Personal Info
Birth date
1948-03-28 (77 Years)
Gender
Female
Known for
Acting
Place of birth
Kansas City, Missouri, USA
Also known as
Diane Wiest
دایان ویست
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 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.
Filmography
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
5.1
Overview:
Bravo network executive Andy Cohen discusses pop culture topics with celebrities and reality show personalities.Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
7.933
Overview:
In the criminal justice system, sexually-based offenses are considered especially heinous. In New York City, the dedicated detectives who investigate these vicious felonies are members of an elite squad known as the Special Victims Unit. These are their stories.Law & Order
7.402
Overview:
In cases ripped from the headlines, police investigate serious and often deadly crimes, weighing the evidence and questioning the suspects until someone is taken into custody. The district attorney's office then builds a case to convict the perpetrator by proving the person guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. Working together, these expert teams navigate all sides of the complex criminal justice system to make New York a safer place.The Blacklist
7.6
Overview:
Raymond "Red" Reddington, one of the FBI's most wanted fugitives, surrenders in person at FBI Headquarters in Washington, D.C. He claims that he and the FBI have the same interests: bringing down dangerous criminals and terrorists. In the last two decades, he's made a list of criminals and terrorists that matter the most but the FBI cannot find because it does not know they exist. Reddington calls this "The Blacklist". Reddington will co-operate, but insists that he will speak only to Elizabeth Keen, a rookie FBI profiler.Great Performances
5.5
Overview:
The best in the performing arts from across America and around the world including a diverse programming portfolio of classical music, opera, popular song, musical theater, dance, drama, and performance documentaries.Law & Order: Criminal Intent
7.562
Overview:
The third installment of the “Law & Order” franchise takes viewers deep into the minds of its criminals while following the intense psychological approaches the Major Case Squad uses to solve its crimes.In Treatment
7.647
Overview:
Set within the highly charged confines of individual psychotherapy sessions and centering around Dr. Paul Weston, a psychotherapist who exhibits an insightful, reserved demeanor while treating his patients—but displays a crippling insecurity while counseled by his own therapist.Mayor of Kingstown
7.853
Overview:
In a small Michigan town where the business of incarceration is the only thriving industry, the McClusky family are the power brokers between the police, criminals, inmates, prison guards and politicians in a city completely dependent on prisons and the prisoners they contain.Life in Pieces
7.076
Overview:
Comedy about one big happy family and their sometimes awkward, often hilarious and ultimately beautiful milestone moments as told by its various members. Of the three siblings, middle child Matt may have just found his true love, his co-worker, Colleen; his coddled youngest brother, Greg, and his wife, Jen, are overwhelmed by the birth of their first child; and the eldest, Heather, and her husband, Tim, are dreading their impending empty nest so much, they're considering having another baby. Their parents are Joan the family's adoring matriarch who would do anything for her kids - as long as she agrees with it - and John, the gregarious patriarch who's searching for ways to soften the blow of turning 70. As the family's lives unfold in four short stories each week, they try to savor these little pieces of time that flash by but stay with you forever, because these moments add up to what life's all about.The Oscars
7.056
Overview:
An annual American awards ceremony honoring cinematic achievements in the film industry. The various category winners are awarded a copy of a statuette, officially the Academy Award of Merit, that is better known by its nickname Oscar.The 10th Kingdom
7.6
Overview:
Virginia and Tony, a father and daughter living in Manhattan, find themselves in a parallel universe where Snow White, Cinderella and Little Red Riding Hood are struggling to maintain order. Their kingdoms have been fragmented by trolls, giants and goblins.Edward Scissorhands
7.717
Overview:
A small suburban town receives a visit from a castaway unfinished science experiment named Edward.I Am Sam
7.556
Overview:
Sam, a neurodivergent man, has a daughter with a homeless woman who abandons them when they leave the hospital, leaving Sam to raise Lucy on his own. But as Lucy grows up, Sam's limitations as a parent start to become a problem and the authorities take her away. Sam convinces high-priced lawyer Rita to take his case pro bono and in turn teaches her the value of love and family.Practical Magic
6.788
Overview:
Sally and Gillian Owens, born into a magical family, have mostly avoided witchcraft themselves. But when Gillian's vicious boyfriend, Jimmy Angelov, dies unexpectedly, the Owens sisters give themselves a crash course in hard magic. With policeman Gary Hallet growing suspicious, the girls struggle to resurrect Angelov -- and unwittingly inject his corpse with an evil spirit that threatens to end their family line.Robots
6.47
Overview:
Rodney Copperbottom is a young robot inventor who dreams of making the world a better place, until the evil Ratchet takes over Bigweld Industries. Now, Rodney's dreams – and those of his friends – are in danger of becoming obsolete.Hallmark Hall of Fame
8.571
Overview:
Hallmark Hall of Fame is an anthology program on American television, sponsored by Hallmark Cards, a Kansas City based greeting card company. The longest-running primetime series in the history of television, it has a historically long run, beginning during 1951 and continuing into 2013. From 1954 onward, all of its productions have been shown in color, although color television video productions were extremely rare in 1954. Many television movies have been shown on the program since its debut, though the program began with live telecasts of dramas and then changed to videotaped productions before finally changing to filmed ones. The series has received eighty Emmy Awards, twenty-four Christopher Awards, eleven Peabody Awards, nine Golden Globes, and four Humanitas Prizes. Once a common practice in American television, it is the last remaining television program such that the title includes the name of the sponsor. Unlike other long-running TV series still on the air, it differs in that it broadcasts only occasionally and not on a weekly broadcast programming schedule.Footloose
6.7
Overview:
When teenager Ren and his family move from big-city Chicago to a small town in the West, he's in for a real case of culture shock after discovering he's living in a place where music and dancing are illegal.The Mule
6.9
Overview:
Earl Stone, a man in his eighties, is broke, alone, and facing foreclosure of his business when he is offered a job that simply requires him to drive. Easy enough, but, unbeknownst to Earl, he's just signed on as a drug courier for a Mexican cartel. He does so well that his cargo increases exponentially, and Earl hit the radar of hard-charging DEA agent Colin Bates.Apartment 7A
6.2
Overview:
A struggling young dancer finds herself drawn in by dark forces when a peculiar, well-connected older couple promise her a shot at fame.The Lost Boys
7.088
Overview:
When an unsuspecting town newcomer is drawn to local blood fiends, the Frog brothers and other unlikely heroes gear up to rescue him.Sisters
5.968
Overview:
Two disconnected sisters are summoned to clean out their childhood bedrooms before their parents sell their family home.The Horse Whisperer
6.894
Overview:
The mother of a severely traumatized daughter enlists the aid of a unique horse trainer to help the girl's equally injured horse.I Care a Lot
6.6
Overview:
A court-appointed legal guardian defrauds her older clients and traps them under her care. But her latest mark comes with some unexpected baggage.Little Man Tate
6.6
Overview:
Dede is a sole parent trying to bring up her son Fred. When it is discovered that Fred is a genius, she is determined to ensure that Fred has all the opportunities that he needs, and that he is not taken advantage of by people who forget that his extremely powerful intellect is harboured in the body and emotions of a child.The Birdcage
7.043
Overview:
Middle-aged gay life partners, Armand Goldman, a Jewish drag club owner, and Albert, the club's flamboyant star attraction, live in the eclectic community of South Beach and have raised a straight son. Now, their newly engaged son, 20-year-old Val, wants to bring his fiancée, Barbara, and her ultraconservative parents home to meet his family for the first time. By Val's request, Armand pretends to be straight, not Jewish and attempts to hide his relationship with Albert, in order to please Barbara's father, controversial right-wing Republican Sen. Kevin Keeley.Passengers
6.112
Overview:
After a plane crash, a young therapist, Claire, is assigned by her mentor to counsel the flight's five survivors. When they share their recollections of the incident -- which some say include an explosion that the airline claims never happened -- Claire is intrigued by Eric, the most secretive of the passengers.The Return of Jezebel James
2.5
Overview:
The Return of Jezebel James is an American situation comedy television series, starring Parker Posey as a successful children's book editor who, unable to have children herself, asks her estranged younger sister to carry her baby. The series was created by Amy Sherman-Palladino of Gilmore Girls fame, who also directed the pilot, and executive produced the show with her husband, Daniel Palladino. The show was produced by Regency Television and Dorothy Parker Drank Here Productions. The show premiered on the Fox television network on March 14, 2008 as a mid-season replacement. After airing only three episodes, it was cancelled due to what FOX called unacceptably low ratings. The remaining four unaired episodes were released on Apple iTunes on May 6, 2008.Synecdoche, New York
7.559
Overview:
A theater director struggles with his work, and the women in his life, as he attempts to create a life-size replica of New York inside a warehouse as part of his new play.Parenthood
6.693
Overview:
The story of the Buckman family and friends, attempting to bring up their children. They suffer/enjoy all the events that occur: estranged relatives, the 'black sheep' of the family, the eccentrics, the skeletons in the closet, and the rebellious teenagers.Dan in Real Life
6.568
Overview:
Advice columnist Dan Burns is an expert on relationships, but somehow struggles to succeed as a brother, a son and a single parent to three precocious daughters. Things get even more complicated when Dan finds out that the woman he falls in love with is actually his brother's new girlfriend.Acting
TBAMother Courage as Unknown
2026Practical Magic 2 as Aunt Jet
2024Apartment 7A as Minnie Castevet
2023Scene Partners as Meryl Kowalski
2022My Father's Dragon as Iris the Rhinoceros (voice)
2021Mayor of Kingstown (20 Episodes) as Miriam McLusky
2021I Care a Lot as Jennifer Peterson
2020Let Them All Talk as Susan
2018The Mule as Mary
2018Always at The Carlyle as Self
2016Five Nights in Maine as Lucinda
2015Sisters as Deana Ellis
2015Rasheeda Speaking as Ileen
2015Life in Pieces (79 Episodes) as Joan Short
2014The Humbling as Carol
2013The Blacklist (1 Episode) as Ruth Kipling
2012The Odd Life of Timothy Green as Ms. Bernice Crudstaff
2012Darling Companion as Penny
2011Woody Allen: A Documentary as Self
2011The Big Year as Brenda Harris
2010Rabbit Hole as Nat
2009Rage as Miss Roth
2009Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen (1 Episode) as Self - Guest
2008Synecdoche, New York as Ellen Bascomb / Millicent Weems
2008Passengers as Toni
2008The Return of Jezebel James (1 Episode) as Unknown
2008In Treatment (16 Episodes) as Dr. Gina Toll
2007Dan in Real Life as Nana
2007Dedication as Carol
2006A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints as Dito's Mother
2005Robots as Mrs. Copperbottom (voice)
2004Category 6: Day of Destruction as Shirley Abbott
2004Category 6: Day of Destruction (2 Episodes) as Shirley Abbott, Secretary of Energy
2004Thank You, Doctor Rey as Elisabeth Beaumont
2004The Blackwater Lightship as Lily
2001I Am Sam as Annie Cassell
2001Law & Order: Criminal Intent (1 Episode) as Interim D.A. Nora Lewin
2001Not Afraid, Not Afraid as Paula
2000The 10th Kingdom (5 Episodes) as Evil Queen
1999Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (2 Episodes) as Interim D.A. Nora Lewin
1999The Simple Life of Noah Dearborn as Sarah McClellan
1998Practical Magic as Aunt Jet
1998The Horse Whisperer as Diane Booker
1997Drunks as Rachel
1996The Associate as Sally Dugan
1996The Birdcage as Louise Keeley
1994Bullets Over Broadway as Helen Sinclair
1994The Scout as Doctor H. Aaron
1994Cops & Robbersons as Helen Robberson
1991Little Man Tate as Jane Grierson
1990The Making of Edward Scissorhands as Self
1990Edward Scissorhands as Peg
1990Law & Order (48 Episodes) as Nora Lewin
1989Cookie as Lenore
1989Parenthood as Helen Buckman Lampkin Bowman
1988Bright Lights, Big City as Mother
1987September as Stephanie
1987The Lost Boys as Lucy Emerson
1987Radio Days as Aunt Bea
1986Hannah and Her Sisters as Holly
1985The Purple Rose of Cairo as Emma
1984Falling in Love as Isabelle
1984Footloose as Vi Moore
1983The Face of Rage as Rebecca Hammil
1983Independence Day as Nancy Morgan
1982I'm Dancing as Fast as I Can as Julie Addison
1980It's My Turn as Gail
1978Out of Our Fathers' House as Elizabeth Gertrude Stern
1975Zalmen, or The Madness of God as Nina
1971Great Performances (1 Episode) as Elizabeth Gertrude Stern
1953The Oscars (2 Episodes) as Self
1951Hallmark Hall of Fame (1 Episode) as Lily