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Diane Venora
Actor· East Hartford, Connecticut, USA
Diane Venora, a Juilliard alumnus from 1977, carved her place in American cinema with a debut in the werewolf thriller Wolfen (1981), alongside Albert Finney. Her breakthrough, however, came with an Oscar-nominated performance in Clint Eastwood’s Bird (1988), securing the New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Supporting Actress. Venora's versatile career spans stage, television, and film, marked by a nuanced presence in each medium.
Known For
The roles that explain the career.
Filmography
36 credits across 1 departments.
| Year | Title | Role | Type |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | All Good Things | Janice Rizzo | Film |
| 2010 | The Wish List | Brenda | Film |
| 2009 | The Ministers | Gina Santana | Film |
| 2009 | Little Hercules | Hera | Film |
| 2009 | Follow the Prophet | Red | Film |
| 2008 | Stiletto | Sylvia Vadalos | Film |
| 2005 | Self Medicated | Louise | Film |
| 2005 | C.S. Lewis: Beyond Narnia | Joy Gresham | Film |
| 2005 | Touched | Carole Davis | Film |
| 2004 | Breaking Dawn | Mother | Film |
| 2004 | Stateside | Mrs. Hengen | Film |
| 2002 | Heartbreak Hospital | Sunday Tyler / Andrea Harmon | Film |
| 2001 | Megiddo: The Omega Code 2 | Gabriella Francini | Film |
| 2000 | Race Against Time | Dr. Helen Steele | Film |
| 2000 | Looking for an Echo | Joanne Delgado | Film |
| 2000 | Hamlet | Gertrude | Film |
| 1999 | The Insider | Liane Wigand | Film |
| 1999 | The 13th Warrior | Queen Weilew | Film |
| 1999 | The Joyriders | Celeste | Film |
| 1999 | True Crime | Barbara Everett | Film |
| 1997 | Seed: A Love Story | Julia Noble | Film |
| 1997 | The Jackal | Major Valentina Koslova | Film |
| 1996 | The Substitute | Jane Hetzko | Film |
| 1996 | Romeo + Juliet | Gloria Capulet | Film |
| 1996 | Special Report: Journey to Mars | Lt. Tanya Sadavoy | Film |
| 1996 | Surviving Picasso | Jacqueline | Film |
| 1995 | Three Wishes | Joyce | Film |
| 1995 | Heat | Justine | Film |
| 1988 | Bird | Chan Parker | Film |
| 1987 | Ironweed | Peg | Film |
| 1986 | F/X | Ellen | Film |
| 1985 | Terminal Choice | Anna Lang | Film |
| 1984 | The Cotton Club | Gloria Swanson | Film |
| 1983 | Cook & Peary: The Race to the Pole | Marie Fidele Hunt | Film |
| 1981 | Wolfen | Rebecca Neff | Film |
| RSC Meets USA: Working Shakespeare | Self | Film |
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