Dianne Wiest
Two-time Oscar-winning actress known for Woody Allen films and acclaimed stage work.
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Dianne Evelyn Wiest (born March 28, 1948) is an American actress. She has won two Academy Awards for Best Supporting Actress for Hannah and Her Sisters (1986) and Bullets Over Broadway (1994) (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 Parenthood (1989).
- born
- March 28, 1948, Kansas City, Missouri
- field
- Actress
- nationality
- American
- known_for
- Two Academy Awards for Best Supporting Actress; Emmy Awards for *Road to Avonlea* and *In Treatment*
Lore & Background
Wiest was born on March 28, 1948, 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 parents met in Algiers. Wiest has two brothers, Greg and Don. She attended high school at Nurnberg American High School in Germany. Her ambition was to be a ballet dancer, but she switched her goal to theater during her senior year. Wiest graduated from the University of Maryland in 1969 with a degree in Arts and Sciences.
Reader's Guide
Wiest's performance as the shy and awkward author Elizabeth Barrow Colt in Tina Howe's The Art of Dining won three awards: an Obie Award (1980), a Theatre World Award (1979–1980) and the Clarence Derwent Award (1980). The source does not specify whether these awards are exclusively off-Broadway awards.
Did You Know?
- Wiest won two Academy Awards for Best Supporting Actress for Woody Allen films.
- She adopted two daughters, Emily and Lily.
- Wiest was in a relationship with talent agent Sam Cohn for three years in the mid-1980s.
- She attended high school in Germany at Nurnberg American High School.
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