical, commercial and musical workshops; passing on the knowledge she has acquired through her four decades in the entertainment industry. She has been an actress, teacher, painter, photographer, writer and, of course, mother.
