Acting
Dianne Wiest
EN, FR cinema · 60 credits
Born
28 March 1948 (age 78)
Birthplace
Kansas City, Missouri, USA
Also known as Diane Wiest · دایان ویست · Dianne Evelyn 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
Filmography
This Old Love of Mine
This Old Love of Mine
as Margo Bannon
Closing Night
as Diane
Apartment 7A
as Minnie Castevet
Scene Partners
as Meryl Kowalski
My Father's Dragon
as Iris the Rhinoceros (voice)
I Care a Lot
as Jennifer Peterson
Let Them All Talk
as Susan
The Mule
as Mary
Five Nights in Maine
as Lucinda
Sisters
as Deana Ellis
The Humbling
as Carol
The Odd Life of Timothy Green
as Ms. Bernice Crudstaff
Darling Companion
as Penny
The Big Year
as Brenda Harris
Rabbit Hole
as Nat
Rage
as Miss Roth
Synecdoche, New York
as Ellen Bascomb / Millicent Weems
Passengers
as Toni
Dan in Real Life
as Nana
Dedication
as Carol
A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints
as Dito's Mother
Robots
as Mrs. Copperbottom (voice)
Category 6: Day of Destruction
as Shirley Abbott
Thank You, Doctor Rey
as Elisabeth Beaumont
I Am Sam
as Annie Cassell
The Simple Life of Noah Dearborn
as Sarah McClellan
The Horse Whisperer
as Diane Booker
Practical Magic
as Aunt Jet
Drunks
as Rachel
The Birdcage
as Louise Keeley
The Associate
as Sally Dugan
Bullets Over Broadway
as Helen Sinclair
Cops & Robbersons
as Helen Robberson
The Scout
as Doctor H. Aaron
Little Man Tate
as Jane Grierson
Parenthood
as Helen Buckman Lampkin Bowman
Cookie
as Lenore
Bright Lights, Big City
as Mother
The Lost Boys
as Lucy
September
as Stephanie
Radio Days
as Aunt Bea
Footloose
as Vi Moore
Falling in Love
as Isabelle
The Face of Rage
1983
The Face of Rage
as Rebecca Hammil
Independence Day
as Nancy Morgan
I'm Dancing as Fast as I Can
as Julie Addison
It's My Turn
as Gail
Out of Our Fathers' House
as Elizabeth Gertrude Stern