Dianne Wiest
Actor
Born March 28, 1948 in 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).
Filmography
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Practical Magic 2
Aunt Jet
Apartment 7A
Minnie Castevet
Elsbeth
Reverend Mother Constance Mary Cabot
Scene Partners
Meryl Kowalski
My Father's Dragon
Iris the Rhinoceros (voice)
Mayor of Kingstown
Miriam McLusky
Only Murders in the Building
Lorraine
I Care a Lot
Jennifer Peterson
Let Them All Talk
Susan
The Mule
Mary
Always at The Carlyle
Self
Five Nights in Maine
Lucinda
Sisters
Deana Ellis
Rasheeda Speaking
Ileen
Life in Pieces
Joan Short
The Humbling
Carol
The Blacklist
Ruth Kipling
The Odd Life of Timothy Green
Ms. Bernice Crudstaff
Darling Companion
Penny
Woody Allen: A Documentary
Self
The Big Year
Brenda Harris
Rabbit Hole
Nat
Rage
Miss Roth
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
Self - Guest
Synecdoche, New York
Ellen Bascomb / Millicent Weems
Passengers
Toni
The Return of Jezebel James
In Treatment
Dr. Gina Toll
Dan in Real Life
Nana
Dedication
Carol
A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints
Dito's Mother
Robots
Mrs. Copperbottom (voice)
Category 6: Day of Destruction
Shirley Abbott
Category 6: Day of Destruction
Shirley Abbott, Secretary of Energy
The Blackwater Lightship
Lily
Thank You, Doctor Rey
Elisabeth Beaumont
I Am Sam
Annie Cassell
Law & Order: Criminal Intent
Nora Lewin
Not Afraid, Not Afraid
Paula
The 10th Kingdom
Evil Queen
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
Interim D.A. Nora Lewin
The Simple Life of Noah Dearborn
Sarah McClellan
Practical Magic
Aunt Jet
The Horse Whisperer
Diane Booker
Drunks
Rachel
The Associate
Sally Dugan
The Birdcage
Louise Keeley
Bullets Over Broadway
Helen Sinclair
The Scout
Doctor H. Aaron
Cops & Robbersons
Helen Robberson
Little Man Tate
Jane Grierson
The Making of Edward Scissorhands
Self
Edward Scissorhands
Peg
Law & Order
Nora Lewin
Cookie
Lenore
Parenthood
Helen Buckman Lampkin Bowman
Bright Lights, Big City
Mother
September
Stephanie
The Lost Boys
Lucy Emerson
Radio Days
Aunt Bea
Hannah and Her Sisters
Holly
The Purple Rose of Cairo
Emma
Falling in Love
Isabelle
Footloose
Vi Moore
Independence Day
Nancy Morgan
I'm Dancing as Fast as I Can
Julie Addison
It's My Turn
Gail
Out of Our Fathers' House
Elizabeth Gertrude Stern
Zalmen, or The Madness of God
Nina
Great Performances
Elizabeth Gertrude Stern
The Oscars
Self
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Lily