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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 Chambers

Diane Chambers is the intellectual waitress on NBC's Cheers (1982-1993), played by Shelley Long, jilted fiancée of Sumner Sloane and romantic counterpart of Sam Malone; she left after season five and returned in the finale and Frasier.

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 Franklin

Diane Franklin (born 1962, Plainview, New York) is an American actress known for 1980s films The Last American Virgin, Amityville II, Better Off Dead, and Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure, and for returning in The Amityville Murders (2018).

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 Keaton

Diane Keaton (Diane Hall, 1946-2025), American actress, photographer, and author; Oscar winner for Annie Hall (1977), Kay Corleone in The Godfather films, AFI Life Achievement honoree, died October 11, 2025.

Diane Keen

Diane Keen, English actress born 1946 in London, raised in Kenya; star of The Cuckoo Waltz and Rings On Their Fingers, later Jenny Burden in The Ruth Rendell Mysteries and Julia Parsons in Doctors.

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 Ladd

Diane Ladd (born Rose Diane Ladner) was an American actress with a seven-decade career who earned three Academy Award nominations, appearing in Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore and Wild at Heart.

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 Lloyd

Diane Lloyd is a fictional consultant surgeon from BBC's Holby City, played by Patricia Potter from "High Risk" (2 July 2002) to her 2007 death, with a 2019 dream-sequence return in "Promise".

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 Parish

Diane Parish (Diane Carol Richards, born 1969) is an English actress, Denise Fox in EastEnders since 2006 and DC Eva Sharpe in The Bill; RTS best actress winner for Babyfather, first black actor to win a major RTS award.

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.

Dianna Fuemana

Dianna Fuemana, born in 1973, is a Niuean-New Zealand playwright, screenwriter, and director whose 1998 solo play Mapaki broke ground for Pacific theater; she was named the 2026 Niue Artist in Residence.

Dianne Buswell

Dianne Buswell (born 1989, Bunbury, Western Australia) is an Australian ballroom and Latin dancer, Strictly Come Dancing professional since 2017, 2024 Glitterball winner with Chris McCausland, partner of Joe Sugg.

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.

Diaochan (貂蝉)

Diaochan (貂蝉) is the fictional heroine of Wang Yun's interlocking stratagem in Romance of the Three Kingdoms, first appearing in the Yuan Sanguo Zhi Pinghua, absent from official histories, and the only fictional one of China's Four Great Beauties.

Diario de un gigoló

Diario de un gigoló (Diary of a Gigolo) is a 2022 Netflix erotic thriller series in Spanish, created by Sebastián Ortega, starring Jesús Castro as escort Emanuel, 10 episodes, premiere 7 September 2022.

Diarra from Detroit

Diarra from Detroit (no alternate titles) is an American comedy-mystery series created by and starring Diarra Kilpatrick, premiering on BET+ March 21, 2024, with season two on Paramount+ July 29, 2026.

Diary of a Chambermaid

Diary of a Chambermaid (Le Journal d'une femme de chambre) is Octave Mirbeau's 1900 novel about the maid Célestine, adapted by Renoir (1946), Buñuel (1964), Jacquot (2015), and Jude (2026).

Diary of a Ditched Girl

Diary of a Ditched Girl (Halva Malmö består av killar som dumpat mig) is a 2025 Swedish Netflix comedy-drama, 7 episodes, based on Amanda Romare's novel, starring Carla Sehn as 31-year-old dater Amanda in Malmö.

Diary of a Lost Girl

Diary of a Lost Girl (Tagebuch einer Verlorenen), 1929 German silent melodrama by G.W. Pabst starring Louise Brooks as Thymian; adapts Margarete Böhme's 1905 bestseller; banned December 1929, re-released January 1930 after cuts.

Diary of a Mad Black Woman

Diary of a Mad Black Woman is a 2005 American comedy-drama film directed by Darren Grant, written by and starring Tyler Perry, and the first film in the Madea series.