Dianne Wiest

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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🎬 Movies Featuring Dianne Wiest

Apartment 7A

Apartment 7A (2024)

as Minnie Castevet
Scene Partners

Scene Partners (2023)

as Meryl Kowalski
My Father's Dragon

My Father's Dragon (2022)

as Iris the Rhinoceros (voice)
I Care a Lot

I Care a Lot (2021)

as Jennifer Peterson
Sisters

Sisters (2015)

as Deana Ellis
The Big Year

The Big Year (2011)

as Brenda Harris
Rage

Rage (2009)

as Miss Roth
Synecdoche, New York

Synecdoche, New York (2008)

as Ellen Bascomb / Millicent Weems
Robots

Robots (2005)

as Mrs. Copperbottom (voice)
Thank You, Doctor Rey

Thank You, Doctor Rey (2004)

as Elisabeth Beaumont
I Am Sam

I Am Sam (2001)

as Annie Cassell
The Birdcage

The Birdcage (1996)

as Louise Keeley
The Scout

The Scout (1994)

as Doctor H. Aaron
Cops & Robbersons

Cops & Robbersons (1994)

as Helen Robberson
Parenthood

Parenthood (1989)

as Helen Buckman Lampkin Bowman
Out of Our Fathers' House

Out of Our Fathers' House (1978)

as Elizabeth Gertrude Stern