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Dianne WiestAdd to My CelebsAge 64 Birthday Mar. 28th, 1948 Born in Kansas City, Missouri, USA Height 5' 5" |
Dianne Wiest's Main TV Roles
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Main Movie Roles2008 - Passengers2008 - Synecdoche, New York 2007 - Dedication 2007 - Dan in Real Life 2006 - A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints 2005 - Robots 2001 - I am Sam 1998 - The Horse Whisperer 1998 - Practical Magic 1996 - The Birdcage 1996 - The Associate 1994 - Cops and Robbersons 1994 - The Scout 1994 - Bullets Over Broadway 1991 - Little Man Tate 1990 - Edward Scissorhands 1989 - Parenthood 1988 - Bright Lights, Big City 1987 - The Lost Boys 1987 - Radio Days 1987 - September 1986 - Hannah And Her Sisters 1985 - The Purple Rose of Cairo 1984 - Footloose |
NOTE: Complete List of Works can be found at IMDB
One of three children (she has two brothers, Greg and Don), Dianne Wiest was born in Kansas City, Missouri, USA on 28 March 1948. Her original ambition was to be a ballerina, but she was bitten by acting bug after some stage work, most notably playing Desdemona to James Earl Jones' Othello on Broadway. She made her film debut in 1980, but didn't make a name for herself until her performance as Emma, a prostitute during the 1930s Depression, in Woody Allen's The Purple Rose of Cairo (1985). Allen was so impressed by Wiest's acting ability that he has directed her on four more occasions since. Under Allen's direction, Wiest won a well deserved Oscar for Best Supporting Actress, for her brilliant performance as the neurotic, wannabe actress Holly in Hannah and Her Sisters (1986). She followed her Academy Award success with performances in The Lost Boys (1987) and Bright Lights, Big City (1988) before stealing the show from the likes of Steve Martin (I), Mary Steenburgen, Jason Robards, Keanu Reeves, and Martha Plimpton in Ron Howard (I)'s Parenthood (1989). Playing Helen Buckman, the divorced mother of two difficult teens, Wiest was both touching and hilarious, and received her second Oscar nomination.
Arguably her most beloved role came as Peg Boggs, the kindly Avon Lady who discovers the titular Edward Scissorhands (1990). Wiest returned to Woody Allen in 1994 for Bullets Over Broadway (1994), a superb comedy set in 1920s New York, winning her second Best Supporting Actress Oscar for her magnificent portrayal of Helen Sinclair, a boozy, glamorous and neurotic star of the stage, who could made the words "Don't speak!" the funniest sentence ever captured on film. Recently enjoying great success with witchy roles in the film Practical Magic (1998) and the TV mini-series "The 10th Kingdom" (2000), Dianne Wiest lives in New York City with her two adopted daughters, Emily and Lily.
TRIVIA:
- Graduated from the University of Maryland in 1969 with a degree in Arts and Sciences.
- Listed as one of twelve "Promising New Actors of 1985" in John Willis' Screen World, Vol. 37.
- 2 adopted children: Emily (b. 1987), Lily (b. 1991).
- Last name is pronounced 'Wee-st'.
- She is 'Brad Pitt' (qv)'s favorite actress.
- She received both of her Oscars for performances in a 'Woody Allen' (qv) movie.
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