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Dianne Evelyn Wiest (/wiːst/; born March 28, 1948) is an American actress. She has won two Academy Awards for Best Supporting Actress for 1986's Hannah and Her Sisters and 1994's Bullets Over Broadway (both directed by Woody Allen), one Golden Globe Award for Bullets Over Broadway, the 1997 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series for Road to Avonlea, and the 2008 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series for In Treatment. In addition, she was nominated for an Academy Award for 1989's Parenthood. Other film appearances by Wiest include Footloose (1984), Woody Allen's The Purple Rose of Cairo (1985), Radio Days (1987), and…
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RobotsMrs. Copperbottom (voice)
Law & Order: Special Victims UnitInterim D.A. Nora Lewin
The BlacklistRuth Kipling2024Apartment 7AMinnie CastevetMovie
2023Scene PartnersMeryl KowalskiMovie
2022My Father's DragonIris the Rhinoceros (voice)Movie
2021I Care a LotJennifer PetersonMovie
2020Let Them All TalkSusanMovie
2018The MuleMaryMovie
2016Five Nights in MaineLucindaMovie
2015SistersDeana EllisMovie
2015Rasheeda SpeakingIleenMovie
2014The HumblingCarolMovie
2012The Odd Life of Timothy GreenMs. Bernice CrudstaffMovie
2012Darling CompanionPennyMovie
2011The Big YearBrenda HarrisMovie
2010Rabbit HoleNatMovie
2009RageMiss RothMovie
2008Synecdoche, New YorkEllen Bascomb / Millicent WeemsMovie
2008PassengersToniMovie
2007Dan in Real LifeNanaMovie
2007DedicationCarolMovie
2006A Guide to Recognizing Your SaintsDito's MotherMovie
2005RobotsMrs. Copperbottom (voice)Movie
2004Category 6: Day of DestructionShirley AbbottMovie
2004The Blackwater LightshipLilyMovie
2003Thank You, Doctor ReyElisabeth BeaumontMovie
2001I Am SamAnnie CassellMovie
2001Not Afraid, Not AfraidPaulaMovie
1999The Simple Life of Noah DearbornSarah McClellanMovie
1998The Horse WhispererDiane BookerMovie
1997DrunksRachelMovie
1996The AssociateSally DuganMovie
1996The BirdcageLouise KeeleyMovie
1994Bullets Over BroadwayHelen SinclairMovie
1994The ScoutDoctor H. AaronMovie
1994Cops & RobbersonsHelen RobbersonMovie
1991Little Man TateJane GriersonMovie
1990Edward ScissorhandsPegMovie
1989CookieLenoreMovie
1989ParenthoodHelen Buckman Lampkin BowmanMovie
1988Bright Lights, Big CityMotherMovie
1987SeptemberStephanieMovie
1987The Lost BoysLucyMovie
1987Radio DaysAunt BeaMovie
1986Hannah and Her SistersHollyMovie
1985The Purple Rose of CairoEmmaMovie
1984Falling in LoveIsabelleMovie
1984FootlooseVi MooreMovie
1983The Face of RageRebecca HammilMovie
1983Independence DayNancy MorganMovie
1982I'm Dancing as Fast as I CanJulie AddisonMovie
1980It's My TurnGailMovie
1978Out of Our Fathers' HouseElizabeth Gertrude SternMovie
1975Zalmen, or The Madness of GodNinaMovie
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