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Diora Baird Profile |
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Birth Date: April 6, 1983
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Birth Place: Miami, Florida, USA
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Birth Name: Diora Baird
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Height: 5'7"
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Biography |
Diora Baird was born April 6, 1983, in Miami, Florida. The
all-American beauty left home at the age of 17 when she
decided to try her luck in Los Angeles. Despite her gorgeous
appearance and traffic-stopping curves, Diora found stardom
to be more elusive than she had first imagined.
While going out on auditions, Diora made ends meet by
working a litany of low-paying jobs. "I've done everything
from cater, wait tables, pre-school teacher, painting, to
being Cinderella, Elmo, a clown, nanny, selling hair..."
Diora recalls. "I would do kid's parties and entertain and
do magic and paint faces and balloon animals. The highlight
of my life."
Fortunately, her hard work soon paid off and Diora began
getting a string of high-profile modeling gigs, including a
series of ads for Guess. She also enjoyed her first taste of
prime-time TV, appearing in a June 2004 episode of The Drew
Carey Show. Roles in the low-budget films Brain Blockers
(2004) and Deep Down in Florida (2004) soon followed.
Diora's good looks and increased exposure eventually landed
her the highly coveted cover of Play..boy in August 2005.
"When I did the magazine I really was not anticipating the
kind of response that we got," she confides. "It was
supposed to be a few pages. I didn't even tell my parents. I
didn't tell anybody. And it turned out to be the cover and
all the rest happened."
"[Play..boy] basically just got my face out there," she
says, "Just like submitting headshots to every producer in
town. I think it just gave me more of the stature, more of
like a name. The industry's very fickle like that and
political and it just gave me more 'star power,' as they
call it."
That "star power" continued with the summer release of
Wedding Crashers. The movie may have starred Owen Wilson and
Vince Vaughn, but it was Diora's brief bedroom scene that
had everyone talking. Ironically, Diora had initally thought
the film was too risqu.
"I thought it was too much for America," she says. "I mean,
America is so prude. It's just so conservative. And I was
just like, I saw it at the screening and I was like, 'Oh my
god. We'll be shunned from everywhere. No one's going to
want to make a movie with me ever again.' And it f---ing did
amazing. It did amazing. And I almost didn't even do it. I
almost said no because of the nudity factor. And then I was
like, 'Okay. Let's just do it.' And then the rest is
history."
Since it's release, the film has made over $209 million
domestically and over $73 million overseas. More
importantly, it's made Diora even more visible.
After Wedding Crashers, Diora starred in the comedic short,
If Love Be Blind (2005) and Hot Tamale (2005), and lined
herself up roles in the 2006 films Vegas Baby, Fifty Pills,
South of Heaven, Accepted, and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre:
The Beginning.
From her casting call, the prequel to the legendary The
Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning promised to be one of
Diora's meatiest roles yet. "Texas Chainsaw Massacre is just
one of those movies that's like a page of history," she says
enthusiastically. "You can't really go wrong. It's a
prequel. It's not like number three. Which is really cool,
to be the before as opposed to the after. That was really
appealing... I just thought it'd be a really fun
experience."
So, will there be more horror movies in the future? "I can't
imagine topping this," Diora confesses. "I can't imagine
doing like Little House on the Prairie Gone Wrong or
something. I really think this will be it." |
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Other
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Bust: 32DD (Source: Playboy magazine)
She is a model for the Guess clothing company. |
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