Diana Scarwid

Diana Elizabeth Scarwid is an American actress. Her performance in the 1980 film Inside Moves garnered her an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress. The following year she portrayed the adult Christina Crawford in Mommie Dearest . Scarwid has over 70 film and television credits, including Pretty Baby , Silkwood Psycho III , Extremities , Brenda Starr and What Lies Beneath . She received an Emmy Award nomination for the 1995 TV movie Truman.

Scarwid was born in Savannah, Georgia, the daughter of Elizabeth and Anthony John Scarwid . She has three brothers. Her family are longtime residents of Tybee Island, Georgia. Diana left Georgia at the age of 17, heading to 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. After landing bitparts in TV series, madeforTV films, and a few motion pictures, she married Eric Scheinbart, a physician, on August 27, 1978, with whom she has two children.

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