Acting

Diane Venora

Born 1952-08-10 · East Hartford, Connecticut, USA

Diane Venora (born August 10, 1952) is an American 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 (1988), and is also known for Heat (1995) and All Good Things (2010).

Credits

Newest first

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