Maureen Teefy is an American actress. She is best known for her appearances in the films Fame (1980), Grease 2 (1982), Supergirl (1984), and Star Time (1992). Her penultimate credit was in the 1997 film Men Seeking Women but reappeared 20 years later in 2017's Hollywood Girl: The Peg Entwistle Story.
Life and career Teefy was born October 26, 1953 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, one of eight sisters in a large Irish Catholic family.
Her first film role was a small part as a U.S.O. singer in the 1979 Steven Spielberg comedy 1941 and in the same year she appeared in two minor productions, Fyre and Scavenger Hunt. She was one of the principal performers in the 1980 Alan Parker musical drama Fame, portraying Doris, a naive young acting student. In 1981, she starred in the CBS Afternoon Playhouse episode "Portrait of a Teenage Shoplifter". Other films featuring Teefy include Grease 2 (1982) as Sharon Cooper, Supergirl (1984) as Lucy Lane, and Sunset (1988). She starred in the 1993 supernatural horror thriller Star Time, directed by Alexander Cassini (married 1982).
She provided the voice of the female robot "host" Chrome on the 1997 HBO horror series Perversions of Science. Other television roles include the made-for-TV films Legs and Disaster at Silo 7. She also guest-starred on TV series including Max Headroom and Mike Hammer, Private Eye. Her acting career developed much more in the theater, singing and dancing in several Broadway musicals.
Teefy wrote, produced and starred in A Subject for a Short Story.
Filmography Film Year Title Role Notes 1979 Fyre Leeann 1941 USO Girl Scavenger Hunt Lisa 1980 Fame Doris Finsecker 1982 Grease 2 Sharon Cooper 1984 Supergirl Lucy Lane 1988 Sunset Stagecoach Lady 1992 Star Time Wendy 1997 Men Seeking Women Teri 2017 Hollywood Girl: The Peg Entwistle Story Arkadina Television Year Title Role Notes 1979 ABC Afterschool Special Natalia Episode: "Dinky Hocker" 1981 CBS Afternoon Playhouse Karen Hughes Episode: "Portrait of a Teenage Shoplifter"1983LegsMelissa RizzoTV movie 1987 Max Headroom Shelley Keeler Episode: "Academy"1988Disaster at Silo 7Penny TraversTV movie 1997 Perversions of Science Chrome (voice role) 10 episodes 1998 Mike Hammer, Private Eye Ali McClain Episode: "The Long Road to Nowhere"
Soundtrack Soundtrack Year Title Label Songs performed 1982 Grease 2 RSO Records "Score Tonight", "Who's That Guy?", "Girl for All Seasons", "We'll Be Together"
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