Dianne Wiest facts for kids
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Dianne Wiest
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Dianne Evelyn Wiest
March 28, 1948 Kansas City, Missouri, U.S.
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| Alma mater | University of Maryland |
| Occupation | Actress |
| Years active | 1970–present |
| Children | 2 |
| Awards | Full list |
Dianne Evelyn Wiest (born March 28, 1948) is a talented American actress. She is famous for winning two Academy Awards for her roles. These were for the movies Hannah and Her Sisters (1986) and Bullets Over Broadway (1994). Both films were directed by Woody Allen.
Dianne Wiest also won a Golden Globe Award for Bullets Over Broadway. She has earned two Primetime Emmy Awards for her work on TV. One was for Road to Avonlea in 1997, and the other for In Treatment in 2008. She was also nominated for an Academy Award for the movie Parenthood in 1989.
She has appeared in many other popular films. These include Footloose (1984), Edward Scissorhands (1990), and The Birdcage (1996). On television, she was in Law & Order (2000–2002) and Life in Pieces (2015–2019).
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Dianne Wiest's Early Life
Dianne Wiest was born in Kansas City, Missouri. Her mother, Anne Stewart, was a nurse. Her father, Bernard John Wiest, was a college dean. He also worked as a social worker for the U.S. Army. Her parents met in Algiers.
Dianne has two brothers, Greg and Don. She went to high school in Germany at Nurnberg American High School. When she was younger, she dreamed of becoming a ballet dancer. However, in her last year of high school, she decided to focus on acting. She later graduated from the University of Maryland in 1969. She earned a degree in Arts and Sciences.
Dianne Wiest's Acting Career
Starting Out on Stage
Dianne Wiest left her theater studies early to join a Shakespearean acting group. She performed in many plays in New York. She also acted at the Yale Repertory Theatre in Connecticut. One of her big roles there was playing Hedda Gabler.
She made her first appearance on Broadway in 1971. She then worked for four years at the Arena Stage in Washington, D.C.. She played many different characters there. She even toured the USSR with the Arena Stage group.
In 1979, she played Agnes in the first production of Agnes of God. She also won several awards for her role in the play The Art of Dining. These awards included an Obie Award and a Theatre World Award. These awards recognized her as a promising new talent in New York theater.
Later, she played Desdemona in Othello on Broadway in 1982. She also acted in plays by famous writers like Harold Pinter and Wendy Wasserstein. In 2003, she performed with Al Pacino and Marisa Tomei in Salome. In recent years, she has played Winnie in the play Happy Days.
Success in Film and Television
Dianne Wiest's first movie roles were small parts. In 1984, she starred in Footloose. She played the reverend's wife and Ariel's mother.
Her career really took off when she started working with director Woody Allen. She won her first Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for Hannah and Her Sisters in 1987. She won her second Oscar for Bullets Over Broadway in 1995. She also appeared in other Woody Allen films like The Purple Rose of Cairo (1985) and Radio Days (1987).
After her first Oscar, she starred in The Lost Boys (1987) and Bright Lights, Big City (1988). She also received another Oscar nomination for her role in Parenthood. Other major film roles include Edward Scissorhands (1990) with Tim Burton. She was also in Little Man Tate (1991) and The Birdcage (1996).
On television, she won an Emmy Award in 1997 for her role in Road to Avonlea. From 2000 to 2002, she played District Attorney Nora Lewin in the TV show Law & Order. She also appeared as this character in other Law & Order shows.
In 2008, she won her second Emmy Award for her role in the HBO series In Treatment. She played a therapist named Gina Toll. She was nominated again for the same role in 2009. More recently, she starred with Meryl Streep in Let Them All Talk (2020). She also appeared in I Care a Lot (2020). Since 2021, she has been in the series Mayor of Kingstown.
Dianne Wiest's Personal Life
Dianne Wiest adopted two daughters, Emily and Lily. She has kept her personal life private.
Awards and Honors
Dianne Wiest has received many awards for her acting. She has been nominated for three Academy Awards for Best Supporting Actress. She won two of these for her roles in Hannah and Her Sisters (1986) and Bullets Over Broadway (1994).
She has also been nominated for four Primetime Emmy Awards for her TV work. She won two Emmys for Road to Avonlea (1996) and In Treatment (2008). She has also received nominations for the Golden Globe Award and the Screen Actors Guild Award.
See also
In Spanish: Dianne Wiest para niños
