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Dianne Wiest

Born 1948-03-28
📍 Kansas City, Missouri, USA

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 72

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