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Maureen Jane Teefy is an American actress. She is best known for her appearances in the films Fame (1980), Grease 2 (1982), Supergirl (1984), and Startime (1992).

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Maureen Teefy
Born	Maureen Jane Teefy Minneapolis, Minnesota, US
Occupation	Actress
Years active	1979–2017
Spouse	Alexander Cassini ​ ​ (m. 1982; div. 2006)​
Children	1

Her last film appearances to date were in 1997 film Men Seeking Women, then 20 years later in 2017's Hollywood Girl: The Peg Entwistle Story.

Life and career

Teefy was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, one of eight sisters in a large Irish Catholic family.[1]

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 - 2006).[2]

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.

Maureen wrote, produced and starred in A Subject for a Short Story.[3]

Filmography

Film
Year	Title	Role	Notes
1979	Fyre	Leeann
1979	1941	USO Girl
1979	Scavenger Hunt	Lisa
1980	Fame	Doris Finsecker
1982	Grease 2	Sharon Cooper
1983	Legs	Melissa Rizzo	TV movie
1984	Supergirl	Lucy Lane
1988	Sunset	Stagecoach Lady
1988	Disaster at Silo 7	Penny Travers	TV movie
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"
1987	Max Headroom	Shelley Keeler	Episode: "Academy"
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"

In the movie Grease 2, Maureen Teefy sings a duet with Peter Frechette (Do It For Our Country). However she could not make it to recording sessions for the song, so Frechette sings the song solo on the soundtrack. Teefy was dubbed in later for the film's sequence.^{[citation needed]}

References

External links

• Maureen Teefy at IMDb

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