- Shares an alma mater with Steven Spielberg, Lynda Carter and Valerie Perrine: they all attended Arcadia High School in Phoenix, Arizona. Spielberg directed her in 1941 (1979).
- Best remembered for her roles on the television series Eight Is Enough (1977) and Steven Spielberg's period comedy 1941 (1979).
- Kay is in remission (since 2011) following a battle with kidney cancer.
- Dianne Kay's likeness appears in Murder, She Wrote, "Hooray for Homicide" (S1, E3), in the form of the fictional movie poster, "Vampire Cheerleaders," that was used during her guest-starring role on Simon & Simon, "The Wrong Stuff" (S3, E17), that aired eight months before.
- As of 2015, she was living in Pacific Palisades as Dianne Kay Silvera.
- At age 13, she began acting in local children's theater in Phoenix. She graduated in 1975 from the University of Arizona at Tucson with a B.S. in Mass Communications and in her senior year, she worked at KGUN-TV as an intern in programming and promotion. She moved to Los Angeles in 1976 and almost immediately began to win guest television roles.
- She played a character with the surname Douglas in the movie 1941 (1979) (Betty Douglas) and the television series Glitter (1984) (as "Jennifer Douglas").
- In 1978, she was engaged to Kevin Inch but it was broken off.
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