Diane Venora
Diane Venora
Julliard-trained actress Diane Venora made both her New York stage and film debut in 1981. The play was the off-Broadway production Penguin Touquet; the film was Wolfen. In 1983, Venora became the focus of voluminous press coverage for her appearance in the New York Shakespeare Festival production of Hamlet--not as Ophelia or Gertrude, but in the title role! Her subsequent film roles included Gloria Swanson in The Cotton Club (1984), Ellen in FX (1986), Peg in Ironweed (1987), and, best of all, Chan Parker, the put-upon wife of jazz great Charlie Parker (Forest Whitaker), in director Clint Eastwood's Bird (1988). Previously seen on television as Corinna in the 1985 miniseries AD and as Ed Asner's daughter in the pilot episode of the 1994 weekly series Thunder Alley (Robin Riker played the role in the series proper), Diane Venora was cast as Dr. Geri Infante in the CBS medical drama Chicago Hope (1994- ). ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
Filmography of Diane Venora:
- Wolfen with Albert Finney , Edward James Olmos , Gregory Hines , Tom Noonan , Dick O'Neill , James S. Tolkan , Tom Waits , Mel Welles
- Bird with Forest Whitaker , Samuel E. Wright , Keith David , Jason Bernard , Hamilton Camp
- F/X with Bryan Brown , Brian Dennehy , Mason Adams , Jerry Orbach , Tom Noonan , Angela Bassett
- Touched with Samantha Mathis
- Hamlet with Ethan Hawke , Kyle MacLachlan , Sam Shepard , Bill Murray , Liev Schreiber , Julia Stiles , Steve Zahn , Jeffrey Wright , Paul Bartel
- The Jackal with Bruce Willis , Richard Gere , Sidney Poitier , Tess Harper , J.K. Simmons , Mathilda May , Jack Black
- Ironweed with Jack Nicholson , Meryl Streep , Carroll Baker , Michael O'Keefe , Fred Gwynne , Margaret Whitton , Tom Waits , Nathan Lane , Bethel Leslie , Ted Levine , Frank Whaley
- Stiletto with Tom Berenger , Michael Biehn , William Forsythe , James Russo , Tom Sizemore , D.B. Sweeney
- Heat with Al Pacino , Robert DeNiro , Val Kilmer , Jon Voight , Tom Sizemore , Ashley Judd , Mykelti Williamson , Ted Levine , Tom Noonan , Dennis Haysbert , William Fichtner , Hank Azaria , Natalie Portman , Bud Cort
- Stateside with Val Kilmer , Joe Mantegna , Carrie Fisher , Ed Jr. Begley
- Breaking Dawn with Edie McClurg , Joe Morton
- Hamlet with Dana Ivey , Kevin Kline
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