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Dianne Wiest

Dianne Wiest

Actor·b. 1948·Kansas City, Missouri, USA

6 horror credits

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).

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Actor6 films

Apartment 7A

Apartment 7A

Minnie Castevet

2024 3.0
Synecdoche, New York

Synecdoche, New York

Ellen Bascomb / Millicent Weems

2008 3.7
Passengers

Passengers

Toni

2008
Practical Magic

Practical Magic

Aunt Jet

1998 3.5
Edward Scissorhands

Edward Scissorhands

Peg

1990 4.1
The Lost Boys

The Lost Boys

Lucy Emerson

1987 4.1