Dianne Wiest
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Dianne Wiest

Mar 28, 1948 - Kansas City, Missouri, USA

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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Cast

Media
Movie1990Edward ScissorhandsPeg
Movie1998The Horse WhispererDiane Booker
Movie1987The Lost BoysLucy Emerson
Movie1989ParenthoodHelen Buckman Lampkin Bowman
Movie1984FootlooseVi Moore
Movie2001I Am SamAnnie Cassell
Movie1996The BirdcageLouise Keeley
Movie2008Synecdoche, New YorkEllen Bascomb / Millicent Weems
Movie1986Hannah and Her SistersHolly
Movie1996The AssociateSally Dugan
Movie1991Little Man TateJane Grierson
Movie1998Practical MagicAunt Jet
Movie1994Bullets Over BroadwayHelen Sinclair
Movie1987SeptemberStephanie
Movie1987Radio DaysAunt Bea
Movie2007Dan in Real LifeNana
Movie2006A Guide to Recognizing Your SaintsDito's Mother
Movie2004Category 6: Day of DestructionShirley Abbott
Movie1994Cops & RobbersonsHelen Robberson
Movie2009RageMiss Roth
Movie2010Rabbit HoleNat
Movie1994The ScoutDoctor H. Aaron
Movie2008PassengersToni
Movie2004Thank You, Doctor ReyElisabeth Beaumont
Movie1983The Face of RageRebecca Hammil
Movie1988Bright Lights, Big CityMother
Movie2011Woody Allen: A DocumentarySelf
Movie1984Falling in LoveIsabelle
Movie2012The Odd Life of Timothy GreenMs. Bernice Crudstaff
Movie2004The Blackwater LightshipLily
Movie2011The Big YearBrenda Harris
Movie1999The Simple Life of Noah DearbornSarah McClellan
Movie1989CookieLenore
Movie2012Darling CompanionPenny
Movie1982I'm Dancing as Fast as I CanJulie Addison
Movie1997DrunksRachel
Movie2022My Father's DragonIris the Rhinoceros (voice)
Movie1983Independence DayNancy Morgan
Movie1980It's My TurnGail
Movie2024Apartment 7AMinnie Castevet
Movie2023Scene PartnersMeryl Kowalski
Movie1985The Purple Rose of CairoEmma
Movie2014The HumblingCarol
Movie2018Always at The CarlyleSelf
Movie2016Five Nights in MaineLucinda
Movie2015SistersDeana Ellis
Movie2005RobotsMrs. Copperbottom (voice)
Movie2007DedicationCarol
Movie2018The MuleMary
Movie2021I Care a LotJennifer Peterson
Movie1978Out of Our Fathers' HouseElizabeth Gertrude Stern
Movie2020Let Them All TalkSusan
Movie1975Zalmen, or The Madness of GodNina
Movie1990The Making of Edward ScissorhandsSelf
Movie2015Rasheeda SpeakingIleen
Movie2001Not Afraid, Not AfraidPaula
MovieN/AMother Courage
Movie2026Practical Magic 2Aunt Jet
TV Show2008The Return of Jezebel James1
TV Show1999Law & Order: Special Victims UnitInterim D.A. Nora Lewin2
TV Show2021Mayor of KingstownMiriam McLusky20
TV Show1951Hallmark Hall of FameLily1
TV Show2001Law & Order: Criminal IntentInterim D.A. Nora Lewin1
TV Show1953The OscarsSelf2
TV Show2013The BlacklistRuth Kipling1
TV Show2015Life in PiecesJoan Short79
TV Show2008In TreatmentDr. Gina Toll16
TV Show2000The 10th KingdomEvil Queen5
TV Show2009Watch What Happens Live with Andy CohenSelf - Guest1
TV Show1990Law & OrderNora Lewin48
TV Show2004Category 6: Day of DestructionShirley Abbott, Secretary of Energy2
TV Show1971Great PerformancesElizabeth Gertrude Stern1

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