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 |
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Most Rating | 14.881 |
Birthday | 1955-08-27 |
Place of Birth | Savannah, Georgia, USA |
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1983
Rumble Fish
7/649
Rusty James, an absent-minded street thug, struggles to live up to his legendary older brother's reputation and longs for the days when gang warfare w...
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Rumble Fish
2003
Party Monster
5.8/169
The New York club scene of the 80s and 90s was a world like no other. Into this candy-colored, mirror ball playground stepped Michael Alig, a wannabe...
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Party Monster
2000
What Lies Beneath
6.411/1768
When Claire Spencer starts hearing ghostly voices and seeing spooky images, she wonders if an otherworldly spirit is trying to contact her. All the wh...
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What Lies Beneath
1995
The Cure
7.937/295
Erik, a loner, finds a friend in Dexter, an eleven-year-old boy with AIDS. They vow to find a cure for AIDS together and save Dexter's life in an even...
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The Cure
1983
Silkwood
7/308
The story of Karen Silkwood, a metallurgy worker at a plutonium processing plant who was purposefully contaminated, psychologically tortured and possi...
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Silkwood
2003
A Guy Thing
5.9/324
Paul Morse is a good guy. When his friends throw him a wild bachelor party, he just wants to keep his conscience clean -- which is why he's shocked wh...
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A Guy Thing
1986
Psycho III
5.611/364
When Maureen Coyle, a suicidal nun who resembles Norman's former victim, Marion Crane, arrives at the motel, all bets are off and "Mother" is less tha...
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Psycho III
1978
Pretty Baby
7/339
Hattie, a New Orleans prostitute, meets a photographer named Bellocq at her brothel one night and, after he photographs her, he befriends her 12-year-...
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Pretty Baby
1996
If These Walls Could Talk
6.572/69
A powerful, intimate portrait of three women living in the same house during different eras who all face unplanned pregnancies. The vignettes follow a...
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If These Walls Could Talk
2008
Dream Boy
6.1/114
The story of Nathan, a young teenager who tries to flourish in a romantic relationship with neighbour Roy. The two young men will have to face the bru...
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Dream Boy
1995
Gold Diggers: The Secret of Bear Mountain
6.3/140
Two teen girls, one from the city, one from the country, try to find the hidden gold of Bear Mountain learning about friendship, loyalty and courage o...
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Gold Diggers: The Secret of Bear Mountain
1986
Heat
5.857/49
Reynolds plays an ex-soldier-of-fortunish character in Vegas, taking "Chaperone" jobs, fighting with the mob, and trying to get enough money together...
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Heat
2011
Another Happy Day
5.6/107
A wedding at her parents' Annapolis estate hurls high-strung Lynn into the center of touchy family dynamics.
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Another Happy Day
2009
Nora Roberts' Tribute
6.1/26
A former child star buys her grandmother's house to rescue it from ruin but her hope for serenity is soon eclipsed by haunting dreams of her famous gr...
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Nora Roberts' Tribute
1981
Mommie Dearest
6.4/195
Renowned actress Joan Crawford, at the height of her career, adopts two orphans — Christina and Christopher — to fill the lonely gap in her personal l...
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Mommie Dearest
1986
Extremities
6.05/80
A woman escapes from the man who is about to rape her, but leaves her purse behind. Afraid that her attacker might come after her, she goes to the pol...
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Extremities
1995
Truman
7.6/15
Biographical account of America's President for the latter part of WWII. Shows Truman's rise from small-town nobody to leader of the USA, his decision...
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Truman
1989
Brenda Starr
4.3/19
Fearless reporter Brenda Starr needs a big scoop if she wishes to retain her lofty status within the world of journalism, so she ventures deep into th...
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Brenda Starr
1980
Inside Moves
6.404/26
After a failed suicide attempt leaves him partially crippled, Rory begins spending a lot of time at a neighborhood bar full of interesting misfits. Wh...
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Inside Moves
1983
Strange Invaders
4.899/68
Charlie's ex-wife disappears, and he goes to where she grew up--a rural town in the midwest--to look for her. But, surprisingly, nobody knows about he...
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Strange Invaders
1987
After the Promise
7.667/15
Elmer Jackson is a carpenter in a small Californian town in the 1930s. Struggling to bring up 4 young boys after the death of his wife, he is horrifie...
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After the Promise
1982
Desperate Lives
6/1
A brother and sister get caught up in the drug scene in their local high school, with tragic results.
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Desperate Lives
1998
Ruby Bridges
6.587/23
When six-year-old Ruby Bridges is chosen to be the first African-American to integrate her local elementary school, she is subjected to the true uglin...
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Ruby Bridges
2006
Valley of the Heart's Delight
7/1
When a fatal kidnapping ignites a firestorm of suspicion and rage in idyllic 1933 San Jose, California, a hard-nosed young reporter takes on the power...
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Valley of the Heart's Delight
1999
Down Will Come Baby
6.6/5
Leah Garr wants to move from Phoenix to take a new job in Denver to help her family (Husband Marcus and Daughter Robin). When Robin goes to camp to gi...
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Down Will Come Baby
2000
Dirty Pictures
5.9/9
A Cincinnati museum director goes on trial in 1990 for exhibiting sadomasochistic photographs taken by Robert Mapplethorpe.
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Dirty Pictures
1991
Night of the Hunter
5.7/11
A false preacher ingratiates himself with a dead man's family to find where he hid the money from a robbery.
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Night of the Hunter
1977
The Possessed
5.1/16
A former priest, now an exorcist, battles the satanic forces that are threatening the students at a girls school.
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The Possessed
2010
Backyard Wedding
6.286/14
Kim Tyler grew up loving her next-door neighbor, Evan Slauson. Now she's all set to have the wedding of her dreams to stable Jeffrey in her parents' b...
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Backyard Wedding
2004
The Clearing
5.8/221
When affluent executive Wayne Hayes is kidnapped by a disgruntled employee and held for ransom in a forest, Wayne’s wife is forced to reckon with the...
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The Clearing
2003
Path to War
6.7/49
A powerful drama of soaring ambition and shattered dreams that takes a provocative insider's look at the way the USA goes to war—as seen from inside t...
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Path to War
1985
A Bunny's Tale
4.5/6
A dramatization of Gloria Steinem's undercover investigation of the working conditions Bunnies faced at the Playboy Clubs.
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A Bunny's Tale
1995
The Neon Bible
6.2/20
During a train ride, a teenager recalls his upbringing in 1940s small-town Georgia and the events that have led to this point.
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The Neon Bible
2010
The Psycho Legacy
7/11
The cast and crew of all four Psycho films recall their time working on the influential horror series, and modern masters of horror reminisce on what...
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The Psycho Legacy
1998
Before He Wakes
3.8/4
Initially cleared of "accidentally" killing her husband, an idyllic wife and mother comes under suspicion when police learn that her first husband als...
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Before He Wakes
1977
In the Glitter Palace
3.5/2
The ex-girlfriend of a lawyer, who left him for a lesbian lover, asks him to defend her lover in a murder case.
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In the Glitter Palace
1996
The Angel of Pennsylvania Avenue
4.8/5
When an unemployed Detroit man is arrested for a crime he didn't commit, his three children are determined to get him out of jail in time for Christma...
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The Angel of Pennsylvania Avenue
1980
Honeysuckle Rose
5.6/23
Buck Bonham is a country singer on the road caught in a romantic triangle with Dyan Cannon and Amy Irving, the daughter of one of his longtime musical...
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Honeysuckle Rose
1986
The Ladies Club
6.2/6
A policewoman who was raped forms a vigilante group of various rape victims. They abduct and castrate men who have committed repeated violations of wo...
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The Ladies Club
1978
Battered
0/0
Gritty drama of three interweaving stories of three women of various backgrounds and ages whose marriages are complicated by spouse-abuse by their hus...
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Battered
1978
Forever
0/0
Romantic drama about a teenage girl's first love and the perennial adolescent dilemma of whether to give herself to him in order to hang on to him. Ba...
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Forever
2002
The Angel Doll
5.5/5
The story of two small town boys from different sides of the tracks: 1950's childhood and self-redemption. Young "Whitey" Black (so called because of...
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The Angel Doll
1996
Critical Choices
6/2
A Milwaukee Women's Health Clinic becomes the battleground between pro-choice activists and right-to-life demonstrators over and Easter Sunday weekend...
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Critical Choices
1982
Thou Shalt Not Kill
6.5/2
A man is wrongly convicted for murder and sent to prison, where he is accused of murdering a brutal guard he killed in self-defense.
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Thou Shalt Not Kill
1996
Bastard Out of Carolina
7.4/67
A poor, struggling South Carolinian mother and daughter face painful choices with their resolve and pride. Bone, the eldest daughter, and Anney her ti...
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Bastard Out of Carolina
2006
Mommie Dearest: Joan Lives On
0/0
Documentary which focuses more on the impact of the film upon its release and how it has seeped into the culture since that time. It is always fun to...
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Mommie Dearest: Joan Lives On
2006
Mommie Dearest: Life with Joan
0/0
Documentary which delves a bit deeper into the story of the film in which the cast and crew discuss some of the narrative beats, the performances in s...
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Mommie Dearest: Life with Joan
2006
Mommie Dearest: The Revival of Joan
0/0
A documentary in which the creative team discuss the process of adapting the material, the challenge of bringing an icon to life, bringing Frank Perry...
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Mommie Dearest: The Revival of Joan
1993
Labor of Love: The Arlette Schweitzer Story
5/2
When a woman learns she cannot bear children, her mother decides to be a surrogate for her.
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