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