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Diablo Cody

Diablo Cody (Brook Maurio, née Busey, born 1978) is an American screenwriter and author who won the 2008 Academy Award for her debut script Juno and also wrote Jennifer's Body, Young Adult, United States of Tara, and Jagged Little Pill.

Diablo Guardián

Diablo Guardián, Xavier Velasco's 2003 Premio Alfaguara-winning novel about Violetta, a Mexican teen who flees to New York with stolen money, and its 2018 Amazon Prime Video series, the platform's first Mexican original.

Diabolic (film)

Diabolic is a 2025 Australian religious horror film directed by Daniel J. Phillips, starring Elizabeth Cullen, John Kim, and Mia Challis. Inspired by Ticia Madsen's Mormon church experiences, it won Best Australian Feature at Monster Fest and released in the US in February 2026.

Diabolik: Ginko Attacks!

Diabolik: Ginko Attacks! (Diabolik - Ginko all'attacco!) is a 2022 Italian crime thriller by the Manetti Bros., the second film of their Diabolik trilogy, adapting comic issue no. 16 (1964), with Giacomo Gianniotti replacing Luca Marinelli and Monica Bellucci as Altea.

Diabolik: Who Are You?

Diabolik: Who Are You? (Diabolik - Chi sei?) is a 2023 Italian crime film by the Manetti Bros., the final chapter of their Diabolik trilogy, based on the 1968 comic issue no. 107, starring Giacomo Gianniotti, released in Italy on 30 November 2023.

Diagnosis

Diagnosis (2019) is a seven-episode Netflix documentary series based on Lisa Sanders' New York Times Magazine column, in which she crowdsources diagnoses for mysterious, undiagnosed medical conditions from readers worldwide.

Diagnosis: Murder

Diagnosis: Murder (1993–2001) was a CBS mystery/medical crime drama starring Dick Van Dyke as Dr. Mark Sloan, a crime-solving physician aided by his detective son Steve, played by real-life son Barry Van Dyke; a Jake and the Fatman spin-off spanning 178 episodes, eight seasons, and five TV movies.

Diahann Carroll

Diahann Carroll (1935–2019), American actress and singer, star of NBC's Julia (1968–71), the first TV series led by an African-American woman in a non-domestic role; Tony winner for No Strings, Oscar nominee for Claudine, and Dynasty's Dominique Deveraux.

Dial M for Murder

Dial M for Murder (1954) is Alfred Hitchcock's thriller adapted by Frederick Knott from his stage play, starring Ray Milland, Grace Kelly, and Robert Cummings; shot in 3-D, released mostly flat, grossing $6.1 million.

Diamond (2026 film)

Diamond (2026) is Andy Garcia's neo-noir crime drama, also called a contemporary noir homage, in which Garcia writes, directs, produces, and stars as anachronistic LA private detective Joe Diamond; it premiered Out of Competition at Cannes 2026, runs 118 minutes, and stars Vicky Krieps, Brendan Fraser, and Dustin Hoffman.

Diamond Is Unbreakable (ダイヤモンドは砕けない)

Diamond Is Unbreakable (ダイヤモンドは砕けない) is Part 4 of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure by Hirohiko Araki, set in 1999 Morioh with Josuke Higashikata hunting serial killer Yoshikage Kira; adapted as a 39-episode 2016 anime and a 2017 Takashi Miike live-action film.

Diamonds Are Forever (film)

Diamonds Are Forever is a 1971 James Bond film directed by Guy Hamilton, starring Sean Connery as 007 investigating a diamond smuggling ring led by Blofeld.

Diana (2013 film)

Diana (2013) is Oliver Hirschbiegel's biographical drama starring Naomi Watts as Diana, Princess of Wales, and Naveen Andrews as Hasnat Khan, covering her final two years, land-mine campaign, and secret affair; critically panned at 7% on Rotten Tomatoes.

Diana Barrymore

Diana Barrymore (Diana Strange Blythe, 1921-1960), American actress and socialite, daughter of John Barrymore and Michael Strange; Broadway and Universal films, memoir Too Much, Too Soon (1957), died by suicide at 38.

Diana Canova

Diana Canova (Diana Rivero, born 1953) is an American actress, daughter of Judy Canova, known as Corinne Tate on Soap, Broadway's They're Playing Our Song and Company, Throb, and later Connecticut theatre directing and voice teaching.

Diana Coupland

Diana Coupland (Betty Diana Coupland, 1932-2006), English actress and singer; Jean Abbott in ITV sitcom Bless This House opposite Sid James, and the singing voice of Ursula Andress's Honey Ryder in Dr No (1962).

Diana Dors

Diana Dors (Diana Mary Fluck, 1931–1984), English actress and Britain's 1950s blonde sex symbol, dubbed the British Marilyn Monroe; best known for Yield to the Night (1956), three marriages, and a late-career reappraisal.

Diana Douglas

Diana Douglas, born Diana Love Dill (1923–2015), was a Bermudian-born American actress, the first wife of Kirk Douglas and the mother of actor Michael Douglas.

Diana Hyland

Diana Hyland (Joan Diana Gentner, 1936-1977), American actress; Broadway's Heavenly Finney in Sweet Bird of Youth; posthumous 1977 Emmy for The Boy in the Plastic Bubble; Joan Bradford on Eight Is Enough.

Diana Lee Inosanto

Diana Lee Inosanto (born 1966) is an American actress, stuntwoman, director, and martial artist, daughter of Dan Inosanto and goddaughter of Bruce Lee, known for Magistrate Morgan Elsbeth in The Mandalorian, Ahsoka, and Tales of the Empire and for The Sensei (2008).

Diana Lewis

Diana Lewis (1919–1997), American MGM actress, Miss Dunk in It's a Gift (1934), Go West and Cry 'Havoc'; wife of William Powell for 44 years; distinct from the Detroit WXYZ news anchor Diana Lewis.

Diana Muldaur

Diana Muldaur (born August 19, 1938) is an American actress known as Rosalind Shays on L.A. Law, Dr. Katherine Pulaski on Star Trek: The Next Generation season 2, and two original Star Trek roles; twice Emmy-nominated and a former Television Academy president.

Diana Penty

Diana Penty (born 1985, Mumbai) is an Indian model and Hindi film actress, also called a Bollywood actress. Debuted as Meera in Cocktail (2012), Filmfare Best Female Debut nominee, known for Happy Bhag Jayegi, Parmanu, and Cannes appearances.

Diana Prince (DC Extended Universe)

Diana Prince is the DC Extended Universe version of Wonder Woman, played by Gal Gadot from Batman v Superman (2016) through Wonder Woman (2017, $800 million worldwide) and Wonder Woman 1984 (2020), until the DCEU ended under DC Studios' James Gunn reboot.

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 Scarwid

Diana Scarwid (born 1955, Savannah, Georgia) is a retired American actress, Oscar-nominated for Inside Moves (1980) and Razzie-winning as adult Christina Crawford in Mommie Dearest (1981), with Emmy-nominated Bess Truman in Truman (1995).

Diana Serra Cary

Diana Serra Cary, born Peggy-Jean Montgomery and known as Baby Peggy, was an American silent film child star who later became an author and child-actor advocate.

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.