Diane Christiansen
Diane Christiansen’s career has spanned five decades as an actress, dancer, author, director, producer, writer, costume designer, mother, grandmother and studio owner. She is an acting coach to Oscar nominees, Emmy Award winners, numerous Disney Channel stars and some of Hollywood’s hottest talent. She has mastered the multi-hyphenate path, ushering her to success in Tinseltown. Christiansen is the published author of The Last Real Showgirl: My Sequined 70’s Onstage and Scenes for Teens, By Teens, a compilation of scenes written by working Hollywood teen actors. She has been nominated for and won the coveted honor of “Number 1 Acting Coach in Hollywood” two years in a row by the Backstage West Readers’ Choice Awards. She was also rated the “#1 Coach in Hollywood” nine years running by Children in Film and named one of the “Top 10 Acting Schools in Hollywood” by Bonnie Wallace, author and mother of Dove Cameron, in her book. Diane has been an acting coach on TLC’s TV show Faking It and Danny Bonaduce’s My Kid’s a Star. She has been a guest director at the California Institute of the Arts and was the first-place recipient of the Mercy Award for its original play festival in Santa Monica, California, for her work as a director. Christiansen coaches many acclaimed actors on TV shows such as Euphoria, This Is Us, Dickinson, Stranger Things, Sandman, and Quantum Leap, along with countless other well-known and popular television shows and films. She is also the mother of content creator Maximilian Christiansen (aka Maximilian Dood on YouTube) and Tess Christiansen-Sklena, an actress, model and Diane’s business partner at the Christiansen Acting Academy. Diane has two granddaughters who also reside in Los Angeles.
