Diana Hyland (born Diane Gentner; January 25, 1936 – March 27, 1977)[1] was an American stage, film, and television actress.

Over the next decade, she appeared often in guest and supporting roles in various television series, including Naked City, The Eleventh Hour, The Fugitive, The Invaders, The Green Hornet, and The Twilight Zone, and she was cast in the feature film The Chase (1966) with Marlon Brando, Jane Fonda, and Robert Redford.

In 1959, she originated the role of Heavenly Finley in Tennessee Williams' Sweet Bird of Youth[4][5] on Broadway, appearing with Geraldine Page and Paul Newman.

Hyland's debut in a feature film was in One Man's Way (1963), playing the wife of Norman Vincent Peale.

[citation needed] She began a romantic relationship with actor John Travolta, 18 years her junior, in 1976 after meeting him when she played his mother in the television movie The Boy in the Plastic Bubble.