Maureen Teefy

Maureen Jane Teefy is an American actress.

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 is best known for her appearances in the films Fame (1980), Grease 2 (1982), Supergirl (1984), and Startime (1992).

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).

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.

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

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.