Diana Scarwid

Known for ActingBorn 1955-08-27 (age 70)Savannah, Georgia, USA

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), 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.Read more

Movies & web series

Mommie Dearest: Joan Lives On

Mommie Dearest: The Revival of Joan

Mommie Dearest: Life with Joan

Forever

Gibbsville

Battered

Studs Lonigan

Criminal Minds

The X-Files

Prison Break

From the Earth to the Moon

Lost

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

Pushing Daisies

The Cure

Cold Case

Wonderfalls

The Outer Limits

Truman

Heroes

A Will of their Own

After the Promise

Valley of the Heart's Delight

Law & Order

Bastard Out of Carolina

Guyana Tragedy: The Story of Jim Jones

Starsky & Hutch

Labor of Love: The Arlette Schweitzer Story

Hawaii Five-O

Rumble Fish

Thou Shalt Not Kill

Pretty Baby

Kingston: Confidential

Path to War

Ruby Bridges

Silkwood

If These Walls Could Talk

The Psycho Legacy

What Lies Beneath

Backyard Wedding

Desperate Lives

Critical Choices

Mommie Dearest

Inside Moves

Gold Diggers: The Secret of Bear Mountain

Dream Boy

Dirty Pictures

The Neon Bible