Diora Baird

Diora Lynn Baird is an American actress and former model born on April 6, 1983. Originally from Miami, Florida, she gained early recognition for her modeling work, notably with the clothing brand Guess?, before establishing a career across film, television, and web media.

Baird grew up in Miami, where her mother, who was also a model, enrolled her in acting classes to help her overcome introversion. During her youth, she served as vice president of her school's Thespian Society. At age seventeen, she moved to Los Angeles to pursue acting. Before breaking into modeling, she supported herself by working as a salesperson at The Gap, a caterer, a waitress, a pre-school teacher, and a clown at children's parties. She eventually signed with Elite Model Management in Miami and appeared on the cover of Playboy in August 2005.

Her acting career began in 2004 with roles on The Drew Carey Show and in the low-budget film Brain Blockers. She achieved a career breakthrough in a major film with the 2005 comedy Wedding Crashers, which she followed with roles in Accepted and Hot Tamale. In 2006, Baird appeared in four feature films, including a major role in the horror movie The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning.

Throughout her career, Baird appeared in magazines such as Playboy, FHM, Stuff, Maxim, Toro, and Esquire (UK). Her film credits include the 2009 comedy Stan Helsing, the 2010 horror film Night of the Demons, and 30 Days of Night: Dark Days, directed by Ben Ketai and produced by Columbia Pictures and Ghost House Pictures. In 2014, she played a role in the film Beautiful Girl. She also lent her voice to the Scarface video game as one of Tony Montana's potential girlfriends.

On television, Baird guest-starred in episodes of Big Day, Shark, The Loop, Two and a Half Men, and the Hulu series Casual. She was cast in a recurring role for the Amazon Studios pilot Cocked alongside Brian Dennehy, Jason Lee, Dreama Walker, and Sam Trammell. Additionally, Baird starred in the FEARnet web series Tea Party Macabre, several Funny or Die videos, and the 2011 short musical film Howlin' for You for The Black Keys.

Baird was featured on Maxim's Hot 100 list in 2007, 2008, and 2011, as well as FHM's top 100 list in 2010 and 2011. In her personal life, she was married to actor Jonathan Togo from 2013 to 2016, with whom she has one child. She later dated comedian Mav Viola in 2017, during which she shared in an interview with The Advocate that she identified as a lesbian; the pair engaged in late 2017 and later separated. Baird is married to Ken Nelson, the owner of the clothing brand Kaiju017, and gave birth to her second child in May 2025.