Dianne Wiest
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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Acting
Movie
Edward Scissorhands
as Peg
1990
Movie
The Mule
as Mary
2018
Movie
Robots
as Mrs. Copperbottom (voice)
2005
TV
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
as Interim D.A. Nora Lewin
1999
TV
The Blacklist
as Ruth Kipling
2013
Movie
I Care a Lot
as Jennifer Peterson
2021
Movie
I Am Sam
as Annie Cassell
2001
Movie
The Lost Boys
as Lucy Emerson
1987
Movie
Footloose
as Vi Moore
1984
TV
Only Murders in the Building
as Lorraine
2021
Movie
Practical Magic
as Aunt Jet
1998
Movie
Synecdoche, New York
as Ellen Bascomb / Millicent Weems
2008
Movie
Sisters
as Deana Ellis
2015
Movie
The Birdcage
as Louise Keeley
1996
Movie
Dan in Real Life
as Nana
2007
Movie
The Odd Life of Timothy Green
as Ms. Bernice Crudstaff
2012
Movie
The Horse Whisperer
as Diane Booker
1998
Movie
Hannah and Her Sisters
as Holly
1986
Movie
The Purple Rose of Cairo
as Emma
1985
Movie
Passengers
as Toni
2008
Movie
The Big Year
as Brenda Harris
2011
Movie
Parenthood
as Helen Buckman Lampkin Bowman
1989
TV
Law & Order
as Nora Lewin
1990
Movie
Bullets Over Broadway
as Helen Sinclair
1994