- She was a competitive figure skater in high school.
- Studied archaeology in Egypt and Israel in 1999 after quitting modeling.
- She is a former model and started modeling around the world at age 18.
- Diane went to college at 16 years old. Diane had wanted to attend an Ivy League school, but because of her young age, her parents made her attend the same school as her older sister, in Hawaii.
- Before becoming A.D.A. Casey Novak on Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (1999), she had appeared on Season 3 Episode 10 ("Ridicule") of SVU, as a woman who had gang raped a male stripper with her female friends.
- Engaged after only two weeks to her fiancé, Marcus Fitzgerald, an engineer and former model. The couple married on July 9, 2005, after a seven-year engagement.
- She studied acting in a six-week acting course at the Atlantic Acting School (part of the Atlantic Theater Company) in New York.
- Her father is a U.S. federal attorney and her mother is a math professor.
- A life-long learner, Neal is very proud to be an undergraduate student at Harvard University. Her areas of interest include everything from Classical Archaeology to Neuroscience and Biology. Previous to Harvard, Neal has taken classes as wide-ranging as "Predators of the Outback" handling dangerous wildlife in Australia at Uluru and the often handy "Coconut Opening 101" in the Caribbean.
- Is a candidate for the United States House of Representatives from New York State (2018 primary).
- Her then-husband Marcus Fitzgerald appears in the Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (1999) episode "Underbelly (2006)".
- The youngest of three daughters, Leigh, Erin and Diane. Her older sister has one of her many degrees in theater.
- Is the daughter of Colleen, a math teacher, and Christopher Neal, a federal attorney, and the youngest of three sisters.
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