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