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Diana Quick

Diana Quick (Diana Marilyn Quick, born 1946) is an English actress known as Lady Julia Flyte in the 1981 ITV miniseries Brideshead Revisited, a BAFTA-nominated stage and screen performer, author of A Tug on the Thread, and Oxford's first female Dramatic Society president.

Diana Rigg

Dame Diana Rigg (1938–2020), British actress; Emma Peel in The Avengers, Tracy in On Her Majesty's Secret Service, Tony-winning Medea, Emmy-winning Rebecca, and Olenna Tyrell in Game of Thrones.

Diana-Maria Riva

Diana-Maria Riva (born Diana-Maria Uhlenbrock, 1969, Cincinnati) is a Dominican-American actress known for Dead to Me (Detective Ana Perez, Imagen Award), Gordita Chronicles, Telenovela, Philly, and McFarland, USA; co-founder of Latinas Acting Up during the 2023 SAG-AFTRA strike.

Diane Baker

Diane Baker (Diane Carol Baker, born 1938) is an American actress and producer who debuted as Margot Frank in The Diary of Anne Frank (1959), starred in Marnie and The Silence of the Lambs, and produced A Woman of Substance.

Diane Brewster

Diane Brewster (1931-1991) was an American film and television actress from Kansas City, Missouri, known for Samantha Crawford on Maverick, Miss Canfield on Leave It to Beaver, and Helen Kimble on The Fugitive.

Diane Cilento

Diane Cilento, born Elizabeth Cilento, was an Australian stage and screen actress who achieved Oscar and Tony nominations for her work on Tom Jones and Tiger at the Gates.

Diane Disney Miller

Diane Disney Miller (1933-2013), eldest daughter of Walt and Lillian Disney, co-founded the Walt Disney Family Museum in San Francisco and used her family's funds to keep Frank Gehry on the Walt Disney Concert Hall project in 1997.

Diane Farr

Diane Farr (born 1969, Manhattan) is an American actress, writer, and director known for Megan Reeves in Numb3rs, Laura Miles in Rescue Me, Sharon Leone in Fire Country, MTV's Loveline, and the books The Girl Code and Kissing Outside the Lines.

Diane Guerrero

Diane Guerrero (born 1986, Passaic, New Jersey) is a Colombian American actress, author, and immigration advocate known for Maritza Ramos in Orange Is the New Black, Lina in Jane the Virgin, Crazy Jane in Doom Patrol, and voicing Isabela in Encanto.

Diane Kruger

Diane Kruger (Diane Heidkrüger), German actress born 1976 in Algermissen; former Royal Ballet-trained model; played Helen in Troy, Bridget in Inglourious Basterds; won 2017 Cannes Best Actress for In the Fade.

Diane Lane

Diane Lane, also known as Diane Colleen Lane, is an American actress born in 1965 who earned an Academy Award nomination for Unfaithful and plays Martha Kent in DC films.

Diane Morgan

Diane Morgan, English comedian, actor, writer and director, creator of Philomena Cunk (Weekly Wipe, 2013), star of Mandy, Motherland and After Life, and of the 2026 BBC series Ann Droid and Cunk on Cinema.

Diane Neal

Diane Neal (born 1975, Alexandria, Virginia) is an American actress who played ADA Casey Novak on Law & Order: SVU and agent Abigail Borin on NCIS, later earned a Harvard Extension School degree and ran for Congress in NY-19 as an Independent.

Diane Venora

Diane Venora (Diana Venora), born 1952, Hartford, Connecticut, American Juilliard-trained actress; first American woman to play Hamlet for Joseph Papp; known for Bird (1988, NYFCC Award), Heat (1995), and The Insider (1999).

Diane Youdale

Diane Youdale, also known as Jet, is an English actress, choreographer, and psychotherapist who starred on ITV's Gladiators from 1992 to 1996 before retraining in psychotherapy.

Dianna Agron

Dianna Agron (born 1986, Savannah, Georgia) is an American actress and singer, best known as Quinn Fabray on Glee (2009–2015); later indie films Shiva Baby, Acidman, Clock, and Industry season 5.

Dianne Doan

Dianne Doan (born 1990) is a Canadian actress from Abbotsford, British Columbia, of Vietnamese descent, known as Lonnie in Disney's Descendants, Yidu in Vikings, and Mai Ling in Warrior.

Dianne Wiest

Dianne Wiest, American actress born 1948 in Kansas City, Missouri; two-time Best Supporting Actress Oscar winner (Hannah and Her Sisters, Bullets Over Broadway), two-time Emmy winner (In Treatment, Avonlea), longtime Woody Allen collaborator and New York stage veteran.

Dichen Lachman

Dichen Lachman (born 1982, Kathmandu) is a Nepalese-born Australian actress known as Katya Kinski on Neighbours, Sierra in Dollhouse, and Ms. Casey/Gemma in Severance.

Dick Cavett

Dick Cavett (born 1936, Gibbon, Nebraska) is an American talk-show host, comedian, and writer whose The Dick Cavett Show ran on ABC, PBS, USA, CNBC, and TCM from 1968, known for long-form conversational interviews and Emmy wins in 1972 and 1974.

Dick Clark

Dick Clark (Richard Wagstaff Clark, 1929-2012), American TV host and producer, "America's oldest teenager," who hosted American Bandstand 1956-89, survived the payola scandal, created the American Music Awards, and hosted New Year's Rockin' Eve from 1972.

Dick Cusack

Dick Cusack (Richard John Cusack, 1925-2003), American advertising executive turned Emmy-winning documentarian, screenwriter of The Jack Bull, character actor, and father of actors John, Joan, Ann, Bill, and Susie Cusack.

Dick Emery

Dick Emery (Richard Gilbert Emery) was an English comedian and star of the BBC sketch show The Dick Emery Show (1963–1981, 18 series, about 17 million viewers), creator of Mandy, Lampwick, Hettie, and the catchphrase "Ooh, you are awful... but I like you!".

Dick Gautier

Dick Gautier (Richard Gautier, 1931-2017), American actor and comedian; original Broadway Conrad Birdie in Bye Bye Birdie (1961 Tony nominee), Hymie the Robot on Get Smart, Robin Hood in When Things Were Rotten, voice of Serpentor and Transformers characters, and caricaturist-author.

Dick Powell

Dick Powell (Richard Ewing Powell, 1904–1963), American singer, actor, producer, and director; Warner Bros. musical star of 42nd Street, film noir lead in Murder, My Sweet, and president of Four Star Television.

Dick Sargent

Dick Sargent (Richard Stanford Cox, 1930–1994), American actor, second Darrin Stephens on ABC's Bewitched 1969–1972 after Dick York; films included Operation Petticoat; came out gay on National Coming Out Day 1991; died of prostate cancer.

Dick Strawbridge

Dick Strawbridge (born 1959) is a British engineer, retired Royal Signals lieutenant colonel, MBE, TV presenter and author, known for Scrapheap Challenge, It's Not Easy Being Green, and Escape to the Chateau with wife Angel Adoree.

Dick Van Dyke

Dick Van Dyke (born 1925, West Plains, Missouri) is an American actor and comedian of Rob Petrie in The Dick Van Dyke Show and Bert in Mary Poppins; Tony, Grammy, five Emmy winner, still active at 100.

Dick Van Patten

Dick Van Patten (Richard Vincent Van Patten, 1928-2015), American actor famous as dad Tom Bradford on ABC's Eight Is Enough (1977-1981); child Broadway performer, star of CBS's Mama, Mel Brooks film actor, Natural Balance pet food co-founder.

Dick Wolf

Dick Wolf (Richard Anthony Wolf, born 1946, New York City) is the American producer who created Law & Order and built Wolf Entertainment, behind Law & Order, One Chicago, and FBI, with two Emmys and a Grammy.