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Diane Varsi

Diane Varsi

Birthday: 1938-02-23 | Place of Birth: San Mateo, California, USA

​From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.   Diane Marie Antonia Varsi (February 23, 1938 – November 19, 1992) was an American film actress best known for her performances in Peyton Place – her film debut, and for which she was nominated for an Academy Award – and the cult film Wild in the Streets. She left Hollywood in order to pursue personal and artistic aims, notably at Bennington College in Vermont, where she studied poetry with poet and translator Ben Belitt, among others. Description above from the Wikipedia article Diane Varsi, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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Known For

Acting

Year
Title

Role

1972
The People

as    Valancy Carmody

1970
Bloody Mama

as    Mona Gibson

1968
Wild in the Streets

as    Sally LeRoy

1959
Compulsion

as    Ruth Evans

1958
Ten North Frederick

as    Ann Chapin

1958
From Hell to Texas

as    Juanita Bradley

1957
Peyton Place

as    Allison MacKenzie