Dianne Wiest Highlights

  • 2009: Nominated for the 2009 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress In A Drama Series
  • 2008: Cast as Paul's (Gabriel Byrne) own therapist and mentor in the HBO series, "In Treatment"; earned Golden Globe and Emmy nominatios in 2009 for Supporting Actress in a Drama Series
  • 2007: Played the mother of Dane Cook and Steve Carell in "Dan in Real Life"
  • 2006: Cast in the coming-of-age drama "A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints"
  • 2005: Voiced Mrs. Copperbottom in the animated feature "Robots"
  • 2004: Portrayed an opera-diva mother in "Merci Docteur Rey"
  • 2001: Played a neighbor who befriends a mentally retarded man (Sean Penn) and his daughter (Dakota Fanning) in "I Am Sam"
  • 2000: Reteamed with John Lithgow as husband and wife in the period comedy "Portofino"
  • 2000: Joined cast of the NBC drama series "Law & Order" as the district attorney
  • 2000: Cast as the Evil Queen out to usurp the throne from the heir in the elaborate NBC miniseries "The 10th Kingdom"
  • 1999: Played the restaurant owner friend to a local craftsman (Sidney Poitier) in the CBS drama "The Simple Life of Noah Dearborn"; received Emmy nomination
  • 1998: Portrayed the sister-in-law of Robert Redford in "The Horse Whisperer"
  • 1997: Returned to the NY stage in "One Flea Spare" at the New York Shakespeare Festival
  • 1996: Won an Emmy guest-starring on The Disney Channel's "Avonlea"
  • 1996: Played the lead role in George Bernard Shaw's "Jitta's Atonement" at the Bershire Theater Festival; directed by and co-starred Harris Yulin
  • 1996: Cast as the wife of a conservative politician in Mike Nichols' "The Bird Cage"; film loosely based on "La Cage aux Folles"
  • 1995: Acted in the film, "Drunks"; directed by Peter Cohn (the son of Wiest's agent and former off-screen companion Sam Cohn)
  • 1994: Acted with Harris Yulin in "Don Juan in Hell"
  • 1994: Created role of a Holocaust survivor in Cynthia Ozick's play "Blue Light"; directed Sidney Lumet
  • 1994: Delivered one of her best screen performances as an over-the-hill actress in Woody Allen's "Bullets Over Broadway"; won second Best Supporting Actress Academy Award; first performer to win two Oscars in films directed by same person
  • 1991: Portrayed the child psychologist who clashes with the mother of a genius in Jodie Foster's directorial debut "Little Man Tate"
  • 1990: Played the Avon Lady who befriends the title character in Tim Burton's "Edward Scissorhands"
  • 1989: Earned second Best Supporting Actress Oscar nomination as the exasperated single mother in "Parenthood"
  • 1987: Played the mother of teenagers who fall prey to a gang of young vampires in Joel Schumacher's flashy "The Lost Boys"
  • 1987: Offered a lovely turn as the high-strung Aunt Bea in Allen's nostalgic "Radio Days"
  • 1987: Co-starred with Ron Silver (as Polish emigres) in the play "Hunting Cockroaches"
  • 1986: Breakthrough screen role, as the somewhat neurotic Holly in Allen's "Hannah and Her Sisters"; won Best Supporting Actress Academy Award
  • 1985: First film with director Woody Allen, "The Purple Rose of Cairo"; played a hooker
  • 1985: Directed the play "Not About Heroes" featuring Edward Hermann and Dylan Baker at the Williamstown Theatre Festival; production transferred to Off-Broadway
  • 1984: Portrayed Maggie (the character based on Marilyn Monroe) opposite Frank Langella in Arthur Miller's "After the Fall"
  • 1984: Cast as the long-suffering minister's wife in "Footloose"; first onscream teaming with John Lithgow
  • 1983: Played the leading role of a rape victim in the ABC movie, "The Face of Rage"
  • 1982: Returned to Broadway as Desdemona opposite James Earl Jones in "Othello"
  • 1982: Network TV-movie debut in "The Wall" (CBS), a fictionalized account of the Jewish Resistance to the Nazis in the Warsaw Ghetto during WWII
  • 1982: First featured film role, supporting Jill CLayburgh in "I'm Dancing as Fast as I Can"
  • 1981: Made Broadway debut in the ill-fated "Frankenstein"
  • 1980: Feature film debut in "It's My Turn" starring Jill Clayburgh
  • 1980: Played title role in Long Wharf staging of "Hedda Gabler"
  • 1979: Breakthrough stage role, "The Art of Dining"
  • 1976: Appeared in a supporting role in the New York Shakespeare Festival production "Ashes"
  • 1975: TV debut in a "Great Performances" (PBS) presentation of the Arena Theater's production of Elie Wiesel's "Zalmen/Zalmen, or the Madness of God"
  • 1964: At age 16, dropped ballet in favor of acting
  • Left college and toured with the American Shakespeare Company
  • Studied at the School of American Ballet in NYC as a teenager
  • Spent four years with the Arena Theater in Washington, DC; travelled to the USSR with company
  • Will star in a revival of Arthur Miller's "All My Sons" (fall 2008)
  • As a child and adolescent, moved frequently due to father's military career

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