Diora Baird was born April 6, 1983, in Miami, Florida. The all-American beauty left home at the age of 17 when she decided to try her luck in Los Angeles. Despite Diora Baird’s gorgeous appearance and traffic-stopping curves, Diora Baird found stardom to be more elusive than she had first imagined.
While going out on auditions, Diora Baird made ends meet by working a litany of low-paying jobs. “I’ve done everything from cater, wait tables, preschool teacher, painting, to being Cinderella, Elmo, a clown, nanny, selling hair…” Diora Baird recalls. “I would do kid’s parties and entertain and do magic and paint faces and balloon animals. The highlight of my life.”
Fortunately, Diora Baird’s hard work soon paid off and Diora Baird began getting a string of high-profile modeling gigs, including a series of ads for Guess. Diora Baird also enjoyed her first taste of prime-time TV, appearing in a June 2004 episode of The Drew Carey Show. Roles in the low-budget films Brain Blockers (2004) and Deep Down in Florida (2004) soon followed.
That “star power” continued with the summer release of Wedding Crashers. The movie may have starred Owen Wilson and Vince Vaughn, but it was Diora Baird’s brief bedroom scene that had everyone talking. Ironically, Diora Baird had initially thought the film was too risqu.
“I thought it was too much for America,” Diora Baird says. “I mean, America is so prude. It’s just so conservative. And I was just like, I saw it at the screening and I was like, ‘Oh my god. We’ll be shunned from everywhere. No one’s going to want to make a movie with me ever again.’ And it f—ing did amazing. It did amazing. And I almost didn’t even do it. I almost said no because of the nudity factor. And then I was like, ‘Okay. Let’s just do it.’ And then the rest is history.”
Since the “Wedding Crashers” release, the film has made over $209 million domestically and over $73 million overseas. More importantly, it’s made Diora Baird even more visible.
After Wedding Crashers, Diora Baird starred in the comedic short, If Love Be Blind (2005) and Hot Tamale (2005), and lined herself up roles in the 2006 films Vegas Baby, Fifty Pills, South of Heaven, Accepted, and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning.
From Diora Baird’s casting call, the prequel to the legendary The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning promised to be one of Diora Baird’s meatiest roles yet. “Texas Chainsaw Massacre is just one of those movies that’s like a page of history,” Diora Baird says enthusiastically. “You can’t really go wrong. It’s a prequel. It’s not like number three. Which is really cool, to be the before as opposed to the after. That was really appealing… I just thought it’d be a really fun experience.”
So, will there be more horror movies in the future? “I can’t imagine topping this,” Diora Baird confesses. “I can’t imagine doing like Little House on the Prairie Gone Wrong or something. I really think this will be it.”