Diane Keen was born on 29 July 1946 and is an English actress.
16 Facts About Diane Keen
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Diane Keen grew up in East Africa, principally Tanganyika and later Kenya, where her father was a civil engineer.
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Diane Keen was a regular on television during the 1970s and early 1980s, starring in long-running sitcoms such as The Cuckoo Waltz, Rings on Their Fingers, Shillingbury Tales and You Must Be the Husband, and in two runs of the Thames Television children's historical costume drama The Feathered Serpent.
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Diane Keen guest-starred in many shows, including The Morecambe and Wise Show, and featured as Laura Dickens in the spy drama The Sandbaggers.
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Diane Keen played Sandra Gould in Crossroads from 1968 to 1971.
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Diane Keen then had a part in the film Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush as Claire, Judy Geeson's university student friend, and appeared in an episode of Budgie as Barbara.
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Diane Keen appeared in the 1977 spin-off film of 1970s TV detective series The Sweeney.
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Diane Keen starred as Elisabeth of Austria-Hungary in episode one of the 13-part series Fall of Eagles, and played Hilda in The Professionals series 1 episode Killer With a Long Arm in 1978.
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Diane Keen went on to star with David Jason in A Touch of Frost.
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Diane Keen starred in a series of advertisements for Nescafe coffee from 1980 to 1989 and made an appearance in an episode of Taggart in 1987.
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Diane Keen was then a series regular in the BBC soap opera Doctors, playing practice manager Julia Parsons from 2003 to 2012.
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Diane Keen reprised this role in March 2020 for a short stint.
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Diane Keen was nominated for Best Actress again in 2012.
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Diane Keen won in the Actress category at the 2008 RTS Midlands Awards.
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Diane Keen has appeared onstage, including in the Alan Ayckbourn play Absent Friends at the Bristol Old Vic, and in two acclaimed tours of Same Time, Next Year.
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Diane Keen has one daughter, Melissa, by her marriage to Paul Greenwood, which ended in divorce in 1979.