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
Complete Filmography

Clint Eastwood: The Last Legend
2022
as Self (archive footage)
The portrait of the last cowboy Hollywood legend dives into the 65 years of an extraordinary career in Hollywood, highlighted iconic films like The Go...

First Love
2022
as Aunt Irene
A young man’s difficult entry into adulthood, who experiences the highs and lows of his first love, while dealing with the familial fallout spurred by...

star-crossed: the film
2021
as House Mother / School Administrator / Demonstrator
Takes the music from the studio to the screen with gorgeous visuals and a sense of heightened reality envisioned by Musgraves and Zeinali and shot by ...

Childless
2015
as Mary
Katherine is a typical teenager. Today's her funeral. The four adults in her life have a lot on their mind - and it's not all about Katherine either. ...

Uncovering Wolfen
2015
as Self
After the huge financial and cultural success of WOODSTOCK (1970), filmmaker and political activist Michael Wadleigh spent many years in Hollywood wri...

All Good Things
2010
as Janice Rizzo
Newly-discovered facts, court records and speculation are used to elaborate the true love story and murder mystery of the most notorious unsolved murd...

The Wish List
2010
as Brenda
Sarah Fisher, an overly organized, by-the-numbers kind of woman, makes a "wish list" of all the qualities and traits her future husband should have. A...

The Ministers
2009
as Gina Santana
A NYPD detective attempts to avenge the death of her father, but unwittingly becomes involved with one of his killers.

Little Hercules
2009
as Hera
Little Hercules travels from Mt. Olympus to live life as a mortal in Los Angeles.

Follow the Prophet
2009
as Red
Follow the Prophet is an American film that was written by and stars Robert Chimento, which was created to show how polygamist lifestyles affect the c...

Stiletto
2008
as Sylvia Vadalos
The seemingly random killings of an assassin puzzle her former lover, a wealthy Greek crime boss whose organization is jeopardized by his love for her...

C.S. Lewis: Beyond Narnia
2005
as Joy Gresham
Readers and fans worldwide know the land of Narnia and the magical beings who dwell there. But few know the genius who created this beloved fantasy. N...

Touched
2005
as Carole Davis
A devoted nurse falls in love with a formerly comatose patient who has lost his sense of touch.

Self Medicated
2005
as Louise
Based on true events. On the edges of Las Vegas, 17-year-old Andrew's life is spiraling out of control. Unable to cope with the loss of his father, An...

The Making of 'Heat'
2005
as Self
Behind the scenes documentary on the classic Michael Mann heist film.

Breaking Dawn
2004
as Mother
Within the confines of an insane asylum languish many would-be seers and messiahs. Medical students meet them day in, day out. But when Eve meets Don ...

Los Angeles Plays Itself
2004
as Justine in Heat (archive footage)
From its distinctive neighborhoods to its architectural homes, Los Angeles has been the backdrop to countless movies. In this dazzling work, Andersen ...

Stateside
2004
as Mrs. Hengen
The film follows a rebellious teenager on leave from the Marines who falls in love with a female musician. The relationship is threatened when she dev...

Heartbreak Hospital
2002
as Sunday Tyler / Andrea Harmon
Neely, an aspiring actress, gets a role on the popular soap opera "Heartbreak Hospital." Her neighbor, Lottie, a huge fan of the show, can't different...

Megiddo: The Omega Code 2
2001
as Gabriella Francini
Stone (the Antichrist) becomes President of the European Union and uses his seat of power to dissolve the United Nations and create a one world govern...

The Young Girl and the Monsoon
2001
as Giovanna
A photojournalist (Terry Kinney) upsets his daughter (Ellen Muth) and loses his girlfriend (Mili Avital) by covering stories in remote and dangerous l...

Looking for an Echo
2000
as Joanne Delgado
The lead singer of an oldies group reminisces about the good ol' days and a potential comeback.

Race Against Time
2000
as Dr. Helen Steele
When a man faces surmounting bills for his dying son's hospital stay, he enters into an agreement to sell his body for organ transplants to pay the bi...

Hamlet
2000
as Gertrude
Modern day adaptation of Shakespeare's immortal story about Hamlet's plight to avenge his father's murder in New York City.

The Insider
1999
as Liane Wigand
A research chemist comes under personal and professional attack when he decides to appear in a 60 Minutes exposé on Big Tobacco.

The 13th Warrior
1999
as Queen Weilew
A Muslim ambassador exiled from his homeland joins a group of Vikings, initially offended by their behavior but growing to respect them. As they trave...

The Joyriders
1999
as Celeste
The close-knit relationship among a trio of homeless teenagers is changed forever after they kidnap a suicidal septuagenarian for his car and money.

True Crime
1999
as Barbara Everett
Boozer, skirt chaser, careless father. You could create your own list of reporter Steve Everett's faults but there's no time. A San Quentin Death Row ...

The Jackal
1997
as Major Valentina Koslova
Hired by a powerful member of the Russian mafia to avenge an FBI sting that left his brother dead, a psychopathic hitman known only as The Jackal prov...
Seed: A Love Story
1997
as Julia Noble
Julia Noble is a tough cop with a ticking biological clock. When she decides to have a baby through artificial insemination, she's shocked to learn th...

Romeo + Juliet
1996
as Gloria Capulet
In director Baz Luhrmann's contemporary take on William Shakespeare's classic tragedy, the Montagues and Capulets have moved their ongoing feud to the...

Surviving Picasso
1996
as Jacqueline
The passionate Merchant-Ivory drama tells the story of Francoise Gilot, the only lover of Pablo Picasso who was strong enough to withstand his ferocio...

The Substitute
1996
as Jane Hetzko
When an inner-city Miami schoolteacher gets her knee broken after standing up to the school's gang leader, her mercenary combat specialist boyfriend g...

Special Report: Journey to Mars
1996
as Lt. Tanya Sadavoy
When the world's first spaceship is close to its goal (Mars), the TV-network GNN begins its live coverage of the last two hours of the mission and the...

Heat
1995
as Justine
Obsessive master thief Neil McCauley leads a top-notch crew on various daring heists throughout Los Angeles while determined detective Vincent Hanna p...

Three Wishes
1995
as Joyce
While Jane Holman is driving with her two sons, she accidentally runs into a drifter, Jack McCloud, who breaks his leg. Being responsible, Jane invite...

Bird
1988
as Chan Parker
Saxophone player Charlie ‘Bird’ Parker comes to New York in 1940 and is quickly noticed for his remarkable way of playing. He becomes a drug addict bu...

Ironweed
1987
as Peg
An alcoholic drifter spends Halloween in his hometown of Albany, New York after returning there for the first time in decades.

F/X
1986
as Ellen
A movies special effects man is hired by a government agency to help stage the assassination of a well known gangster. When the agency double cross hi...

A Midsummer Night's Dream
1985
as Hippolyta
Theseus has defeated Hippolyta in battle, and now claims her as his bride. But before the nuptials begin, a pair of young lovers flee into the forest ...

Terminal Choice
1985
as Anna Lang
A patient in an hospital dies under mysterious circumstances. The attending doctor Frank Holt gets under suspect - he'd been fired already from his la...

The Cotton Club
1984
as Gloria Swanson
Harlem's legendary Cotton Club becomes a hotbed of passion and violence as the lives and loves of entertainers and gangsters collide.

Cook & Peary: The Race to the Pole
1983
as Marie Fidele Hunt
Cook and Peary: The Race to the Pole is an unabashedly biased recreation of the controversy concerning the "conquering" of the North Pole. Robert E. P...

Wolfen
1981
as Rebecca Neff
A New York City cop and an expert criminologist trying to solve a series of grisly deaths in which the victims have seemingly been maimed by feral ani...