| Belinda Bauer | |
| Birth Name: | Belinda Sylvia Taubman |
| Birth Date: | 1950 6, df=yes |
| Birth Place: | Pymble, New South Wales, Australia |
| Occupation: | Actress |
| Years Active: | 1979–1996 |
Belinda Bauer (born Belinda Sylvia Taubman; 13 June 1950) is an Australian retired actress and working spiritual psychologist whose film career spanned the 1980s and 1990s. She lives in Los Angeles, California.[1]
Belinda Taubman Bauer is the descendant of Nathaniel James Taubman, a prominent figure in the late 19th century paint manufacturing industry. Nathaniel, along with his brother George Henry Taubman, co-founded Taubman Paints, a renowned paint manufacturing company that emerged in the late 1890s. Additionally, Belinda's maternal family has a rich history in the steel industry, as the proud owners of Ritchie Brothers Steel. The company gained recognition for its production of trains and farm equipment. Notably, Belinda is also related to Donald Robinson, who served as the Anglican Archbishop of Sydney from 1982 to 1992.
Belinda grew up in Pymble in Sydney and attended Abbotsleigh. Starting her career as a ballet dancer, TV actress and model, she competed as Belinda Taubman in several beauty contests in Sydney, Australia, winning Miss Queen of the Pacific, in 1968. Belinda Taubman relocated to New York in the early 1970s, and changed her name to Bauer.
Belinda Bauer worked in New York as a model as the face of Revlon and appearing in fashion magazines. She became popular in several American cult films of the late 1970s and 1980s, including Winter Kills, The American Success Company, and Flashdance. Between television work, she also appeared in the films The Rosary Murders and RoboCop 2. Bauer's main title roles were in the television films The Sins of Dorian Gray (1983) (a rendition of the Oscar Wilde novel The Picture of Dorian Gray); a live-action Rankin/Bass production called Starcrossed (1985), in which she played an alien woman living on Earth; and as Christine Scavello in the supernatural thriller Dean R. Koontz's Servants of Twilight (1991). She also appeared in the pilot of the television series Airwolf (1984) as Gabrielle Ademaur, a love interest for Stringfellow Hawke (Jan-Michael Vincent). Her last credited appearance was in the erotic thriller (1996). She often portrayed strong female characters, including Delilah in the film Samson and Delilah (1984)
Belinda presently resides in Los Angeles, California, where she works as a spiritual psychologist.[2]
| Year | film | Role | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1979 | Winter Kills | Yvette Malone | |
| 1980 | The American Success Company | Sarah Flowers | |
| 1981 | (TV) | Estra | |
| 1982 | Claire Cygne | ||
| 1983 | Flashdance | Katie Hurley | |
| 1983 | The Sins of Dorian Gray (TV) | Dorian Gray | |
| 1984 | Samson and Delilah (TV) | Delilah | |
| 1984 | Airwolf | Gabrielle Ademaur | |
| 1985 | Starcrossed (TV) | Mary the Alien | |
| 1987 | Tonight's the Night (TV) | Pamela Ahlberg | |
| 1987 | The Rosary Murders | Pat Lennon | |
| 1990 | Act of Piracy | Sandy Andrews | |
| 1990 | RoboCop 2 | Dr. Juliette Faxx | |
| 1991 | Servants of Twilight | Christine Scavello | |
| 1993 | A Case for Murder (TV) | Joanna Gains | |
| 1993 | Necronomicon: Book of Dead | Nancy Gilmore (part 1) | |
| 1996 | Angela Falk |