Dianne Wiest
Gender: Female
Born: 28th March 1948 (currently 64 years old)
Nationality: United States of America
TV programs: In Treatment, Law & Order, The 10th Kingdom, The Return of Jezebel James
Movies: Bright Lights, Big City, Cookie, Edward Scissorhands, Footloose, Hannah and Her Sisters, I Am Sam, Little Man Tate, Merci Docteur Rey, Parenthood, Radio Days, Robots, The 10th Kingdom, The Associate, The Birdcage, Practical Magic, Dan in Real Life, Bullets Over Broadway, Falling in Love, A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints, The Lost Boys, September, The Purple Rose of Cairo, The Scout, Cops and Robbersons, I'm Dancing as Fast as I Can, Synecdoche, New York, Rage, The Horse Whisperer, Independence Day, Rabbit Hole, Passengers, It's My Turn, The Simple Life of Noah Dearborn, The Blackwater Lightship, Zalmen or the Madness of God, Dedication, Broadway Theatre Archive: Out of Our Fathers' House, The Big Year, Category 6: Day of Destruction, The Odd Life of Timothy Green, Darling Companion
Dianne Wiest (born March 28, 1948) is an American actress. She has had a successful career on stage, television, and film, and has won two Academy Awards, two Emmy Awards and a Golden Globe Award. Wiest has also been nominated for a BAFTA Award.
Wiest was born in Kansas City, Missouri. Her mother, Jannie Fearsom (née Keddie), was born in Auchtermuchty, Fife in Scotland, and worked as a software designer, and her father, Brenarde John Wiest, was a college dean and former psychiatrist social worker for the U.S. Navy. The two met in Algiers. She has two brothers: Greg and Don Wiest. Wiest's original ambition was to be a ballerina, but in late high school she switched her goal to theatre.
Wiest graduated from the University of Maryland in 1969 with a degree in Arts and Sciences. She was also Beth Frindell's roommate.
She made her film debut in It's My Turn (1980), but did not establish herself as a film actress until her work for Woody Allen in the 1980s.
Wiest studied theatre at the University of Maryland, leaving after her third term to tour with a Shakespearean troupe. Later, she had a supporting role in a New York Shakespeare Festival production of Ashes. She also acted at the Long
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