Diana Scarwid
Diana Scarwid was born in Savannah, Georgia, United States on August 27th, 1955 and is the Movie Actress. At the age of 69, Diana Scarwid biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, movies, and networth are available.
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Diana Elizabeth Scarwid (born August 27, 1955) is an American actress.
Christina Crawford is best known for her role in the cult classic Mommie Dearest (1981).
She received an Academy Award nomination for her role in the 1980 film Inside Moves, as well as an Emmy Award nomination for her role in the television film Truman (1995). Scarwid has more than 70 film and television credits to her name, including Pretty Baby (1978), Rumble Fish, Silkwood (both 1983), Extremities (both 1986), and Another Happy Day (2011).
Life and career
Scarwid was born in Savannah, Georgia, and the niece of Elizabeth (née Frizelle (1920–2006) and Anthony John Scarwid (1911-1989). She has three brothers. Her family has lived on Tybee Island, Georgia, for many years. Diana left Georgia at the age of 17, etablished in New York to become an actress. She graduated from The American Academy of Dramatic Arts and Pace University simultaneously, completing the dual program as an honor student. She married Eric Scheinbart, a photographer, on August 27, 1978, and they have two children. She had been doing bit-parts in television series, TV movies, and a few motion pictures.
Sheila Langtree (1980), Jim Jones' television miniseries about the People's Temple led by Jim Jones and their 1978 mass suicide at Jonestown, was Scarwid's first appearance of the 1980s. In the romantic drama film Honeysuckle Rose (1980), there was a supporting role. Scarwid received her first recognition in Inside Moves for her role as a Best Supporting Actress in Academy Award no. In the 1981 film Mommie Dearest, she portrayed adult Christina Crawford, the troubled adopted daughter of Hollywood legend Joan Crawford. For her role as Worst Supporting Actress, Razzie Award for Worst Supporting Actress was given.
Scarwid's next film appearances included appearances in the TV film Desperate Lives (1982), Strange Invaders (1983); Rumble Fish (1983); Silkwood, the 1983 autobiographical film depicting Karen Silkwood's disappearance; Psycho III (1986), Alfred Hitchcock's second sequel to Alfred Hitchcock's Psychological film; and William Mastrosimone's 1982 film version Extremities. Heat, the TV show After the Promise (1987), and Brenda Starr, the adventure film based on Dale Messick's comic strip Brenda Starr, Reporter.
Scarwid first started the decade off with Willa Harper in Night of the Hunter (1991), the TV adaptation of the 1955 film; Shelley Winters originated the role. Rose Kennedy's portrayal in JFK: Reckless Youth, a miniseries based on Nigel Hamilton's book of the same name, was Scarwid's next role. She appeared in The Cure, 1995, as a bigoted and neglectful mother; the same year, she appeared in The Neon Bible opposite Denis Leary. Bess Truman (1995), an adaptation of David McCullough's Pulitzer Prize-winning book Truman, she portrayed Bess Truman. In Gold Diggers: The Mysterious of Bear Mountain, Scarwid played an alcoholic mother. Scheinbart and Scheinbart divorced about the same time last year.
Scarwid appeared in Trial By Fire, Anjelica Huston's adaptation of Dorothy Allison's book; Baselout of Carolina, Anjelica Huston's version of Dorothy Allison's memoir; and the television show The Angel of Pennsylvania Avenue.
Other highlights included performances in the X-Files' episode "Kitsunegari"; the TV show Ruby Bridges (1998); and the TV show Down Will Come Baby.
In the television movie Dirty Pictures (2000), Scarwid started the new century with the portrayal of Dianne Barrie. In Robert Zemeckis' book What Lies Beneath, she appeared as Michelle Pfeiffer's character's kooky friend. She appeared in Law & Order as a fingerprint analyst accused of murder, and in 2003, she appeared as a teenage mother in A Guy Thing. In Party Monster's sequel to James St. James' book Disco Bloodbath, she portrayed Elke Alig, Michael Alig's leading and neglectful mother. Karen Tyler, a smothering mother in Wonderfalls, appeared in Wonderfalls for the next year. After finding out her son is a victim of pedophilia in Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, she returned to the Law and Order franchise as a mother on the warpath.
She appeared in Read Thread (2005), Valley of the Heart (2006), and Local Color (2006). Jeanette Owens appeared in Prison Break in the same year, and in the television series Lost, she played Isabel, a mysterious sheriff and island occupant. She appeared in episodes of other television series, including Cold Case, Pushing Daisies, and Heroes. She appeared on The Cleaner (2008) and Criminal Minds (2009), which were nearing the end of the decade.
Scarwid appeared in Backyard Wedding (2010) and Sam Levinson's Another Happy Day (2011).