Name
Dianne Wiest
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1948-03-28 (78 years old)
Place of Birth
Kansas City, Missouri, USA
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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- 1990 Edward Scissorhands as Peg
- 1998 The Horse Whisperer as Diane Booker
- 1987 The Lost Boys as Lucy Emerson
- 1989 Parenthood as Helen Buckman Lampkin Bowman
- 1984 Footloose as Vi Moore
- 2001 I Am Sam as Annie Cassell
- 1996 The Birdcage as Louise Keeley
- 2008 Synecdoche, New York as Ellen Bascomb / Millicent Weems
- 1986 Hannah and Her Sisters as Holly
- 1996 The Associate as Sally Dugan
- 1991 Little Man Tate as Jane Grierson
- 1998 Practical Magic as Aunt Jet
- 1994 Bullets Over Broadway as Helen Sinclair
- 1987 September as Stephanie
- 1987 Radio Days as Aunt Bea
- 2007 Dan in Real Life as Nana
- 2006 A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints as Dito's Mother
- 2004 Category 6: Day of Destruction as Shirley Abbott
- 1994 Cops & Robbersons as Helen Robberson
- 2010 Rabbit Hole as Nat
- 2009 Rage as Miss Roth
- 1994 The Scout as Doctor H. Aaron
- 2008 Passengers as Toni
- 2003 Thank You, Doctor Rey as Elisabeth Beaumont
- 1983 The Face of Rage as Rebecca Hammil
- 1988 Bright Lights, Big City as Mother
- 2011 Woody Allen: A Documentary as Self
- 1984 Falling in Love as Isabelle
- 2012 The Odd Life of Timothy Green as Ms. Bernice Crudstaff
- 2004 The Blackwater Lightship as Lily
- 2011 The Big Year as Brenda Harris
- 1999 The Simple Life of Noah Dearborn as Sarah McClellan
- 1989 Cookie as Lenore
- 2012 Darling Companion as Penny
- 1982 I'm Dancing as Fast as I Can as Julie Addison
- 1997 Drunks as Rachel
- 2022 My Father's Dragon as Iris the Rhinoceros (voice)
- 1983 Independence Day as Nancy Morgan
- 1980 It's My Turn as Gail
- 2024 Apartment 7A as Minnie Castevet
- 2023 Scene Partners as Meryl Kowalski
- 1985 The Purple Rose of Cairo as Emma
- 2014 The Humbling as Carol
- 2018 Always at The Carlyle as Self
- 2016 Five Nights in Maine as Lucinda
- 2015 Sisters as Deana Ellis
- 2007 Dedication as Carol
- 2005 Robots as Mrs. Copperbottom (voice)
- 2018 The Mule as Mary
- 2021 I Care a Lot as Jennifer Peterson
- 1978 Out of Our Fathers' House as Elizabeth Gertrude Stern
- 2020 Let Them All Talk as Susan
- 1975 Zalmen, or The Madness of God as Nina
- 1990 The Making of Edward Scissorhands as Self
- 2015 Rasheeda Speaking as Ileen
- 2001 Not Afraid, Not Afraid as Paula
- 2026 Closing Night as Diane
- 2026 Practical Magic 2 as Aunt Jet
- Soon Non Compos Mentis
- Soon This Old Love of Mine as Margo Bannon
- 2008 The Return of Jezebel James ( 1 episode )
- 1999 Law & Order: Special Victims Unit ( 2 episodes ) as Interim D.A. Nora Lewin
- 2021 Mayor of Kingstown ( 20 episodes ) as Miriam McLusky
- 1951 Hallmark Hall of Fame ( 1 episode ) as Lily
- 2001 Law & Order: Criminal Intent ( 1 episode ) as Nora Lewin
- 1953 The Oscars ( 2 episodes ) as Self
- 2013 The Blacklist ( 1 episode ) as Ruth Kipling
- 2015 Life in Pieces ( 79 episodes ) as Joan Short
- 2008 In Treatment ( 16 episodes ) as Dr. Gina Toll
- 2000 The 10th Kingdom ( 5 episodes ) as Evil Queen
- 2009 Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen ( 1 episode ) as Self - Guest
- 1990 Law & Order ( 48 episodes ) as Nora Lewin
- 2004 Category 6: Day of Destruction ( 2 episodes ) as Shirley Abbott, Secretary of Energy
- 1971 Great Performances ( 1 episode ) as Elizabeth Gertrude Stern
- 2021 Only Murders in the Building ( 6 episodes ) as Lorraine
- 2024 Elsbeth ( 1 episode ) as Reverend Mother Constance Mary Cabot
