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Known For:
Acting
Birthday:
March 28, 1948
Place of Birth:
Kansas City, Missouri, USA
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Dianne Wiest
Biography
Dianne Evelyn Wiest (/wiːst/; born March 28, 1948) is an American actress. She has won two Academy Awards for Best Supporting Actress for 1986's Hannah and Her Sisters and 1994's Bullets Over Broadway (both directed by Woody Allen), one Golden Globe Award for Bullets Over Broadway, the 1997 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series for Road to Avonlea, and the 2008 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series for In Treatment. In addition, she was nominated for an Academy Award for 1989's Parenthood.
Other film appearances by Wiest include Footloose (1984), Woody Allen's The Purple Rose of Cairo (1985), Radio Days (1987), and September (1987), The Lost Boys (1987), Bright Lights, Big City (1988), Edward Scissorhands (1990), Little Man Tate (1991), The Birdcage (1996), Practical Magic (1998), Dan in Real Life (2007), Synecdoche, New York (2008), Rabbit Hole (2010), The Mule (2018), Let Them All Talk (2020), and I Care a Lot (2020). She also appeared in the television series Law & Order (2000–2002) and the CBS comedy Life in Pieces(2015–2019).
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Known For
Filmography
| Year | Movie | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 | Practical Magic 2 | Aunt Jet |
| 2024 | Apartment 7A | Minnie Castevet |
| 2023 | Scene Partners | Meryl Kowalski |
| 2022 | My Father's Dragon | Iris the Rhinoceros (voice) |
| 2021 | I Care a Lot | Jennifer Peterson |
| 2020 | Let Them All Talk | Susan |
| 2018 | Always at The Carlyle | Self |
| 2018 | The Mule | Mary |
| 2016 | Five Nights in Maine | Lucinda |
| 2015 | Sisters | Deana Ellis |
| 2015 | Rasheeda Speaking | Ileen |
| 2014 | The Humbling | Carol |
| 2012 | The Odd Life of Timothy Green | Ms. Bernice Crudstaff |
| 2012 | Darling Companion | Penny |
| 2011 | Woody Allen: A Documentary | Self |
| 2011 | The Big Year | Brenda Harris |
| 2010 | Rabbit Hole | Nat |
| 2009 | Rage | Miss Roth |
| 2008 | Synecdoche, New York | Ellen Bascomb / Millicent Weems |
| 2008 | Passengers | Toni |
| 2007 | Dan in Real Life | Nana |
| 2007 | Dedication | Carol |
| 2006 | A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints | Dito's Mother |
| 2005 | Robots | Mrs. Copperbottom (voice) |
| 2004 | Category 6: Day of Destruction | Shirley Abbott |
| 2004 | Thank You, Doctor Rey | Elisabeth Beaumont |
| 2004 | The Blackwater Lightship | Lily |
| 2001 | I Am Sam | Annie Cassell |
| 2001 | Not Afraid, Not Afraid | Paula |
| 1999 | The Simple Life of Noah Dearborn | Sarah McClellan |
| 1998 | The Horse Whisperer | Diane Booker |
| 1998 | Practical Magic | Aunt Jet |
| 1997 | Drunks | Rachel |
| 1996 | The Birdcage | Louise Keeley |
| 1996 | The Associate | Sally Dugan |
| 1994 | Bullets Over Broadway | Helen Sinclair |
| 1994 | Cops & Robbersons | Helen Robberson |
| 1994 | The Scout | Doctor H. Aaron |
| 1991 | Little Man Tate | Jane Grierson |
| 1990 | Edward Scissorhands | Peg |
| 1990 | The Making of Edward Scissorhands | Self |
| 1989 | Parenthood | Helen Buckman Lampkin Bowman |
| 1989 | Cookie | Lenore |
| 1988 | Bright Lights, Big City | Mother |
| 1987 | The Lost Boys | Lucy Emerson |
| 1987 | September | Stephanie |
| 1987 | Radio Days | Aunt Bea |
| 1986 | Hannah and Her Sisters | Holly |
| 1985 | The Purple Rose of Cairo | Emma |
| 1984 | Footloose | Vi Moore |
| 1984 | Falling in Love | Isabelle |
| 1983 | The Face of Rage | Rebecca Hammil |
| 1983 | Independence Day | Nancy Morgan |
| 1982 | I'm Dancing as Fast as I Can | Julie Addison |
| 1980 | It's My Turn | Gail |
| 1978 | Out of Our Fathers' House | Elizabeth Gertrude Stern |
| 1975 | Zalmen, or The Madness of God | Nina |
| Mother Courage |
| Year | TV Show | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 2021 | Mayor of Kingstown | Miriam McLusky |
| 2015 | Life in Pieces | Joan Short |
| 2013 | The Blacklist | Ruth Kipling |
| 2009 | Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen | Self - Guest |
| 2008 | The Return of Jezebel James | |
| 2008 | In Treatment | Dr. Gina Toll |
| 2004 | Category 6: Day of Destruction | Shirley Abbott, Secretary of Energy |
| 2001 | Law & Order: Criminal Intent | Interim D.A. Nora Lewin |
| 2000 | The 10th Kingdom | Evil Queen |
| 1999 | Law & Order: Special Victims Unit | Interim D.A. Nora Lewin |
| 1990 | Law & Order | Nora Lewin |
| 1971 | Great Performances | Elizabeth Gertrude Stern |
| 1953 | The Oscars | Self |
| 1951 | Hallmark Hall of Fame | Lily |