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Dianne Wiest

Acting Born Mar 28, 1948 Kansas City, Missouri, USA 24 credits

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).

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Known for

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

as Interim D.A. Nora Lewin

Law & Order

as Nora Lewin

The Blacklist

as Ruth Kipling

Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen

as Self - Guest

Mayor of Kingstown

as Miriam McLusky
Film

The Girl Who Leapt Through Time

as Dr. Gina Toll

Elsbeth

as Reverend Mother Constance Mary Cabot

Only Murders in the Building

as Lorraine

Life in Pieces

as Joan Short
Film

The Mule

as Mary
Film

I Care a Lot

as Jennifer Peterson

Full filmography

  • Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (1999) as Interim D.A. Nora Lewin
  • Law & Order (1990) as Nora Lewin
  • The Blacklist (2013) as Ruth Kipling
  • Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen (2009) as Self - Guest
  • Law & Order: Criminal Intent (2001) as Nora Lewin
  • Mayor of Kingstown (2021) as Miriam McLusky
  • In Treatment (2008) as Dr. Gina Toll
  • Great Performances (1971) as Elizabeth Gertrude Stern
  • Elsbeth (2024) as Reverend Mother Constance Mary Cabot
  • Only Murders in the Building (2021) as Lorraine
  • Life in Pieces (2015) as Joan Short
  • The Oscars (1953) as Self
  • Edward Scissorhands (1990) as Peg
  • Robots (2005) as Mrs. Copperbottom (voice)
  • The Mule (2018) as Mary
  • Practical Magic (1998) as Aunt Jet
  • The Lost Boys (1987) as Lucy Emerson
  • I Am Sam (2001) as Annie Cassell
  • The 10th Kingdom (2000) as Evil Queen
  • The Birdcage (1996) as Louise Keeley
  • I Care a Lot (2021) as Jennifer Peterson
  • Footloose (1984) as Vi Moore
  • Synecdoche, New York (2008) as Ellen Bascomb / Millicent Weems
  • Sisters (2015) as Deana Ellis