Dianne Evelyn Wiest is an American actress. She has twice won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, for the Woody Allen films Hannah and Her Sisters and Bullets over Broadway. Wiest’s other film appearances include Footloose, The Lost Boys, Bright Lights, Big City, Edward Scissorhands, Little Man Tate, Practical Magic, Dan in Real Life, Synecdoche, New York, Rabbit Hole, and Sisters.
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Dianne Evelyn Wiest (born March 28, 1946) is an American actress. She has twice won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, for the Woody Allen films Hannah and Her Sisters and Bullets over Broadway. Wiest’s other film appearances include Footloose, The Lost Boys, Bright Lights, Big City, Edward Scissorhands, Little Man Tate, Practical Magic, Dan in Real Life, Synecdoche, New York, Rabbit Hole, and Sisters. She won the 1997 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series for Road to Avonlea, and the 2008 Primetime Emmys for In Treatment. Her other television credits include Law & Order, and the CBS comedy series Life in Pieces. Wiest was born in Kansas City, Missouri. Her mother, Anne Stewart, was a nurse.
Her father, Bernard John Wiest, was a college dean and former psychiatric social worker for the U.S. Army. She is of Scottish, Croatian and German descent. She also has two brothers, Greg and Don. She was an understudy both off-Broadway and on Broadway, in Kurt Vonnegut’s Happy Birthday, Wanda June in 1970. She made her Broadway debut in Robert Anderson’s SolitaireDouble Solitaire, taking over in the role of the daughter in 1971. She landed a four-year job as a member of the Arena Stage in Washington, D. C., in such roles as Emily in Our Town, Honey in Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, and leading roles in S. Ansky’s The Dybbuk, Maxim Gorky’s The Lower Depths.
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