Diana Scarwid

Actor Aug 27 (age 70) Savannah, Georgia, USA 1968–2011 (43 year career)

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Biography

Diana Elizabeth Scarwid (born August 27, 1955) 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), Ru…

Known For

Film

What Lies Beneath

Jody

Film

Rumble Fish

Cassandra

Film

The Cure

Gail

Film

Pretty Baby

Frieda

Film

Silkwood

Angela

Film

Wonderfalls

Karen Tyler

Film

A Guy Thing

Sandra Cooper

Film

Mommie Dearest

Christina Crawford

Filmography

Acting (69)

Movies (50)

Another Happy Day

as Donna

Backyard Wedding

as Susan Slauson

The Psycho Legacy

as Self

Nora Roberts' Tribute

as Cathy Morrow

Dream Boy

as Vivian Davies

Mommie Dearest: Life with Joan

2006

Valley of the Heart's Delight

2006

as Natalie Walsh

6.0

Mommie Dearest: Joan Lives On

2006

Mommie Dearest: The Revival of Joan

The Clearing

as Eva Finch

Wonderfalls

as Karen Tyler

Party Monster

as Elke

A Guy Thing

as Sandra Cooper

Path to War

as Marny Clifford

The Angel Doll

as Fronia Black

What Lies Beneath

as Jody

Dirty Pictures

as Dianne Barrie

Down Will Come Baby

as Dorothy McIntyre

Ruby Bridges

as Miss Woodmere

Before He Wakes

as Joanne Michaels

Bastard Out of Carolina

1996

as Aunt Raylene

7.1

If These Walls Could Talk

1996

as Marcia Schulman

6.6

The Angel of Pennsylvania Avenue

as Mrs. Annie Feagan

Critical Choices

as Diana Johnson

The Neon Bible

as Sarah

The Cure

as Gail

Gold Diggers: The Secret of Bear Mountain

as Lynette Salerno

Truman

as Bess Truman

Labor of Love: The Arlette Schweitzer Story

as Darlene

Night of the Hunter

as Willa Harper

Brenda Starr

as Libby 'Lips' Lipscomb

After the Promise

as Anna Jackson

Psycho III

as Maureen Coyle

Extremities

as Terry

Heat

as Cassie

The Ladies Club

as Lucy Bricker

A Bunny's Tale

as Toby

Silkwood

as Angela

Rumble Fish

as Cassandra

Strange Invaders

as Margaret Bigelow

Desperate Lives

as Eileen Phillips

Thou Shalt Not Kill

as Susan Masters

Mommie Dearest

as Christina Crawford

Honeysuckle Rose

as Jeanne

Inside Moves

as Louise

Pretty Baby

as Frieda

Battered

as Doris Thompson

Forever

1978

as Sybil Davidson

In the Glitter Palace

as Casey Walker

The Possessed

as Lane

Television (19)

Pushing Daisies

as Mother Superior

Heroes

as Alice Shaw

Criminal Minds

as Jane Winmar

Prison Break

as Jeanette Owens

Lost

as Isabel

Wonderfalls

as Karen Tyler

Cold Case

as Rayanne Leland

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

1999

as Jackie Madden

7.9

From the Earth to the Moon

as Joan Aldrin

A Will of their Own

as Crystal Eastman

The Outer Limits

as Elizabeth Halsey

The X-Files

as Linda Bowman

Law & Order

as Lisa Russo

Guyana Tragedy: The Story of Jim Jones

as Sheila Langtree

Studs Lonigan

as Catherine Banahan

Kingston: Confidential

Gibbsville

Starsky & Hutch

Hawaii Five-O

as Carole Walker