Diana Scarwid
Diana Elizabeth Scarwid is a retired American actress, best known for her portrayal of adult Christina Crawford in Mommie Dearest (1980). She received nominations for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for Inside Moves (1980), and for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Limited Series or Movie for Truman (1995). She has over 70 film and television credits to her name. Her films include Pretty Baby (1978), Honeysuckle Rose (1980), Rumble Fish, Silkwood (both 1983), Psycho III, Heat, Extremities (all 3 in 1986), The Neon Bible (1995), Bastard Out of Carolina (1996), What Lies Beneath (2000), A Guy Thing (2003), Party Monster (2003), The Clearing (2004), and Another Happy Day (2011). She's had roles in numerous TV movies including Truman (1995) as Bess Truman, The Possessed (1977), Desperate Lives (1982), A Bunny's Tale (1985), Night of the Hunter (1991), Ruby Bridges (1998), Before He Wakes (1998), Down Will Come Baby (1999), Path to War (2002), Tribute (2009), and more. She had a main role as Karen Tyler on the series Wonderfalls, and recurring role as Mother Superior on the TV series Pushing Daisies. She has also guest starred on several TV series including Starsky & Hutch, the original Hawaii Five-O, The X-Files, Law & Order, Law & Order: SVU, Prison Break, Lost, Cold Case, Heroes, and Criminal Minds.
Pretty Baby
as FriedaHattie, a New Orleans prostitute, meets a photographer named Bellocq at her brothel one night...
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What Lies Beneath
as JodyWhen Claire Spencer starts hearing ghostly voices and seeing spooky images, she wonders if an...
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Silkwood
as AngelaThe story of Karen Silkwood, a metallurgy worker at a plutonium processing plant who was...
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The Cure
as GailErik, a loner, finds a friend in Dexter, an eleven-year-old boy with AIDS. They vow to find a...
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A Guy Thing
as Sandra CooperPaul Morse is a good guy. When his friends throw him a wild bachelor party, he just wants to...
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Mommie Dearest
as Christina CrawfordRenowned film star Joan Crawford's abuse towards Christina, her adopted daughter, intensifies as...
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Psycho III
as Maureen CoyleWhen Maureen Coyle, a suicidal nun who resembles Norman's former victim, Marion Crane, arrives...
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Another Happy Day
as DonnaA wedding at her parents' Annapolis estate hurls high-strung Lynn into the center of touchy...
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Party Monster
as ElkeThe New York club scene of the 80s and 90s was a world like no other. Into this candy-colored,...
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Dream Boy
as Vivian DaviesThe story of Nathan, a young teenager who tries to flourish in a romantic relationship with...
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Gold Diggers: The Secret of Bear Mountain
as Lynette SalernoTwo teen girls, one from the city, one from the country, try to find the hidden gold of Bear...
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The Clearing
as Eva FinchWhen affluent executive Wayne Hayes is kidnapped by a disgruntled employee and held for ransom...
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Rumble Fish
as CassandraRusty James, an absent-minded street thug, struggles to live up to his legendary older brother's...
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Extremities
as TerryA woman escapes from the man who is about to rape her, but leaves her purse behind. Afraid that...
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If These Walls Could Talk
as Marcia SchulmanA powerful, intimate portrait of three women living in the same house during different eras who...
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Path to War
as Marny CliffordA powerful drama of soaring ambition and shattered dreams that takes a provocative insider's...
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Strange Invaders
as Margaret BigelowAlien beings, who settle in a small midwestern town, are disturbed by a young professor...
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Bastard Out of Carolina
as Aunt RayleneA poor, struggling South Carolinian mother and daughter face painful choices with their resolve...
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Brenda Starr
as Libby 'Lips' LipscombFearless reporter Brenda Starr needs a big scoop if she wishes to retain her lofty status within...
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Heat
as CassieReynolds plays an ex-soldier-of-fortunish character in Vegas, taking "Chaperone" jobs, fighting...
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In the Glitter Palace
as Casey WalkerThe ex-girlfriend of a lawyer, who left him for a lesbian lover, asks him to defend her lover in...
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Honeysuckle Rose
as JeanneBuck Bonham is a country singer on the road caught in a romantic triangle with Dyan Cannon and...
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After the Promise
as Anna JacksonElmer Jackson is a carpenter in a small Californian town in the 1930s. Struggling to bring up 4...
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Inside Moves
as LouiseAfter a failed suicide attempt leaves him partially crippled, Rory begins spending a lot of time...
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Critical Choices
as Diana JohnsonA Milwaukee Women's Health Clinic becomes the battleground between pro-choice activists and...
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The Possessed
as LaneA former priest, now an exorcist, battles the satanic forces that are threatening the students...
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The Angel of Pennsylvania Avenue
as Mrs. Annie FeaganWhen an unemployed Detroit man is arrested for a crime he didn't commit, his three children are...
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Nora Roberts' Tribute
as Cathy MorrowA former child star buys her grandmother's house to rescue it from ruin but her hope for...
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Truman
as Bess TrumanBiographical account of America's President for the latter part of WWII. Shows Truman's rise...
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The Angel Doll
as Fronia BlackThe story of two small town boys from different sides of the tracks: 1950's childhood and...
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Mommie Dearest: The Revival of Joan
as uncreditedA documentary in which the creative team discuss the process of adapting the material, the...
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The Ladies Club
as Lucy BrickerA policewoman who was raped forms a vigilante group of various rape victims. They abduct and...
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The Psycho Legacy
as SelfThe cast and crew of all four Psycho films recall their time working on the influential horror...
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Night of the Hunter
as Willa HarperA false preacher ingratiates himself with a dead man's family to find where he hid the money...
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Dirty Pictures
as Dianne BarrieA Cincinnati museum director goes on trial in 1990 for exhibiting sadomasochistic photographs...
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Ruby Bridges
as Miss WoodmereWhen six-year-old Ruby Bridges is chosen to be the first African-American to integrate her local...
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Before He Wakes
as Joanne MichaelsInitially cleared of "accidentally" killing her husband, an idyllic wife and mother comes under...
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Backyard Wedding
as Susan SlausonKim Tyler grew up loving her next-door neighbor, Evan Slauson. Now she's all set to have the...
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The Neon Bible
as SarahDuring a train ride, a teenager recalls his upbringing in 1940s small-town Georgia and the...
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Battered
as Doris ThompsonGritty drama of three interweaving stories of three women of various backgrounds and ages whose...
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Down Will Come Baby
as Dorothy McIntyreLeah Garr wants to move from Phoenix to take a new job in Denver to help her family (Husband...
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A Bunny's Tale
as TobyA dramatization of Gloria Steinem's undercover investigation of the working conditions Bunnies...
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Desperate Lives
as Eileen PhillipsA brother and sister get caught up in the drug scene in their local high school, with tragic...
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Thou Shalt Not Kill
as Susan MastersA man is wrongly convicted for murder and sent to prison, where he is accused of murdering a...
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Mommie Dearest: Joan Lives On
as uncreditedDocumentary which focuses more on the impact of the film upon its release and how it has seeped...
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Valley of the Heart's Delight
as Natalie WalshWhen a fatal kidnapping ignites a firestorm of suspicion and rage in idyllic 1933 San Jose,...
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Labor of Love: The Arlette Schweitzer Story
as DarleneWhen a woman learns she cannot bear children, her mother decides to be a surrogate for her.
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Forever
as Sybil DavidsonRomantic drama about a teenage girl's first love and the perennial adolescent dilemma of whether...
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Mommie Dearest: Life with Joan
as uncreditedDocumentary which delves a bit deeper into the story of the film in which the cast and crew...
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Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
as Jackie MaddenIn the criminal justice system, sexually-based offenses are considered especially heinous. In...
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Lost
as IsabelStripped of everything, the survivors of a horrific plane crash must work together to stay...
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Criminal Minds
as Jane WinmarAn elite team of FBI profilers analyze the country's most twisted criminal minds, anticipating...
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Prison Break
as Jeanette OwensDue to a political conspiracy, an innocent man is sent to death row and his only hope is his...
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Law & Order
as Lisa RussoIn cases ripped from the headlines, police investigate serious and often deadly crimes, weighing...
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The X-Files
as Linda BowmanThe exploits of FBI Special Agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully who investigate X-Files:...
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Heroes
as Alice ShawCommon people discover that they have super powers. Their lives intertwine as a devastating...
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Cold Case
as Rayanne LelandThe Philadelphia homicide squad's lone female detective finds her calling when she is assigned...
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The Outer Limits
as Elizabeth HalseyAnthology series of composed of distinct story episodes, sometimes with a plot twist at the end,...
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Starsky & Hutch
as uncreditedStreetwise Detective David Starsky partners up with a more intellectual partner, Kenneth 'Hutch'...
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Hawaii Five-O
as Carole WalkerHawaii Five-O is an American police procedural drama series produced by CBS Productions and...
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Pushing Daisies
as Mother SuperiorA pie-maker, with the power to bring dead people back to life, solves murder mysteries with his...
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From the Earth to the Moon
as Joan AldrinThe story of the United States' space program, from its beginnings in 1961 to the final moon...
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Wonderfalls
as Karen TylerJaye Tyler, a recent Brown University graduate with a philosophy degree, holds a dead-end job as...
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Gibbsville
as uncreditedGibbsville is an American drama television series starring John Savage and Gig Young that aired...
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Guyana Tragedy: The Story of Jim Jones
as Sheila LangtreeThe story of the Peoples Temple led by Jim Jones and the 1978 mass suicide at Jonestown.
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A Will of their Own
as Crystal EastmanA Will of their Own is a 1998 American television mini-series directed by Karen Arthur. The film...
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Studs Lonigan
as Catherine BanahanThe story of the Irish-American Lonigan family between 1918 and 1930.
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Kingston: Confidential
as uncreditedKingston: Confidential is an American mystery crime drama that aired on NBC for 13 episodes...
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