Diane Venora

Diane Venora

Born: August 10, 1952
in East Hartford, Connecticut, USA
Diane Venora is an American stage, television and film actress. She graduated from the Juilliard School in 1977 and made her film debut in 1981 opposite Albert Finney in Wolfen. She won the New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Supporting Actress for Bird.

Movies for Diane Venora...

Clint Eastwood: The Last Legend
Title: Clint Eastwood: The Last Legend
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: November 13, 2022
Type: Movie
The portrait of the last cowboy Hollywood legend dives into the 65 years of an extraordinary career in Hollywood, highlighted iconic films like The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, as well as Million Dollar Baby, Mystic River and Gran Torino all the way to Cry Macho in 2021. It is no small task to cover more than 60 years of cinema history, especially when it is trying to surveyed with such breadth and diversity: TV star, international star, controversial icon, contested director, filmmaker with a capital F, Eastwood has been through it all, experienced it all, and it is first of all this romantic trajectory, this true American pastoral that the documentary wants to tell with all the passion it possibly can.
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First Love
Title: First Love
Character: Aunt Irene
Released: June 17, 2022
Type: Movie
A young man’s difficult entry into adulthood, who experiences the highs and lows of his first love, while dealing with the familial fallout spurred by the financial crisis of 2008.
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star-crossed: the film
Title: star-crossed: the film
Character: House Mother / School Administrator / Demonstrator
Released: September 8, 2021
Type: Movie
Takes the music from the studio to the screen with gorgeous visuals and a sense of heightened reality envisioned by Musgraves and Zeinali and shot by Academy Award-nominated cinematographer Matthew Libatique.
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Childless
Title: Childless
Character: Mary
Released: April 3, 2015
Type: Movie
Katherine is a typical teenager. Today's her funeral. The four adults in her life have a lot on their mind - and it's not all about Katherine either. With a frankness that's strikingly disarming as well as frequently self-serving, the grown-ups struggle with being... well... grown-up.
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All Good Things
Title: All Good Things
Character: Janice Rizzo
Released: December 3, 2010
Type: Movie
Newly-discovered facts, court records and speculation are used to elaborate the true love story and murder mystery of the most notorious unsolved murder case in New York history.
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The Wish List
Title: The Wish List
Character: Brenda
Released: July 19, 2010
Type: Movie
Sarah Fisher, an overly organized, by-the-numbers kind of woman, makes a "wish list" of all the qualities and traits her future husband should have. After finding the perfect man, she falls for a guy who meets none of her criteria and discovers that life and love don't always work out according to the master plan.
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The Ministers
Title: The Ministers
Character: Gina Santana
Released: October 16, 2009
Type: Movie
A NYPD detective attempts to avenge the death of her father, but unwittingly becomes involved with one of his killers.
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Little Hercules
Title: Little Hercules
Character: Hera
Released: October 8, 2009
Type: Movie
Little Hercules travels from Mt. Olympus to live life as a mortal in Los Angeles.
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Follow the Prophet
Title: Follow the Prophet
Released: January 23, 2009
Type: Movie
Follow the Prophet is an American film that was written by and stars Robert Chimento, which was created to show how polygamist lifestyles affect the children involved. In the film, a young girl escaping from a polygamist cult is aided by an Army Colonel and a renegade female Sheriff who join forces to save an even younger girl from a secret "marriage" to the cult's leader.
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Title: Eleventh Hour
Released: October 9, 2008
Type: TV
Dr. Jacob Hood is a brilliant biophysicist and special science advisor to the government who investigates scientific crises and oddities. His crusade is to protect the substance of science against those who would abuse and misuse scientific discoveries for their own gain.
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Stiletto
Title: Stiletto
Character: Sylvia Vadalos
Released: April 29, 2008
Type: Movie
The seemingly random killings of an assassin puzzle her former lover, a wealthy Greek crime boss whose organization is jeopardized by his love for her, and the detective following her rising body count
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Title: Private Practice
Character: Sharon
Released: September 26, 2007
Type: TV
Having left behind Seattle Grace Hospital, renowned surgeon Addison Forbes Montgomery moves to Los Angeles for sunnier weather and happier possibilities. She reunites with her friends from medical school, joining them at their chic, co-op, Oceanside Wellness Center in Santa Monica.
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C.S. Lewis: Beyond Narnia
Title: C.S. Lewis: Beyond Narnia
Character: Joy Gresham
Released: December 9, 2005
Type: Movie
Readers and fans worldwide know the land of Narnia and the magical beings who dwell there. But few know the genius who created this beloved fantasy. Now meet C.S. Lewis, an extraordinary creative force, in this engaging true life story, filmed in Oxford, England where he lived, worked and imagined The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, and the other tales that make up the beloved The Chronicles of Narnia.
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Touched
Title: Touched
Character: Carole Davis
Released: November 1, 2005
Type: Movie
A romantic drama about a man who awakes from a coma without his sense of touch and the nurse who comes to his aid.
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Title: Threshold
Released: September 16, 2005
Type: TV
Threshold was a science fiction drama television series that first aired on CBS in September 2005. Produced by Brannon Braga, David S. Goyer and David Heyman, the series focuses on a secret government project investigating the first contact with an extraterrestrial species.
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Self Medicated
Title: Self Medicated
Character: Louise
Released: June 1, 2005
Type: Movie
Based on true events. On the edges of Las Vegas, 17-year-old Andrew's life is spiraling out of control. Unable to cope with the loss of his father, Andrew's descent into drugs and violence is gaining momentum, and the once promising young man is now headed for self-destruction. Andrew's mother, helpless to control her son and fighting an addiction of her own, refuses to watch idly as her only child destroys himself. As a last resort, she hires a private company to forcibly kidnap and confine him in a locked-down and corrupt psychiatric hospital. As Andrew is subjected to the secret physical and emotional abuses of the program something inside him is re-awakened. He must somehow get free to save what's left of his life, but to do that, he knows he must first face his own demons head-on.
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Title: Grey's Anatomy
Character: Audrey Taylor
Released: March 27, 2005
Type: TV
Follows the personal and professional lives of a group of doctors at Seattle’s Grey Sloan Memorial Hospital.
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The Making of 'Heat'
Title: The Making of 'Heat'
Character: Self
Released: February 22, 2005
Type: Movie
Behind the scenes documentary on the classic Michael Mann heist film.
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Title: Medium
Character: Sarah Jane Levitt
Released: January 3, 2005
Type: TV
Allison Dubois works in the District Attorney’s office using her natural intuition about people and her ability to communicate with the dead to help to solve crimes. Her dreams often give her clues to the whereabouts of missing people.
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Breaking Dawn
Title: Breaking Dawn
Character: Mother
Released: October 16, 2004
Type: Movie
Within the confines of an insane asylum languish many would-be seers and messiahs. Medical students meet them day in, day out. But when Eve meets Don Wake, she discovers he's not your run-of-the-mill paranoic. In fact, his visions of her life on the outside tread the line between fantasy and reality as a stalker becomes known to her. She could be in danger; it could all be in her head.
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Los Angeles Plays Itself
Title: Los Angeles Plays Itself
Character: Justine in Heat (archive footage)
Released: July 28, 2004
Type: Movie
From its distinctive neighborhoods to its architectural homes, Los Angeles has been the backdrop to countless movies. In this dazzling work, Andersen takes viewers on a whirlwind tour through the metropolis' real and cinematic history, investigating the myriad stories and legends that have come to define it, and meticulously, judiciously revealing the real city that lives beneath.
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Stateside
Title: Stateside
Character: Mrs. Hengen
Released: May 23, 2004
Type: Movie
The film follows a rebellious teenager on leave from the Marines who falls in love with a female musician. The relationship is threatened when she develops a mental illness...
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Race Against Time
Title: Race Against Time
Character: Dr. Helen Steele
Released: December 8, 2003
Type: Movie
When a man faces surmounting bills for his dying son's hospital stay, he enters into an agreement to sell his body for organ transplants to pay the bills. However, when he is advised that the doctors want to claim his organs immediately, he goes on the run
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Title: NCIS
Character: Shada Shakarji
Released: September 23, 2003
Type: TV
From murder and espionage to terrorism and stolen submarines, a team of special agents investigates any crime that has a shred of evidence connected to Navy and Marine Corps personnel, regardless of rank or position.
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Heartbreak Hospital
Title: Heartbreak Hospital
Character: Sunday Tyler / Andrea Harmon
Released: December 20, 2002
Type: Movie
Neely, an aspiring actress, gets a role on the popular soap opera "Heartbreak Hospital." Her neighbor, Lottie, a huge fan of the show, can't differentiate between fiction and reality, and her obsession and jealousy endanger Neely and the rest of the cast.
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Megiddo: The Omega Code 2
Title: Megiddo: The Omega Code 2
Character: Gabriella Francini
Released: September 7, 2001
Type: Movie
Stone (the Antichrist) becomes President of the European Union and uses his seat of power to dissolve the United Nations and create a one world government called the World Union. Megiddo is a supernatural ride into a world teetering on the edge of the Apocalypse. It follows the rise of a Machiavellian leader bent on amassing the armies of the world for the battle of Armageddon while calamities of Biblical proportions pummel the Earth. Though both prequel and sequel to The Omega Code, Megiddo works also as a stand alone story for anyone who missed its predecessor. For at its emotional core, Megiddo is the Caine and Abel story of the two men enamored with the same woman, raised as brothers, who grew up to find themselves pitted against each other over the fate and souls of the entire world.
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The Young Girl and the Monsoon
Title: The Young Girl and the Monsoon
Character: Giovanna
Released: April 27, 2001
Type: Movie
A photojournalist (Terry Kinney) upsets his daughter (Ellen Muth) and loses his girlfriend (Mili Avital) by covering stories in remote and dangerous locations.
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Looking for an Echo
Title: Looking for an Echo
Character: Joanne Delgado
Released: November 10, 2000
Type: Movie
The lead singer of an oldies group reminisces about the good ol' days and a potential comeback.
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Hamlet
Title: Hamlet
Character: Gertrude
Released: May 12, 2000
Type: Movie
Modern day adaptation of Shakespeare's immortal story about Hamlet's plight to avenge his father's murder in New York City.
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The Insider
Title: The Insider
Character: Liane Wigand
Released: October 28, 1999
Type: Movie
A research chemist comes under personal and professional attack when he decides to appear in a 60 Minutes exposé on Big Tobacco.
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Title: Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
Character: Marilyn Nesbit
Released: September 20, 1999
Type: TV
In the criminal justice system, sexually-based offenses are considered especially heinous. In New York City, the dedicated detectives who investigate these vicious felonies are members of an elite squad known as the Special Victims Unit. These are their stories.
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The 13th Warrior
Title: The 13th Warrior
Character: Queen Weilew
Released: August 13, 1999
Type: Movie
A Muslim ambassador exiled from his homeland, Ahmad ibn Fadlan finds himself in the company of Vikings. While the behavior of the Norsemen initially offends ibn Fadlan, the more cultured outsider grows to respect the tough, if uncouth, warriors. During their travels together, ibn Fadlan and the Vikings get word of an evil presence closing in, and they must fight the frightening and formidable force, which was previously thought to exist only in legend.
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The Joyriders
Title: The Joyriders
Character: Celeste
Released: April 18, 1999
Type: Movie
A suicidal older man, Gordon Trout, is kidnapped for his car and money by three runaway teenagers who live on the streets. Their experiences together make them a close-knit family, but the nature of the crime committed could tear them apart. The intricacies of these complex relationships are explored through an emotional story with twists and turns.
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True Crime
Title: True Crime
Character: Barbara Everett
Released: March 19, 1999
Type: Movie
Boozer, skirt chaser, careless father. You could create your own list of reporter Steve Everett's faults but there's no time. A San Quentin Death Row prisoner is slated to die at midnight – a man Everett has suddenly realized is innocent.
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The Jackal
Title: The Jackal
Character: Major Valentina Koslova
Released: November 14, 1997
Type: Movie
Hired by a powerful member of the Russian mafia to avenge an FBI sting that left his brother dead, a psychopathic hitman known only as The Jackal proves an elusive target for the people charged with the task of bringing him down: a deputy FBI director, a Russian MVK Major, and a jailed IRA terrorist who can recognize him.
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Seed: A Love Story
Title: Seed: A Love Story
Character: Julia Noble
Released: May 1, 1997
Type: Movie
Julia Noble is a tough cop with a ticking biological clock. When she decides to have a baby through artificial insemination, she's shocked to learn that the donor may be a suspect on one of her cases.
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Title: The Practice
Released: March 4, 1997
Type: TV
A provocative legal drama focused on young associates at a bare-bones Boston firm and their scrappy boss, Bobby Donnell. The show's forte is its storylines about “people who walk a moral tightrope.”
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Romeo + Juliet
Title: Romeo + Juliet
Character: Gloria Capulet
Released: November 1, 1996
Type: Movie
In director Baz Luhrmann's contemporary take on William Shakespeare's classic tragedy, the Montagues and Capulets have moved their ongoing feud to the sweltering suburb of Verona Beach, where Romeo and Juliet fall in love and secretly wed. Though the film is visually modern, the bard's dialogue remains.
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Surviving Picasso
Title: Surviving Picasso
Character: Jacqueline
Released: September 4, 1996
Type: Movie
The passionate Merchant-Ivory drama tells the story of Francoise Gilot, the only lover of Pablo Picasso who was strong enough to withstand his ferocious cruelty and move on with her life.
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The Substitute
Title: The Substitute
Character: Jane Hetzko
Released: April 19, 1996
Type: Movie
When an inner-city Miami schoolteacher gets her knee broken after standing up to the school's gang leader, her mercenary combat specialist boyfriend goes undercover as a substitute teacher to take down the punk. Soon he discovers a conspiracy of criminals at work, and must reassemble his team from his last jungle raid to stop them.
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Special Report: Journey to Mars
Title: Special Report: Journey to Mars
Character: Lt. Tanya Sadavoy
Released: March 25, 1996
Type: Movie
When the world's first spaceship is close to its goal (Mars), the TV-network GNN begins its live coverage of the last two hours of the mission and then the problems start. The landing-computer malfunctions, the captain Eugene Slader gets very sick and back on Earth it is discovered that big financial corporations have an interest in the failure of the mission - and we, the viewers, can see it all live on television.
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Heat
Title: Heat
Character: Justine Hanna
Released: December 15, 1995
Type: Movie
Obsessive master thief Neil McCauley leads a top-notch crew on various daring heists throughout Los Angeles while determined detective Vincent Hanna pursues him without rest. Each man recognizes and respects the ability and the dedication of the other even though they are aware their cat-and-mouse game may end in violence.
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Three Wishes
Title: Three Wishes
Character: Joyce
Released: October 27, 1995
Type: Movie
While Jane Holman is driving with her two sons, she accidentally runs into a drifter, Jack McCloud, who breaks his leg. Being responsible, Jane invites Jack, and his dog, to stay at her home until his leg has healed. Jack struggles to adapt their lifestyle, and finds himself loved by the family.
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Title: Chicago Hope
Released: September 18, 1994
Type: TV
Chicago Hope is an American medical drama television series, created by David E. Kelley. It ran on CBS from September 18, 1994, to May 4, 2000. The series is set in a fictional private charity hospital in Chicago, Illinois. The show is set to return in the fall of 2013 on TVGN in reruns.
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Title: Thunder Alley
Character: Bobbi Turner
Released: March 9, 1994
Type: TV
Thunder Alley is an American sitcom which aired from March 9, 1994 to July 4, 1995 on ABC.
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Title: Law & Order
Character: Mara Feder
Released: September 13, 1990
Type: TV
In cases ripped from the headlines, police investigate serious and often deadly crimes, weighing the evidence and questioning the suspects until someone is taken into custody. The district attorney's office then builds a case to convict the perpetrator by proving the person guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. Working together, these expert teams navigate all sides of the complex criminal justice system to make New York a safer place.
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Bird
Title: Bird
Character: Chan Parker
Released: June 1, 1988
Type: Movie
Saxophone player Charlie ‘Bird’ Parker comes to New York in 1940 and is quickly noticed for his remarkable way of playing. He becomes a drug addict but his loving wife Chan tries to help him.
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Ironweed
Title: Ironweed
Character: Peg
Released: December 18, 1987
Type: Movie
Albany, New York, Halloween, 1938. Francis Phelan and Helen Archer are bums, back in their birth city. She was a singer on the radio, he a major league pitcher. Death surrounds them: she's sick, a pal has cancer, he digs graves at the cemetery and visits the grave of his infant son whom he dropped; visions of his past haunt him, including ghosts of two men he killed. That night, out drinking, Helen tries to sing at a bar. Next day, Fran visits his wife and children and meets a grandson. He could stay, but decides it's not for him. Helen gets their things out of storage and finds a hotel. Amidst their mistakes and dereliction, the film explores their code of fairness and loyalty.
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F/X
Title: F/X
Character: Ellen
Released: February 7, 1986
Type: Movie
A movies special effects man is hired by a government agency to help stage the assassination of a well known gangster. When the agency double cross him, he uses his special effects to trap the gangster and the corrupt agents.
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A Midsummer Night's Dream
Title: A Midsummer Night's Dream
Character: Hippolyta
Released: December 19, 1985
Type: Movie
Theseus has defeated Hippolyta in battle, and now claims her as his bride. But before the nuptials begin, a pair of young lovers flee into the forest to be married, pursued by a pair of not-lovers. There, in the forest, live the fairies whose lives are in turmoil, due to the heated lovers' quarrels between their rulers, Oberon and Titania. Between the fairies, an ass's head, the lovers, a troupe of unsuspecting would-be actors, and a magic flower that can make people fall in love at first sight, it's a merry night of chaos and comedy until everything is put to rights.
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Terminal Choice
Title: Terminal Choice
Character: Anna Lang
Released: May 10, 1985
Type: Movie
A patient in an hospital dies under mysterious circumstances. The attending doctor Frank Holt gets under suspect - he'd been fired already from his last position due to malpractice. For his defense he investigates with help of doctor Anna Lang. Soon they find out that half of their colleagues were betting on the patient's diagnosis - was someone trying to increase his chances? But when Frank's friend, dissector Mary Connor, becomes deadly sick, he suspects there's even more to it.
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Title: A.D.
Character: Corinna
Released: March 31, 1985
Type: TV
A 12 hours miniseries adapted from Anthony Burgess's novel The Kingdom of the Wicked.
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The Cotton Club
Title: The Cotton Club
Character: Gloria Swanson
Released: December 14, 1984
Type: Movie
Harlem's legendary Cotton Club becomes a hotbed of passion and violence as the lives and loves of entertainers and gangsters collide.
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Cook & Peary: The Race to the Pole
Title: Cook & Peary: The Race to the Pole
Character: Marie Fidele Hunt
Released: December 13, 1983
Type: Movie
Cook and Peary: The Race to the Pole is an unabashedly biased recreation of the controversy concerning the "conquering" of the North Pole. Robert E. Peary (Rod Steiger), a US Navy commander and shameless self-promoter, sets out through Arctic wastes in 1909 to discover the Pole, an expedition that many others have attempted but failed to complete. His principal rival is Dr. Frederick A. Cook (Richard Chamberlain), who insists that he'd already reached the Pole in 1908. Though the experts (and the US Congress) conclude that Perry was first, public opinion is firmly in Cook's corner--as is this TV movie.
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Wolfen
Title: Wolfen
Character: Rebecca Neff
Released: July 24, 1981
Type: Movie
A New York City cop and an expert criminologist trying to solve a series of grisly deaths in which the victims have seemingly been maimed by feral animals discover a sinister connection between the crimes and an old legend.
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Title: Great Performances
Character: Ophelia
Released: January 28, 1971
Type: TV
The best in the performing arts from across America and around the world including a diverse programming portfolio of classical music, opera, popular song, musical theater, dance, drama, and performance documentaries.
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Uncovering Wolfen
Title: Uncovering Wolfen
Character: Self
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
After the huge financial and cultural success of WOODSTOCK (1970), filmmaker and political activist Michael Wadleigh spent many years in Hollywood writing scripts that were never produced. However, WOLFEN (1981), his only other major motion picture, was. After that he would never complete another feature film again. This is the story of that film.