
Dianne Wiest
Acting
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).
Known For

Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

Law & Order

The Blacklist

In Treatment

Law & Order: Criminal Intent

Elsbeth

Mayor of Kingstown

Only Murders in the Building

The Oscars

Life in Pieces

Edward Scissorhands

Robots

The 10th Kingdom

The Mule

I Care a Lot

I Am Sam

The Lost Boys

Footloose

The Birdcage

Practical Magic

Passengers

Synecdoche, New York

Sisters

The Horse Whisperer

Darling Companion

Parenthood

The Big Year

The Odd Life of Timothy Green

The Purple Rose of Cairo
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