Dianne Wiest
Born: 1948-03-28 in Kansas City, Missouri, USA
Known For: Acting
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.
Filmography
2026
- Practical Magic 2 as Aunt Jet
2024
- Elsbeth as Reverend Mother Constance Mary Cabot
- 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
- Only Murders in the Building as Lorraine
- I Care a Lot as Jennifer Peterson
2020
- Let Them All Talk as Susan
2018
- The Mule as Mary
- Always at The Carlyle as Self
2016
- Five Nights in Maine as Lucinda
2015
- Life in Pieces as Joan Short
- Sisters as Deana Ellis
- Rasheeda Speaking as Ileen
2014
- The Humbling as Carol
2013
- The Blacklist as Ruth Kipling
2012
- The Odd Life of Timothy Green as Ms. Bernice Crudstaff
- Darling Companion as Penny
2011
- The Big Year as Brenda Harris
- Woody Allen: A Documentary as Self
2010
- Rabbit Hole as Nat
2009
- Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen as Self - Guest
- Rage as Miss Roth
2008
- In Treatment as Dr. Gina Toll
- Passengers as Toni
- Synecdoche, New York as Ellen Bascomb / Millicent Weems
- The Return of Jezebel James
2007
- Dan in Real Life as Nana
- 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
- Category 6: Day of Destruction as Shirley Abbott
- The Blackwater Lightship as Lily
- Thank You, Doctor Rey as Elisabeth Beaumont
2001
- Law & Order: Criminal Intent as Nora Lewin
- I Am Sam as Annie Cassell
- 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
- The Simple Life of Noah Dearborn as Sarah McClellan
1998
- Practical Magic as Aunt Jet
- The Horse Whisperer as Diane Booker
1997
- Drunks as Rachel
1996
- The Birdcage as Louise Keeley
- The Associate as Sally Dugan
1994
- Bullets Over Broadway as Helen Sinclair
- The Scout as Doctor H. Aaron
- Cops & Robbersons as Helen Robberson
1991
- Little Man Tate as Jane Grierson
1990
- Law & Order as Nora Lewin
- Edward Scissorhands as Peg
- The Making of Edward Scissorhands as Self
1989
- Parenthood as Helen Buckman Lampkin Bowman
- Cookie as Lenore
1988
- Bright Lights, Big City as Mother
1987
- The Lost Boys as Lucy Emerson
- Radio Days as Aunt Bea
- September as Stephanie
1986
- Hannah and Her Sisters as Holly
1985
- The Purple Rose of Cairo as Emma
1984
- Footloose as Vi Moore
- Falling in Love as Isabelle
1983
- Independence Day as Nancy Morgan
- The Face of Rage as Rebecca Hammil
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
- Great Performances as Elizabeth Gertrude Stern
1953
- The Oscars as Self
1951
- Hallmark Hall of Fame as Lily