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Diane Sherry is an American actress, writer, filmmaker, and painter. Her most iconic film role was as the first actress to play Lana Lang, the high school sweetheart of young Clark Kent, appearing in the 1978 film Superman: The Movie, along with Christopher Reeves and Marlon Brando. Sherry began her career in the entertainment industry in mid-1960’s, appearing in numerous television shows, including My Three Sons, The Bill Dana Show, Room 222, The F.B.I., and as Bing Crosby’s daughter, singing along with the crooner, as a regular in the ABC sitcom, The Bing Crosby Show. Sherry also appeared as Julie Andrews youngest sister in an adaptation of James Michener’s Hawaii. She was cast by director Roger Vadim and producer Gene Roddenberry in the cult film, Pretty Maids All in a Row, starring Rock Hudson and Angie Dickenson. Though she appears briefly in Pretty Maids, she did not do the role she was cast in because it required nudity. In the first edition of David Alexander’s biography of Roddenberry[1], Vadim is said to have been angry at her for refusing.
In addition to television and film, Sherry has appeared on stage in productions in Los Angeles and New York. Along with many of the new vanguard of film actors since the late 1970’s (including Sean Penn, Anjelica Huston, Jeff Goldblum), Sherry studied at the Loft Studio with renowned coach Peggy Feury.
Following her acting career, Sherry became a filmmaker. With a grant from American Film Institute’s Director’s Workshop for Women, she adapted her short story Spa-tel (published in UnNatural Disasters: Writers from the Golden Coast[2]) for film, starring O-Lan Jones. She also wrote and directed the short series House Poor. Her first short story “Looking for Frank” was included in the anthology, “Best Short Stories by Unpublished Emerging Writers[3]”, edited by Louise Erdrich. Sherry was a Tennessee Williams Scholar at the Sewanee’s Writer Conference. Her debut novel Elephant Milk, won a Next Generation Indie Books “Best Novel” award. It was followed by a young adult novel, Earth to Skye.
She teaches expressive/therapeutic writing and authored the book Write For Recovery, Exercises for Heart, Mind, and Spirit.
In 2018, her paintings were exhibited at Craig Krull Gallery in Santa Monica, California.
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- ^ Panter, Nicole, ed. (1996). Unnatural disasters: recent writings from the Golden State (1. printing ed.). San Diego, Calif: Incommunicado Press (published 06/01/1996). ISBN 978-1-884615-16-0.
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