Dianne Wiest
Birthday: 1948-03-28 | Place of Birth: Kansas City, Missouri, USADianne 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
Acting
Role
as Minnie Castevet
as Meryl Kowalski
as Iris the Rhinoceros (voice)
as Jennifer Peterson
as Susan
as Mary
as Lucinda
as Carol
as Deana Ellis
as Joan Short
as Ms. Bernice Crudstaff
as Penny
as Brenda Harris
as Nat
as Ellen Bascomb / Millicent Weems
as Toni
as Carol
as Nana
as Dito's Mother
as Mrs. Copperbottom (voice)
as Elisabeth Beaumont
as Lily
as Shirley Abbott
as Shirley Abbott, Secretary of Energy
as Annie Cassell
as Paula
as Evil Queen
as Queen
as Sarah McClellan
