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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Dianne Wiest Movies

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Practical Magic 2 (2026)

Comedy Drama Fantasy

Sally and Gillian Owens have spent years making an uneasy peace with their family's complicated legacy, but that fragile calm is about to shatter. A darkness older than either of...

Score -.-

Apartment 7A (2024)

Horror Thriller

When an ambitious dancer receives an unexpected invitation from a wealthy couple living in a legendary Manhattan building, she believes her big break has finally arrived. But the apartment's history...

Score 6.1

I Care a Lot (2021)

Comedy Crime Drama

Marla Grayson has built a tidy, lucrative racket out of the American legal system, convincing judges to grant her guardianship over elderly people she then locks away and systematically drains...

Score 6.6

The Humbling (2014)

Comedy Drama

After a crisis forces him to confront his mortality, a once-celebrated actor staggers back into the world seeking redemption in unexpected places. When he becomes entangled with a younger woman,...

Score 5.1

Synecdoche, New York (2008)

Drama

Caden Cotard is a theater director slowly losing his grip on everything: his health, his marriages, his sense of time. His response is to build an exact, ever-expanding replica of...

Score 7.5

Passengers (2008)

Drama Mystery Romance

Claire is a therapist handed what seems like routine grief work: a small group of survivors from a commercial plane crash, each processing trauma in their own fractured way. But...

Score 6.1

Dan in Real Life (2007)

Comedy Drama Romance

Dan Burns dispenses wisdom about love to thousands of readers each week, yet his own romantic life remains a disaster. A widowed father struggling with three spirited daughters, he arrives...

Score 6.6

A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints (2006)

Crime Drama

A writer's return home forces him to confront the rough streets of his childhood in Queens, where loyalty and violence shaped everything. As his father's health fades, memories of his...

Score 6.5

Practical Magic (1998)

Comedy Fantasy Romance

Sally and Gillian Owens grew up in a household where magic was as ordinary as breakfast, yet both wanted nothing more than a normal life. Then Gillian's genuinely terrible boyfriend...

Score 6.8

Falling in Love (1984)

Drama Romance

A brief collision in a bookshop during Christmas shopping barely registers at the time. But when Frank and Molly find themselves on the same commuter train months later, something shifts....

Score 6.7

Dianne Wiest TV Shows

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Life in Pieces (2015)

Comedy

Three siblings navigate simultaneous life upheavals through the eyes of their extended family. Matt explores new romance while Greg and his wife adjust to parenthood's chaos. Heather grapples with empty...

Score 7.1

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