Diane Venora

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Female

Birthday

1952-08-10 (73 years old)

Place of Birth

East Hartford, Connecticut, USA

Diane Venora

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.

Acting

1996

Romeo + Juliet

as Gloria Capulet

1995

Heat

as Justine

1999

The 13th Warrior

as Queen Weilew

2000

Hamlet

as Gertrude

1997

The Jackal

as Major Valentina Koslova

1988

Bird

as Chan Parker

2021

star-crossed: the film

as House Mother / School Administrator / Demonstrator

1999

The Insider

as Liane Wigand

2004

Breaking Dawn

as Mother

1986

F/X

as Ellen

2009

The Ministers

as Gina Santana

2008

Stiletto

as Sylvia Vadalos

2010

All Good Things

as Janice Rizzo

1995

Three Wishes

as Joyce

2005

Touched

as Carole Davis

2004

Los Angeles Plays Itself

as Justine in Heat (archive footage)

2000

Race Against Time

as Dr. Helen Steele

2009

2002

Heartbreak Hospital

as Sunday Tyler / Andrea Harmon

1999

The Joyriders

as Celeste

2010

The Wish List

as Brenda

2000

Looking for an Echo

as Joanne Delgado

1985

Terminal Choice

as Anna Lang

2022

First Love

as Aunt Irene

2001

Megiddo: The Omega Code 2

as Gabriella Francini

1999

True Crime

as Barbara Everett

1996

1996

The Substitute

as Jane Hetzko

1983

1984

The Cotton Club

as Gloria Swanson

1997

Seed: A Love Story

as Julia Noble

2022

Clint Eastwood: The Last Legend

as Self (archive footage)

2015

Childless

as Mary

2004

Stateside

as Mrs. Hengen

1987

Ironweed

as Peg

1981

Wolfen

as Rebecca Neff

2005

1996

Surviving Picasso

as Jacqueline

2005

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