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Anthony DiMaria is an American actor, producer, author, and director. He is also known for preserving the legacy of his uncle, Jay Sebring, a pioneering stylist who was killed by members of the Manson Family in August 1969, during what is now known as the “Tate Murders.”

Jay Sebring Novel 2025 “Cutting To The Truth”

In summer 2025 Anthony DiMaria and co-author Marshall Terrill released the 576-page novel Jay Sebring: Cutting to the Truth through Steven W. Booth’s “Genius Books” with many restored facts, images, and interviews regarding Jay Sebring’s life history. The novel was introduced to the public with a Hollywood screening and Q&A of DiMaria’s original Sebring film documentary, held 9 August 2025 at the vintage Los Feliz 3 theatre and delivered by the American Cinematheque organization (led by chairman Rick Nicita) via Hollywood’s Larry Edmunds Bookshop.

Watch the documentary here

Career

In both educational and professional capacities, Anthony DiMaria has worked off-Broadway, Off-Off-Broadway, and in regional New York/Los Angeles theatres with The Barrow Group, Actors Studio, Neighborhood Playhouse, and Circle Rep LAB. In movies and TV, DiMaria has often played roles in soap operas (One Life to Live and Guiding Light), appeared in The Sopranos, and made a feature film debut as Jam Kitchen in the Sundance hit The Pigeon Egg Strategy, shot in Hong Kong.

Anthony DiMaria has further performed as Weldon Giles in Disney’s Pixel Perfect and Howard Fox in Woody Allen’s Café Society. DiMaria also worked as characters in CSI (Primum Non Nocere episode), Strong Medicine (PMS, Lies, and Red Tape episode), HBO’s The Leftovers (Penguin One, Us Zero episode), David Milch’s Deadwood (and also John from Cincinnati), along with Showtime’s Ray Donovan.

Jay Sebring Documentary

Anthony DiMaria released the feature documentary Jay Sebring….Cutting to the Truth, which presented a platform to correct and illuminate his uncle Jay Sebring’s life outside the Manson murders. The documentary was a critical success and featured in-depth investigative interviews with Quincy Jones, Nancy Sinatra, Quentin Tarantino,Dennis Hopper, and others.

In his Los Angeles Times review, critic Michael Ordoña found Cutting To the Truth to be “an impressive directorial debut for actor Anthony DiMaria,” noting its “stylish” presentation, and an “absorbing and passionate” narrative.

Manson family parole hearings

Since 2004 Anthony DiMaria has spoken for the Sebring family and advocated for the Gary Hinman and LaBianca families as a representative in numerous parole hearings for Manson family members.

Anthony DiMaria and his immediate family continuously and unfailingly urged the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to deny any and all parole or release to the remaining Manson group. In one of Tex Watson’s parole hearings Anthony DiMaria commented, “These are troubled waters for many of us in here today and I would be remiss if I didn’t state that I feel profound sorrow for all of us involved, and great sorrow for Mr. Watson.”

In 2016, Anthony DiMaria urged the California Board to consider parole for Patricia Krenwinkel “when her victims are paroled from their graves”.

In 2022, DiMaria spoke at Manson follower Bruce Davis’ parole hearing, on behalf of families victimized by Davis’ actions. DiMaria stated, “Bruce Davis remains in prison because his crimes were so severe and profound that they shook our country to its core, with permanent repercussions”. Davis was denied parole.

Learn more about Anthony at https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0227196/

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