Why we love Dianna Agron
If you're thinking that Dianna Agron's surname is a bit weird, that's because it was changed by Ellis Island officials back in the day when her father's Russian family emigrated to the great US of A. If it weren't for early 20th Century xenophobia in America, she'd be called Dianna Agronsky instead, which makes more sense but is, admittedly, a bit less memorable.
Dianna's role as cheerleader Quinn Fabray on honestly-we-don't-watch-it-it's-just-on-in-the-background Glee has a basis in truth – she's been dancing since she was 3 years old. Well. Not literally – her feet would come off, surely – but she's certainly been active since the age of three, and started teaching dance lessons as a teenager at High School. Which is fairly remarkable.
Her film debut was in When a Stranger Calls, a slasher flick, where she also played a cheerleader - elsewhere, you might have seen her in Heroes (where she plays, um, a cheerleader again), Burlesque (where she plays, shockingly, a non-cheerleader) and I Am Number Four, where an alien falls in love with her. But he's a good-looking humanoid alien played by Alex Pettyfer, and not a cloud of sentient gas or an hovering shard of hyperintelligent crystal, so that's okay.
If you're after a quick hit of Dianna to get you through the day, you could do worse than checking her out in the web series It's A Mall World After All in which she plays a greeter for American Eagle (who paid for the show) and a hapless record store employee tries to get off with her. It's not great, but when she smiles at the camera we swear we can hear even the angels sighing.
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