A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Alias:
Lady Di
Birthplace:
St. Petersburg, Florida, USA
Born:
October 8, 1958
This explosive actress, whose work has been described as breathtaking and soulful, is originally from St. Petersburg, Florida and is the youngest child of Henry and Minnie Sellers, who strongly encouraged education, music and artistic creativity. In St. Petersburg, Diane attended Azalea Middle School and Dixie Hollins High School, where she performed in numerous stage productions and sang in many talent shows. She knew she was destined for a career as a performer when her sister, Dolores, escorted her to her first professional audition, a touring stage musical titled Sights and Sounds, wherein Diane was described as the cast's "triple threat," as an actress, singer and dancer. After graduating from St. Petersburg College (and after a short, less than memorable stint as a flight attendant), she relocated to Atlanta, Georgia, where she began her professional acting career. Diane has performed on-stage in Florida, Little Rock, Arkansas, Atlanta and Los Angeles. After receiving critical acclaim for her performance with Sharon Stone in the feature film "Last Dance," Diane relocated to Los Angeles, where she continues to work in film, television and on stage.
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Data are -- hey, it's a plural -- subject to the limitations of their sources. (For example, TMDB search results currently max out at 20.) I am limiting myself to free data sources for now. (No, a "free trial" is not free.)
While much of the above data are retrieved directly from outside APIs and other such sources, data from American Film Institute (AFI) and British Film Institute (BFI) were manually entered the old fashioned way into a MySQL database. Re BFI I took the following liberties:
Regarding profile removals and data corrections:
Filtering is applied here to film projects flagged as "adult" by TheMovieDB. Pending "popular demand" I am contemplating a login and profile system with preferences (such as whether to allow adult images to appear) and permissions (such as data entry).
Whereas the overall purpose of this website is to serve as a personal demo/portfolio/workshop of web and data skills, this Movies section is not meant to compete with or substitute for far more definitive movie websites.
Whether or not he still clings to an award which he won in 1986 as a film critic for his college's newspaper, Jeffrey Hartmann is not responsible for the texts of overviews and biographies supplied by external data sources.