Personal info
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- 3/28/1948 (age 78)
- Birthplace
- Kansas City, Missouri, USA
- Gender
- Female
- 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). Description above from the Wikipedia article Dianne Wiest, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
12 titles

Edward Scissorhands
1990
Peg

The Mule
2018
Mary

Robots
2005
Mrs. Copperbottom (voice)

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
1999TV
Interim D.A. Nora Lewin

The Blacklist
2013TV
Ruth Kipling

I Care a Lot
2021
Jennifer Peterson

I Am Sam
2001
Annie Cassell

The Lost Boys
1987
Lucy

Only Murders in the Building
2021TV
Lorraine

Footloose
1984
Vi Moore

Practical Magic
1998
Aunt Jet

Synecdoche, New York
2008
Ellen Bascomb / Millicent Weems



