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Dianne Wiest is an American character, stage, film, and television actor. Born in Kansas City, Missouri, in 1948, she began her work period in 1970. She is educated at the University of Maryland and speaks English. Wiest has two children.
Her career includes recognition in the Academy Award Best Supporting Actress collection. She has received the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, the Theatre World Award, the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series, and the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series. She was also nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress.
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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…
Known for
- Practical Magic 2 — Aunt Jet2026
- Apartment 7A — Minnie Castevet2024
- Elsbeth — Reverend Mother Constance Mary Cabot2024
- Scene Partners — Meryl Kowalski2023
- My Father's Dragon — Iris the Rhinoceros (voice)2022
- I Care a Lot — Jennifer Peterson2021
- Mayor of Kingstown — Miriam McLusky2021
- Only Murders in the Building — Lorraine2021
- Let Them All Talk — Susan2020
- Always at The Carlyle — Self2018
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- human
- Gender
- female
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- United States
- Place of birth
- Kansas City
- Occupation
- television actor
- Languages spoken
- English language
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- Dianne Wiest 2009.jpg
- Number of children
- 2
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- date of birth
- 1948-03-28
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- Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress
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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 and September (both 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), the CBS comedy Life in Pieces (2015–2019), and the Hulu comedy Only Murders in the Building (2025).
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