Dianne Wiest

Dianne Wiest

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.

Acting

2026

2024

Apartment 7A

Minnie Castevet

2024

Elsbeth

Reverend Mother Constance Mary Cabot

2022

My Father's Dragon

Iris the Rhinoceros (voice)

2021

Mayor of Kingstown

Miriam McLusky

2021

2021

I Care a Lot

Jennifer Peterson

2020

2018

2018

2016

2015

Sisters

Deana Ellis

2015

Life in Pieces

Joan Short

2014

2013

The Blacklist

Ruth Kipling

2012

The Odd Life of Timothy Green

Ms. Bernice Crudstaff

2012

2011

2011

The Big Year

Brenda Harris

2010

2009

Rage

Miss Roth

2009

2008

Synecdoche, New York

Ellen Bascomb / Millicent Weems

2008

2008

2008

In Treatment

Dr. Gina Toll

2007

2007

2006

2005

Robots

Mrs. Copperbottom (voice)

2004

Category 6: Day of Destruction

Shirley Abbott, Secretary of Energy

2004

2001

I Am Sam

Annie Cassell

2001

2000

1999

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

Interim D.A. Nora Lewin

1999

1998

1998

1997

Drunks

Rachel

1996

The Associate

Sally Dugan

1996

The Birdcage

Louise Keeley

1994

Bullets Over Broadway

Helen Sinclair

1994

The Scout

Doctor H. Aaron

1994

Cops & Robbersons

Helen Robberson

1991

Little Man Tate

Jane Grierson

1990

1990

Law & Order

Nora Lewin

1989

Cookie

Lenore

1989

Parenthood

Helen Buckman Lampkin Bowman

1988

1987

September

Stephanie

1987

The Lost Boys

Lucy Emerson

1987

Radio Days

Aunt Bea

1986

1985

1984

1984

Footloose

Vi Moore

1983

Independence Day

Nancy Morgan

1982

1980

1975

1971

Great Performances

Elizabeth Gertrude Stern

1953

1951

Infos

Full Name
Dianne Wiest
Gender
Female
Date of Birth
3/28/1948
Also Known As

Diane Wiest

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