
Dianne Wiest
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.
Known For
Credits
- 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 · Mayor of Kingstown as Miriam McLusky
- 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
- 2015 · Life in Pieces as Joan Short
- 2014 · The Humbling as Carol
- 2013 · The Blacklist as Ruth Kipling
- 2012 · The Odd Life of Timothy Green as Ms. Bernice Crudstaff
- 2012 · Darling Companion as Penny
- 2011 · Woody Allen: A Documentary as Self
- 2011 · The Big Year as Brenda Harris
- 2010 · Rabbit Hole as Nat
- 2009 · Rage as Miss Roth
- 2009 · Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen as Self - Guest
- 2008 · Synecdoche, New York as Ellen Bascomb / Millicent Weems
- 2008 · Passengers as Toni
- 2008 · The Return of Jezebel James as
- 2008 · In Treatment as Dr. Gina Toll
- 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, Secretary of Energy
- 2004 · Category 6: Day of Destruction as Shirley Abbott
- 2004 · Thank You, Doctor Rey as Elisabeth Beaumont
- 2004 · The Blackwater Lightship as Lily
- 2001 · I Am Sam as Annie Cassell
- 2001 · Law & Order: Criminal Intent as Interim D.A. Nora Lewin
- 2001 · Not Afraid, Not Afraid as Paula
- 2000 · The 10th Kingdom as Evil Queen
- 1999 · Law & Order: Special Victims Unit as Interim D.A. Nora Lewin
- 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 · The Making of Edward Scissorhands as Self
- 1990 · Edward Scissorhands as Peg
- 1990 · Law & Order as Nora Lewin
- 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 Emerson
- 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
- 1971 · Great Performances as Elizabeth Gertrude Stern
- 1953 · The Oscars as Self
- Future · Mother Courage as
- 1978 · Out of Our Fathers' House as Elizabeth Gertrude Stern
- 1975 · Zalmen, or The Madness of God as Nina
- 1951 · Hallmark Hall of Fame as Lily