Diora Baird

Diora Baird
Diora Lynn Baird (born April 6, 1983) is an American television and movie actress and former model for clothing brand Guess?
Early life
Baird was born in Miami, Florida on April 6, 1983. Her mother was also a model. She got into acting when her mother enrolled her in an acting class to help her overcome introversion. Later, she became vice president of her school's Thespian Society.
At the age of 17, she moved to Los Angeles in hope of pursuing an acting career. To earn money while auditioning, she worked at The Gap as well as a clown at children's parties, caterer, waitress and pre-school teacher until breaking into the modeling industry, most notably with Guess?. Her exposure increased considerably with an appearance on the cover of the August 2005 issue of Playboy magazine. She was signed to Elite Model Management in Miami.
Career
In 2004, Baird also started earning acting roles, such as an appearance on the Drew Carey Show and in the low budget film Brain Blockers. Her breakthrough appearance in a major film was in Wedding Crashers in 2005, which she followed up with roles in Accepted and Hot Tamale. In 2006, she appeared in four films, most notably a major role in the horror film The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning.
Baird had featured photo spreads in several magazines including Playboy, FHM, Stuff, Maxim (in which she was ranked #76 on the Maxim magazine Hot 100 of 2007 list, #64 on the Maxim magazine Hot 100 of 2008 list, #76 on the Maxim Magazine Hot 100 of 2011 list, the #17 spot on FHM's top 100 2010, and the #40 spot in 2011), Toro and Esquire (UK). She lent her voice to the Scarface video game as one of Tony Montana's possible girlfriends.
Baird has also guest starred in episodes of Big Day, Shark, The Loop, and Two and a Half Men (the 2009 episode "She'll Still Be Dead at Halftime"). She starred in the movie 30 Days of Night: Dark Days, directed by Ben Ketai, which is produced by Columbia Pictures and Ghost House Pictures. Baird stars in the FEARnet webseries Tea Party Macabre, which is part of the series "Women in Horror Month". She also starred in the 2009 comedy Stan Helsing.
She starred in several videos for the Funny or Die website, including one with Garfunkel and Oates called "Go Running with Chicken" and "Sexy Dark Ages" with Robert Englund. She starred in another web video with the comedic duo called "This Party Took a Turn for the Douche". In 2010, she appeared in Night of the Demons. In February 2011, she starred in a short musical film called "Howlin' for You" for the band The Black Keys.
She plays a porn star in her 2014 film Beautiful Girl. Baird was cast in a recurring role in the Amazon Studios pilot Cocked along with costars Brian Dennehy, Jason Lee, Dreama Walker, and Sam Trammell. The show was not picked up for series. Baird guest starred in an episode of the Hulu series Casual.
Personal life
Baird was married to actor Jonathan Togo from 2013 to 2016; they have one child. In 2017, Baird revealed that she was dating comedian Mav Viola. Baird told The Advocate magazine that after years of assuming herself to be asexual, she identifies as lesbian. On December 29, 2017, Baird announced that she and Viola were engaged.
Filmography
Film
Television
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! Year
! Title
! Role
! class="unsortable" | Notes
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| 2004
| The Drew Carey Show
| Valerie
| Episode: "Drew Thinks Inside the Box"
|-
| 2006
| South Beach
| Brianna
| Unaired TV pilot
|-
| 2006–2007
| Big Day
| Kristin
| 3 episodes
|-
| 2007
| Shark
| Nina Lange
| Episode: "Fall from Grace"
|-
| 2007
| The Loop
| Cara
| Guest role; 2 episodes
|-
| 2009
| Two and a Half Men
| Wanda
| Episode: "She'll Still Be Dead at Halftime"
|-
| 2009
| Robot Chicken
| Fantasia / Spanish Woman / Woman / Lady / Girl
| Voice role; 2 episodes
|-
| 2009
| Gary Unmarried
| Redhead
| Episode: "Gary Shoots Fish in a Barrel"
|-
| 2009
|Accidentally on Purpose
| Andrea
| Episode: "The Love Guru"
|-
| 2010
| Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
| Lainie McCallum
| Episode: "Witness"
|-
| 2011
| Psych
| Nicole
| Episode: "The Tao of Gus"
|-
| 2012
| Bent
| Natalie
| Episode: "Smitten"
|-
| 2012–2013
| Shameless
| Meg
| 4 episodes
|-
| 2014
| Franklin & Bash
| Cindy Maloney
| Episode: "Dance the Night Away"
|-
| 2014
| Newsreaders
| Ashley / Jennifer
| Episode: "Strip Club Expose; Long Lost Twins"
|-
| 2015
| Cocked
| Aubrey
| Television film
|-
| 2015
| Casual
| April
| Episode: "Animals"
|-
| 2016
| Telenovela
| Maria Wilson
| Episode: "Caught in the Act"
|-
| 2016
| Angel from Hell
| Brandi
| 3 episodes
|-
| 2018–2022
| Cobra Kai
| Shannon Keene
| Recurring role, 7 episodes
|-
| 2018
| My Daughter Vanished
| Melanie
| Television film; also known as Hidden Family Secrets
|-
| 2019
| The Missing Sister
| Collette
| Television film; also known as My Sister's Deadly Secret
|-
| 2020
| Her Secret Family Killer
| April
| Television film
|-
| 2020
| Psycho Sister-In-Law
| Callie Hayes
| Television film
|-
| 2022
| Bound by Blackmail
| Diana
| Television film
|-
| 2023
| You're Not Supposed to Be Here
| Kennedy
| Television film
|}
Web
Tea Party Macabre (2010), as herself; 5 episodes
Music videos
"Howlin' for You" (2011), by The Black Keys
"This Party Took a Turn for the Douche" (2011), by Garfunkel and Oates
"Out of Goodbyes" (2011), by Maroon 5 featuring Lady Antebellum
Video game
Scarface: The World is Yours'' (2006), as Femme Fatale (voice role)
References
External links
1983 births
21st-century American actresses
Actresses from Miami
Female models from Florida
American film actresses
American television actresses
American lesbian actresses
American LGBT models
Lesbian models
LGBT people from Florida
Living people
21st-century American LGBT people