Diora Baird is an actress and ex-model. She is known for a couple of movies including The Wedding Crasher and Stan Helsing. In a career that has now surpassed a quarter of a century. How much of the star do you know? These things are never enough. Here are all the facts you would love to know.
Diora Baird – age
Diora Baird was born in April 1983. She was born in Miami, Florida to a model of a mother. She grew up an extreme introvert and to overcome this, her mother enrolled her in an acting school.
After high school, now 17, she left Florida for Los Angeles to try to make something out of her life. It wasn’t an easy way up for the actress. While she was working to break into the industry, attending auditions and all, she did many odd jobs, including playing the clown at children’s parties, a caterer, a waitress, and a pre-school teacher.
Diora Baird is 36 years old.
Diora Baird – Career
Dioara’s career began in 2004 when she made a small appearance in the sitcom “The Drew Carey Show” on ABC. Over the next few years, she played a handful of roles in short movies and small roles, usually single episodes in TV series. But 2005 was a turning point for the young star.
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In August 2005, Diora Baird appeared on the cover of Playboy Magazine. This exponentially increased her fame and she was rewarded with a contract at Elite Model Management in Miami, Florida. In the same year, she appeared in the comedy film “Wedding Crasher” starring Owen Wilson and Vince Vaughn who play divorce mediators who gatecrash weddings to meet and sleep with women. Diora played the role of Vivian in a movie that made 285 million dollars off a budget of 40.
The next year, 2006, Diora Baird played a role in “The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning”, a prequel of “The Texas Chainsaw Massacre” from 2003. She played the role of Bailey, girlfriend to one of the pair of men who were going to enlist for the Vietnam War and were intercepted by a gang of robbers and a fight ensued. The film made a modest outing in the box office, making 51.8 million dollars off a budget of 16 million. In the same year, she was part of “Accepted”.
In 2007 and 2008, she appeared in the Maxim magazine Hot 100 placing in the third quarter. In 2008, she was part of “Young People Fucking”, the Canadian sex comedy then she played “Stan Helsing” which goes by the title Scary Movie 5, Mega Monster Movie or Horror Movie in other countries, just to let you get the true picture without seeing the picture. It is an American-Canadian horror movie about an underachieving employee at a video rental store. Baird played the role of his ex-girlfriend Nadine and the two together with two others had an encounter with monsters which was the main of the plot.
She was also in the action thriller “Transit” from 2012.
On the TV aspect, it wasn’t major roles and extensive appearances for her. She was a guest role player on ABC’s “Big Bay” between 2006 and 2007, Fox’s “The Loop” in 2007, and various roles and voices in the sketch comedy “Robot Chicken” on Adult Swim. Between 2012 and 2013, she was a recurring role player on the third episode of Showtime’s “Shameless”.
Diora Baird’s relationship
Diora Baird is a mother. She gave birth to her daughter in December 2012, a baby that was fathered by her then-boyfriend Jonathan Togo. You should know Mr. Togo. He was on “CSI: Miami” where he played the role of Detective Ryan Wolfe in the police procedural series on CBS. He is of Jewish origin. A year after this, on 2013 boxing day, Togo and Baird got married. They separated and divorced in 2016.
In January 2019, he went on to get married to the actress Baker Lim (known for Birds Court from 2015 and The Cat’s Mrow from 2018).
Quotes and net worth
Baird is quite an outspoken person and she has said some cool shits about herself and the industry. Here are a few things to make you smile.
“Everybody has a card that says they’re a producer. I learned very quickly that if a producer wants to have dinner with me, he doesn’t want to cast me, he wants to fuck me. If he wants to call my manager and set up a meeting, then that’s another thing.”
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“I’m aware that people see me as a sex symbol, and it’s getting me attention. But I know I can act.”
“It wasn’t until in the last year and a half that I started making fun of myself and the fact that I have big boobs. I never really was comfortable with my large breasts. And I went to the plastic surgeon, and almost got a breast reduction. I didn’t do it, thankfully.”
Diora Baird is 5 feet 9 inches (or 1.75 meters). She is worth a massive eight million dollars.
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