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Diane Venora

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Biography

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).

Notable films

Where to start

Highlights from credits and KinoChain journeys.

Heat

Appears in a KinoChain journey

Romeo + Juliet

Appears in a KinoChain journey

The Insider

Appears in a KinoChain journey

The Jackal

As Major Valentina Koslova

The Substitute

As Jane Hetzko

F/X

As Ellen

First Love

As Aunt Irene

Clint Eastwood: The Last Legend

As Self (archive footage)

Chains

KinoChain journeys

Public chains that pass through their films — or name them as a bridge.

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The Verse Will Outlive the Stage

Eight films that take Shakespeare's words into new weather, new cities and new blood, proving the plays were never meant to stay indoors.

8 films

Second Chances

From Hitchcock to Mann, a journey through films where directors revisit their own earlier work, refining obsession into art.

8 films

The Weight of Command: Eight Faces of Authority

From courtroom to battlefield, from boardroom to the Oval Office, these eight performances explore the many masks of power and the human cost of wearing them.

8 films

Unmasked: Living in the Aftermath of Exposure

The secret is out, and the thrill of anonymity is gone. This collection skips the suspense of a secret identity to focus on the unglamorous aftermath of total e...

7 films

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