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.

Known For

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

Grey's Anatomy

NCIS

Law & Order

Private Practice

Medium

The Practice

Great Performances

All Movies (44)

• Clint Eastwood: The Last Legend2022 · as Self (archive footage)
• First Love2022 · as Aunt Irene
• star-crossed: the film2021 · as House Mother / School Administrator / Demonstrator
• Childless2015 · as Mary
• Uncovering Wolfen2015 · as Self
• All Good Things2010 · as Janice Rizzo
• The Wish List2010 · as Brenda
• The Ministers2009 · as Gina Santana
• Little Hercules2009 · as Hera
• Follow the Prophet2009 · as Red
• Stiletto2008 · as Sylvia Vadalos
• C.S. Lewis: Beyond Narnia2005 · as Joy Gresham
• Touched2005 · as Carole Davis
• Self Medicated2005 · as Louise
• The Making of 'Heat'2005 · as Self
• Breaking Dawn2004 · as Mother
• Stateside2004 · as Mrs. Hengen
• Heartbreak Hospital2002 · as Sunday Tyler / Andrea Harmon
• Megiddo: The Omega Code 22001 · as Gabriella Francini
• The Young Girl and the Monsoon2001 · as Giovanna
• Looking for an Echo2000 · as Joanne Delgado
• Race Against Time2000 · as Dr. Helen Steele
• Hamlet2000 · as Gertrude
• The Insider1999 · as Liane Wigand
• The 13th Warrior1999 · as Queen Weilew
• The Joyriders1999 · as Celeste
• True Crime1999 · as Barbara Everett
• The Jackal1997 · as Major Valentina Koslova
• Seed: A Love Story1997 · as Julia Noble
• Romeo + Juliet1996 · as Gloria Capulet
• Surviving Picasso1996 · as Jacqueline
• The Substitute1996 · as Jane Hetzko
• Special Report: Journey to Mars1996 · as Lt. Tanya Sadavoy
• Heat1995 · as Justine
• Three Wishes1995 · as Joyce
• Bird1988 · as Chan Parker
• Ironweed1987 · as Peg
• F/X1986 · as Ellen
• A Midsummer Night's Dream1985 · as Hippolyta
• Terminal Choice1985 · as Anna Lang
• The Cotton Club1984 · as Gloria Swanson
• Cook & Peary: The Race to the Pole1983 · as Marie Fidele Hunt
• Wolfen1981 · as Rebecca Neff
• RSC Meets USA: Working Shakespeare— · as Self

All TV Shows (14)

• Eleventh Hour2008 · as Lea Muller
• Private Practice2007 · as Sharon
• Threshold2005 · as Andrea Hatten
• Grey's Anatomy2005 · as Audrey Taylor
• Medium2005 · as Sarah Jane Levitt
• NCIS2003 · as Shada Shakarji
• Working Shakespeare2003
• Law & Order: Special Victims Unit1999 · as Marilyn Nesbit
• The Practice1997 · as Margaret Wakefield
• Chicago Hope1994 · as Geri Infante
• Thunder Alley1994 · as Bobbi Turner
• Law & Order1990 · as Mara Feder
• A.D.1985 · as Corinna
• Great Performances1971 · as Ophelia