Actor
Dianne Wiest
Biography

Dianne Evelyn Wiest (born March 28, 1946) is an American actress. She has won two Academy Awards, two Emmy Awards and a Golden Globe Award, and has also been nominated for a BAFTA Award. ...

Known For
Acting
2024 -- Apartment 7A | Minnie Castevet
2023 -- Scene Partners | Meryl Kowalski
2022 -- My Father's Dragon | Iris the Rhinoceros (voice)
2021 -- I Care a Lot | Jennifer Peterson
2020 -- Let Them All Talk | Susan
2018 -- The Mule | Mary
2018 -- Always at The Carlyle | Self
2016 -- Five Nights in Maine | Lucinda
2015 -- Sisters | Deana Ellis
2015 -- Rasheeda Speaking | Ileen
2014 -- The Humbling | Carol
2012 -- The Odd Life of Timothy Green | Ms. Bernice Crudstaff
2012 -- Darling Companion | Penny
2011 -- Woody Allen: A Documentary | Self
2011 -- The Big Year | Brenda Harris
2010 -- Rabbit Hole | Nat
2009 -- Rage | Miss Roth
2008 -- Synecdoche, New York | Ellen Bascomb / Millicent Weems
2008 -- Passengers | Toni
2007 -- Dan in Real Life | Nana
2007 -- Dedication | Carol
2006 -- A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints | Dito's Mother
2005 -- Robots | Mrs. Copperbottom (voice)
2004 -- Category 6: Day of Destruction | Shirley Abbott
2004 -- Thank You, Doctor Rey | Elisabeth Beaumont
2004 -- The Blackwater Lightship | Lily
2001 -- I Am Sam | Annie Cassell
2001 -- Not Afraid, Not Afraid | Paula
1999 -- The Simple Life of Noah Dearborn | Sarah McClellan
1998 -- Practical Magic | Aunt Jet
1998 -- The Horse Whisperer | Diane Booker
1997 -- Drunks | Rachel
1996 -- The Associate | Sally Dugan
1996 -- The Birdcage | Louise Keeley
1994 -- Bullets Over Broadway | Helen Sinclair
1994 -- The Scout | Doctor H. Aaron
1994 -- Cops & Robbersons | Helen Robberson
1991 -- Little Man Tate | Jane Grierson
1990 -- The Making of Edward Scissorhands | Self
1990 -- Edward Scissorhands | Peg
1989 -- Cookie | Lenore
1989 -- Parenthood | Helen Buckman Lampkin Bowman
1988 -- Bright Lights, Big City | Mother
1987 -- September | Stephanie
1987 -- The Lost Boys | Lucy Emerson
1987 -- Radio Days | Aunt Bea
1986 -- Hannah and Her Sisters | Holly
1985 -- The Purple Rose of Cairo | Emma
1984 -- Falling in Love | Isabelle
1984 -- Footloose | Vi Moore
1983 -- The Face of Rage | Rebecca Hammil
1983 -- Independence Day | Nancy Morgan
1982 -- I'm Dancing as Fast as I Can | Julie Addison
1980 -- It's My Turn | Gail
1978 -- Out of Our Fathers' House | Elizabeth Gertrude Stern
1975 -- Zalmen, or The Madness of God | Nina
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