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Dyan Cannon (born Samille Diane Friesen; January 4, 1937) is an American actress, director, screenwriter, producer, and editor. Her accolades include a Saturn Award, a Golden Globe Award, three Academy Award nominations, and a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. She was named Female Star of the Year by the National Association of Theatre Owners in 1973 and the Hollywood Women's Press Club in 1979.

Dyan Cannon
Cannon c. 1960
Born	Samille Diane Friesen (1937-01-04) January 4, 1937 (age 85) Tacoma, Washington, U.S.
Occupation	Actress director screenwriter producer editor
Years active	1958–present
Spouses	Cary Grant ​ ​ (m. 1965; div. 1968)​ Stanley Fimberg ​ ​ (m. 1985; div. 1991)​
Children	Jennifer Grant
Relatives	David Friesen (brother)

A former beauty queen who held the title of Miss West Seattle, Cannon made her television debut in 1958. Over the next decade, she became a common sight on episodic shows while appearing sporadically on Broadway and in B-movies. In 1969, she had her breakthrough film role in the sex comedy Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice, for which she was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. Cannon was nominated in that category again for Heaven Can Wait (1978), which earned her a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture, and was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Drama for her lead role in Such Good Friends (1971). She also was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film as the producer of Number One (1976), making her the first woman to receive Oscar nominations both in front of and behind the camera.

Other films in which Cannon has performed include The Love Machine (1971), Shamus (1973), The Last of Sheila (1973), Child Under a Leaf (1974), Revenge of the Pink Panther (1978), Honeysuckle Rose (1980), Coast to Coast (1980), Deathtrap (1982), Author! Author! (1982), Caddyshack II (1988), 8 Heads in a Duffel Bag (1997), Out to Sea (1997), and Boynton Beach Club (2005). Cannon made her feature directorial debut with 1990's semi-autobiographical drama The End of Innocence, which she also wrote and starred in. From 1997 to 2000 she played a recurring role on the legal series Ally McBeal.

Before her career took off, Cannon was married to Cary Grant for three years and gave birth to his only child, daughter Jennifer. Reluctant to discuss the marriage since their 1968 divorce, Cannon turned down publishing deals following Grant's death in 1986. Her long-awaited memoir Dear Cary (2011) became a New York Times Best Seller. In 2022, it was announced that the book would be adapted into a miniseries for ITV with Cannon executive producing.

Early life

Cannon was born Samille Diane Friesen in Tacoma, Washington on January 4, 1937, the daughter of housewife Claire (née Portnoy) and life insurance salesman Ben Friesen.[1] She was raised in the Jewish faith of her Ashkenazi Jewish mother, who was an immigrant from Russia; her father was Baptist of Russian Mennonite ancestry.[2][3] Her younger brother is jazz musician David Friesen.[4] Cannon attended West Seattle High School and was crowned Miss West Seattle in 1954.[5] She spent two-and-a-half years at the University of Washington.[6]

In 1957, Cannon dropped out of college and went to live with her Aunt Sally in Phoenix, Arizona, where she took a job at Merrill Lynch & Co.[7][8] Courted by a traveling businessman, she got engaged and followed her fiancé to Los Angeles.[7] They soon parted, but she decided to stay in the area and enroll at UCLA.[8] A part-time modeling job led to an interview with producer Jerry Wald, who suggested she change her last name to Cannon.[9] She signed to MGM, doing promotional work for the film Les Girls, and studied with acting teacher Sanford Meisner.[7]

Career

Cannon made her film debut in 1960 in The Rise and Fall of Legs Diamond; she had appeared on television since the late 1950s, including a guest appearance on Bat Masterson as Mary Lowery in the 1959 episode "Lady Luck" and again in a 1961 episode as Diane Jansen in "The Price of Paradise". She appeared in 1959 on CBS's Wanted: Dead or Alive, in episode 52, "Vanishing Act", as Nicole McCready. About this time, she was on the CBS western Johnny Ringo, starring Don Durant, and on Jack Lord's western Stoney Burke on ABC. She also appeared on Hawaiian Eye, using her name Diane Cannon, in 1961, opposite Tracey Steele, Robert Conrad, and Connie Stevens.[10]

In 1962, Cannon appeared on Broadway with Jane Fonda and Bradford Dillman in The Fun Couple. Next came the national touring company of the musical How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, in which she played Rosemary.

In 1964 she guest starred on Gunsmoke, playing "Ivy Norton", an abused daughter looking to marry the man she loves in the episode "Aunt Thede" (S10E13). She portrayed Mona Elliott in the episode "The Man Behind the Man" of the 1964 CBS drama series The Reporter. She also made guest appearances on 77 Sunset Strip, The Untouchables, the 1960 episode "Sheriff of the Town" of the first-run syndicated western series Two Faces West with Walter Coy as Cauter and the 1962 Ripcord episode "The Helicopter Race" as Ripcord Inc.'s secretary and receptionist Marion Hines. Cannon had another role in a feature with The Murder Game (1965), then took four years off.

Cannon's first major film role came in 1969's Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice, which earned her Academy Award and Golden Globe nominations. In 1971 she starred in four films: The Love Machine, from the novel by Jacqueline Susann; The Anderson Tapes with Sean Connery and Christopher Walken; The Burglars with Jean-Paul Belmondo and Omar Sharif; and Otto Preminger's Such Good Friends, for which she received a Golden Globe nomination for Best Actress. Her name was used to market a fifth release that year, Doctors' Wives, in which she had top billing despite only making a cameo appearance.

In 1973, Cannon starred opposite Burt Reynolds in Shamus and played an agent based on Sue Mengers in The Last of Sheila, and was named Female Star of the Year by the National Association of Theatre Owners.[11] In 1974, she gave a critically acclaimed performance in Child Under a Leaf and starred in the made-for-TV movie Virginia Hill with Harvey Keitel. Following this she took a four-year absence from acting in feature films.[12]

Cannon starred in her own musical stage act at Caesar's Palace in Las Vegas and Harrah's Lake Tahoe during the mid-1970s. She then enrolled in the Women's Directing Workshop of the American Film Institute. She became the first Oscar-nominated actress to be nominated in the Best Short Film, Live Action Category for Number One (1976), a project which Cannon produced, directed, wrote and edited. It was a story about adolescent sexual curiosity.[13] In 1978, Cannon co-starred in Revenge of the Pink Panther. That same year, she appeared in Heaven Can Wait, for which she received another Oscar nomination and won a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress.

In 1976, she hosted Saturday Night Live during its first season and she guest starred in the fourth season of The Muppet Show in 1979.[14] She co-starred with then-boyfriend Armand Assante in the TV movie Lady of the House (1978), a dramatization of the life of Sally Stanford.

In the early 1980s, Cannon, who is also a singer/songwriter, appeared in Honeysuckle Rose (1980) with Willie Nelson, Coast to Coast (1980) with Robert Blake, Author! Author! (1982) with Al Pacino, and Sidney Lumet's Deathtrap (1982) with Michael Caine and Christopher Reeve. She starred in the TV movie Having It All (1982) as well as a miniseries, Master of the Game (1984), then had the title role in Jenny's War (1985).[15] After making Rock 'n' Roll Mom (1988) for Disney, she appeared with an ensemble cast in Caddyshack II (1988).[11] In addition, she co-wrote the title track for Chaka Khan's album, The Woman I Am, with Brenda Russell.

For her contributions to the film industry, Cannon was inducted into the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1983 with a motion pictures star located at 6608 Hollywood Boulevard.[16]

Cannon wrote, directed, and starred in the semi-autobiographical film The End of Innocence (1990).[17] She subsequently appeared opposite Phylicia Rashad in Jailbirds (1991) and Kris Kristofferson and Tony Curtis in Christmas in Connecticut (1992), the latter of which was directed by Arnold Schwarzenegger, before reuniting with Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice director Paul Mazursky for The Pickle (1993), alongside Danny Aiello.

Cannon had guest roles on the popular television shows Diagnosis: Murder and The Practice, as well as being a semi-regular on Ally McBeal. In 1997 she could be seen in three major studio film releases: 8 Heads in a Duffel Bag with Joe Pesci; a remake of That Darn Cat; and Out to Sea with Walter Matthau and Jack Lemmon. Also that year, she worked with Sarah Michelle Gellar in the TV movie Beverly Hills Family Robinson. In 2001 and 2002, she had a regular part in the TV series Three Sisters.

In 2005, she appeared in Boynton Beach Club, a movie about aging Floridians who have just lost their spouses; Cannon's real-life ex Michael Nouri played her love interest. Her later roles included A Kiss at Midnight (2008) for Hallmark and the unaired pilot Women Without Men (2010) with Lorraine Bracco and Penny Marshall. She wrote and directed another short, Unleashed (2010). After a hiatus from the screen, she acted in the equestrian themed family film Hope's Legacy (2021).

Cannon published a best-selling memoir, Dear Cary: My Life with Cary Grant, in October 2011.[18] She had previously been approached by Swifty Lazar to write about her late ex-husband in 1986, turning down "millions," and declined another publishing offer some years later from Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, stating that there was still healing that needed to happen.[19] Cannon serves as executive producer of a four-part miniseries based on her book, entitled Archie, which began production in August 2022 and will air on ITV.[20]

Personal life

In 1961, Cannon began dating actor Cary Grant, who was 33 years her senior. They married on July 22, 1965 and had one daughter, Jennifer (born February 26, 1966). Cannon filed for divorce in September 1967, and it was finalized on March 21, 1968.[21]

Cannon married real estate investor Stanley Fimberg on April 18, 1985. They divorced in 1991.[17]

From 1978 to 1979, Cannon and Armand Assante were a steady item in public. She has also been in relationships with comedian Mort Sahl, producer Murray Shostak, talent agent Ron Weisner and sculptor Carl Hartman, as well as directors Hal Ashby and Jerry Schatzberg, and actors Hy Chase, Ron Ely and Michael Nouri.[17][22][23] She is still friends with Nouri and accompanied him to a premiere nearly 40 years after their breakup.[24]

In 1972, Cannon revealed that she engaged in primal therapy.[25] She is a fan of the Los Angeles Lakers and has attended Lakers games for over three decades. She is a born-again Christian.[2][26][27]

Filmography

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1958	Have Gun - Will Travel	Fifi	Episodes: "Twenty-Four Hours at North Fork" and "The Man Who Wouldn't Talk"
	Target		Episode: "On Cue"
	77 Sunset Strip	Sheila	Episode: "The Bouncing Chip"
1959	Highway Patrol	Jean Deesing	Episode: "Revenge"
	Playhouse 90	Gloria / Marcie	Episodes: "The Velvet Alley", "The Ding-A-Ling Girl" and "A Trip to Paradise"
	Lock-Up	Eileen Winfield	Episode: "Change of Heart"
	Bat Masterson	Mary Lowery	Episode: "Lady Luck"
	Zane Grey Theatre	Annie	Episode: "Shadows"
	Hotel de Paree	Peggy Joyce	Episode: "The Only Wheel in Town"
	Wanted Dead or Alive	Nicole McCready	Episode: "Vanishing Act"
1960	The Rise and Fall of Legs Diamond	Dixie
	This Rebel Breed	Wiggles
	The Detectives	Olga May	Episode: "The Chameleon Truck"
	Johnny Ringo	Rhoda	Episode: "Soft Cargo"
	Tombstone Territory	Tracy Travers	Episode: "The Injury"
	Two Faces West		Episode: "Sheriff of the Town"
1960–1961	Full Circle	Lisa Crowder	Series regular
1961	Bat Masterson	Diane Jansen	Episode: "The Price of Paradise"
	Hawaiian Eye	Julie Brent	Episode: "The Big Dealer"
	The Aquanauts	Thelma / Diana Hogarth	Episodes: "The Radioactive Object Adventure" and "The Diana Adventure"
	Follow the Sun	Lana Flanagan	Episode: "The Woman Who Never Was"
	Ben Casey	Donna Whitney	Episode: "A Certain Time, a Certain Darkness"
1962	The Untouchables	Mavis Carroll	Episode: "Silent Partner"
	77 Sunset Strip	Kathy	Episode: "The Bridal Trail Caper"
	The Red Skelton Show	Clara II	Episode: "Somebody Up There Should Stay There"
	Ripcord	Marion Hines	Episode: "The Helicopter Race"
1963	Stoney Burke	Flatbush	Episode: "Death Rides a Pale Horse"
1964	Mr. Broadway	Marianne	Episode: "Between the Rats and the Finks"
	The Reporter	Mona Elliott	Episode: "The Man Behind the Badge"
	Gunsmoke	Ivy Norton	Episode: "Aunt Thede"
1965	Burke's Law	Francesca Szabo	Episode: "The Weapon"
	The Murder Game
1969	Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice	Alice Henderson	National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Supporting Actress (3rd place) New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Supporting Actress Nominated—Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress Nominated—Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy Nominated—Golden Globe Award for Most Promising Newcomer – Female
	Medical Center	Elinor Crawford	Episode: "Victim"
1971	Doctors' Wives	Lorrie Dellman
	The Anderson Tapes	Ingrid
	The Love Machine	Judith Austin
	The Burglars	Lena
	Such Good Friends	Julie Messinger	Nominated—Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama
1972	Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In	Various - Guest performer
1973	Shamus	Alexis Montaigne
	The Last of Sheila	Christine	Cannon's character is believed to have been based on Sue Mengers.
1974	Child Under a Leaf	Domino
	Virginia Hill	Virginia Hill
1976	Number One	Matt's mother	Writer, director, producer, film editor Nominated—Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film
	Saturday Night Live	Various - Guest performer
1978	Heaven Can Wait	Julia Farnsworth	Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actress Nominated—Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress
	Revenge of the Pink Panther	Simone Legree
	Lady of the House	Sally Stanford
1980	Honeysuckle Rose	Viv Bonham	Cannon also sings three songs on the soundtrack: "Two Sides To Every Story," "Loving You Is Easier," and "Unclouded Day."
	Coast to Coast	Madie Levrington
1982	Deathtrap	Myra Bruhl	Nominated—Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Supporting Actress
	Author! Author!	Alice Detroit
	Having It All	Thera Baylin
1983	Arthur the King	Katherine
1984	Master of the Game	Kate McGregor-Blackwell
1985	Jenny's War	Jenny Baines
1988	She's Having a Baby	Herself
	Rock 'n' Roll Mom	Annie Hackett
	Caddyshack II	Elizabeth Pearce
1990	The End of Innocence	Stephanie	Also director and writer
1991	Jailbirds	Rosie LaCroix
1992	Christmas in Connecticut	Elizabeth Blane
1993	Beverly Hills, 90210	Herself	Episode: "Senior Poll"
	The Pickle	Ellen Stone
	Based on an Untrue Story	Varda Gray
1994	Diagnosis Murder	Bonnie Valin	Episodes: "The Last Laugh: Part 1" and "The Last Laugh: Part 2"
1995	A Perry Mason Mystery: The Case of the Jealous Jokester	Josie Joplin
	The Naked Truth	Mitzi Wilde	Episode: "Girl Buys Soup While Woman Weds Ape!"
1996	The Rockford Files: If the Frame Fits...	Jess Wilding
1997	Beverly Hills Family Robinson	Marsha Robinson
	That Darn Cat	Mrs. Flint
	8 Heads in a Duffel Bag	Annette Bennett
	Out to Sea	Liz LaBreche
	Allie & Me	Karen Schneider
1997–2000	Ally McBeal	The Honorable Judge Jennifer 'Whipper' Cone	Recurring role; 17 episodes Nominated—Viewers for Quality Television Award for Best Recurring Player
1998	The Practice	The Honorable Judge Jennifer 'Whipper' Cone	Episode: "Line of Duty"
	Black Jaq	Abby 'Bubblin' Browne
	Diamond Girl	Abby Montana
	The Sender	Gina Fairfax
1999	Kiss of a Stranger	Leslie
	Arli$$	Herself	Episode: "People Are Assets Too"
2000	My Mother the Spy	Gloria Shaeffer
2001–2002	Three Sisters	Honey Bernstein-Flynn	Series regular
2003	Kangaroo Jack	Anna Carbone
2004	After the Sunset	Herself
2005	Boynton Beach Club	Lois
2008	A Kiss at Midnight	Kay Flowers
2010	Women Without Men	Dominique	TV pilot
2019	Five Old Comedy Writers Talking Sh*t		Short film
	Mood Swings	Aunt Sam	Episode: "Farrah's Day Off"
2021	Hope's Legacy	Linda

References

External links

• Dyan Cannon at IMDb
• Dyan Cannon at AllMovie
• Dyan Cannon on Twitter

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Dyan Cannon, eigentlich Samile Diane Friesen (* 4. Januar 1937 in Tacoma, Washington), ist eine US-amerikanische Schauspielerin und Filmemacherin, die in den 1970er-Jahren ihre größten Erfolge hatte.

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[es] Dyan Cannon

Dyan Cannon (nacida Samille Diane Friesen); (Tacoma, en el estado de Washington, 4 de enero de 1937) es una actriz, escritora y directora estadounidense originaria de Tacoma, Washington. Es conocida por su trabajo en películas como Heaven Can Wait y Revenge of the Pink Panther, así como por su matrimonio con el famoso actor Cary Grant.

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Дайан Кэннон (англ. Dyan Cannon, урождённая Сэмилл Дайан Фрисен (англ. Samille Diane Friesen), род. 4 января 1937 (1937-01-04)) — американская актриса, продюсер, режиссёр и сценарист.

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