Dianne Wiest
Dianne Wiest was born in Kansas City, Missouri, United States on March 28th, 1948 and is the Movie Actress. At the age of 76, Dianne Wiest biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, movies, TV shows, and networth are available.
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Dianne Evelyn Wiest (born March 28, 1946) is an American actress.
She has twice been nominated for best Supporting Actress for the Woody Allen films Hannah and Her Sisters (1986) and Bullets over Broadway (1994), as well as The Purple Rose of Cairo (1985), Radio Days (1987), and September (1987).
She received an Academy Award for Parenthood (1989) and was also recognized for her Golden Globe Award for Bullets over Broadway. Footloose (1984), The Lost Boys (1987), Bright Lights, Big City (1990), Edward Scissorhands (1990), Dan in Real Life (2005), Rabbit Hole (2010), and Sisters (2015).
In a Drama Series for In Treatment, she received the 1997 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series for Road to Avondale, as well as the 2008 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series for In Treatment (2008–2009).
Law & Order (2000-02), as well as the CBS comedy series Life in Pieces (2015–2019).
Early life
Wiest was born in Kansas City, Missouri. Anne Stewart (née Keddie) was a nurse. Bernard John Wiest, her father, was a college dean and former military psychotherapist. Her mother was Scottish and German descent, while her father was a Croatian and German descendant. They met in Algiers. Greg and Don, the two brothers, are the most popular. She had aspired to be a ballet dancer but in her senior year at Nurnberg American High School, she switched to theater. Wiest graduated from the University of Maryland in 1969 with a degree in Arts and Sciences.
Personal life
In the mid-1980s, Wiest was involved with her talent agent Sam Cohn for three years. Emily and Lily were adopted by her mother.
Career
Wiest studied theater at the University of Maryland, but she's left after her third term to tour with a Shakespearean troupe. Later, she appeared in Ashes, a New York Shakespeare Festival performance. She appeared in Henrik Ibsen's Hedda Gabler's title role at the Yale Repertory Theatre in New Haven, Connecticut. In Kurt Vonnegut's Happy Birthday, Wanda June 1970, she was both off-Broadway and on Broadway.
In Robert Anderson's Solitaire/Double Solitaire, she made her Broadway debut in this production, playing the daughter in 1971. Emily in Our Town, Honey in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf, and starring roles in S. Ansky's The Lower Depths and George Bernard Shaw's Heartbreak House were all part of her four-year career as a member of the Arena Stage in Washington, D.C.'s The Dybbuk. With the Arena Stage, she toured the United StatesSR. Wiest appeared in leading roles in Amlin Gray's Pirates and Christopher Durang's A History of the American Film in 1976. She took over Ashes' Public Theater and played Cassandra in Agamemnon, directed by Andrei erban, and played Cassandra in Ashes. She appeared in Agnes of God's first film in Waterford, Connecticut, in 1979.
Tina Howe's Museum and The Art of Dining produced two plays. Elizabeth Barrow Colt, the shy and awkward writer, received three off-Broadway theater awards (1980–1980), as well as the Clarence Derwent Award (1980) yearly for the most promising performance in New York theatre.
She appeared in Frankenstein (1981), directed by Tom Moore, portrayed Desdemona in Othello (1982), opposite James Earl Jones and Christopher Plummer, and co-starred John Lithgow in Christopher Durang's romantic screwball comedy Beyond Therapy (1982), directed by John Madden. (She appeared in the Herbert Ross film Footloose again). She appeared in Hedda Gabler, directed by Lloyd Richards at Yale Repertory Theatre, and in Harold Pinter's A Kind of Alaska (1984, Manhattan Theatre Club), Lanford Wilson's Serenading Louie (1984), and Janusz Glowacki's Hunting Cockroaches (1987, Manhattan Theatre Club). She was less often available for stage roles as Wiest became well-known as a film actress through her involvement in Woody Allen's films. However, she did appear onstage in The Summer House, Cynthia Ozick's The Shawl, and Naomi Wallace's One Flea Spare. In Oscar Wilde's Salome, she appeared with Al Pacino and Marisa Tomei in 2003. She appeared in Kathleen Tolan's Memory House in 2005. She appeared in a revival of Wendy Wasserstein's last play Third (directed by Daniel Sullivan) at Lincoln Center.
In a Broadway revival of Arthur Miller's All My Sons opposite John Lithgow, Patrick Wilson, and Katie Holmes, a later New York theatre appearance includes appearances as Arkadina in an off-Broadway revival of The Seagull (opposite Alan Cumming's Trigorin) and Kate Keller in a New York revival of Arthur Miller's All My Sons. In 2009, Wiest performed in the National Memorial Day Concert in Washington, D.C., with Katie Holmes, honoring the life of an American soldier critically wounded in Iraq, José Pequeo. Wiest spent September 2010 as a visiting instructor at Columbia University's Graduate Acting Program, teaching a class of 18 first-year MFA Acting students on selected works by Anton Chekhov and Arthur Miller.
In 2016, she appeared in Samuel Beckett's production of "Winnie" in The Yale Repertory Theatre's production of "Happy Days." In the spring of 2017 and the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles in 2019, she reprised her role for Theatre for a New Audience in downtown Brooklyn, New York.
Small roles in It's My Turn (credited onscreen as Diane Wiest) and I'm Dancing as Quick as I Can are among Jill Clayburgh's early film appearances, including small roles in It's My Turn (credited onscreen as Diane Wiest) and I'm Dancing as Fast as I Can, as well as supporting Jill Clayburgh in the lead roles. In 1984, she appeared in Footloose as the reverend's wife and Ariel's mother.
Wiest received an Academy Award for Hannah and Her Sisters in 1987 and 1995, as a result of Woody Allen's direction. She appeared in three other Woody Allen films: The Purple Rose of Cairo (1985), Radio Days (1987), and September (1987).
She continued her acting debuts in The Lost Boys (1987), and Bright Lights, Big City (1988). In Ron Howard's Parenthood, she received her second Oscar nomination after appearing with Steve Martin, Mary Steenburgen, Jason Robards, Keanu Reeves, and Martha Plimpton. Tim Burton's Edward Scissorhands (1990), Jodie Foster's Little Man Tate (1991) and The Birdcage (1996), Mike Nichols' adaptation of La Cage aux Folles.
On television, her appearance on the program Road to Avonlea in 1989 earned her her first Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Dramatic Series. She received another award for her role in the 1999 film The Simple Life of Noah Dearborn, co-starring Sidney Poitier. In 2000, she appeared in the television mini-series The 10th Kingdom. In the long-running NBC crime drama Law & Order, Wiest portrayed interim District Attorney Nora Lewin from 2000 to 2002. She appeared in two episodes of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit and the pilot episode of Law & Order: Criminal Intent.
In Dan in Real Life (2004), Wiest appeared alongside Steve Carell and Juliette Binoche, and she was a key supporting actor in Charlie Kaufman's 2008 film Synecdoche, New York.
Gina Toll, Gabriel Byrne's therapist, appeared on HBO's In Treatment for her second Emmy Award for Outstanding Support Actress in a Drama Series in 2008. In 2009, she received another nomination (in the same class) for the second season, but she did not win.
Rabbit Hole (2010), which premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival, was starring Nicole Kidman. Wiest also appeared in Lawrence Kasdan's 2012 comedy Darling Companion, alongside Kevin Kline and Diane Keaton. Wiest appeared in Steven Soderbergh's Let Them All Talk with Meryl Steed and Candice Bergen in 2020. In the action thriller I Care a Lot earlier this year, she appeared alongside Rosamund Pike.