Life and career

Diane Farr was born on September 7, 1969, in New York City, New York. She is of Irish and Italian descent. Farr studied drama at New York's Stony Brook University and Loughborough University in England and graduated with a joint B.A. from these two universities.

Farr has written two books. The first, The Girl Code, was published in 2001 and has been translated into seven languages. It discusses the secret language of single women. Her second book, Kissing Outside the Lines, was published in May 2011 and is a comical memoir of her path to an interracial marriage. Farr also writes for a number of American magazines and has an internationally syndicated newspaper column for the International Herald Tribune.

Farr was a co-host for 200 episodes of the advice program Loveline on MTV and made guest appearances on The Drew Carey Show, Arli$$ and CSI. She portrayed the recurring role of Amy DeLuca, mother to the series co-star Majandra Delfino's character Maria, on The WB's and later UPN's Roswell. She also played Maddie Hudson on The WB's Like Family. Later, she played Detective Jan Fendrich on the ABC series The Job, co-created by and starring Denis Leary. Following the end of that series, she appeared in the cast of Rescue Me (also co-created by and starring Leary), playing a firefighter for two seasons. She left Rescue Me to star as FBI agent Megan Reeves on the CBS crime drama Numb3rs.

Farr opted not to renew her contract and left Numb3rs following the fourth season of the show. Farr starred in her final episode on May 18, 2008. Farr then joined the Showtime cable-television series Californication for a 10-episode run in autumn 2009.

In April 2010, Farr had a role as Barbara, a mother whose negative influence led her son Eddie to become a serial killer, in a flashback episode of Desperate Housewives. When Barbara discovered Eddie's collection of newspaper articles about the women he hurt or murdered, he strangled her to death. She guest starred in White Collar as a waitress named Gina De Stefano.

Farr guest-starred in season seven of Grey's Anatomy where, in episode 130, she played the role of a patient with Huntington's Disease under the care of Meredith, played by the series star Ellen Pompeo. She also had a recurring role in the final season (2012-13) of the Grey's Anatomy spin-off series, Private Practice, as Miranda, a terminal cancer patient and the love interest of Dr. Sheldon Wallace (Brian Benben).

Farr stars in Adam Carolla's film Road Hard as Carolla's love interest.

Farr also has a comedy series for FunnyorDie.com that she writes and directs called AssCastles.

Personal life

Raised as a Catholic, Farr is now an atheist. On June 26, 2006, she married the 36-year-old entertainment marketing executive Seung Yong Chung. Their first child, son Beckett Mancuso Chung, was born in March 2007 and they had twin daughters, Sawyer Lucia Chung and Coco Trinity Chung, in August 2008. Farr has also written a book on interracial romance, Kissing Outside the Lines.

Farr and her family currently reside in La Cañada Flintridge, California.

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1998	Divorced White Male	Lisa
1999	Bingo	Miranda	Short film
1999	Little Indiscretions	C.J.
2000	Flooding	Personal Ad Girl
2002	Hourly Rates	Shania
2007	Third Nail, TheThe Third Nail	Hannah
2010	Ass Castle: Part 1		Short film
2011	Carrier, TheThe Carrier	Claudia	Short film
2012	About Cherry	Jillian
2013	Almost Broadway	Rachel	Completed
2013	WildLike	Jane
2015	Road Hard	Sarah

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1992	Silk Stalkings	Production Assistant	Episode: "Baser Instincts"
1996	Unhappily Ever After	Michelle	Episode: "Jack Writes Good"
1997	In the House	Dr. Young	Episode: "Saint Marion"
1998	V.I.P.	Helen	Episode: "Scents and Sensibility"
1998	Arliss	Erica Lansing	Episode: "Behind Every Great Client..."
1999	Drew Carey Show, TheThe Drew Carey Show	Tracy	Episodes: "Three Guys, a Girl and a B-Story", "Boy Party/Girl Party", "Tracy Bowl"
1999	Lands of Lore III	Chesara / Jacinda / Morphera (voice)	Video game
1999	It's Like, You Know...	Cindy	Episode: "Lost in America"
1999-2001	Roswell	Amy DeLuca	(11 episodes)
2000	David Cassidy Show, TheThe David Cassidy Show	Lisa Erickson	TV film
2000	Sacrifice	Karen Yeager	TV film
2000	Secret Agent Man	Trish Fjord	Episode: "The Elders"
2001-2002	Job, TheThe Job	Jan Fendrich	Main role (19 episodes)
2002	Superfire	Sammy Kerns	TV film
2002	CSI: Crime Scene Investigation	Marcie Tobin	Episode: "Cats in the Cradle..."
2002	Arliss	Penny Larson	Episode: "Profiles in Agenting"
2002	Bram & Alice	Tovah	Episode: "Pilot"
2003	Ripples, TheThe Ripples		TV film
2003	Harry's Girl		TV film
2003-2004	Like Family	Maddie Hudson	Main role (23 episodes)
2004-2005	Rescue Me	Laura Miles	Regular role (19 episodes)
2005-2008	Numbers	Megan Reeves	Main role (60 episodes)
2009	Californication	Jill Robinson	Recurring role (9 episodes)
2010	Desperate Housewives	Barbara Orlofsky	Episode: "Epiphany"
2010	White Collar	Gina De Stefano	Episode: "By the Book"
2010	Grey's Anatomy	Lila Davis	Episode: "Can't Fight Biology"
2011	Council of Dads, TheThe Council of Dads	Catherine Wells	TV film
2011	Collision Earth	Victoria Preston	TV film
2011	CSI: Miami	Marilyn Milner	Episode: "By the Book"
2012	Mentalist, TheThe Mentalist	Amy Barron	Episode: "At First Blush"
2012-2013	Secret Life of the American Teenager, TheThe Secret Life of the American Teenager	Willadean	Recurring role (5 episodes)
2012-2013	Private Practice	Miranda	Episodes: "I'm Fine", "Full Release", "In Which We Say Goodbye"
2013	Modern Family	Diane	Episode 5.03: "Larry's Wife"
2013	Two and a Half Men	Rachel	Episode 11.10 - "On Vodka, on Soda, on Blender, on Mixer!"

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