Belinda Balaski began acting at age five. Through her career she has starred in many feature films, movies of the week, and commercials, not to mention making guest appearances on dozens of television series. Honored with an Emmy Award for starring in Best After School Special, "Runaways" (1974), she received two Emmy submissions for "Are You My Mother" (1986) (with Michael York) and Ein Mann aus Stahl (1987) (with Charlton Heston and Peter Strauss). Her theatre background earned her the Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award, and two Robbie Awards.
Memorable movie roles include a hippie chick in The Werewolf of Woodstock (1975); as Essie Beaumont in Sie nannten ihn El Lute (1976); as an imperiled pregnant woman in Die Insel der Ungeheuer (1976), and as Robert Carradine's surfer girl in Cannonball (1976). She starred in a dozen Joe Dante films: a summer camp counselor in Piranhas (1978); a news producer in Das Tier (1981); in Amazonen auf dem Mond oder Warum die Amerikaner den Kanal voll haben (1987), and as a harried working class mother in Gremlins - Kleine Monster (1984) and Gremlins 2 - Die Rückkehr der kleinen Monster (1990). She appeared in such television series as Baretta (1975), Die knallharten Fünf (1975), Starsky und Hutch (1975), Drei Engel für Charlie (1976), Vegas (1978), Das A-Team (1983), Matt Houston (1982), Hunter (1984), Simon und Simon (1981), Unser Haus (1986), Falcon Crest (1981), Ein gesegnetes Team (1989), Eerie, Indiana (1991) and Baywatch - Die Rettungsschwimmer von Malibu (1989).
In the late 1980s, she created BB's Kids Acting School where she teaches both children, teenagers, and adults in theatrical, commercial and musical workshops; passing on the knowledge she has acquired through her four decades in the entertainment industry. She has been an actress, teacher, painter, photographer, writer and, of course, mother.
