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Dianne Wiest
Dianne Wiest

Dianne Wiest

ActingBorn March 28, 1948 (age 78)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). Description above from the Wikipedia article Dianne Wiest, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Filmography

2026Movie
2024
Apartment 7A

as Minnie Castevet

Movie
2024
Elsbeth

as Reverend Mother Constance Mary Cabot

TV
2023
Scene Partners

as Meryl Kowalski

Movie
2022
My Father's Dragon

as Iris the Rhinoceros (voice)

Movie
2021
Mayor of Kingstown

as Miriam McLusky

TV
2021
I Care a Lot

as Jennifer Peterson

Movie
2020Movie
2018
The Mule

as Mary

Movie
2018Movie
2016Movie
2015
Sisters

as Deana Ellis

Movie
2015Movie
2015
Life in Pieces

as Joan Short

TV
2014
The Humbling

as Carol

Movie
2013
The Blacklist

as Ruth Kipling

TV
2012
The Odd Life of Timothy Green

as Ms. Bernice Crudstaff

Movie
2012Movie
2011
The Big Year

as Brenda Harris

Movie
2010Movie
2009
Rage

as Miss Roth

Movie
2008
Synecdoche, New York

as Ellen Bascomb / Millicent Weems

Movie
2008
Passengers

as Toni

Movie
2008
In Treatment

as Dr. Gina Toll

TV
2007Movie
2007
Dedication

as Carol

Movie
2006Movie
2005
Robots

as Mrs. Copperbottom (voice)

Movie
2004Movie
2004
Category 6: Day of Destruction

as Shirley Abbott, Secretary of Energy

TV
2004Movie
2003
Thank You, Doctor Rey

as Elisabeth Beaumont

Movie
2001
I Am Sam

as Annie Cassell

Movie
2001TV
2001Movie
2000
The 10th Kingdom

as Evil Queen

TV
1999
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

as Interim D.A. Nora Lewin

TV
1999Movie
1998
Practical Magic

as Aunt Jet

Movie
1998
The Horse Whisperer

as Diane Booker

Movie
1997
Drunks

as Rachel

Movie
1996
The Associate

as Sally Dugan

Movie
1996
The Birdcage

as Louise Keeley

Movie
1994
Bullets Over Broadway

as Helen Sinclair

Movie
1994
The Scout

as Doctor H. Aaron

Movie
1994
Cops & Robbersons

as Helen Robberson

Movie
1991
Little Man Tate

as Jane Grierson

Movie
1990Movie
1990
Law & Order

as Nora Lewin

TV
1989
Cookie

as Lenore

Movie
1989
Parenthood

as Helen Buckman Lampkin Bowman

Movie
1988Movie
1987
September

as Stephanie

Movie
1987
The Lost Boys

as Lucy Emerson

Movie
1987
Radio Days

as Aunt Bea

Movie
1986Movie
1985Movie
1984
Falling in Love

as Isabelle

Movie
1984
Footloose

as Vi Moore

Movie
1983
The Face of Rage

as Rebecca Hammil

Movie
1983
Independence Day

as Nancy Morgan

Movie
1982Movie
1980Movie
1978
Out of Our Fathers' House

as Elizabeth Gertrude Stern

Movie
1971
Great Performances

as Elizabeth Gertrude Stern

TV
1953
The Oscars

as Self

TV
Movie

Personal Info

DepartmentActing
BirthdayMarch 28, 1948
Place of BirthKansas City, Missouri, USA
Popularity1.9