Dianne Wiest

Dianne Wiest

Birthday: 1948-03-28

Place of Birth: Kansas City, Missouri, USA

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.

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Edward Scissorhands
Edward Scissorhands

A small suburban town receives a visit from a castaway unfinished science experiment named Edward....

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The Horse Whisperer
The Horse Whisperer

The mother of a severely traumatized daughter enlists the aid of a unique horse trainer to help the ...

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Parenthood
Parenthood

The story of the Buckman family and friends, attempting to bring up their children. They suffer/enjo...

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The Lost Boys
The Lost Boys

When an unsuspecting town newcomer is drawn to local blood fiends, the Frog brothers and other unlik...

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Footloose
Footloose

When teenager Ren and his family move from big-city Chicago to a small town in the West, he's in for...

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I Am Sam
I Am Sam

Sam, a neurodivergent man, has a daughter with a homeless woman who abandons them when they leave th...

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The Birdcage
The Birdcage

A gay cabaret owner and his drag queen partner agree to put up a false heterosexual front so that th...

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Synecdoche, New York
Synecdoche, New York

A theater director struggles with his work, and the women in his life, as he attempts to create a li...

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Hannah and Her Sisters
Hannah and Her Sisters

Between two Thanksgivings, Hannah's husband falls in love with her sister Lee, while her hypochondri...

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The Associate
The Associate

Laurel Ayres is a businesswoman trying to make it but unfortunately she works at a investment firm w...

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Little Man Tate
Little Man Tate

Dede is a sole parent trying to bring up her son Fred. When it is discovered that Fred is a genius, ...

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Practical Magic
Practical Magic

Sally and Gillian Owens, born into a magical family, have mostly avoided witchcraft themselves. But ...

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Bullets Over Broadway
Bullets Over Broadway

After young playwright, David Shayne obtains funding for his play from gangster Nick Valenti, Nick's...

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September
September

After a suicide attempt, Lane has moved into her country house to recuperate. Her best friend, Steph...

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Radio Days
Radio Days

The Narrator tells us how the radio influenced his childhood in the days before TV. In the New York ...

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Dan in Real Life
Dan in Real Life

Advice columnist Dan Burns is an expert on relationships, but somehow struggles to succeed as a brot...

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A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints
A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints

Dito Montiel, a successful author, receives a call from his long-suffering mother, asking him to ret...

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Category 6: Day of Destruction
Category 6: Day of Destruction

Three tornadoes converge to wreak havoc on Chicago, disrupting the power grid and creating the worst...

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Cops & Robbersons
Cops & Robbersons

When the police discover that a mob hitman has moved in next door to the Robbersons, they set up a s...

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Rabbit Hole
Rabbit Hole

Life for a happy couple is turned upside down after their young son dies in an accident....

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Rage
Rage

A schoolboy uses his cellphone camera to shoot intimate interviews with people working at a New York...

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The Scout
The Scout

When his star recruit botches a Major League Baseball debut, humiliated talent scout Al Percolo gets...

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Passengers
Passengers

After a plane crash, a young therapist, Claire, is assigned by her mentor to counsel the flight's fi...

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Thank You, Doctor Rey
Thank You, Doctor Rey

A gay young man is recruited into an illicit love triangle to watch a much older man’s sexual liaiso...

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The Face of Rage
The Face of Rage

Filmed in quasi-documentary fashion, the made-for-TV The Face of Rage is set in a rehabilitation fac...

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Bright Lights, Big City
Bright Lights, Big City

A disillusioned young writer living in New York City turns to drugs and drinking to block out the me...

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Woody Allen: A Documentary
Woody Allen: A Documentary

An intense portrait of the iconic filmmaker, writer, actor, comedian and musician Woody Allen: his l...

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Falling in Love
Falling in Love

During shopping for Christmas, Frank and Molly run into each other. This fleeting short moment will ...

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The Odd Life of Timothy Green
The Odd Life of Timothy Green

A childless couple bury a box in their backyard, containing all of their wishes for an infant. Soon,...

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The Blackwater Lightship
The Blackwater Lightship

A man in the final stages of AIDS is cared for by his sister and mother and grandmother....

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The Big Year
The Big Year

Three fanatical bird-watchers spend an entire year competing to spot the highest number of species a...

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The Simple Life of Noah Dearborn
The Simple Life of Noah Dearborn

In the small Southern community of Twin Pines, GA, lives Noah Dearborn, a master craftsman and farme...

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Cookie
Cookie

Cookie Voltecki is the illegitimate daughter of mobster Dino Capisco, who has just finished thirteen...

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Darling Companion
Darling Companion

The story of a woman who loves her dog more than her husband. And then her husband loses the dog....

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I'm Dancing as Fast as I Can
I'm Dancing as Fast as I Can

An adaptation of Barbara Gordon's nonfiction account of her addiction to Valium....

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Drunks
Drunks

At the beginning of a nightly Alcoholics Anonymous meeting, Jim seems particularly troubled. His spo...

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My Father's Dragon
My Father's Dragon

Struggling to cope after a move to the city with his mother, Elmer runs away in search of Wild Islan...

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Independence Day
Independence Day

Mary Ann Taylor loves the comforts of her hometown in Mercury, Texas. She has a steady job as a wait...

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It's My Turn
It's My Turn

A successful but stressed mathematics professor goes to her father's wedding and falls in love with ...

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Apartment 7A
Apartment 7A

A struggling young dancer finds herself drawn in by dark forces when a peculiar, well-connected olde...

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Scene Partners
Scene Partners

Winter, 1985. 75-year-old Meryl ditches ice-cold Milwaukee for sunny Los Angeles, hell-bent on becom...

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The Purple Rose of Cairo
The Purple Rose of Cairo

Cecilia is a waitress in New Jersey, living a dreary life during the Great Depression. Her only esca...

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The Humbling
The Humbling

Following a breakdown and suicide attempt, an aging actor becomes involved with a much younger woman...

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Always at The Carlyle
Always at The Carlyle

The iconic Carlyle hotel has been an international destination for a particular jet set as well as a...

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Five Nights in Maine
Five Nights in Maine

A young African American man, reeling from the tragic loss of his wife, travels to rural Maine to se...

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Sisters
Sisters

Two disconnected sisters are summoned to clean out their childhood bedrooms before their parents sel...

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Robots
Robots

Rodney Copperbottom is a young robot inventor who dreams of making the world a better place, until t...

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Dedication
Dedication

A modern love story in which a misanthropic, emotionally complex author of a hit children's book is ...

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The Mule
The Mule

Earl Stone, a man in his eighties, is broke, alone, and facing foreclosure of his business when he i...

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I Care a Lot
I Care a Lot

A court-appointed legal guardian defrauds her older clients and traps them under her care. But her l...

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Out of Our Fathers' House
Out of Our Fathers' House

Drawn from the diaries and letters of noted feminists, such as women's suffrage founder Elizabeth Ca...

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Let Them All Talk
Let Them All Talk

A celebrated author takes a journey with some old friends to have some fun and heal old wounds. Her ...

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Zalmen, or The Madness of God
Zalmen, or The Madness of God

This play takes place during Yom Kippur in a post-Stalinist Russian synagogue, where a Rabbi waits f...

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The Making of Edward Scissorhands
The Making of Edward Scissorhands

Behind the scenes of Edward Scissorhands...

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Rasheeda Speaking
Rasheeda Speaking

This tense workplace thriller examines the realities of so-called “post-racial” America. Co-workers ...

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Not Afraid, Not Afraid
Not Afraid, Not Afraid

After being abandoned by her husband after 28 years, an overbearing, self-centered psychologist emba...

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Mother Courage
Mother Courage

Estranged sisters whose reunion sets off an emotionally volatile chain of events...

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Practical Magic 2
Practical Magic 2

A multi generational family of witches, cursed to be loveless for centuries, attempts to break the s...

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Law and Order: Justice
Law and Order: Justice

This special explores the duality of justice in New York City, dividing its focus between police inv...

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