# Belinda Balaski

Belinda Balaski (born December 8, 1947) is an American actress. She is perhaps best 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.
Among many TV show appearances, she performed in two Baywatch episodes: Sharks Cove, 1992 Season 2 as a worried mother and Sail Away, 1996 Season 6 as Cleo Jennings.

## Filmography
### Movies

| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
| 1974 | Black Eye | Mary | |
| 1976 | Bobbie Jo and the Outlaw | Essie Beaumont | |
| 1976 | The Food of the Gods | Rita | |
| 1976 | Cannonball | Maryann | |
| 1978 | Till Death | Anne Ryan | |
| 1978 | Piranha | Betsy | |
| 1979 | Up Yours | Helen | |
| 1981 | The Howling | Terry Fisher | |
| 1984 | Gremlins | Mrs. Joe Harris | |
| 1985 | Explorers | Voice | |
| 1987 | Amazon Women on the Moon | Bernice Pitnik | Segments: Critics' Corner and Roast Your Loved One |
| 1990 | Gremlins 2: The New Batch | Movie Theatre Mom | |
| 1993 | Matinee | Stan's Mom | |
| 1997 | American Perfekt | Rita | |
| 1998 | Small Soldiers | Neighbor | |
| 2001 | The Vampire Hunters Club | Vampire Mother | Short |
| 2018 | Nightmare Cinema | Nadia | |

### Television

| 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 Specials | 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 |