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

• 2026Closing Night — Diane
• 2026Practical Magic 2 — Aunt Jet
• 2024Apartment 7A — Minnie Castevet
• Elsbeth — Reverend Mother Constance Mary Cabot
• 2023Scene Partners — Meryl Kowalski
• 2022My Father's Dragon — Iris the Rhinoceros (voice)
• 2021I Care a Lot — Jennifer Peterson
• Mayor of Kingstown — Miriam McLusky
• Only Murders in the Building — Lorraine
• 2020Let Them All Talk — Susan
• 2018The Mule — Mary
• 2016Five Nights in Maine — Lucinda
• Life in Pieces — Joan Short
• 2015Rasheeda Speaking — Ileen
• 2015Sisters — Deana Ellis
• 2014The Humbling — Carol
• The Blacklist — Ruth Kipling
• 2012Darling Companion — Penny
• 2012The Odd Life of Timothy Green — Ms. Bernice Crudstaff
• 2011The Big Year — Brenda Harris
• 2010Rabbit Hole — Nat
• 2009Rage — Miss Roth
• In Treatment — Dr. Gina Toll
• 2008Passengers — Toni
• 2008Synecdoche, New York — Ellen Bascomb / Millicent Weems
• The Return of Jezebel James
• 2007Dan in Real Life — Nana
• 2007Dedication — Carol
• 2006A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints — Dito's Mother
• 2005Robots — Mrs. Copperbottom (voice)
• 2004Category 6: Day of Destruction — Shirley Abbott
• Category 6: Day of Destruction — Shirley Abbott, Secretary of Energy
• 2004The Blackwater Lightship — Lily
• 2003Thank You, Doctor Rey — Elisabeth Beaumont
• 2001I Am Sam — Annie Cassell
• Law & Order: Criminal Intent — Nora Lewin
• 2001Not Afraid, Not Afraid — Paula
• The 10th Kingdom — Evil Queen
• Law & Order: Special Victims Unit — Interim D.A. Nora Lewin
• 1999The Simple Life of Noah Dearborn — Sarah McClellan
• 1998Practical Magic — Aunt Jet
• 1998The Horse Whisperer — Diane Booker
• 1997Drunks — Rachel
• 1996The Associate — Sally Dugan
• 1996The Birdcage — Louise Keeley
• 1994Bullets Over Broadway — Helen Sinclair
• 1994Cops & Robbersons — Helen Robberson
• 1994The Scout — Doctor H. Aaron
• 1991Little Man Tate — Jane Grierson
• 1990Edward Scissorhands — Peg
• Law & Order — Nora Lewin
• 1989Cookie — Lenore
• 1989Parenthood — Helen Buckman Lampkin Bowman
• 1988Bright Lights, Big City — Mother
• 1987Radio Days — Aunt Bea
• 1987September — Stephanie
• 1987The Lost Boys — Lucy
• 1986Hannah and Her Sisters — Holly
• 1985The Purple Rose of Cairo — Emma
• 1984Falling in Love — Isabelle
• 1984Footloose — Vi Moore
• 1983Independence Day — Nancy Morgan
• 1983The Face of Rage — Rebecca Hammil
• 1982I'm Dancing as Fast as I Can — Julie Addison
• 1980It's My Turn — Gail
• 1978Out of Our Fathers' House — Elizabeth Gertrude Stern
• 1975Zalmen, or The Madness of God — Nina
• Great Performances — Elizabeth Gertrude Stern
• Hallmark Hall of Fame — Lily
• Non Compos Mentis
• This Old Love of Mine — Margo Bannon

Appearances as themselves (5)

• 2018Always at The Carlyle — Self
• 2011Woody Allen: A Documentary — Self
• Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen — Self - Guest
• 1990The Making of Edward Scissorhands — Self
• The Oscars — Self