Dianne Foster is a Canadian actress. Of Ukrainian descent, Foster began her acting career at the age of 13 in a stage adaptation of James Barrie's What Every Woman Knows. At 14 she began a radio career and subsequently moved to Toronto and became one of Canada's top radio stars. In 1951 she went to London, England for a holiday and after meeting and marrying Andrew Allen, drama supervisor for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, she decided to stay. Foster appeared onstage in Agatha Christie's The Hollow and Orson Welles's Othello that same year. In March of 1952 her husband returned to Canada while she stayed in London to honour her five-year contract with a British film company.