Portrait of Diane Venora

Diane Venora

Acting

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.

Born: August 10, 1952

Place of Birth: East Hartford, Connecticut, USA

Filmography

2022
Clint Eastwood: The Last Legend

as Self (archive footage)

2022
First Love

as Aunt Irene

2021
star-crossed: the film

as House Mother / School Administrator / Demonstrator

2015
Childless

as Mary

2010
All Good Things

as Janice Rizzo

2010
The Wish List

as Brenda

2009
The Ministers

as Gina Santana

2009
2008
Eleventh Hour

as Lea Muller

2008
Stiletto

as Sylvia Vadalos

2007
2005
2005
Touched

as Carole Davis

2005
Threshold

as Andrea Hatten

2005
2005
Grey's Anatomy

as Audrey Taylor

2005
Medium

as Sarah Jane Levitt

2004
Breaking Dawn

as Mother

2004
Los Angeles Plays Itself

as Justine in Heat (archive footage)

2004
Stateside

as Mrs. Hengen

2003
NCIS

as Shada Shakarji

2002
Heartbreak Hospital

as Sunday Tyler / Andrea Harmon

2001
Megiddo: The Omega Code 2

as Gabriella Francini

2000
Looking for an Echo

as Joanne Delgado

2000
Race Against Time

as Dr. Helen Steele

2000
Hamlet

as Gertrude

1999
The Insider

as Liane Wigand

1999
The 13th Warrior

as Queen Weilew

1999
The Joyriders

as Celeste

1999
True Crime

as Barbara Everett

1997
The Jackal

as Major Valentina Koslova

1997
The Practice

as Margaret Wakefield

1996
Romeo + Juliet

as Gloria Capulet

1996
Surviving Picasso

as Jacqueline

1996
The Substitute

as Jane Hetzko

1996
1995
Heat

as Justine

1995
Three Wishes

as Joyce

1994
Chicago Hope

as Geri Infante

1994
Thunder Alley

as Bobbi Turner

1990
Law & Order

as Mara Feder

1988
Bird

as Chan Parker

1987
Ironweed

as Peg

1986
F/X

as Ellen

1985
Terminal Choice

as Anna Lang

1985
A.D.

as Corinna

1984
The Cotton Club

as Gloria Swanson

1983
1981
Wolfen

as Rebecca Neff

1971