Biography

Diane Cary is an Italian American actress who is best known for her role as "Harmony" in the classic series V (1983). Having trained as a Groundling, and performed stand-up at the Improv and the Comedy Store, she was seen in comedic recurring roles in the series ALF (1986) and in the pilot "Quail Lake" with Bill Maher. She is often compared to Edie Falco , Bebe Neuwirth ... and Patricia Clarkson with a twist.

Diane grew up in Croton-on-Hudson New York where she began acting at age 13 in the Croton Shakespeare Festival. After performing leading roles at the Festival (including the lead in a 5-hour production of Cymbeline), she received a scholarship to the Theatre Arts Department at the University of Denver, and graduated cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa. Moving to Los Angeles directly after graduation, she began her career in television and film and has continued to perform on stage in Los Angeles whenever possible. She has the rare-in-Hollywood good fortune to be happily married to her college sweetheart, television Creator/Executive Producer James D. Parriott .

Diane is a SAG-AFTRA/AEA actress who has guest-starred in more than forty hours of television series and pilots, including "Forever Knight", The Starter Wife (2008) , Cold Case (2003), Ugly Betty (2006), and "Defying Gravity" among numerous others. She starred in the horror feature film Transylvanian Curse (2015) , and co- starred in many other feature films, including the Academy Award- Nominated film El Norte (1983) , and the award winning festival film "American Fango". Diane was a series regular on both the pilot and mini-series of V (1983) , as well as on the NBC cult series Misfits of Science (1985).

She has performed leading roles in countless L.A. stage productions, including the Dramalogue/Ovation award-winning productions of "Song for a Nisei Fisherman", at the Mark Taper Forum-Taper Too, "Standing On My Knees", at The Zephyr Theatre, and "Pineapple White" at East-West Players. Other notable starring roles were in "Dinner at Home Between Deaths" and "The Snake Can" at The Odyssey Theatre, "Win/Lose/Draw" at The Skylight Theatre, "Love and Whispers" at The Cast Theatre, "Von Lutz" at The Lillian Theatre, and the West Coast Premiere of "Too Much Sun" at The Odyssey Theatre.
- IMDb mini biography by: Melody Jackson