Helen Slater

Helen Slater will forever hold a special place in my heart as the original live-action Supergirl — and honestly, the 1984 film gets more unfairly dismissed than it deserves. She brought a genuine sweetness and wide-eyed sincerity to Kara Zor-El at a time when superhero movies had zero template to follow, and she pulled it off with real charm. What I find even more interesting is how her career resisted easy categorization: she followed Supergirl with the scrappy cult favorite The Legend of Billie Jean, held her own against Steve Martin and Danny DeVito in Ruthless People, and showed real comedic timing in City Slickers. And then there's the songwriter side of her — she attended LaGuardia High School's music program, which tells you creativity was always her foundation. The DC universe eventually welcomed her back through the Supergirl TV series, which felt like a lovely full-circle moment.

Name (English)

Helen Slater

Name (Japanese)

ヘレン・スレイター

Reading

へれん・すれいたー

Born

December 15, 1963 (age 62)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Sagittarius / Rabbit

Origin

Bethpage, New York, United States

Occupation

singer-songwriter / film actor / television actor / stage actor / voice actor

High school

Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School

• Official sitehttps://www.helenslater.com/
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helen%20Slater
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%98%E3%83%AC%E3%83%B3%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B9%E3%83%AC%E3%82%A4%E3%82%BF%E3%83%BC
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q241879

Tags

• New York
• singer-songwriter
• film actor
• television actor

Last updated

2026-06-02

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.