Updated 05-May-2020.
Mondo shtuff from around the internet, all about HELEN SLATER!
My botty best at summarizing from Wikipedia: Helen Rachel Slater is an american actress, singer and songwriter . she played the title role in the 1984 film Supergirl . in the intervening years, she starred in several films including the Legend of Billie Jean in the 2000s, Slater recorded five albums, singing her own compositions and playing the piano . her parents, Alice Joan (née Citrin), a lawyer and nuclear disarmament peace activist, divorced in 1974 in 1984, she played the title character, versus Faye Dunaway as Selena, in the TriStar release Supergirl . the film, directed by Jeannot Szwarc, received mixed reviews, and was not Slater has appeared on episodes of various television series . she is also the voice of Talia in Batman: the Animated Series . she was a series regular on the half-season run of the 1990 ABC newsroom drama Capital News . During her career, she has revisited her 1984 role of supergirl . she made a brief guest appearance on her stage credits include appearances in Grease and Shakespeare and Friends . off-Broadway, she starred in Responsible Parties and Almost Romance . she also attended classes at both N.Y.U. and U in 2003, she released a CD, One of These Days, consisting of her original songs . she also contributed the song “the Detour” for the soundtrack of the film nowhere in sight (2000) . Cortes Alexander recorded Slater’s “Any Day Now” and “Love’ll Come & Do Just That” on his album Swell . her third album, Shine, was released in 2010 .