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.

Known For: Acting

Born: Savannah, Georgia, USA, 1955-08-27

Died: null

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1977	In the Glitter Palace	Casey Walker	35
2	1977	The Possessed	Lane	48
3	1978	Forever	Sybil Davidson	0
4	1978	Pretty Baby	Frieda	70
5	1978	Battered	Doris Thompson	0
6	1980	Honeysuckle Rose	Jeanne	54
7	1980	Inside Moves	Louise	64
8	1981	Mommie Dearest	Christina Crawford	64
9	1982	Desperate Lives	Eileen Phillips	60
10	1982	Thou Shalt Not Kill	Susan Masters	65
11	1983	Strange Invaders	Margaret Bigelow	48
12	1983	Rumble Fish	Cassandra	70
13	1983	Silkwood	Angela	70
14	1985	A Bunny's Tale	Toby	45
15	1986	The Ladies Club	Lucy Bricker	52
16	1986	Psycho III	Maureen Coyle	56
17	1986	Extremities	Terry	61
18	1986	Heat	Cassie	58
19	1987	After the Promise	Anna Jackson	77
20	1989	Brenda Starr	Libby 'Lips' Lipscomb	46
21	1991	Night of the Hunter	Willa Harper	57
22	1993	Labor of Love: The Arlette Schweitzer Story	Darlene	50
23	1995	The Cure	Gail	79
24	1995	The Neon Bible	Sarah	61
25	1995	Truman	Bess Truman	76
26	1995	Gold Diggers: The Secret of Bear Mountain	Lynette Salerno	62
27	1996	If These Walls Could Talk	Marcia Schulman	67
28	1996	Critical Choices	Diana Johnson	60
29	1996	The Angel of Pennsylvania Avenue	Mrs. Annie Feagan	43
30	1996	Bastard Out of Carolina	Aunt Raylene	71
31	1998	Ruby Bridges	Miss Woodmere	67
32	1998	Before He Wakes	Joanne Michaels	38
33	1999	Down Will Come Baby	Dorothy McIntyre	57
34	2000	Dirty Pictures	Dianne Barrie	62
35	2000	What Lies Beneath	Jody	64
36	2002	The Angel Doll	Fronia Black	52
37	2003	A Guy Thing	Sandra Cooper	59
38	2003	Party Monster	Elke	58
39	2003	Path to War	Marny Clifford	67
40	2004	The Clearing	Eva Finch	58
41	2006	Valley of the Heart's Delight	Natalie Walsh	60
42	2006	Mommie Dearest: Joan Lives On		0
43	2006	Mommie Dearest: Life with Joan		0
44	2006	Mommie Dearest: The Revival of Joan		0
45	2008	Dream Boy	Vivian Davies	61
46	2009	Nora Roberts' Tribute	Cathy Morrow	59
47	2010	Backyard Wedding	Susan Slauson	64
48	2010	The Psycho Legacy	Self	69
49	2011	Another Happy Day	Donna	56

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1968	Hawaii Five-O	Carole Walker	71
2	1975	Starsky & Hutch		73
3	1976	Gibbsville		0
4	1977	Kingston: Confidential		50
5	1979	Studs Lonigan	Catherine Banahan	95
6	1980	Guyana Tragedy: The Story of Jim Jones	Sheila Langtree	72
7	1990	Law & Order	Lisa Russo	74
8	1993	The X-Files	Linda Bowman	84
9	1995	The Outer Limits	Elizabeth Halsey	77
10	1998	From the Earth to the Moon	Joan Aldrin	81
11	1998	A Will of their Own	Crystal Eastman	70
12	1999	Law & Order: Special Victims Unit	Jackie Madden	79
13	2003	Cold Case	Rayanne Leland	78
14	2004	Wonderfalls	Karen Tyler	77
15	2004	Lost	Isabel	79
16	2005	Prison Break	Jeanette Owens	81
17	2005	Criminal Minds	Jane Winmar	83
18	2006	Heroes	Alice Shaw	75
19	2007	Pushing Daisies	Mother Superior	78

Diana Scarwid

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