Diane Venora

Known for: Acting

Born: 1952-08-10 (age 73)

From: East Hartford, Connecticut, USA

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.

Filmography (58)

MOVIE★ 7.3
Clint Eastwood: The Last Legend
2022
as Self (archive footage)
MOVIE★ 5.7
First Love
2022
as Aunt Irene
MOVIE★ 6.7
star-crossed: the film
2021
as House Mother / School Administrator / Demonstrator
MOVIE★ 4.5
Childless
2015
as Mary
MOVIE
Uncovering Wolfen
2015
as Self
MOVIE★ 6.0
All Good Things
2010
as Janice Rizzo
MOVIE★ 6.5
The Wish List
2010
as Brenda
MOVIE★ 4.4
The Ministers
2009
as Gina Santana
MOVIE★ 3.6
Little Hercules
2009
as Hera
MOVIE★ 4.5
Follow the Prophet
2009
as Red
TV★ 6.6
Eleventh Hour
2008
as Lea Muller
MOVIE★ 4.7
Stiletto
2008
as Sylvia Vadalos
TV★ 7.5
Private Practice
2007
as Sharon
MOVIE★ 7.7
C.S. Lewis: Beyond Narnia
2005
as Joy Gresham
MOVIE★ 6.2
Touched
2005
as Carole Davis
TV★ 7.0
Threshold
2005
as Andrea Hatten
MOVIE★ 5.8
Self Medicated
2005
as Louise
TV★ 8.2
Grey's Anatomy
2005
as Audrey Taylor
MOVIE★ 6.3
The Making of 'Heat'
2005
as Self
TV★ 7.5
Medium
2005
as Sarah Jane Levitt
MOVIE★ 5.8
Breaking Dawn
2004
as Mother
MOVIE★ 5.1
Stateside
2004
as Mrs. Hengen
TV★ 7.6
NCIS
2003
as Shada Shakarji
TV
Working Shakespeare
2003
MOVIE★ 7.3
Heartbreak Hospital
2002
as Sunday Tyler / Andrea Harmon
MOVIE★ 4.6
Megiddo: The Omega Code 2
2001
as Gabriella Francini
MOVIE★ 10.0
The Young Girl and the Monsoon
2001
as Giovanna
MOVIE★ 3.8
Looking for an Echo
2000
as Joanne Delgado
MOVIE★ 5.2
Race Against Time
2000
as Dr. Helen Steele
MOVIE★ 5.8
Hamlet
2000
as Gertrude
MOVIE★ 7.5
The Insider
1999
as Liane Wigand
TV★ 8.0
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
1999
as Marilyn Nesbit
MOVIE★ 6.7
The 13th Warrior
1999
as Queen Weilew
MOVIE★ 5.7
The Joyriders
1999
as Celeste
MOVIE★ 6.5
True Crime
1999
as Barbara Everett
MOVIE★ 6.4
The Jackal
1997
as Major Valentina Koslova
MOVIE★ 9.5
Seed: A Love Story
1997
as Julia Noble
TV★ 7.7
The Practice
1997
as Margaret Wakefield
MOVIE★ 6.8
Romeo + Juliet
1996
as Gloria Capulet
MOVIE★ 5.8
Surviving Picasso
1996
as Jacqueline
MOVIE★ 7.0
The Substitute
1996
as Jane Hetzko
MOVIE★ 5.8
Special Report: Journey to Mars
1996
as Lt. Tanya Sadavoy
MOVIE★ 7.9
Heat
1995
as Justine
MOVIE★ 6.3
Three Wishes
1995
as Joyce
TV★ 7.2
Chicago Hope
1994
as Geri Infante
TV★ 9.0
Thunder Alley
1994
as Bobbi Turner
TV★ 7.3
Law & Order
1990
as Mara Feder
MOVIE★ 6.9
Bird
1988
as Chan Parker
MOVIE★ 6.3
Ironweed
1987
as Peg
MOVIE★ 6.6
F/X
1986
as Ellen
MOVIE★ 6.5
A Midsummer Night's Dream
1985
as Hippolyta
MOVIE★ 4.0
Terminal Choice
1985
as Anna Lang
TV★ 5.4
A.D.
1985
as Corinna
MOVIE★ 6.5
The Cotton Club
1984
as Gloria Swanson
MOVIE★ 6.0
Cook & Peary: The Race to the Pole
1983
as Marie Fidele Hunt
MOVIE★ 6.0
Wolfen
1981
as Rebecca Neff
TV★ 6.1
Great Performances
1971
as Ophelia
MOVIE
RSC Meets USA: Working Shakespeare
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as Self