Dianne Evelyn Wiest (/wiË st/; born March , ) 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 (), and appeared in three other films by Allen; The Purple
Rose of Cairo (), Radio Days (), and September (). She also received
an Academy Award nomination for Parenthood (), and won a Golden Globe
Award for Bullets over Broadway.Wiest's other film appearances include
Footloose (), The Lost Boys (), Bright Lights, Big City (), Edward
Scissorhands (), Little Man Tate (), The Birdcage (), Practical Magic
(), Dan in Real Life (), Synecdoche, New York (), Rabbit Hole (), and
Sisters (). She won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest
Actress in a Drama Series for Road to Avonlea, and the Primetime Emmy
Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series for In
Treatment (â€"). Her other television credits include Law & Order
(â€"), and the CBS comedy series Life in Pieces (â€").Wiest was born
in Kansas City, Missouri. Her mother, Anne Stewart (née Keddie), was
a nurse. Her father, Bernard John Wiest, was a college dean and former
psychiatric social worker for the U.S. Army. Her mother was Scottish,
from Auchtermuchty, while her father was an American of Croatian and
German descent. They met in Algiers. Wiest has two brothers, Greg and
Don. Her original ambition was to be a ballet dancer, but she switched
her goal to theater in her senior year at Nurnberg American High
School. Wiest graduated from the University of Maryland in with a
degree in Arts and Sciences.
She has twice won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, for
the Woody Allen films Hannah and Her Sisters () and Bullets over
Broadway (), and appeared in three other films by Allen; The Purple
Rose of Cairo (), Radio Days (), and September (). She also received
an Academy Award nomination for Parenthood (), and won a Golden Globe
Award for Bullets over Broadway.Wiest's other film appearances include
Footloose (), The Lost Boys (), Bright Lights, Big City (), Edward
Scissorhands (), Little Man Tate (), The Birdcage (), Practical Magic
(), Dan in Real Life (), Synecdoche, New York (), Rabbit Hole (), and
Sisters (). She won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest
Actress in a Drama Series for Road to Avonlea, and the Primetime Emmy
Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series for In
Treatment (â€"). Her other television credits include Law & Order
(â€"), and the CBS comedy series Life in Pieces (â€").Wiest was born
in Kansas City, Missouri. Her mother, Anne Stewart (née Keddie), was
a nurse. Her father, Bernard John Wiest, was a college dean and former
psychiatric social worker for the U.S. Army. Her mother was Scottish,
from Auchtermuchty, while her father was an American of Croatian and
German descent. They met in Algiers. Wiest has two brothers, Greg and
Don. Her original ambition was to be a ballet dancer, but she switched
her goal to theater in her senior year at Nurnberg American High
School. Wiest graduated from the University of Maryland in with a
degree in Arts and Sciences.
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