Dianne Wiest
ActingAlso Known As
Diane Wiest, دایان ویست
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). Description above from the Wikipedia article Dianne Wiest, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Movies
(59 total)
The Mule
as Mary
Robots
as Mrs. Copperbottom (voice)
I Care a Lot
as Jennifer Peterson
I Am Sam
as Annie Cassell
The Lost Boys
as Lucy Emerson
Footloose
as Vi Moore
Practical Magic
as Aunt Jet
Synecdoche, New York
as Ellen Bascomb / Millicent Weems
Sisters
as Deana Ellis
Dan in Real Life
as Nana
The Birdcage
as Louise Keeley
The Odd Life of Timothy Green
as Ms. Bernice Crudstaff
The Horse Whisperer
as Diane Booker
Hannah and Her Sisters
as Holly
Passengers
as Toni
The Big Year
as Brenda Harris
Parenthood
as Helen Buckman Lampkin Bowman
Bullets Over Broadway
as Helen Sinclair
TV Shows
(16 total)
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
as Interim D.A. Nora Lewin
The Blacklist
as Ruth Kipling
Only Murders in the Building
as Lorraine
Law & Order
as Nora Lewin
Mayor of Kingstown
as Miriam McLusky
Law & Order: Criminal Intent
as Nora Lewin
The 10th Kingdom
as Evil Queen
In Treatment
as Dr. Gina Toll
Life in Pieces
as Joan Short
Elsbeth
as Reverend Mother Constance Mary Cabot
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
as Self - Guest
The Oscars
as Self
Great Performances
as Elizabeth Gertrude Stern
Hallmark Hall of Fame
as Lily
Category 6: Day of Destruction
as Shirley Abbott, Secretary of Energy
