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[[caption-width-right:236:Dianna Agron, but you can call her Charlie.]]

->''"I feel as if I go to Africa, I may never come back. I'm just going to live with the animals and adopt an elephant, and it's going to be my friend."''

Dianna Elise Agron (born on April 30, 1986 in Savannah, Georgia) is an actress, writer, singer, dancer and model. You may know her as Quinn Fabray from ''Series/{{Glee}}'', alongside other works including ''Series/{{Heroes}}'', ''Film/TheFamily'', and ''Film/IAmNumberFour''.

Agron started out as a dancer and musical theater actor as a child, she transitioned to screen acting in 2006. She interestingly sold her first screenplay six months before being cast on ''Glee'' -- which was the day before principal photography -- but they didn't make it within a year, so she gained the rights to it back. This love of writing was evident on her since-deactivated Website/{{Tumblr}} blog felldowntherabbithole and current website [[http://www.youmeandcharlie.com YM&C (You, Me & Charlie)]].

On the Glee Live Tour in 2011, Agron famously [[AccidentalPun came out]] wearing a T-shirt saying "Likes Girls" in the same style as the "Likes Boys" shirt Creator/ChrisColfer wore for "[[Music/LadyGaga Born This Way]]". Given the LesYay afforded her character ([[AmbiguouslyBi and herself sometimes]]), lots of people drew conclusions. The next day, she took to her blog and wrote out a '''three-and-a-half-thousand-word essay''' [[HaveIMentionedIAmHeterosexualToday asserting that she's not gay]], NotThatTheresAnythingWrongWithThat[[note]]She ''is'', [[SincerityMode truly]], a powerfully active advocate for LGBTQ rights[[/note]].

Her favorite animal is the elephant; her film directorial debut, a 2009 short which she wrote, produced, directed and starred in, is titled ''A Fuchsia Elephant''.

Agron made her [[Platform/BroadwayAndTheWestEnd West End]] and professional theatre début performing in Theatre/{{McQUEEN}}, a DarkFantasy based on a fictional story imagined by fashion designer Alexander [=McQueen=] shortly before his suicide, as lead female Dahlia in May 2015.

!!Selected filmography:
* ''Film/WhenAStrangerCalls'' (2006)
* ''Series/{{Shark}}'' (2006)
* ''T.K.O.'' (2007)
* ''Series/VeronicaMars'' (2006-07)
* ''Series/{{Heroes}}'' (2007)
* ''It's A Mall World'' (2007)
* ''Series/Numb3rs'' (2008)
* ''Dinner With Raphael'' (Funny or Die Short, 2009)
* ''Bold Native'' (2010)
* ''The Romantics'' (2010)
* ''Film/{{Burlesque}}'' (2010)
* ''The Hunters'' (2011)
* ''Film/IAmNumberFour'' (2011)
* ''Creator/{{Nintendo}} 3DS commercials'' (2012)
* ''Film/TheFamily'' (2013)
* ''Music/TheKillers' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3BwzP1laWkQ "Just Another Girl"]]'' (Music video, 2013)
* ''Music/SamSmith's [[https://youtube.com/watch?v=nCkpzqqog4k "I'm Not The Only One"]]'' (Music video, 2014)
* ''Zipper'' (2015)
* ''Bare'' (2015)
* ''Series/{{Glee}}'' (2009-2015, main character for Seasons 1 through 3, recurring for Seasons 4 through 6)
* ''Tumbledown'' (2015 festivals, 2016 public)
* ''Hollow In The Land'' (2016)
* ''Film/{{Novitiate}}'' (2017)
* ''The Crash'' (2017)
* ''Headlock'' (2017)
* ''WesternAnimation/RalphBreaksTheInternet'' (2018)
* ''Berlin, I Love You'' (2019) (she directed one part, and played the character Katarina)
* ''Film/ShivaBaby'' (2020)
* ''Film/{{Clock}}'' (2023)

!!Discography:
* ''Glee: The Music Vol. 1'' (2009)
* ''Glee: The Music Vol. 2'' (2009)
* ''Glee: The Music Vol. 3 Showstoppers'' (2010)
* ''Glee: The Music The Christmas Album'' (2010)
* ''Glee: The Music Vol. 4'' (2010)
* ''Glee: The Music Vol. 5'' (2011)
* You know what, just have [[Music/{{Glee}} the Glee discography]]
* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vzb43K3k6vM Imagine]]'' (celebrity charity single, 2014)
* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ADCa5p6Nok Oh, You Beautiful Doll]]'' for Vogue's feature 'The Triple Threats' (2016)

!!Directorial work:
* ''A Fuchsia Elephant'' (2009)
* ''Body'' (2010)
* ''Till Sunrise'' (2014)
* ''L'Américaine'' (2015)

!!Tropes associated with Dianna Agron:
* ThirteenIsUnlucky: Like Music/TaylorSwift, the complete opposite. In "10 Things You Didn't Know About..." she said that every Friday 13th wonderful things had happened, as well as it being, for her, a lucky number that most consider unlucky.
* AccentOnTheWrongSyllable: Her surname Agron is commonly pronounced "Ah-GRON", but comes from Agronsky and so should be "AY-gron". She's given up on correcting people, though.
* ActorSharedBackground: Agron seems to adore the fashion of Alexander [=McQueen=], an attribute shared with the slightly stalker-ish character she originated in play ''Theatre/{{McQUEEN}}''.
* AllJewsAreAshkenazi:
** Her family name was originally "Agronsky", but it had to be changed for US citizenship.
** In interviews, she talked about playing Protestant cheerleader Quinn in ''Glee'', and the fact that she was Jewish and didn't know what she was talking about when she was reciting Bible verses (presumably New Testament ones, as the rest is the Torah).
* {{Bifauxnen}}:
** See page image. Watch "[[Music/TheKillers Just Another Girl]]". Repeat.
** Basically, [[https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-VtU1YJO0PjY/TjYWwfJR-cI/AAAAAAAAOms/AnQ3GHmqDVk/s800/dianna-agron-flaunt-0811-1.jpg she looks like]] [[http://ilarge.listal.com/image/6397182/936full-dianna-agron.jpg a beautiful boy]].
** See: [[http://media.meltyfashion.fr/article-1922225-ajust_930-f1647038/moustache-et-lunettes-noires-pour-l-actrice.jpg Making]] [[http://cdn.ph.upi.com/sv/b//i/UPI-3261385475093/2013/1/13854753322057/Dianna-Agron-gets-rock-n-roll-makeover-in-The-Killers-Just-Another-Girl-video.jpg faces]] [[http://24.media.tumblr.com/710df4f8d51bfed2ae5724df80ac3b11/tumblr_mwueclbqIE1rrsol6o2_500.gif like]] [[http://media.meltyfashion.fr/article-1922164-ajust_930-f1581500/elle-adopte-un-smoky-eye-tres-prononce.jpg a]] [[http://24.media.tumblr.com/80e2e0ed3b4c6f66484e76dd7b1be24c/tumblr_mwtwvwZtXe1qd4wkzo2_500.gif guy]].
** [[http://rintin.com/gifs/glee/dianna_042.gif Dancing]] and [[http://wp.clicrbs.com.br/atlantidachapeco/files/2013/11/Killers_Vid_1858559a.jpg fixing a bowtie]], too.
%%* DawsonCasting
* FanCommunityNickname:
** "Agronatics" (Agron+fanatics), and some "Agronauts" (Agron+astronauts).
** Diannatics (Dianna+fanatics) and Little Lambs common in South America.
* ForHappiness: Her main motivation behind things like YM&C, and it would seem to pay off as apparently she has ''saved people's lives''.
%%* FriendToAllLivingThings
* GenderBlenderName: Her character in ''Glee'' is called Quinn, which she chooses over real name Lucy.
* IronyAsSheIsCast:
** Who wanted to hear her sing/wear a dress in Music/TheKillers' music video? Because she can do [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzlqQpX2GOo those]] [[https://www.google.com/search?q=dianna+agron+dresses&rlz=1C1SKPM_enGB429GB430&es_sm=93&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=AMpnU9rNJMTbPL_FgIAN&ved=0CC0QsAQ&biw=1028&bih=630#q=dianna+agron+dress&tbm=isch things]].
** Film ''The Crash'' is set on [[UsefulNotes/GeorgiaUSA Jekyll Island, Georgia]] -- close to Agron's birthplace of Savannah. And yet her character is the only one ''not'' from Georgia.
** In ''Film/ShivaBaby'', she played the only non-Jewish character, Kim, while the lead was portrayed by a gentile.
* MistakenForGay: Often enough to write the aforementioned three thousand word essay on the subject.
* PromotedFanboy:
** She is a fan of Music/TheKillers and got to play Brandon Flowers in one of their music videos
** and of Music/JohnLennon[=/=]Music/TheBeatles - she got to cover "Imagine" for a charity single with Lennon's voice and image.
** And of Music/MumfordAndSons - she started dating one of the members in 2015.
** And of Music/SamSmith, and she appeared in their music video, too.
* ShoutOut:
** Her tumblr blog was [[http://www.felldowntherabbithole.tumblr.com fell down the rabbit hole]], a reference to ''Literature/AliceInWonderland''.
** [[Series/{{Glee}} Lip-syncing]] in a [[Music/TheKillers Killers]] video, which also contained a large printed [[Film/IAmNumberFour number four]] placed [[http://cinemania.es/img/topimg/8485633__2.jpg behind her]] - apparently not from any of the past videos being recreated.
** She's given one in the line notes of Music/TaylorSwift's ''"22"'', and ''"Wonderland"'' is rumoured to be about her because of her own {{Alice Allusion}}s.
* SouthernBelle:
** From Savannah, GA. And raised in San Antonio, TX.
** Accentuated in [[http://images6.fanpop.com/image/photos/35300000/Dianna-2013-Glamour-Magazine-Photoshoot-dianna-agron-35307802-500-700.png this]] ''Glamour'' shoot.
* ThoseTwoActors: She has a habit of showing up in works with Creator/KristenBell (such as ''Heroes'') even if they don't share scenes.
* TypeCasting:
** She was always "the cheerleader".
** She lampshaded the fact in an interview, saying she doesn't want to play one again.
** After the cheerleading dried up, she began playing a lot of lesbians.
* WrittenByCastMember: She wrote, produced and {{directed|ByCastMember}} ''[[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1374883/ A Fuchsia Elephant]]''.

!Miscellaneous trivia

* She has a tattoo that says "Mary had a little lamb" because her mother is called Mary and her nickname was/is "little lamb". Also, cute NurseryRhyme.
* Her younger brother [[http://www.imdb.com/name/nm3975261/ Jason]] is also an actor. He was in an episode of "Manden med de gyldne ører" in 2009. His work is as a photographer, sometimes helping his sister when she directs.
* She may be the girl that she/Brandon sings to in "[[Music/TheKillers Just Another Girl]]" -- part of the song goes "Now Jason's getting married in the blink of an eye/ I got an invitation but I didn't reply/ Tell your little brother that we put down the glove/ And give him all of my love". Unless the topic is switched mid-phrase from 'Jason' to 'little brother', it is assumed that they're the same person. Jason Agron, her little brother. Now, was the song [[WriteWhoYouKnow written with this in mind]] or [[ContrivedCoincidence were they just lucky]] that the girl they cast [[ActorSharedBackground actually had a little brother called Jason]]?
** "I went to see a fortune-teller..." since she's visited psychics before also points to it maybe being from her perspective instead. Which would also mean she likes girls.
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