From the Oscar winning film, THE EXORCIST, and the Emmy winning movie-of-the-week, HELTER SKELTER, to the Emmy winning daytime drama, GENERAL HOSPITAL, and the Tony winning play, STEAMBATH, Eileen Dietz has been involved in some of the best and most exciting projects in the motion picture and television industry.

Eileen was just six weeks old when she and her twin sister Marianne starred in an ad for a popular detergent. Eleven years and 46 weeks later, Eileen entered a whole new world, totally removed from her junior high school in Bayside, New York. She took the bus, then the subway, then walked one block south and two blocks west to attend acting classes at the famous Neighborhood Playhouse.

A little older, but not by much, Eileen did her first soap opera, one line on THE DOCTORS, which let to a starring role on LOVE OF LIFE, which led to... Her first starring film role in TEENAGE GANG DEBS, a film noir portraying the 50's gang life, which became a popular drive-in attraction.

Another starring role followed in DAVID HOLTZMAN’S DIARY, the award winning Indy film, featured in "Life Magazine" and voted by the magazine "Cinema Verite" as number 17 out of the 50 most important Independent films ever made.

Eileen was cast in Pulitzer Prize winner Joyce Carol Oates' first play, ONTOLOGICAL PROOF OF MY EXISTENCE, where she portrayed an androgynous runaway. This role led directly to an audition and a screen test for THE EXORCIST, in which she was cast for two parts: The Demon (better known as The Face of Death), and the possessed Regan (the Linda Blair character). For this role, Eileen performed many of the controversial scenes that portrayed the child being possessed by the evil demon, exorcised by Father Marrin. For six months, Eileen vomited, levitated, spit, and abused the cross. Following her memorable and legendary performance in THE EXORCIST, Director William Friedkan brought her to California.

After enduring four hours of Exorcist/Demon makeup every day, Eileen underwent two hours of makeup for a chimpanzee in the TV show THE PLANET OF THE APES and two hours for Sala, a Neanderthal Woman on the kid show KORG 70,000 BC.

She went "bald" to play a member of Charles Manson's gang in HELTER SKELTER. Then in the comfortable confines of ABC Studios, she played Sarah, a mental patient, on GENERAL HOSPITAL. Eileen insisted on light makeup, and asked for "foundation, eye liner and a little lipstick, please" -- which led viewers of this number one soap opera to identify with little Sarah.

Appearing as a zombie in the film, CONSTANTINE with Keanu Reeves, her scene was inevitably cut from the final film. She is also in the upcoming film, CREEPSHOW 3 in which she plays a homeless woman.

Eileen's most recent projects include the independent film, SIN-JIN SMYTH in which Eileen plays a receptionist at a County Jail. Eileen's scene is set at a pivotal piont in the film where she acts alongside Roddy Piper (They Live), Richard Tyson (Kindergarten Cop), Charles Cyphers (Halloween) and Sin-jin Smyth himself.
Eileen is also playing the lead in an upcoming indie film called, THE QUEEN OF SCREAMS. The film is about a former scream queen who terrorizes a group of high school kids by locking them in the local theater where she proceeds to act out her favorite roles from the silver screen.

Eileen lives in an old monastery not far from the ocean in California. Many spirits reside with Eileen and her husband, Thomas Albany.

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Eileen's sister, Denise Dietz, has written two novels inspired by Eileen's work on "The Exorcist" and General Hospital: FIFTY CENTS FOR YOUR SOUL and THE WISHING STAR.

Denise also writes mysteries, historical romances, and short stories. You can find excerpts of her books at: www.denisedietz.com Check out some of the rave reviews for her two hollywood books:

FIFTY CENTS FOR YOUR SOUL

"Horror and Hollywood noir...who can resist?" Publishers Weekly

"Marilyn Monroe once said, "Hollywood is a place where they'll pay you a
thousand dollars for a kiss, and fifty cents for your soul", and mystery
writer Denise Dietz takes that premise and runs with it, producing a swiftly
paced and truly scary supernatural novel about Frannie Rosen, an ambitious
young actress who finds her soul in jeopardy when she lands a major roll in
a celebrated yet sinister director's horror movie." Creature Feature

"The author has a way to keep you reading with her snappy, well crafted
dialogue, witty narrative and a plot so interesting, you will be very
shocked at the end. Highly recommended." Murder on the Woo Woo Express

"Fans of 'The Exorcist' will be delighted...a fun and very entertaining read
that I highly recommend." Underground Entertainment

"FIFTY CENTS FOR YOUR SOUL is a fun
mixture of mystery, humor and the super-
natural, and Frannie Rosen is a delight." Romantic Times

THE WISHING STAR

This follows the lives of three extraordinary women set in the
1970s and 80s, a tale of life-long sister rivalry, tragic childhoods, sordid
pasts, the seedy side of Hollywood, and the ups and downs of wanting to be a
star.

This story cannot be pigeon-holed into one genre and it shouldn't be. It's
plain good fiction, an array of mystery, romance, and legal drama. The
dialogue is crisp and clever, often humorous and punny.

Hollywood stories can easily become stereotypical, but Dietz has created
unique characters you care about and they are what make this novel shine,
even through the dark times of drug and sexual abuse, power and greed.

The behind-the-scene views of daytime drama are well done. Dietz knows her facts.
Dietz breaks all the rules and doesn't hold back with this novel.