Diora Baird

Diora Baird
Diora Baird in 2003
Born	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 Casual which is a Hulu original series.

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

References

1. "New work of the beautiful (and expecting!) Diora Baird". stephanie vovas blog. Retrieved April 12, 2016.
2. 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. 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.

External links

• Diora Baird at the Internet Movie Database
• Diora Baird at AllMovie