page_title: Diane Gaidry
section_title: Acting career
hierarchical_section_title: Diane Gaidry / Acting career
caption_attribution_description: English: On the set of Loving Annabelle, discussing scenes with Erin Kelly and Diane Gaidry, 2005
context_page_description: Diane Adair Gaidry was an American film and theatre actress.
  She is best known for the character, Simone, in Loving Annabelle, and also starred in The Dogwalker, directed by Jacques Thelemaque. She also supported and forwarded film as co-creator and executive director of the independent filmmaker collective, Filmmakers Alliance.
  Gaidry died on January 30, 2019 due to liver failure after a battle with cancer.
context_section_description: Diane portrayed Simone Bradley in 2006 film Loving Annabelle directed by Katherine Brooks. Her characterization won her the Grand Jury Award for Outstanding Actress at L.A. Outfest. Gaidry was probably best known for her portrayal of this character.
  In 1993, she co-founded the non-profit, Los Angeles based, independent filmmaking collective, Filmmakers Alliance. She also performed lead roles in some of the feature-length films that came out of the collective, including "The Dogwalker", which played at the Los Angeles Film Festival and won Best First Feature at Cinequest and “America So Beautiful”, which played at the Berlinale, and was theatrically released in Paris. Her short film performance credits included “Transaction” which won the Grand Prix du Jury at Clermont-Ferrand. She also acted in maverick filmmaker, Rob Nilsson’s feature, “Need”. During her two decades in Los Angeles, Gaidry also did several guest appearances on television shows, including the hit series, Medium.
  In later years Gaidry made her home in Buffalo, NY where she grew up, and performed on stage with some of Buffalo's local theatre companies.
  Gaidry appeared in many theatrical productions in Buffalo, NY over the years, mostly with cutting-edge Torn Space Theater, where she appeared in "Storehouse," "Motion Picture," "Uncle Vanya," "Blood on the Cat's Neck," "He Who Gets Slapped," "Procession" and "Trace." At Subversive Theatre, she appeared in "In the Beginning," and for the Irish Classical Theatre Co., she played Dona Lucia in "Charley's Aunt" and Mary Tyrone in Eugene O'Neill's "Long Day's Journey Into Night", as well as running her life coaching business, Vérité. In 2012, Gaidry acted in “We Are Not Afraid of the Dark” and performed in 6 cities in Europe.
caption: Diane Gaidry, Erin Kelly, and Katherine Brooks (director) on the set of Loving Annabelle.
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