1. Dyan Cannon was born on Samille Diane Friesen; January 4,1937 and is an American actress, filmmaker, and editor.
45 Facts About Dyan Cannon
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Dyan Cannon's accolades include a Saturn Award, a Golden Globe Award, three Academy Award nominations, and a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
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Dyan Cannon 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.
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Dyan Cannon was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film as the producer of Number One.
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Dyan Cannon made her feature directorial debut with 1990's semiautobiographical drama The End of Innocence, which she wrote and in which starred.
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Reluctant to discuss the marriage since their 1968 divorce, Dyan Cannon initially turned down publishing deals following Grant's death in 1986.
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Dyan Cannon was born Samille Diane Friesen in Tacoma, Washington, on January 4,1937, the daughter of housewife Claire and life insurance salesman Ben Friesen.
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Dyan Cannon was raised in the Jewish faith of her mother, who was an immigrant from Ukraine; her father was an Anabaptist of Canadian Mennonite ancestry.
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Dyan Cannon attended West Seattle High School and was crowned Miss West Seattle in 1954.
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Dyan Cannon spent two-and-a-half semesters at the University of Washington, majoring in anthropology.
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Dyan Cannon signed to MGM, doing promotional work for the film Les Girls, and studied with acting teacher Sanford Meisner.
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Dyan 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".
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Dyan Cannon appeared in 1959 on CBS's Wanted: Dead or Alive, in episode 52, "Vanishing Act", as Nicole McCready.
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Dyan Cannon appeared on Hawaiian Eye in 1961, opposite Tracey Steele, Robert Conrad, and Connie Stevens.
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In 1962, Dyan Cannon acted on Broadway with Jane Fonda and Bradford Dillman in The Fun Couple.
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Dyan Cannon portrayed Mona Elliott in the episode "The Man Behind the Man" of the 1964 CBS drama series The Reporter and had a regular role on the short-lived daytime soap opera Full Circle.
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Dyan Cannon made guest appearances on 77 Sunset Strip, The Untouchables, Tombstone Territory, 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.
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Dyan Cannon landed another role in a feature with The Murder Game, then took four years off.
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Dyan Cannon's name was used to market a fifth release that year, Doctors' Wives, in which she had top billing despite only making a cameo appearance.
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Dyan Cannon was slated to appear in The Traveling Executioner and Double Indemnity, but bowed out and was replaced by Marianna Hill and Samantha Eggar, respectively.
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In 1973, Dyan Cannon starred opposite Burt Reynolds in Shamus and played an agent based on Sue Mengers in The Last of Sheila, and was named Actress of the Year by the National Association of Theatre Owners.
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Dyan Cannon starred in her own musical stage act at Caesar's Palace in Las Vegas and Harrah's Lake Tahoe during the mid-1970s.
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Dyan Cannon then enrolled in the Women's Directing Workshop of the American Film Institute.
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Dyan Cannon became the first Oscar-nominated actress to be nominated in the Best Short Film, Live Action category for Number One, a project which Cannon produced, directed, wrote, and edited.
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In 1978, Dyan Cannon co-starred in Revenge of the Pink Panther.
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Dyan Cannon hosted Saturday Night Live during its first season and guest-starred in the fourth season of The Muppet Show.
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Dyan Cannon co-starred with then-boyfriend Armand Assante in the TV movie Lady of the House, a dramatization of the life of Sally Stanford.
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Dyan Cannon starred in the TV movie Having It All, as well as a miniseries, Master of the Game, then had the title role in Jenny's War.
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Dyan Cannon wrote, directed, and starred in the semiautobiographical film The End of Innocence.
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Dyan Cannon had guest roles on the popular television shows Diagnosis: Murder and The Practice, and was a semiregular on Ally McBeal.
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Dyan Cannon returned to the stage to star in a 2013 production of Ken Ludwig's The Fox on the Fairway in Overland Park, Kansas.
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Dyan Cannon published a bestselling memoir, Dear Cary: My Life with Cary Grant, in 2011.
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Dyan Cannon 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 healing still needed to happen.
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Dyan Cannon serves as executive producer of a four-part miniseries based on her book, entitled Archie, which premiered on BritBox in 2023 and stars Jason Isaacs as Grant and Laura Aikman as Dyan Cannon.
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In 1961, Dyan Cannon began dating actor Cary Grant, who was 33 years her senior.
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Dyan Cannon filed for divorce in September 1967, and it was concluded on March 21,1968.
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Dyan Cannon married a second time on April 18,1985, to lawyer-turned-real estate investor Stanley Fimberg.
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In 2024, Dyan Cannon said Fimberg and she are still friends.
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Dyan Cannon has been in relationships with comedian Mort Sahl, talent agent Ron Weisner, and sculptor Carl Hartman, as well as producers Murray Shostak and Leonard Rabinowitz, directors Hal Ashby and Jerry Schatzberg, and actors Armand Assante, Hy Chase, Ron Ely and Michael Nouri.
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Dyan Cannon remains friendly with Nouri and accompanied him to a premiere four decades after their breakup.
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Dyan Cannon has often collaborated with her significant others on film and TV projects.
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In 1972, Dyan Cannon revealed that she engaged in primal therapy.
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Dyan Cannon dabbled in metaphysics and got kicked out of Esalen.
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Dyan Cannon paid for the tombstone of slain runaway Alyssa Margie "Raven" Gomez, whom she'd met while making a documentary about homelessness.
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Dyan Cannon has used her celebrity to benefit other charitable organizations, such as Special Olympics, for mentally and physically disabled athletes.