Dianne Wiest
Actor
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).
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Filmography
The Mule
as Mary 2018
Robots
as Mrs. Copperbottom (voice) 2005
I Care a Lot
as Jennifer Peterson 2021
I Am Sam
as Annie Cassell 2001
The Lost Boys
as Lucy Emerson 1987
Footloose
as Vi Moore 1984
Practical Magic
as Aunt Jet 1998
Synecdoche, New York
as Ellen Bascomb / Millicent Weems 2008
Sisters
as Deana Ellis 2015
Dan in Real Life
as Nana 2007
The Birdcage
as Louise Keeley 1996
The Odd Life of Timothy Green
as Ms. Bernice Crudstaff 2012
The Horse Whisperer
as Diane Booker 1998
Hannah and Her Sisters
as Holly 1986
The Purple Rose of Cairo
as Emma 1985
Passengers
as Toni 2008