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- ).

Highest Rated Movies

Rating	Title	Credit	Box Office	Year
No Score Yet	Childless	Mary	—	2015
34%	All Good Things	Janice Rizzo	$0.6M	2010
No Score Yet	The Wish List	Actor	—	2010
No Score Yet	The Ministers	Gina Santana	—	2009
No Score Yet	Follow the Prophet	Red	—	2009
No Score Yet	Little Hercules	Hera	—	2008
No Score Yet	Stiletto	Sylvia	—	2008
No Score Yet	Touched	Carole Davis	—	2006
36%	Self Medicated	Louise Eriksen	—	2006
No Score Yet	Little Hercules in 3-D	Actor	—	2006
No Score Yet	C.S. Lewis: Beyond Narnia	Joy Gresham	—	2005
No Score Yet	Breaking Dawn	Mother	—	2004
24%	Stateside	Mrs. Hengen	$0.2M	2004
25%	Heartbreak Hospital	Sunday Tyler	—	2002
10%	Megiddo: The Omega Code 2	Gabriella	$5.7M	2001
53%	The Young Girl and the Monsoon	Giovanna	—	2001
No Score Yet	Carrera contra el Tiempo	Actor	—	2000
57%	Hamlet	Gertrude	—	2000
96%	The Insider	Liane Wigand	—	1999
33%	The 13th Warrior	Queen Weilew	—	1999
No Score Yet	The Joyriders	Actor	—	1999
54%	True Crime	Barbara	—	1999
67%	Looking for an Echo	Joanne	—	1998
23%	The Jackal	Valentina Koslova	—	1997
72%	Romeo + Juliet	Gloria Capulet	—	1996
32%	Surviving Picasso	Olga	—	1996
86%	Heat	Justine Hanna	—	1995
13%	Three Wishes	Joyce	—	1995
41%	The Substitute	Jane Hetzko	—	1995
80%	Bird	Chan Parker	—	1988
62%	Ironweed	Peg Phelan	—	1987
88%	F/X	Ellen	—	1986
No Score Yet	Terminal Choice	Anna Lang	—	1985
75%	The Cotton Club	Gloria Swanson	—	1984
75%	Wolfen	Rebecca Neff	—	1981
No Score Yet	Megiddo: The Omega Code II	Actor	—

Rating	Title	Credit	Year
81%	Grey's Anatomy 2005	Audrey	2010
No Score Yet	NCIS 2003	Shada Shakarji	2009
52%	Private Practice 2007-2013	Sharon	2009
35%	Eleventh Hour 2008-2009	Lea Muller	2008
No Score Yet	Medium 2005-2011	Sarah Jane Levitt	2007
44%	Threshold 2005	Angela Hatten Andrea Hatten	2005
No Score Yet	Law & Order: Special Victims Unit 1999	Marilyn Nesbit	2004
No Score Yet	The Practice 1997-2004	Margaret Wakefield	2000
No Score Yet	Chicago Hope 1994-2000	Dr. Geri Infante	1997 1996 1995 1994
No Score Yet	Law & Order 1990-2010	Mara Feder	1993
13%	Thunder Alley 1995	Bobbi Turner

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