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Lugar y fecha de nacimiento. Diane Venora (1952 - ) Actress Born: August 10, 1952, Hartford, CT Education: Boston Conservatory of Music; The Juilliard School (drama) This attractive, dark-haired New York stage actress first attracted notice as an unlikely Prince of Denmark in the New York Shakespeare Festival's 1983 production of Hamlet. The Connecticut native came to the stage from Juilliard and appeared in such shows as A Midsummer Night's Dream (1982, as Hippolyta), Uncle Vanya (1983), Tomorrow's Monday (1985) and Largo Desolato (1986). Venora made her film debut as a bit player in Bob Fosse's ALL THAT JAZZ (1979), but her breakthrough came as a woman being stalked by beasts in WOLFEN (1981). She briefly appeared as Gloria Swanson in Francis Ford Coppola's COTTON CLUB (1984). Through the 1980s and '90s, Venora contributed powerful, thoughtful character performances in the thriller F/X (1986) and as Jack Nicholson's daughter in EL AMOR ES UN ETERNO VAGABUNDO (1987). She was memorable as the strong-willed wife of jazzman Charlie Parker (Forest Whitaker) in Clint Eastwood's BIRD (1988) and was featured as Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio's cautious friend in the little-seen THREE WISHES (1995) and as Al Pacino's dissatisfied wife in the crime thriller FUEGO CONTRA FUEGO (1995). She had three films in 1996: the biopic SOBREVIVIENDO A PICASSO (1996) with Anthony Hopkins, as Lady Capulet in the modern-dress ROMEO AND JULIET and opposite Tom Berenger in the thriller EL SUSTITUTO (1996). Venora has also been relatively busy on the small screen since her debut in the failed CBS pilot Getting There (1980). Her TV movies have included COOK & PEARY: THE RACE TO THE POLE (CBS, 1983), A.D. (NBC, 1985), as Ophelia to Kevin Kline's HAMLET (PBS, 1990), and the sci-fi drama SPECIAL REPORT: JOURNEY TO MARS (CBS, 1996). She has appeared in two series, the unsuccessful Thunder Alley (ABC, the 1993-94 season), and a recurring role as Mandy Patinkin's adversary-turned-love interest on the hit Chicago Hope (CBS, 1994-95).
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