Dianne Wiest

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Female

Birthday

1948-03-28 (77 years old)

Place of Birth

Kansas City, Missouri, USA

Dianne Wiest

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...

Acting

1998

The Horse Whisperer

as Diane Booker

1987

The Lost Boys

as Lucy Emerson

1989

Parenthood

as Helen Buckman Lampkin Bowman

1984

Footloose

as Vi Moore

2001

I Am Sam

as Annie Cassell

1996

The Birdcage

as Louise Keeley

2008

Synecdoche, New York

as Ellen Bascomb / Millicent Weems

1996

The Associate

as Sally Dugan

1991

Little Man Tate

as Jane Grierson

1998

Practical Magic

as Aunt Jet

1994

Bullets Over Broadway

as Helen Sinclair

1987

September

as Stephanie

1987

Radio Days

as Aunt Bea

2007

2004

1994

Cops & Robbersons

as Helen Robberson

2009

Rage

as Miss Roth

2010

1994

The Scout

as Doctor H. Aaron

2008

Passengers

as Toni

2004

Thank You, Doctor Rey

as Elisabeth Beaumont

1983

The Face of Rage

as Rebecca Hammil

1984

Falling in Love

as Isabelle

2012

The Odd Life of Timothy Green

as Ms. Bernice Crudstaff

2011

The Big Year

as Brenda Harris

1999

1989

Cookie

as Lenore

2012

1982

1997

Drunks

as Rachel

2022

My Father's Dragon

as Iris the Rhinoceros (voice)

1983

Independence Day

as Nancy Morgan

1980

2024

Apartment 7A

as Minnie Castevet

2023

Scene Partners

as Meryl Kowalski

2014

The Humbling

as Carol

2016

2015

Sisters

as Deana Ellis

2005

Robots

as Mrs. Copperbottom (voice)

2007

Dedication

as Carol

2018

The Mule

as Mary

2021

I Care a Lot

as Jennifer Peterson

1978

Out of Our Fathers' House

as Elizabeth Gertrude Stern

2020

2015

2026

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