Belinda Bauer

Biography

She was popular in Sydney, Australia as Belinda Taubman and ran in beauty contests. Her family ran Taubman Paints, the largest paint manufacturing company in Australia at that time. Starting her career as a ballet dancer and becoming a model in New York, Bauer then became popular in several American cult films of the late 1970s and 1980s including Winter Kills, The American Success Company, Timerider: The Adventure of Lyle Swann and Flashdance. In between television work, she also appeared in the films UHF and RoboCop 2. Her convincing portrayals of hard, vindictive women (including Delilah, in the 1984 television film Samson and Delilah) led to constant typecasting, which may have contributed to the apparent petering out of her career in the mid-1990s. Bauer played the title role of the television film The Sins of Dorian Gray (1983); a rendition of the Oscar Wilde novel The Picture of Dorian Gray. This story was unique as the lead character was a woman; it was also a rare live-action Rankin/Bass production. Another title role was in the television film Starcrossed (1985) where she played an alien woman who came to Earth. She appeared in the pilot of the television series Airwolf (1984) as Gabrielle Ademaur, the love interest for Stringfellow Hawke (Jan-Michael Vincent); her character is killed near the end of the story. She appeared as the lead actress, Christine, in the supernatural thriller Dean R. Koontz's Servants of Twilight (1991). Her last credited role was in the erotic thriller Poison Ivy II: Lily (1996). She resides in the Los Angeles area, where she works as a psychologist. She is one of several former actresses, including Pamela Stephenson-Connolly (Superman III) and Melody Anderson (Flash Gordon), who now work in the field of psychology.