Dianne Wiest

  • Name: Dianne Wiest
  • Date of Birth: March 28, 1948
  • Place of Birth: Kansas City, Missouri, USA
Mini-bio: Wiest's original ambition was to be a ballerina, but in late high school she switched her sights to acting in theatre. She made her film debut in 1980, but didn't make a name for herself until her per...( read more)formance as Emma, a prostitute during the Great Depression, in Woody Allen's The Purple Rose of Cairo (1985). Under Allen's direction, Wiest won an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress, 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 starring with Steve Martin, Mary Steenburgen, Jason Robards, Keanu Reeves and Martha Plimpton in Ron Howard's Parenthood, for which she received her second Oscar nomination.

In 1990, Wiest starred in Edward Scissorhands. She returned to Woody Allen in 1994 for Bullets Over Broadway, a comedy set in 1920s New York City, winning her second Best Supporting Actress Oscar for her portrayal of Helen Sinclair, a boozy, glamorous, and neurotic star of the stage. She has recently appeared in the film Practical Magic (1998) and the television mini-series The 10th Kingdom (2000). From 2000 to 2002, Wiest portrayed District Attorney Nora Lewin in the long-running NBC crime drama Law & Order.
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  • XxxSouljaGrlxxX
    XxxSouljaGrlxxX
    I <3 YOU IN EDWARD SCISSORHANDS!!
    posted 290 days ago
  • zappasgal1961
    zappasgal1961
    Everything is up to date in Kansas City!!! My home town and where this great actress is from. Damn proud too!!!
    posted 522 days ago
  • chubbyteddybear1892
    chubbyteddybear1892
    you are so cool
    posted 581 days ago
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