Diora Baird

Diora Baird

Diora Baird in 2003
Born (1983-04-06) April 6, 1983
Miami, Florida, United States
Occupation Model, actress
Years active 2004–present
Spouse(s) Jonathan Togo (2013-present); 1 child[1]

Diora Lynn Baird (born April 6, 1983)[2] is an American actress and former model for Guess? who has appeared in films such as Wedding Crashers (2005), Accepted (2006), The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning (2006), Young People Fucking (2007), My Best Friend's Girl (2008), Stan Helsing (2009), and Transit (2012).

Early life

Baird was born in Miami, Florida. 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.[2]

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?.[2] Her exposure increased considerably with an appearance on the cover of the August 2005 issue of Playboy magazine.[3][4] She is signed to Elite Model Management in Miami.[5]

Career

In 2004, Baird also started earning acting roles, such as a guest 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 prequel The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning. In 2009, Baird portrayed an Orion Starfleet officer in Star Trek directed by J. J. Abrams but was cut from the final version of the film. She can be seen in the deleted scenes of the home video release.[6]

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,[7] #64 on the Maxim magazine Hot 100 of 2008 list,[8] #76 on the Maxim Magazine Hot 100 of 2011 list,[9] the #17 spot on FHM's top 100 2010, and the #40 spot in 2011),[10] Toro and Esquire (UK).[11] She lent her voice to the Scarface video game as one of Tony Montana's possible girlfriends.[12]

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,[13] which is produced by Columbia Pictures and Ghost House Pictures.[14] Baird stars in the FEARnet webseries Tea Party Massacre, which is part of the series Women in Horror Month.[15] She also starred in the 2009 comedy Stan Helsing.

She starred in a couple of 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.[16] 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.[17]

She plays a porn star in her latest film Beautiful Girl, released in 2014. 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.[18] Baird guest starred in an episode of the Hulu series Casual.

Personal life

Baird and her husband Jonathan Togo have one child.[19]

Filmography

Year Title Role Notes
2004 Drew Carey Show, TheThe Drew Carey Show Valerie TV series, episode "Drew Thinks Inside the Box"
2004 Deep Down in Florida Maren Short film
2005 First Kiss Billie Short film
2005 Wedding Crashers Vivian
2005 Fiasco Tiffy Short film
2005 If Love Be Blind Isabel Short film
2006 South Beach Brianna Unaired pilot
2006 Hot Tamale Tuesday Blackwell
2006 Bachelor Party Vegas Penelope Direct-to-video
2006 Fifty Pills Tiffany
2006 Accepted Kiki
2006 Scarface: The World is Yours Femme Fatale (voice) Video Game Role
2006 Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning, TheThe Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning Bailey
2006–2007 Big Day Kristin 3 episodes
2007 Day 73 with Sarah Foxy Short film
2007 Brain Blockers Suzi Klein Direct-to-video
2007 Shark Nina Lange TV series, episode "Fall from Grace"
2007 Loop, TheThe Loop Cara 2 episodes
2007 Young People Fucking Jamie
2008 South of Heaven Lily
2008 My Best Friend's Girl Rachel
2009 Two and a Half Men Wanda TV series, episode "She'll Still Be Dead at Halftime"
2009 Robot Chicken Fantasia / Spanish Woman / Woman / Lady / Girl (voice) 2 episodes
2009 Gary Unmarried Redhead TV series, episode "Gary Shoots Fish in a Barrel"
2009 Accidentally on Purpose Andrea TV series, episode "The Love Guru"
2009 Stan Helsing Nadine
2009 Star Trek 'wrong' Orion girl scene deleted[6]
2009 Night of the Demons Lily Thompson
2010 Hot Tub Time Machine Mrs. Steelman
2010 Law and Order: SVU Lainie McCallum TV series, episode "Witness"
2010 Let the Game Begin Kate
2010 Quit Danielle
2010 30 Days of Night: Dark Days Amber Direct-to-video
2010 Love Shack LaCienga Torrez
2010 Dry Run Laurie
2011 Howlin' for You Kelsopher Short film by The Black Keys
2011 Last Call Janine
2011 Psych Nicole TV series, episode "The Tao of Gus"[20]
2012 Transit Arielle
2012 Bent Natalie TV series, episode "Smitten"
2012 Cheat Day Herself Short film by Alex Montilla [21]
2012–2013 Shameless Meg 4 episodes
2013 Riddle Amber Richards
2013 Concrete Blondes Sammi Lovett
2014 Franklin & Bash Cindy Maloney TV series, episode 4.06 "Dance the Night Away"
2014 Beautiful Girl Odessa
2014 Newsreaders Ashley / Jennifer Episode: "Strip Club Expose; Long Lost Twins"
2015 Casual April Episode: "Animals"
2016 Telenovela Maria Wilson Episode: "Caught in the Act"
2016 Angel from Hell Brandi 2 episodes

Music videos

Year Title Artist
2010 "Out of Goodbyes" Maroon 5 featuring Lady Antebellum

References

  1. "New work of the beautiful (and expecting!) Diora Baird". stephanie vovas blog. Retrieved April 12, 2016.
  2. 1 2 3 Baird at Maxim.com. Retrieved on 2011-07-26. Archived August 17, 2011, at the Wayback Machine.
  3. "Model of the Week". Askmen.com. April 2007.
  4. Miska, Brad (October 2005). "Texas Chainsaw Massacre Prequel: Star Diora Baird". Defamer.com.
  5. Elite USA. "Elite Model Management". elitemodel.com.
  6. 1 2 Baird Star Trek deleted scene. Diorabairdhq.com (2009-10-31); retrieved 2011-07-26.
  7. Maxim Hot 100 2007. Maxim.com. Retrieved on 2011-07-26.
  8. Maxim Hot 100 2008. Maxim.com (2007-09-24). Retrieved on 2011-07-26.
  9. Maxim. "2011 Hot 100". Retrieved 4 August 2011.
  10. AdTech Ad FHM's 100 Sexiest Women in the World 2010, Fhm.com; retrieved 2011-07-26.
  11. FHM. "FHM's 100 Sexiest Women of 2011". Retrieved 4 August 2011.
  12. Stahie, Silviu (May 2006). "'Scarface: The World Is Yours' Signs Five Hollywood Beauties". Softpedia.
  13. "'30 Days of Night Dark Days' Officially Announced", October 22, 2009 Bloody-discusting.com. Bloody-disgusting.com. Retrieved on 2011-07-26.
  14. BD's Got Your '30 Days of Night: Dark Days' Casting!. Bloody-disgusting.com; retrieved 2011-07-26.
  15. Creepy, Uncle. (2010-01-28) You're Invited to a Tea Party Macabre. Dreadcentral.com; retrieved 2011-07-26.
  16. Diora Baird profile, Funnyordie.com; retrieved 2011-07-26.
  17. "Video-The Black Keys "Howlin' For You"". Kroq.radio.com. 2011-02-11. Retrieved 2012-11-15.
  18. "New Amazon Shows: What We're Expecting From Its First 2015 Pilots". Indiewire. January 13, 2015.
  19. "Someone FINALLY decided to make his grand entrance into the world...". Diora Baird official Twitter. December 12, 2012.
  20. "The Tao of Gus". USA Network. Retrieved November 18, 2011.
  21. "Cheat Day (2012)". IMDb. October 19, 2012.
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