Dianne Wiest
Personal Info
Known for
Acting
Gender
Female
Birthday
1948-03-28 (77 years old)
Place of Birth
Kansas City, Missouri, USA
Dianne Wiest
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
(2026)
Practical Magic 2
as Aunt Jet
(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
(2020)
Let Them All Talk
as Susan
(2018)
The Mule
as Mary
(2018)
Always at The Carlyle
as Self
(2016)
Five Nights in Maine
as Lucinda
(2015)
Sisters
as Deana Ellis
(2015)
Rasheeda Speaking
as Ileen
(2014)
The Humbling
as Carol
(2012)
The Odd Life of Timothy Green
as Ms. Bernice Crudstaff
(2012)
Darling Companion
as Penny
(2011)
The Big Year
as Brenda Harris
(2011)
Woody Allen: A Documentary
as Self
(2010)
Rabbit Hole
as Nat
(2009)
Rage
as Miss Roth
(2008)
Passengers
as Toni
(2008)
Synecdoche, New York
as Ellen Bascomb / Millicent Weems
(2007)
Dan in Real Life
as Nana
(2007)
Dedication
as Carol
(2006)
A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints
as Dito's Mother
(2005)
Robots
as Mrs. Copperbottom (voice)
(2004)
The Blackwater Lightship
as Lily
(2004)
Thank You, Doctor Rey
as Elisabeth Beaumont
(2004)
Category 6: Day of Destruction
as Shirley Abbott
(2001)
I Am Sam
as Annie Cassell
(2001)
Not Afraid, Not Afraid
as Paula
(1999)
The Simple Life of Noah Dearborn
as Sarah McClellan
(1998)
The Horse Whisperer
as Diane Booker
(1998)
Practical Magic
as Aunt Jet
(1997)
Drunks
as Rachel
(1996)
The Associate
as Sally Dugan
(1996)
The Birdcage
as Louise Keeley
(1994)
Bullets Over Broadway
as Helen Sinclair
(1994)
Cops & Robbersons
as Helen Robberson
(1994)
The Scout
as Doctor H. Aaron
(1991)
Little Man Tate
as Jane Grierson
(1990)
Edward Scissorhands
as Peg
(1990)
(1989)
Parenthood
as Helen Buckman Lampkin Bowman
(1989)
Cookie
as Lenore
(1988)
Bright Lights, Big City
as Mother
(1987)
The Lost Boys
as Lucy Emerson
(1987)
Radio Days
as Aunt Bea
(1987)
September
as Stephanie
(1986)
Hannah and Her Sisters
as Holly
(1985)
The Purple Rose of Cairo
as Emma
(1984)
Footloose
as Vi Moore
(1984)
Falling in Love
as Isabelle
(1983)
The Face of Rage
as Rebecca Hammil
(1983)
Independence Day
as Nancy Morgan
(1982)
I'm Dancing as Fast as I Can
as Julie Addison
(1980)
It's My Turn
as Gail
(1978)
Out of Our Fathers' House
as Elizabeth Gertrude Stern
(1975)