Dianne Wiest

Acting · Born 1948-03-28 in Kansas City, Missouri, USA

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…

Filmography

• Edward Scissorhands as Peg
• The Lost Boys as Lucy Emerson
• I Am Sam as Annie Cassell
• The Birdcage as Louise Keeley
• Synecdoche, New York as Ellen Bascomb / Millicent Weems
• Hannah and Her Sisters as Holly
• Practical Magic as Aunt Jet
• Bullets Over Broadway as Helen Sinclair
• Radio Days as Aunt Bea
• The Odd Life of Timothy Green as Ms. Bernice Crudstaff

TV

• Law & Order: Special Victims Unit as Interim D.A. Nora Lewin
• Mayor of Kingstown as Miriam McLusky
• The Blacklist as Ruth Kipling
• In Treatment as Dr. Gina Toll
• Only Murders in the Building as Lorraine
• The Return of Jezebel James
• Hallmark Hall of Fame as Lily
• Law & Order: Criminal Intent as Nora Lewin
• The Oscars as Self
• Life in Pieces as Joan Short