Dianne Wiest

Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Born

1948-03-28

Place of Birth

Kansas City, Missouri, USA

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). Description above from the Wikipedia article Dianne Wiest, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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Acting History

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