Biografía
Diana Bellamy, a plump and personable character actress, was born on September 19, 1943, in Los Angeles. She earned a master's degree in Fine Arts from Southern Methodist University (SMU) in 1970.
Diana Alice Bellamy began her acting journey in puppet theater in her hometown of Los Angeles. On the big screen, she delivered memorable small roles such as a sassy madam in Outrageous Fortune (1987), a sharp-tongued secretary in Outbreak (1995), and a sarcastic White House switchboard operator in Air Force One (1997). On television, Bellamy portrayed Mrs. Pennington in The Nest (1987) and Grace Woods in Spellbinder (1988), with recurring roles as Maggie Poole on 13 East (1989) and Mrs. Cha-Cha Rimba Starkey on Superhuman Samurai Syber-Squad (1994). She also made guest appearances on numerous series including Married with Children, Melrose Place, Nash Bridges, Wings, Murphy Brown, Baywatch, Quantum Leap, Alien Nation, Family Ties, Newhart, Hunter, The Fall Guy, Hill Street Blues, and T.J. Hooker.
Beyond her film and television work, Bellamy was active in theater, performing three seasons with the Oregon Shakespeare Festival in Ashland and starring in stage productions such as Sister Mary Ignatius Explains It All for You (in the title role), The House of Blue Leaves, and The Skin of Our Teeth.
Despite battling cancer, diabetes, and blindness during the last five years of her life, she continued to act. Her final roles included the blind Principal Cecelia Hall on Popular (1999) and the disabled Mrs. Nichols in the stage play The Ladies of the Corridor. Bellamy passed away on June 17, 2001, at the age of 57 at her home in Valley Village, California.
