Dianne Wiest

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.

Apartment 7A
2024
Minnie Castevet
Scene Partners
2023
Meryl Kowalski
My Father's Dragon
2022
Iris the Rhinoceros (voice)
I Care a Lot
2021
Jennifer Peterson
Let Them All Talk
2020
Susan
Always at The Carlyle
2018
Self
The Mule
2018
Mary
Five Nights in Maine
2016
Lucinda
Sisters
2015
Deana Ellis
Rasheeda Speaking
2015
Ileen
The Humbling
2014
Carol
The Odd Life of Timothy Green
2012
Ms. Bernice Crudstaff
Darling Companion
2012
Penny
Woody Allen: A Documentary
2011
Self
The Big Year
2011
Brenda Harris
Rabbit Hole
2010
Nat
Rage
2009
Miss Roth
Synecdoche, New York
2008
Ellen Bascomb / Millicent Weems
Passengers
2008
Toni
Dan in Real Life
2007
Nana
Dedication
2007
Carol
A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints
2006
Dito's Mother
Robots
2005
Mrs. Copperbottom (voice)
Category 6: Day of Destruction
2004
Shirley Abbott
Thank You, Doctor Rey
2004
Elisabeth Beaumont
The Blackwater Lightship
2004
Lily
I Am Sam
2001
Annie Cassell
Not Afraid, Not Afraid
2001
Paula
The Simple Life of Noah Dearborn
1999
Sarah McClellan
The Horse Whisperer
1998
Diane Booker
Practical Magic
1998
Aunt Jet
Drunks
1997
Rachel
The Birdcage
1996
Louise Keeley
The Associate
1996
Sally Dugan
Bullets Over Broadway
1994
Helen Sinclair
Cops & Robbersons
1994
Helen Robberson
The Scout
1994
Doctor H. Aaron
Little Man Tate
1991
Jane Grierson
Edward Scissorhands
1990
Peg
The Making of Edward Scissorhands
1990
Self
Parenthood
1989
Helen Buckman Lampkin Bowman
Cookie
1989
Lenore
Bright Lights, Big City
1988
Mother
The Lost Boys
1987
Lucy Emerson
September
1987
Stephanie
Radio Days
1987
Aunt Bea
Hannah and Her Sisters
1986
Holly
The Purple Rose of Cairo
1985
Emma
Footloose
1984
Vi Moore
Falling in Love
1984
Isabelle
Independence Day
1983
Nancy Morgan
I'm Dancing as Fast as I Can
1982
Julie Addison
It's My Turn
1980
Gail
Out of Our Fathers' House
1978
Elizabeth Gertrude Stern
Zalmen, or The Madness of God
1975
Nina