Diana Elizabeth Scarwid (born August 27, 1955) is a retired American actress, best known for her portrayal of adult Christina Crawford in Mommie Dearest (1980). She received nominations for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for Inside Moves (1980), and for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Limited Series or Movie for Truman (1995). She has over 70 film and television credits to her name. Her films include Pretty Baby (1978), Honeysuckle Rose (1980), Rumble Fish, Silkwood (both 1983), Psycho III, Heat, Extremities (all 3 in 1986), The Neon Bible (1995), Bastard Out of Carolina (1996), What Lies Beneath (2000), A Guy Thing (2003), Party Monster (2003), The Clearing (2004), and Another Happy Day (2011). She's had roles in numerous TV movies including Truman (1995) as Bess Truman, The Possessed (1977), Desperate Lives (1982), A Bunny's Tale (1985), Night of the Hunter (1991), Ruby Bridges (1998), Before He Wakes (1998), Down Will Come Baby (1999), Path to War (2002), Tribute (2009), and more. She had a main role as Karen Tyler on the series Wonderfalls, and recurring role as Mother Superior on the TV series Pushing Daisies. She has also guest starred on several TV series including Starsky & Hutch, the original Hawaii Five-O, The X-Files, Law & Order, Law & Order: SVU, Prison Break, Lost, Cold Case, Heroes, and Criminal Minds.

Filmography

• 2011Another Happy Day — Donna
• 2010Backyard Wedding — Susan Slauson
• 2009Nora Roberts' Tribute — Cathy Morrow
• 2008Dream Boy — Vivian Davies
• Pushing Daisies — Mother Superior
• Heroes — Alice Shaw
• 2006Mommie Dearest: Joan Lives On
• 2006Mommie Dearest: Life with Joan
• 2006Mommie Dearest: The Revival of Joan
• 2006Valley of the Heart's Delight — Natalie Walsh
• Criminal Minds — Jane Winmar
• Prison Break — Jeanette Owens
• Lost — Isabel
• 2004The Clearing — Eva Finch
• Wonderfalls — Karen Tyler
• 2003A Guy Thing — Sandra Cooper
• Cold Case — Rayanne Leland
• 2003Party Monster — Elke
• 2003Path to War — Marny Clifford
• 2002The Angel Doll — Fronia Black
• 2000Dirty Pictures — Dianne Barrie
• 2000What Lies Beneath — Jody
• 1999Down Will Come Baby — Dorothy McIntyre
• Law & Order: Special Victims Unit — Jackie Madden
• A Will of their Own — Crystal Eastman
• 1998Before He Wakes — Joanne Michaels
• From the Earth to the Moon — Joan Aldrin
• 1998Ruby Bridges — Miss Woodmere
• 1996Bastard Out of Carolina — Aunt Raylene
• 1996Critical Choices — Diana Johnson
• 1996If These Walls Could Talk — Marcia Schulman
• 1996The Angel of Pennsylvania Avenue — Mrs. Annie Feagan
• 1995Gold Diggers: The Secret of Bear Mountain — Lynette Salerno
• 1995The Cure — Gail
• 1995The Neon Bible — Sarah
• The Outer Limits — Elizabeth Halsey
• 1995Truman — Bess Truman
• 1993Labor of Love: The Arlette Schweitzer Story — Darlene
• The X-Files — Linda Bowman
• 1991Night of the Hunter — Willa Harper
• Law & Order — Lisa Russo
• 1989Brenda Starr — Libby 'Lips' Lipscomb
• 1987After the Promise — Anna Jackson
• 1986Extremities — Terry
• 1986Heat — Cassie
• 1986Psycho III — Maureen Coyle
• 1986The Ladies Club — Lucy Bricker
• 1985A Bunny's Tale — Toby
• 1983Rumble Fish — Cassandra
• 1983Silkwood — Angela
• 1983Strange Invaders — Margaret Bigelow
• 1982Desperate Lives — Eileen Phillips
• 1982Thou Shalt Not Kill — Susan Masters
• 1981Mommie Dearest — Christina Crawford
• Guyana Tragedy: The Story of Jim Jones — Sheila Langtree
• 1980Honeysuckle Rose — Jeanne
• 1980Inside Moves — Louise
• Studs Lonigan — Catherine Banahan
• 1978Battered — Doris Thompson
• 1978Forever — Sybil Davidson
• 1978Pretty Baby — Frieda
• 1977In the Glitter Palace — Casey Walker
• Kingston: Confidential
• 1977The Possessed — Lane
• Gibbsville
• Starsky & Hutch
• Hawaii Five-O — Carole Walker

Appearances as themselves (2)

• 2010The Psycho Legacy — Self
• 1986The Making Of Psycho III — Self