Diane Venora

Diane Venora (born August 10, 1952) is an American stage, television, and film actress. Venora was born Diana Venora in East Hartford, Connecticut, the daughter of Marie and Robert Venora, who owned a dry cleaning establishment. She left...

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The Jackal is a 1997 suspense film starring Bruce Willis, Richard Gere, Diane Venora and Sidney Poitier. It was directed by Michael Caton-Jones. While its title is similar to the 1973 film ''The Day of the Jackal '', it shares only the main...

In this article: The Jackal, Jackal, FBI, and The Day of the Jackal

...he's not dealing with your usual killer. He's stepping into a world of old and vengeful gods. Along for the ride is the lovely Diane Venora (HEAT, F/X) and Gregory Hines. Hines is so awesome in this flick, sporting a huge afro and the...

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...Huffman in the role of Bobbi Turner, Gil's daughter. When ABC picked up the series, Huffman was replaced with actress Diane Venora. Venora played the role for eight episodes before she was replaced by Robin Riker, who played the role...

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...(in what Variety calls "an especially blistering performance by Monty Lapica"). Andrew's mother (Golden Globe nominee Diane Venora), helpless to control her son and fighting an addiction of her own, refuses to watch idly as her only...

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...through three different rabbis. "The Ministers" Maya Entertainment) Florencia Lozano, John Leguizamo, Harvey Keitel and Diane Venora star in this thriller about a detective who sets out to avenge her father's murder. Universal)...

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And Heat, well Heat is a crime movie to end all crime movies. There any dash of emotion and depth of feeling (thanks be to you, Diane Venora) was a welcome and surprising respite from what the film needed to be, which was grim and...

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Director(s): Monty Lapica. Screenplay: Monty Lapica. Cast: Diane Venora, Monty Lapica, Michael Bowen, Greg Germann, Kristina Anapau, Matthew Carey, Shane Stuart, William Stanford Davis, Michael Mantell, Kelly Kruger, Karim Prince, Glenndon...

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...foul play on the part of his uncle Claudius (Kyle MacLachlan), who has taken over the company and rapidly married Hamlet's mother (Diane Venora). But although "Hamlet"-the-movie grooves faithfully to its own rules and rhythms (at one...

In this article: Hamlet, Michael Almereyda, Prince, Claudius, The Mousetrap, New York City, Bill Murray, Melancholy, and Denmark

...Bill Murray as Polonius--fit to swell a scene or two and advance the story with his death in Gertrude's closet. Gertrude is played by Diane Venora in a real turn--sexy, smart, unstable, weirdly evasive. Almereyda has seriously cranked up the...

In this article: Hamlet, Gertrude, Julia Stiles, Claudius, William Shakespeare, Sam Shepard, Michael Almereyda, Ophelia, Ethan Hawke, and Kyle MacLachlan