Belinda Balaski

• Name — Belinda Balaski • Born — 8 December 1947 • Years Active — 1974–present • Occupation — Actress • Father — Lester Balaski

Balaski's father, Lester Balaski, was a jockey, and she originally wanted to follow that career path. She attended Colorado Women's College and majored in drama at Parsons College.

Balaski is known for her role as Terri Fisher in Joe Dante's The Howling (1981), and has appeared in most of Dante's other films, including Piranha, Gremlins, Gremlins 2: The New Batch, Matinee and Small Soldiers, as well as two segments that Dante directed for Amazon Women on the Moon. She also co-starred in The Food of the Gods and Bobbie Jo and the Outlaw, both featuring Marjoe Gortner, and in Cannonball! as a navigator in a cross-country car race. She won the Los Angeles Drama Critics Award for Best Supporting Actress for her portrayal of Emma Duckworth in a production of Bus Stop at Los Angeles Metropolitan Theatre. The role led to her working in television. Among many TV show appearances, she performed in two episodes of Baywatch: Sharks Cove (1992 Season 2) as a worried mother and Sail Away (1996 Season 6) as Cleo Jennings.

• Year — Title — Role — Notes • 1974 — The F.B.I. — Sue — 1 Episode, The Two Million Dollar Hit • 1974 — The Cowboys — Obie Graff — 1 Episode, Requiem for a Lost Son • 1974 — Locusts — Janet Willimer — TV movie • 1974 — ABC Afterschool Special — Cindy Britton — 1 Episode, Runaways • 1975 — ABC's Wide World of Entertainment — Beckie — 1 Episode, The Werewolf of Woodstock • 1975 — Baretta — Nicole — 1 Episode, Ragtime Billy Peaches • 1975 — S.W.A.T. — Judy Collins — 1 Episode, A Coven of Killers • 1975 — Force Five — Ginger — TV movie • 1975 — Death Scream — Jenny Storm — TV movie • 1977 — Starsky and Hutch — M.E. Ginny Simpson — 1 Episode, The Velvet Jungle • 1977 — The Fantastic Journey — Arla — 1 Episode, An Act of Love • 1977 — Having Babies II — Ann — TV movie • 1978 — Charlie's Angels — Sue Kantrelle — 1 Episode, Angels on the Run • 1979 — How the West Was Won — Missy — 1 Episode, The Innocent • 1979 — Vega$ — Lucille — 1 Episode, The Visitor • 1979 — Mrs. R's Daughter — Lynn Hollister — TV movie • 1983 — The A-Team — Jimmy's Mother — 1 Episode, Labor Pains • 1984 — Anatomy of an Illness — TV movie • 1984 — ABC Weekend Specials — Margaret Landry — 1 Episode, Henry Hamilton Graduate Ghost • 1985 — Matt Houston — Lois — 1 Episode, Death Watch • 1985 — Hunter — Judy — 1 Episode, Fire Man • 1986 — Simon & Simon — Darlene Cooper — 1 Episode, Family Forecast • 1986 — ABC Afterschool Specials — Anna — 1 Episode, Are You My Mother? • 1987 — CBS Schoolbreak Special — Helen Green — 1 Episode, My Dissident Mom • 1987 — Deadly Care — Terry — TV movie • 1987 — Proud Men — Nell — TV movie • 1988 — Our House — Mrs. Caulder — 1 Episode, Artful Dodging • 1988 — Santa Barbara — Joan Stiller — 1 Episode, Episode #1.956 • 1989 — Falcon Crest — Dr. Stephanie Ambrose — 3 episodes • 1990 — Father Dowling Mysteries — Scrub Nurse — 1 Episode, The Medical Mystery • 1991 - 1992 — Eerie, Indiana — Mother / Winifred Swanson — 2 episodes • 1992 — FBI: The Untold Stories — 1 Episode, Operation Lemonade • 1992 — Reasonable Doubts — Phyllis Cleary — 1 Episode, Mercury in Retrograde • 1992 - 1996 — Baywatch — Cleo Jennings / Worried Mother — 2 episodes • 1994 — Runaway Daughters — Mrs. Nicholson — TV movie • 1996 — Seduced by Madness:The Diane Borchardt Story — Principal — TV mini-series • 1997 — The Second Civil War — Graphic Designer — TV movie • 1998 — The Warlord: Battle for the Galaxy — Barterer's Wife — TV movie, aka The Osiris Chronicles