Dianne Wiest
57 movies · 14 TV shows
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- Mar 28, 1948 (age 78)
- Place of birth
- Kansas City, Missouri, USA
- Also known as
- Diane Wiest · دایان ویست · Dianne Evelyn 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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Known for
Dianne Wiest: movies and TV shows
Acting (71)
- Upcoming This Old Love of Mine
as Margo Bannon
- Upcoming
- 2026 Closing Night
as Diane
- 2026 Practical Magic 2
as Aunt Jet
- 2024 Apartment 7A
as Minnie Castevet
- 2024
- 2023 Scene Partners
as Meryl Kowalski
- 2022 My Father's Dragon
as Iris the Rhinoceros (voice)
- 2021
- 2021
- 2021 I Care a Lot
as Jennifer Peterson
- 2020 Let Them All Talk
as Susan
- 2018 The Mule
as Mary
- 2016 Five Nights in Maine
as Lucinda
- 2015 Sisters
as Deana Ellis
- 2015 Rasheeda Speaking
as Ileen
- 2015
- 2014 The Humbling
as Carol
- 2013
- 2012 The Odd Life of Timothy Green
as Ms. Bernice Crudstaff
- 2012 Darling Companion
as Penny
- 2011 The Big Year
as Brenda Harris
- 2010 Rabbit Hole
as Nat
- 2009 Rage
as Miss Roth
- 2008 Synecdoche, New York
as Ellen Bascomb / Millicent Weems
- 2008 Passengers
as Toni
- 2008
- 2008
- 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 Category 6: Day of Destruction
as Shirley Abbott
- 2004
- 2004 The Blackwater Lightship
as Lily
- 2003 Thank You, Doctor Rey
as Elisabeth Beaumont
- 2001 I Am Sam
as Annie Cassell
- 2001
- 2001 Not Afraid, Not Afraid
as Paula
- 2000
- 1999
- 1999 The Simple Life of Noah Dearborn
as Sarah McClellan
- 1998 Practical Magic
as Aunt Jet
- 1998 The Horse Whisperer
as Diane Booker
- 1997 Drunks
as Rachel
- 1996 The Associate
as Sally Dugan
- 1996 The Birdcage
as Louise Keeley
- 1994 Bullets Over Broadway
as Helen Sinclair
- 1994 The Scout
as Doctor H. Aaron
- 1994 Cops & Robbersons
as Helen Robberson
- 1991 Little Man Tate
as Jane Grierson
- 1990 Edward Scissorhands
as Peg
- 1990
- 1989 Cookie
as Lenore
- 1989 Parenthood
as Helen Buckman Lampkin Bowman
- 1988 Bright Lights, Big City
as Mother
- 1987 September
as Stephanie
- 1987 The Lost Boys
as Lucy
- 1987 Radio Days
as Aunt Bea
- 1986 Hannah and Her Sisters
as Holly
- 1985 The Purple Rose of Cairo
as Emma
- 1984 Falling in Love
as Isabelle
- 1984 Footloose
as Vi Moore
- 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 Zalmen, or The Madness of God
as Nina
- 1971
- 1951
Talk shows and appearances (5)
- 2018
- 2011
- 2009 Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
1 episode
- 1990
- 1953 The Oscars
2 episodes