Diane Venora
Biography
Diane Venora is an American stage, television and film actress. She graduated from the Juilliard School in 1977 and made her film debut in 1981 opposite Albert Finney in Wolfen. She won the New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Supporting Actress for Bird.
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Known For
Acting History
2022
Clint Eastwood: The Last Legend as Self (archive footage)
2022First Love as Aunt Irene
2021star-crossed: the film as House Mother / School Administrator / Demonstrator
2015Childless as Mary
2015Uncovering Wolfen as Self
2010All Good Things as Janice Rizzo
2010The Wish List as Brenda
2009The Ministers as Gina Santana
2009Little Hercules as Hera
2009Follow the Prophet as Red
2008Eleventh Hour as Lea Muller
2008Stiletto as Sylvia Vadalos
2007Private Practice as Sharon
2005C.S. Lewis: Beyond Narnia as Joy Gresham
2005Touched as Carole Davis
2005Threshold as Andrea Hatten
2005Self Medicated as Louise
2005Grey's Anatomy as Audrey Taylor
2005The Making of 'Heat' as Self
2005Medium as Sarah Jane Levitt
2004Breaking Dawn as Mother
2004Los Angeles Plays Itself as Justine in Heat (archive footage)
2004Stateside as Mrs. Hengen
2003NCIS as Shada Shakarji
2003Working Shakespeare
2002Heartbreak Hospital as Sunday Tyler / Andrea Harmon
2001Megiddo: The Omega Code 2 as Gabriella Francini
2001The Young Girl and the Monsoon as Giovanna
2000Looking for an Echo as Joanne Delgado
2000Race Against Time as Dr. Helen Steele
2000Hamlet as Gertrude
1999The Insider as Liane Wigand
1999Law & Order: Special Victims Unit as Marilyn Nesbit
1999The 13th Warrior as Queen Weilew
1999The Joyriders as Celeste
1999True Crime as Barbara Everett
1997The Jackal as Major Valentina Koslova
1997Seed: A Love Story as Julia Noble
1997The Practice as Margaret Wakefield
1996Romeo + Juliet as Gloria Capulet
1996Surviving Picasso as Jacqueline
1996The Substitute as Jane Hetzko
1996Special Report: Journey to Mars as Lt. Tanya Sadavoy
1995Heat as Justine
1995Three Wishes as Joyce
1994Chicago Hope as Geri Infante
1994Thunder Alley as Bobbi Turner
1990Law & Order as Mara Feder
1988Bird as Chan Parker
1987Ironweed as Peg
1986F/X as Ellen
1985A Midsummer Night's Dream as Hippolyta
1985Terminal Choice as Anna Lang
1985A.D. as Corinna
1984The Cotton Club as Gloria Swanson
1983Cook & Peary: The Race to the Pole as Marie Fidele Hunt
1981Wolfen as Rebecca Neff
1971Great Performances as Ophelia