Dianne Wiest profile
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Dianne Wiest

28th March 1948 Kansas City, Missouri, USA Acting

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.

55 Movies 16 TV Shows 1 In Production 75 Credits
Filmography

Movies & TV Shows

Sisters poster
Sisters 18th December 2015 as Deana Ellis
Rage poster
Rage 24th September 2009 as Miss Roth
Robots poster
Robots 10th March 2005 as Mrs. Copperbottom (voice)
I Am Sam poster
I Am Sam 28th December 2001 as Annie Cassell
The Scout poster
The Scout 30th September 1994 as Doctor H. Aaron
Parenthood poster
Parenthood 31st July 1989 as Helen Buckman Lampkin Bowman
Elsbeth poster
Elsbeth 29th February 2024 as Reverend Mother Constance Mary Cabot
Practical Magic 2 poster Coming soon
Practical Magic 2 9th September 2026 as Aunt Jet