Diora Baird

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Summary

Diora Baird is an actor and former model known for Wedding Crashers, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning, and Shameless. Her screen work spans comedy, horror, and drama, and she has described being repeatedly cast as “the crazy girl or the stripper.” In 2017, she said she attended the Women’s March in Washington and spoke publicly about identifying as a lesbian, later developing a comedy with Mav Viola about a divorced single mother who realizes she is a lesbian. She has criticized Donald Trump, but has said she had not previously been politically active.