Dyan Cannon is the one of the first women in the history of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to be nominated for Oscars both in front of and behind the camera. Her diligence and determination have been rewarded by many prestigious honors. 

She received her first Academy Award nomination for her memorable role as Alice in Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice (1969), opposite Natalie Wood and directed by Paul Mazursky.  For her performance, she garnered the coveted New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Supporting Actress.

Dyan received her second Academy Award nomination in the category of Best Live Action Short Film for writing and directing the 48-minute Number One (1976), which she also produced, edited, and scored.  The New York Times commended the film as one of the best movies ever made concerning children’s development.

She received her third Academy Award nomination for her comedic role as Julia Farnsworth, opposite Warren Beatty, in Heaven Can Wait (1978), for which she won the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress from the Hollywood Foreign Press Association.  Later that year, she starred in another comedy hit, Revenge of the Pink Panther (1978), opposite Peter Sellers and directed by Blake Edwards, and was named Female Star of the Year by NATO (National Association of Theater Owners).

As the singular force behind the motion picture The End of Innocence (1990), Dyan undertook a triumvirate of tasks as writer, director and star. Dyan’s work received amazing reviews from the Los Angeles Times and The New York Times.

Dyan has co-starred on two outstanding primetime television shows. For several years, she brought her own brand of humor, class, and sexiness to the role of Whipper Cone on the Emmy Award-winning series Ally McBeal.  She then starred as the vivacious and free-spirited Honey Bernstein-Flynn on NBC’s comedy series Three Sisters.

Her filmography is vast and includes TNT’s remake of the Warner Bros. classic Christmas in Connecticut (1992), directed by Arnold Schwarzenegger; Author! Author! (1992), opposite Al Pacino; The Last of Sheila (1973), directed by Herbert Ross; two films directed by Sydney Lumet: Deathtrap (1982), co-starring Sir Michael Caine and Christopher Reeves, and The Anderson Tapes (1971), starring Sean Connery; Honeysuckle Rose (1980), in which she played Willie Nelson’s wife and made her debut as a country music singer; Such Good Friends (1971), directed by Otto Preminger; and numerous other films.