Diora Baird
Diora Baird in 2003
Born	April 6, 1983 (1983-04-06) (age 26) Miami, Miami-Dade County, Florida, U.S.
Occupation	Film/television actress, model
Years active	2004–present

Diora Baird (born April 6, 1983) is an American actress and former model for Guess? who has appeared in films such as Wedding Crashers (2005) and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning (2006).

Early life

Baird was born in Miami, Miami-Dade County, 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. 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 in to the modeling industry, most notably with Guess?. Her exposure increased considerably with an appearance on the cover of the August 2005 issue of Playboy magazine.¹² She is signed to Elite Model Management in Miami.

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. However she can be seen in the deleted scenes of the home video release.³

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 and #64 on the Maxim magazine Hot 100 of 2008 list), Toro and Esquire (UK). One advantage in her modeling career seems to be her large natural breasts, which measure 32DD⁴. She lent her voice to the Scarface video game as one of Tony Montana's possible girlfriends.⁵

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 is to star in the movie 30 Days of Night: Dark Days, directed by Ben Ketai.⁶, who is produced from Columbia Pictures and Ghost House Pictures⁷ Baird stars also in the FEARnet webseries Tea Party Massacre, which is part of the series Women in Horror Month.⁸

Filmography

• The Drew Carey Show (1 episode, "Drew Thinks Inside the Box", 2004) .... Valerie
• Deep Down in Florida (2004) .... Maren
• First Kiss (2005) .... Billie
• Wedding Crashers (2005) .... Vivian
• Fiasco (2005) .... Tiffy
• If Love Be Blind (2005) .... Isabel
• Tenacious D in The Pick of Destiny (2006) .... (uncredited) as Superfox
• South Beach (1 episode, "Unaired Pilot", 2006) .... Brianna
• Hot Tamale (2006) .... Tuesday Blackwell
• Bachelor Party Vegas (2006) (V) .... Penelope
• Fifty Pills (2006) .... Tiffany
• Accepted (2006) .... Kiki
• The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning (2006) .... Bailey
• Scarface: The World Is Yours (2006) (VG) .... Femme Fatale (voice)
• Big Day (3 episodes, "Boobzilla", "Last Chance to Marry Jane" and "The Ceremony", 2006-2007) .... Kristin
• Day 73 with Sarah (2007) .... Foxy
• Brain Blockers (2007) (V) .... Suzi Klein
• Shark (1 episode, "Fall from Grace", 2007) .... Nina Lange
• The Loop (2 episodes, "Windows" and "The Phantom", 2007) .... Cara
• Young People Fucking (2007) .... Jamie
• South of Heaven (2008) .... Lily
• My Best Friend's Girl (2008) .... Rachel
• Two and a Half Men (1 episode, "She'll Still Be Dead at Halftime", 2009) .... Wanda
• Pornstar (2009) .... Odessa
• Let the Game Begin (2009) .... Kate
• Four Years Running (2009) .... Laurie Gregg
• Quit (2009) .... Danielle
• Stan Helsing (2009) .... Nadine
• Star Trek (2009) (scene deleted)³
• Night of the Demons (2010) .... Lily Thompson

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