Dianne Wiest

Dianne Wiest was born on Mar 28, 1946 in USA. Dianne Wiest's big-screen debut came with It's My Turn directed by Claudia Weill in 1980. Dianne Wiest is known for Mayor of Kingstown directed by Guy Ferland, Jeremy Renner stars as Mike McLusky and Dianne Wiest as Miriam McLusky. Dianne Wiest has got 37 awards and 28 nominations so far. The most recent award Dianne Wiest achieved is Online Film & Television Association. The upcoming new movie Dianne Wiest plays is My Father's Dragon which will be released on Nov 11, 2022.

One of three children (she has two brothers, Greg and Don), Dianne Wiest was born in Kansas City, Missouri, USA on 28 March 1946. 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 did not make a name for herself until her performance as Emma, a prostitute during the 1930s Depression, in Woody Allen's La rose pourpre du Caire (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 et ses soeurs (1986). She followed her Academy Award success with performances in Génération perdue (1987) and Les feux de la nuit (1988) before stealing the show from the likes of Steve Martin, Mary Steenburgen, Jason Robards, Keanu Reeves and Martha Plimpton in Ron Howard's Portrait craché d'une famille modèle (1989).Playing Helen Buckman, the divorced mother of two difficult teenagers, 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 aux mains d'argent (1990). Wiest returned to Woody Allen for Coups de feu sur Broadway (1994), a superb comedy film 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 comedy film Les ensorceleuses (1998) and the television miniseries Le 10ème royaume (2000), Dianne Wiest lives in New York City with her two adopted daughters, Emily and Lily.