Diane Adair Gaidry (October 11, 1964 – January 30, 2019) was an American film and theatre actress.

She moved to Snyder, New York, in her youth and attended Amherst Junior and Senior high schools before graduating from the Buffalo Academy for Visual and Performing Arts in 1982.

[1][2] Diane portrayed Simone Bradley in 2006 film Loving Annabelle directed by Katherine Brooks.

She also performed lead roles in some of the feature-length films that came out of the collective, including The Dogwalker, which played at the Los Angeles Film Festival and won Best First Feature at Cinequest and America So Beautiful, which played at the Berlinale, and was theatrically released in Paris.

Her short film performance credits included “Transaction” which won the Grand Prix du Jury at Clermont-Ferrand.

During her two decades in Los Angeles, Gaidry also did several guest appearances on television shows, including the hit series, Medium.

Gaidry appeared in many theatrical productions in Buffalo, NY over the years, mostly with cutting-edge Torn Space Theater, where she appeared in Storehouse, Motion Picture, Uncle Vanya, Blood on the Cat's Neck, He Who Gets Slapped, Procession and Trace.

At Subversive Theatre, she appeared in In the Beginning, and for the Irish Classical Theatre Co., she played Dona Lucia in Charley's Aunt and Mary Tyrone in Eugene O'Neill's Long Day's Journey Into Night, as well as running her life coaching business, Vérité.

I hold a safe space for my clients to examine and challenge perspectives and patterns that may be limiting their fulfillment and joy.

[9] She noted, "I’ve learned a lot and in many ways, I’m grateful to the cancer for serving as such a powerful teacher.

[1] She also stated, "If I hadn’t had the tools and the perspective from being a coach, I wouldn’t have seen this cancer as an opportunity and a gift.