Daphne ZunigaFilmography

Novel Adventures [Web Series]

Actors: Daphne Zuniga, Paola Turbay, Ashley Williams, Jolie Jenkins

Synopsis: Daphne Zuniga, Paola Turbay, Ashley Williams, and Jolie Jenkins star in this web series about the four members of a close-knit book club and their ongoing efforts to overcome the many obstacles in their everyday lives. With each new book, single mother Laura, entertainment attorney Joanna, newly Read More

Mail Order Bride

Actors: Daphne Zuniga, Greg Evigan, Cameron Bancroft

Synopsis: Daphne Zuniga stars as Diana McQueen, a con woman attempting to escape her past, in this Hallmark Channel drama. In order to leave her old life behind, she'll have to pull one last hustle: stealing her dead best friend's identity, and shipping out to the Wild West as a bride ordered by a lonely Read More

The Future We Will Create: Inside the World of TED

Crew: Director, Executive Producer, Producer

Synopsis: Every year, the greatest minds in the world converge for a single event known as Technology Entertainment Design or simply "TED." In this documentary directed by actress Daphne Zuniga, viewers get a rare look inside the one-of-a-kind convention. Speakers include Vice President Al Gore and Larry Read More

Christmas Do-Over

Actors: Jay Mohr, Daphne Zuniga, Ruta Lee, Adrienne Barbeau, Tim Thomerson, David Millbern

Synopsis: A ne'er do well father and ex-husband who always raced his way through the holidays is forced to relive Christmas Day time and again until he gets it right in this family oriented fantasy comedy starring Jay Mohr. It's Christmas time once again, and as usual Kevin (Moore) is scrambling to get his Read More

Beautiful People: Season 01

Actors: Daphne Zuniga, Sarah Foret, Torrey DeVitto

Secret Lives

Synopsis: Art professor Jill Thompson (Daphne Zuniga) receives the shock of her life when the police inform her that her husband has just been murdered. You see, up to that moment, Jill had been convinced that her hubby had died ten years earlier! Investigating this phenomenon on her own, our heroine Read More

Dog Gone

Synopsis: When a police dog is killed in the line of duty and his grieving human partner seeks answers from a local medium, the canine-loving cop soon discovers just how helpful his fallen partner was in this supernatural comedy starring Jack Wagner and Daphne Zuniga. Kyle's partner Hunter was killed in a Read More

Enemies of Laughter

Actors: David Paymer, Judge Reinhold, Rosalind Chao, Peter Falk

Synopsis: How does a man convince the woman he loves that attempting to make him the toast of Broadway could be a really bad idea? Paul Halpern (David Paymer) is a cynical, middle-aged comedy writer who primarily works in television. Paul once had dreams of becoming a successful playwright, but after a Read More

Artificial Lies

Actors: Jack Wagner, Daphne Zuniga, Lisa Bronwyn Moore

Synopsis: Two former stars of Melrose Place reunite for this story that trades in soap opera glamour for the grittier thrills of a psychological crime thriller. Karen (Daphne Zuniga) was born to a wealthy family and has never quite found her way out from under the wings of her overprotective parents. Karen Read More

The Truth About Lying

Actors: John Ritter, Michele Scarabelli, Daphne Zuniga

Synopsis: Burned-out, boozing crime novelist Bruce Simon Barker (John Ritter) emerges from his doldrums long enough to involve himself in a bizarre missing-persons case. At the urging of his police inspector sister (Samantha Eggar), Bruce investigates the disappearance of a baby. There have been no ransom Read More

Stand-Ins

Actors: Daphne Zuniga, Costas Mandylor, Missy Crider, Charlotte Chatton, Sammi Davis

Synopsis: The actress Peg Entwistle (aka Lillian Millicent Entwistle) appeared as Hazel in David O. Selznick's Thirteen Women (1932), and tragically, on September 18, 1932, she leaped from the letter "H" of the Hollywood sign. An opening re-creation of Peg Entwistle's fatal plunge establishes the mood for Read More

Pandora's Clock

Actors: Richard Dean Anderson, Jane Leeves, Daphne Zuniga, Robert Loggia, Stephen Root

Synopsis: In this suspenseful drama, a commercial jet filled with passengers becomes a potential agent for widespread death after it is discovered that terrorists have loaded it with a deadly virus. While government officials wrestle with ways of handling the situation and try to avoid the most logical Read More

Degree of Guilt

Actors: Daphne Zuniga, Vincent Ventresca, Sharon Lawrence, David James Elliott, Tricia O'Neil

Synopsis: Popular mystery writer Richard North Patterson found two of his potboilers, Eyes of a Child and Degree of Guilt, turned into a four-part miniseries for NBC with this star-studded opus. Degree of Guilt stars Daphne Zuniga as Terri, a young wife and mother trapped in an abusive marriage to Ritchie (Vincent Ventresca Read More

Melrose Place: Season 04

Melrose Place: Season 03

800 Leagues Down the Amazon

Actors: Daphne Zuniga, Barry Bostwick, Adam Baldwin, Tom Verica

Synopsis: In this jungle adventure, based on a Jules Verne novel, Spunky Minha, was born and raised in the Amazon jungle on her father's hemp plantation. After she agrees to marry Dr. Manuel Valdez, they decide to hold the wedding in Brazil so his sickly mother can be there. Unfortunately, the girl's father Read More

Melrose Place: Season 02

Mad at the Moon

Actors: Mary Stuart Masterson, Hart Bochner, Fionnula Flanagan, Cec Verrell, Stephen Blake

Synopsis: Director Martin Donovan (real name Carlos Enrique Varela y Peralta-Ramos) directed this beautifully photographed western/horror amalgam. The story takes places in the American West in 1892. Jenny Hill (Mary Stuart Masterson) longs for the love of the local rough-and-tumble outlaw James Miller (Stephen Blake Read More

Melrose Place: Season 01

Prey of the Chameleon

Synopsis: In this grim and violent made-for-cable television thriller, a murderous female escapes from a mental hospital and begins a killing spree that baffles the FBI because she is a mistress of disguises and is able to take on the identities of each of her victims. Fortunately, a female cop has the Read More

The Eyes of the Panther

Synopsis: This film first debuted as an episode of the television anthology Shelley Duvall's Nightmare Classics. Based on a story by Ambrose Bierce, it tells of how the spirit of a wild panther continually plagues a young woman (Daphne Zuniga). ~ Brian Gusse, All Movie Guide Read More

Staying Together

Actors: Sean Astin, Stockard Channing, Melinda Dillon, Jim Haynie, Levon Helm

Synopsis: After winning an Academy Award for their documentary Down and Out in America (1986), actress-director Lee Grant and her producer-husband Joseph Feury filmed this comedy-drama based on an original script by playwright Monte Merrick. In a small Southern town, the McDermott family has owned and Read More

Gross Anatomy

Actors: Matthew Modine, Daphne Zuniga, Christine Lahti, Todd Field, John Scott Clough

Synopsis: Gross Anatomy is to medical school what Paper Chase was to law school, with perhaps a little less sobriety. Mathew Modine plays a blue-collar kid attending a posh school of medicine, where everyone--teacher and student alike--seems to be well above Modine's social strata. Perhaps as a reaction to Read More

The Fly 2

Actors: Eric Stoltz, Daphne Zuniga, Lee Richardson, John Getz, Frank C. Turner

Synopsis: Chris Walas, the makeup and animatronics director on David Cronenberg's remake of The Fly, takes a stab at directorial duties in this sequel. Before Seth Brundle morphed into scrap metal in the original The Fly, he managed to leave behind the seed of his legacy, and at the start of The Fly 2 his Read More

Last Rites

Actors: Tom Berenger, Daphne Zuniga, Chick Vennera, Anne Twomey, Dane Clark

Synopsis: In Last Rites a serious thriller on a sensational topic, a priest falls in love with a woman he is protecting. Father Michael (Tom Berenger), a priest with family ties to the mob, helps a woman on the run. Angela (Daphne Zuniga) is the mistress of a murdered Mafia Don, now being hunted by hitmen Read More

Spaceballs

Actors: Mel Brooks, John Candy, Rick Moranis, Bill Pullman, Daphne Zuniga

Synopsis: A space bum helps rescue a princess from an evil overlord with the help of a benevolent elder in this Star Wars send-up written and directed by Mel Brooks. Lone Starr (Bill Pullman) and his half-man, half-dog co-pilot, Barf the Mawg (John Candy), are content to scour the galaxy living the easy Read More

Modern Girls

Actors: Daphne Zuniga, Virginia Madsen, Cynthia Gibb, Clayton Rohner, Chris Nash

Synopsis: This is teen drama concerns three friends, Margo (Daphne Zuniga), Kelly (Virginia Madsen), and Cece (Cynthia Gibb) whose only pursuit in life is men. The three young women go out to night spots to see what action they can pick up, and one evening Kelly's discarded date Clifford (Clayton Rohner) is Read More

Stone Pillow

Actors: Lucille Ball, Daphne Zuniga

Synopsis: The ads for The Stone Pillow tended to suggest that this TV movie was Lucille Ball's dramatic debut--completely ignoring the fact that Ball had started out as a "straight" actress in the 1930s who only occasionally played comedy until I Love Lucy came along. Whatever the case, the Ball we see in Read More

The Sure Thing

Actors: John Cusack, Daphne Zuniga, Anthony Edwards, Boyd Gaines, Tim Robbins, Lisa Jane Persky

Synopsis: Director Rob Reiner's The Sure Thing is essentially It Happened One Night for the 1980s, but its lack of surprise in no way impedes its entertainment value. John Cusack plays Walter "Gib" Gibson, a self-involved college freshman who makes plans to head to California, there to touch base (and a few Read More

Vision Quest

Actors: Matthew Modine, Linda Fiorentino, Michael Schoeffling, Ronny Cox, Harold Sylvester

Synopsis: According to high school wrestler Matthew Modine, a spiritual "Vision Quest" is necessary for him to decide his future. Thus, Modine starts behaving in a manner that amazes even himself. The crowning achievement of Modine's new outlook on life is his romance with 21-year-old artist Linda Fiorentino Read More

The Initiation

Actors: Vera Miles, Clu Gulager, Daphne Zuniga, James Read, Marilyn Kagan

Synopsis: The appealing Daphne Zuniga makes her inauspicious debut in this dreary slasher film as a pampered freshman sorority pledge haunted by memory lapses and bizarre, violent dreams involving her parents (Clu Gulager and Vera Miles). Despite some progress in dream-research, her condition becomes Read More

Quarterback Princess

Actors: Helen Hunt, Don Murray, John Stockwell, Barbara Babcock, Dana Elcar

Synopsis: This fact-based youth-oriented drama chronicles the courage and determination of a teenage girl who stands tall in the face of sexist traditionalism and fights for her right to play on the varsity football team. Not only does she succeed, she also manages to become the homecoming queen. ~ Sandra Read More

The Dorm That Dripped Blood

Actors: Laurie Lapinski, Stephen Sachs, David Snow, P. Holland, Dennis Ely

Synopsis: This derivative slasher clone is at least clever enough to lift its basic premise from one of the earliest slasher films on record, Black Christmas, setting the mayhem during a nearly-abandoned dormitory just prior to Christmas break. The few students who remain to clean up the grounds are quickly Read More

Konyok-Gorbunok

Actors: Rob Lowe, Hector Elizondo, Daphne Zuniga

Synopsis: This traditional fairy tale, as told by Pyotr Yershov in his 1834 book, was first animated in 1947 in Russian by director Ivan Ivanov-Vano, and was remade by the same director in 1976. Ivanov-Vano was a distinguished artist and animator who was 76 at the time this film was released. It tells of Read More