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Known For
Acting
Birthday
March 28, 1948
Place of Birth
Kansas City, Missouri, USA
Also Known As
- Diane Wiest
- دایان ویست
Dianne Wiest
3.0 Popularity
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.
Known For
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Aunt Jet
Practical Magic 2
2026
6.1
Minnie Castevet
Apartment 7A
2024
6.9
Reverend Mother Constance Mary Cabot
Elsbeth
2024
0.0
Meryl Kowalski
Scene Partners
2023
7.1
Iris the Rhinoceros (voice)
My Father's Dragon
2022
7.9
Miriam McLusky
Mayor of Kingstown
2021
8.5
Lorraine
Only Murders in the Building
2021
6.6
Jennifer Peterson
I Care a Lot
2021
5.6
Susan
Let Them All Talk
2020
6.9
Mary
The Mule
2018
Credits
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Practical Magic 2
as Aunt Jet
2026
0.0
Apartment 7A
as Minnie Castevet
2024
6.1
Elsbeth
as Reverend Mother Constance Mary Cabot
2024
6.9
Scene Partners
as Meryl Kowalski
2023
0.0
My Father's Dragon
as Iris the Rhinoceros (voice)
2022
7.1
Mayor of Kingstown
as Miriam McLusky
2021
7.9
Only Murders in the Building
as Lorraine
2021
8.5
I Care a Lot
as Jennifer Peterson
2021
6.6
Let Them All Talk
as Susan
2020
5.6
The Mule
as Mary
2018
6.9
Always at The Carlyle
as Self
2018
6.7
Five Nights in Maine
as Lucinda
2016
5.1
Sisters
as Deana Ellis
2015
6.0
Rasheeda Speaking
as Ileen
2015
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Life in Pieces
as Joan Short
2015
7.1
The Humbling
as Carol
2014
5.1
The Blacklist
as Ruth Kipling
2013
7.6
The Odd Life of Timothy Green
as Ms. Bernice Crudstaff
2012
7.0
Darling Companion
as Penny
2012
5.0
Woody Allen: A Documentary
as Self
2011
6.8
The Big Year
as Brenda Harris
2011
6.0
Rabbit Hole
as Nat
2010
6.7
Rage
as Miss Roth
2009
3.5
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
as Self - Guest
2009
5.1
Synecdoche, New York
as Ellen Bascomb / Millicent Weems
2008
7.5
Passengers
as Toni
2008
6.1
The Return of Jezebel James
2008
5.5
In Treatment
as Dr. Gina Toll
2008
7.6
Dan in Real Life
as Nana
2007
6.6
Dedication
as Carol
2007
6.3
A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints
as Dito's Mother
2006
6.5
Robots
as Mrs. Copperbottom (voice)
2005
6.5
Category 6: Day of Destruction
as Shirley Abbott
2004
6.3
Category 6: Day of Destruction
as Shirley Abbott, Secretary of Energy
2004
9.2
Thank You, Doctor Rey
as Elisabeth Beaumont
2004
5.0
The Blackwater Lightship
as Lily
2004
5.9
I Am Sam
as Annie Cassell
2001
7.6
Law & Order: Criminal Intent
as Nora Lewin
2001
7.6
Not Afraid, Not Afraid
as Paula
2001
0.0
The 10th Kingdom
as Evil Queen
2000
7.6
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
as Interim D.A. Nora Lewin
1999
7.9
Law and Order: Justice
as Nora Lewin
1999
0.0
The Simple Life of Noah Dearborn
as Sarah McClellan
1999
6.1
Practical Magic
as Aunt Jet
1998
6.8
The Horse Whisperer
as Diane Booker
1998
6.9
Drunks
as Rachel
1997
2.7
The Associate
as Sally Dugan
1996
6.2
The Birdcage
as Louise Keeley
1996
7.0
Bullets Over Broadway
as Helen Sinclair
1994
7.1
The Scout
as Doctor H. Aaron
1994
5.2
Cops & Robbersons
as Helen Robberson
1994
5.1
Little Man Tate
as Jane Grierson
1991
6.5
The Making of Edward Scissorhands
as Self
1990
7.9
Edward Scissorhands
as Peg
1990
7.7
Law & Order
as Nora Lewin
1990
7.4
Cookie
as Lenore
1989
5.2
Parenthood
as Helen Buckman Lampkin Bowman
1989
6.7
Bright Lights, Big City
as Mother
1988
5.7
September
as Stephanie
1987
6.1
The Lost Boys
as Lucy Emerson
1987
7.1
Radio Days
as Aunt Bea
1987
7.0
Hannah and Her Sisters
as Holly
1986
7.5
The Purple Rose of Cairo
as Emma
1985
7.4
Falling in Love
as Isabelle
1984
6.7
Footloose
as Vi Moore
1984
6.7
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The Face of Rage
as Rebecca Hammil
1983
1.0
Independence Day
as Nancy Morgan
1983
5.5
I'm Dancing as Fast as I Can
as Julie Addison
1982
6.0
It's My Turn
as Gail
1980
5.7
Out of Our Fathers' House
as Elizabeth Gertrude Stern
1978
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Zalmen, or The Madness of God
as Nina
1975
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Great Performances
as Elizabeth Gertrude Stern
1971
5.8
The Oscars
as Self
1953
7.0
Hallmark Hall of Fame
as Lily
1951
8.6
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Mother Courage
N/A
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