Film Credits

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ONE DAY

Directed by Lone Scherfig. Produced by Focus Pictures and Film 4 2011. A love story that fol­lows two char­ac­ters through the dec­ades until they finally real­ise they are meant to be togeth­er.

Cast included: Anne Hathaway, Jim Sturgess, Rafe Spall

Diana played MRS COPE, a social­ite moth­er of an unsuit­able girl­friend.

THE AWAKENING

Directed by Nick Murphy. Produced by the BBC 2011. A ghost story set in the 1920’s at an English boys board­ing school.

Cast included: Rebecca Hall, Dominic West, Imelda Staunton

Diana played HARRIET CATHCART, the moth­er of Rebecca Hall’s char­ac­ter.

HOW TO LOSE FRIENDS AND ALIENATE PEOPLE

Directed by Robert Weide. Produced by Number 9 Films 2008. A com­edy based on Toby Young’s auto­bi­o­graph­ic­al book about a brash British journ­al­ist in America.

Cast included: Simon Pegg, Kirsten Dunst, Jeff Bridges

Diana played a cameo role as RACHEL PETKOFF, an act­ress attempt­ing to make a comeback and unre­cog­nised by every­one except the hero.

BROTHERS OF THE HEAD

Directed by Keith Fulton, Louis Pepe. Produced by Film 4, 2005. A “mock­u­ment­ary” style fea­ture film about con­joined sia­mese twins who become a rock act at the time of punk music.

Cast included: Harry and Luke Treadaway, Sean Harris, Jonathan Pryce

Diana played LAURA ASHWORTH, a journ­al­ist, look­ing back on the days when she was involved with the twins. All of her scenes were impro­vised to give them authen­ti­city.

MORLANG

Directed by Tjebbo Penning. Produced by Petra Goedings for Phanta Vision, 2003. A thrill­er about an artist who is being black­mailed by his dead wife’s former lov­er.

Cast included: Susan Lynch, Paul Freeman

Diana played ELLEN, a woman who believes she is dying of a brain tumour and makes a sui­cide pact with her hus­band (Paul Freeman).

HEAVENLY CREATURES

Directed by Peter Jackson. Produced by Wingnut Productions, 1993, and filmed in New Zealand. Based on the true story of a 1950’s murder in New Zealand when two fif­teen year old girls killed one of their moth­ers.

Cast included: Clive Merrison, Kate Winslet, Melanie Lynskey

Diana played HILDA HULME, the upper class, self-centred moth­er of Kate Winslet.

Short Films

Another Woman

Made in 1987, the cred­its for this short film fea­tur­ing Diana and the late Morag Hood have been lost but the per­form­ances are still subtle and inter­est­ing.