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Dianne Wiest

Dianne Wiest

Acting1948Kansas 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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Acting History

2026
2025
Only Murders in the Building
TVas Lorraine6 eps
Elsbeth
TVas Reverend Mother Constance Mary Cabot1 eps
2024
Apartment 7A
as Minnie Castevet
2023
Scene Partners
as Meryl Kowalski
2022
My Father's Dragon
as Iris the Rhinoceros (voice)
2021
I Care a Lot
as Jennifer Peterson
Mayor of Kingstown
TVas Miriam McLusky20 eps
2020
2016
2015
Sisters
as Deana Ellis
Life in Pieces
TVas Joan Short79 eps
2014
The Humbling
as Carol
The Blacklist
TVas Ruth Kipling1 eps
2012
The Odd Life of Timothy Green
as Ms. Bernice Crudstaff
2011
2010
2009
Rage
as Miss Roth
2008
Passengers
as Toni
Synecdoche, New York
as Ellen Bascomb / Millicent Weems
In Treatment
TVas Dr. Gina Toll16 eps
2007
2005
Robots
as Mrs. Copperbottom (voice)
2004
Thank You, Doctor Rey
as Elisabeth Beaumont
Category 6: Day of Destruction
TVas Shirley Abbott, Secretary of Energy
2001
I Am Sam
as Annie Cassell
Law & Order: Criminal Intent
TVas Nora Lewin1 eps
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
TVas Interim D.A. Nora Lewin2 eps
2000
The 10th Kingdom
TVas Evil Queen5 eps
Law & Order
TVas Nora Lewin48 eps
1999
1998
The Horse Whisperer
as Diane Booker
Practical Magic
as Aunt Jet
1997
Drunks
as Rachel
1996
The Birdcage
as Louise Keeley
The Associate
as Sally Dugan
1995
The Oscars
TVas Self2 eps
1994
Cops & Robbersons
as Helen Robberson
Bullets Over Broadway
as Helen Sinclair
The Scout
as Doctor H. Aaron
1991
Little Man Tate
as Jane Grierson
1989
Cookie
as Lenore
Parenthood
as Helen Buckman Lampkin Bowman
1987
September
as Stephanie
Radio Days
as Aunt Bea
The Lost Boys
as Lucy Emerson
1984
Footloose
as Vi Moore
Falling in Love
as Isabelle
1983
Independence Day
as Nancy Morgan
The Face of Rage
as Rebecca Hammil
1982
1980
1978
Out of Our Fathers' House
as Elizabeth Gertrude Stern
Great Performances
TVas Elizabeth Gertrude Stern1 eps

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Personal Info

Known For
Acting
Gender
Female
Birthday
3/28/1948(77 years old)
Place of Birth
Kansas City, Missouri, USA