
Dianne Wiest
Known for department: Acting
Birthday: 1948-03-28
Place of birth: Kansas City, Missouri, USA
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). Description above from the Wikipedia article Dianne Wiest, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known for

Edward Scissorhands
1990Peg
The Horse Whisperer
1998Diane Booker
Parenthood
1989Helen Buckman Lampkin Bowman
The Lost Boys
1987Lucy Emerson
Footloose
1984Vi Moore
I Am Sam
2001Annie Cassell
The Birdcage
1996Louise Keeley
Synecdoche, New York
2008Ellen Bascomb / Millicent Weems
Hannah and Her Sisters
1986Holly
The Associate
1996Sally Dugan
Little Man Tate
1991Jane Grierson
Practical Magic
1998Aunt Jet
Bullets Over Broadway
1994Helen Sinclair
September
1987Stephanie
Radio Days
1987Aunt Bea
Dan in Real Life
2007Nana
A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints
2006Dito's Mother
Category 6: Day of Destruction
2004Shirley Abbott
Cops & Robbersons
1994Helen Robberson