Dyan Cannon (born Samille Diane Friesen on January 4, 1937) is a three-time Academy Award-nominated and Golden Globe Award-winning American film and television actress, director, screenwriter, editor, and producer.

Cannon was born in Tacoma, Washington, to a Baptist father and a Jewish mother, Claire Portnoy, who had immigrated from Russia.She attended West Seattle High School.

Cannon made her screen debut in 1960 in The Rise and Fall of Legs Diamond, however her small screen debut was in a late 1950s episode of The Untouchables. She also appeared in This Rebel Breed (1960). Another one of her early roles was as Mona Elliott, with fellow guest star Franchot Tone, in the episode "The Man Behind the Man" of the 1964 CBS drama, The Reporter, with Harry Guardino in the title role. She also made appearances on 77 Sunset Strip, the perennial western series Gunsmoke, and the syndicated Two Faces West in the 1960 episode entitled "Sheriff of the Town".