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Dianne Wiest
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 …
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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 (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.
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2026
Closing Night
Movie Diane
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2026
Practical Magic 2
Movie Aunt Jet
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2024
Apartment 7A
Movie Minnie Castevet
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2024
Elsbeth
TV show Reverend Mother Constance Mary Cabot
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2023
Scene Partners
Movie Meryl Kowalski
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2022
My Father's Dragon
Movie Iris the Rhinoceros (voice)
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2021
Mayor of Kingstown
TV show Miriam McLusky
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2021
Only Murders in the Building
TV show Lorraine
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2021
I Care a Lot
Movie Jennifer Peterson
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2020
Let Them All Talk
Movie Susan
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2018
The Mule
Movie Mary
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2018
Always at The Carlyle
Movie Self
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2016
Five Nights in Maine
Movie Lucinda
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2015
Sisters
Movie Deana Ellis
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2015
Rasheeda Speaking
Movie Ileen
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2015
Life in Pieces
TV show Joan Short
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2014
The Humbling
Movie Carol
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2013
The Blacklist
TV show Ruth Kipling
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2012
The Odd Life of Timothy Green
Movie Ms. Bernice Crudstaff
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2012
Darling Companion
Movie Penny
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2011
Woody Allen: A Documentary
Movie Self
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2011
The Big Year
Movie Brenda Harris
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2010
Rabbit Hole
Movie Nat
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2009
Rage
Movie Miss Roth
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2009
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
TV show Self - Guest
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2008
Synecdoche, New York
Movie Ellen Bascomb / Millicent Weems
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2008
Passengers
Movie Toni
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2008
The Return of Jezebel James
TV show
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2008
In Treatment
TV show Dr. Gina Toll
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2007
Dan in Real Life
Movie Nana
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2007
Dedication
Movie Carol
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2006
A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints
Movie Dito's Mother
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2005
Robots
Movie Mrs. Copperbottom (voice)
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2004
Category 6: Day of Destruction
Movie Shirley Abbott
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2004
Category 6: Day of Destruction
TV show Shirley Abbott, Secretary of Energy
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2004
The Blackwater Lightship
Movie Lily
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2003
Thank You, Doctor Rey
Movie Elisabeth Beaumont
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2001
I Am Sam
Movie Annie Cassell
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2001
Law & Order: Criminal Intent
TV show Nora Lewin
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2001
Not Afraid, Not Afraid
Movie Paula
