DYAN CANNON
Name: Dyan Cannon
Birth name: Samile Diane Friesen
Born: 4 January 1937 Tacoma, Washington
Dyan Cannon (born Samille Diane Friesen on January 4, 1937) is a three-time
Academy Award-nominated American film and television actress, director,
screenwriter, editor, and producer.
Cannon was born in Tacoma, Washington, to a Baptist father and a Jewish mother,
Claire Portnoy, who had immigrated from Russia. She attended West Seattle High
School.
Cannon received two Oscar nominations for Best Supporting Actress, one for Bob &
Carol & Ted & Alice (1969) and another for Heaven Can Wait (1978). In addition,
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. Her most recent work has been as a semi-regular on the cult series
Ally McBeal and the short-lived sitcom Three Sisters (2001-2002). In 2005 she
appeared in Boynton Beach Club, a movie about aging Floridians who have just
lost their spouses.
Name: Dyan Cannon
Birth name: Samile Diane Friesen
Born: 4 January 1937 Tacoma, Washington
Dyan Cannon (born Samille Diane Friesen on January 4, 1937) is a three-time
Academy Award-nominated American film and television actress, director,
screenwriter, editor, and producer.
Cannon was born in Tacoma, Washington, to a Baptist father and a Jewish mother,
Claire Portnoy, who had immigrated from Russia. She attended West Seattle High
School.
Cannon received two Oscar nominations for Best Supporting Actress, one for Bob &
Carol & Ted & Alice (1969) and another for Heaven Can Wait (1978). In addition,
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. Her most recent work has been as a semi-regular on the cult series
Ally McBeal and the short-lived sitcom Three Sisters (2001-2002). In 2005 she
appeared in Boynton Beach Club, a movie about aging Floridians who have just
lost their spouses.