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Diane Keen (born 29 July 1946) is an English actress.

Keen is possibly best known for her starring role as Julia Parsons in the British TV drama Doctors, since 2003.

Diane is currently divorced, but she had two marriages. Her daughter is Melissa Greenwood.

In the 1970s Diane appeared on The Morecambe and Wise Show.
She was a regular on TV screens during the 1970s and early 1980s, starring in sitcoms such as The Cuckoo Waltz, Rings On Their Fingers, Foxy Lady and You Must Be The Husband, and in two runs of a Thames Television children`s historical costume drama The Feathered Serpent. She also starred as Laura Dickens in the critically-acclaimed spy drama The Sandbaggers, as Empress Elizabeth of Austria in Fall of Eagles and appeared in the spin-off film of the 1970s detective drama, The Sweeney.
In her early career she appeared full frontal nude in the 1973 British sex comedy, The Sex Thief.
In 1980 she appeared as Christina, a widowed restaurant owner, in Series 1 episode The Dessert Song of Minder (TV series).
After spending much of the 1980s off screen, apart from a long-running series of advertisements for Nescafé coffee and an appearance in an epiode of Taggart, in the next decade she became a regular in the Inspector Wexford series, playing the wife of Wexford`s D.I. A role in Brookside followed.

Keen, has had her main soap role in BBC Birmingham`s daytime soap opera Doctors, playing Mill Health Centre practice manager Julia Parsons since 2003. She also played the receptionist at the Feathers Hotel Connelton in Emmerdale Farm in 1972.