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Biography

Early life

Wiest was born in Kansas City, Missouri, to a father who was a college dean and former psychiatric social worker for the U.S. Army, and a mother who worked as a nurse.^[1] She had two brothers: Greg and Don Wiest. Wiest's original ambition was to be a ballerina, but in late high school she switched her sights to acting in theatre. She made her film debut in 1980, but did not make a name for herself as a film actress until teaming up with Woody Allen during the 1980s. Nickname: Location in Jackson, Clay, Platte, and Cass Counties in the state of Missouri. ... The Army is the branch of the United States armed forces which has primary responsibility for land-based military operations. ... For other uses, see Ballet (disambiguation). ... Year 1980 (MCMLXXX) was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link displays the 1980 Gregorian calendar). ... Woody Allen (born Allen Stewart Königsberg on December 1, 1935) is a three-time Academy Award-winning American film director, writer, actor, jazz musician, comedian, and playwright. ...

Stage career

Wiest's early career was in theatre. She studied theatre at the University of Maryland but left after her third term, in order to tour with a Shakespeare troupe. She worked at the Long Wharf theatre, understudied off-Broadway in Kurt Vonnegut's "Happy Birthday, Wanda June." And then made her Broadway debut in Robert Anderson's "Solitaire/Double Solitaire," taking over in the role of the daughter. She then went to work at Arena Stage in Washington, D.C., and became one of their most prized leading actresses, appearing in many plays including a memorable Emily in "Our Town," Honey in "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf," and leading roles in "The Dybbuk," "The Lower Depths," and "Heartbreak House." She also toured the USSR with the Arena Stage Company. For other uses, see Washington, D.C. (disambiguation). ...

In 1976, Wiest went to the Eugene O'Neill National Playwrights Conference and played leading roles in Amlin Gray's "Pirates" and Christopher Durang's "A History of the American Film." Shortly after that, she left Arena Stage, and performed more in New York City. At Joe Papp's Public Theatre she took over the lead in "Ashes," and played Cassandra in "Agamemnon," directed by Andrei Şerban. She was in two plays by Tina Howe, "Museum" and then "The Art of Dining." In the latter play Wiest was deeply hilarious as the shy and awkward authoress Elizabeth Barrow Colt, and she won every off-Broadway theatre award for her performance: an Obie Award, a Theatre World Award, and the Clarence Derwent Award, given yearly for the most promising performance in New York theatre. In early 1980, she appeared on Broadway in Frankenstein, directed by Tom Moore, portrayed Desdemona in Othello opposite James Earl Jones and Christopher Plummer, and co-starred with John Lithgow in Christopher Durang's romantic screwball comedy Beyond Therapy, directed by John Madden. (A few years later she played opposite Lithgow again in the Herbert Ross film Footloose). Also in the 80s she was acclaimed for her performances in Hedda Gabbler, directed by Lloyd Richards at Yale Repertory Theatre, and in Harold Pinter's A Kind of Alaska, Janusz Glowacki's Hunting Cockroaches, and Lanford Wilson's Serenading Louie. Eugene Gladstone ONeill (October 16, 1888 – November 27, 1953) was a Nobel- and four-time Pulitzer Prize-winning American playwright. ... Andrei Åžerban is a stage director. ... This article is about the 1818 novel. ... Desdemona may refer to: Desdemona (Othello), is a fictional character in William Shakespeares play (Othello) Desdemona (moon), a moon of Uranus 666 Desdemona, an asteroid Desdemona, Texas Desdemona Music Festival, 2006 music festival in Cincinnati, Ohio. ... For other uses, see Othello (disambiguation). ... James Earl Jones (born January 17, 1931) is an American Academy Award-nominated, Emmy- and Tony Award-winning actor of film and stage well known for his deep basso voice. ... This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... John Arthur Lithgow (IPA: [ˈʤɔn ˈlɪθɡaÊŠ]) (born October 19, 1945) is an American actor perhaps best-known for his starring role as Dick Solomon in the NBC sitcom 3rd Rock from the Sun. ... Christopher Ferdinand Durang (born January 2, 1949) is an American playwright known for works of outrageous and often absurd comedy. ... Beyond Therapy is a comedic play by Christopher Durang that had a short run on Broadway in 1982, starring John Lithgow and Dianne Wiest. ... John Philip Madden (born April 8, 1949) is an English director of theatre, film, television, and radio. ... Herbert David Ross (May 13, 1927 in Brooklyn, New York - October 9, 2001 in New York City), also known as Herb Ross, was a prolific film director, producer, choreographer and actor from the 1950s to the 1990s. ... Footloose is a 1984 movie that tells the story of Ren McCormick (played by Kevin Bacon), a teenager who was raised in Chicago. ... Actress Cate Blanchett in the title role of Hedda Gabler Hedda Gabler is both a play and a fictional character created by Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen. ... Lloyd Richards (June 29, 1919 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada –June 29, 2006 in New York City, New York) was an American actor and director best known for staging the original production of Lorraine Hansberrys A Raisin in the Sun, which debuted on Broadway to standing ovations on March 11... Yale Repertory Theatre at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut was founded by Robert Brustein, dean of the Yale School of Drama in 1966, with the goal of facilitating a meaningful collaboration between theatre professionals and talented students. ... Harold Pinter, CH, CBE (born 10 October 1930) is an English playwright, screenwriter, poet, actor, director, author, and political activist. ... Janusz GÅ‚owacki, Warsaw (Poland), June 2004 Janusz GÅ‚owacki, (born 1938 in PoznaÅ„, Poland) is a Polish-American author and screenwriter. ... Lanford Wilson (born on April 13, 1937 in Lebanon, Missouri) is an American playwright. ...

Films

Once her film career took off with her work in Woody Allen's films, Wiest was available to the stage less frequently, though she performed in the 1990s in "In the Summer House," "Square One," Cynthia Ozick's "The Shawl," and Naomi Wallace's "One Flea Spare." In 2003 she acted on Broadway with Al Pacino and Marisa Tomei in Oscar Wilde's "Salome." And in 2005 she starred in Kathleen Tolan's "Memory House," and then at Lincoln Center in the late Wendy Wasserstein's final play "Third," directed by Daniel Sullivan. Woody Allen (born Allen Stewart Königsberg on December 1, 1935) is a three-time Academy Award-winning American film director, writer, actor, jazz musician, comedian, and playwright. ... Square One, also known as Square One Television, was a childrens television show produced by the Childrens Television Workshop to teach mathematics and abstract mathematical concepts to young viewers. ... Cynthia Ozick (born April 17, 1928, New York City), is an American writer, the daughter of William Ozick and Celia Regelson. ... // The Shawl is a four act play by David Mamet. ... Naomi Wallace is a poet and playwright from Prospect, Kentucky. ... One Flea Spare is a play written by Naomi Wallace that takes place in the era of the Black Plague. ... For other uses of Broadway, see Broadway. ... Alfredo James Pacino (born April 25, 1940) is an Academy, Golden Globe, Tony, BAFTA, Emmy, and SAG award winning American actor who is best known for playing the roles of Tony Montana in the 1983 film Scarface and Michael Corleone in The Godfather Trilogy . ... Marisa Tomei (born December 4, 1964) is an Academy Award-winning American film and stage actress. ... Oscar Fingal OFlahertie Wills Wilde (October 16, 1854 – November 30, 1900) was an Irish playwright, novelist, poet, and author of short stories. ... One of the illustrations Aubrey Beardsley produced for the first English edition of Wildes play Salome (1894) Salome (or in French: Salomé) is a tragedy by Oscar Wilde The original 1891 version of the play was in French. ... The Metropolitan Opera House at Lincoln Center. ... Wendy Wasserstein (October 18, 1950 – January 30, 2006) was an award-winning American playwright and an Andrew Dickson White Professor-at-Large at Cornell University. ... In music, see the following intervals: Major third Minor third The mediant, and the chord built on the mediant, is often called simply the third, as it is the third degree of the diatonic scale. ... Daniel Pegleg Sullivan was a Chicagoan who is often credited with being the first to sound the alarm when a fire broke out in Catherine OLearys barn on October 8, 1871, the beginning of the Great Chicago Fire. ...

Under Allen's direction, Wiest won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, in Hannah and Her Sisters (1986). She followed her Academy Award success with performances in The Lost Boys (1987) and Bright Lights, Big City (1988) before starring with Steve Martin, Mary Steenburgen, Jason Robards, Keanu Reeves and Martha Plimpton in Ron Howard's Parenthood, for which she received her second Oscar nomination. The Academy Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role is one of the awards given to actresses working in the motion picture industry by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences; nominations are made by Academy members who are actors and actresses. ... Hannah and Her Sisters is a 1986 romantic comedy film which tells the intertwined stories of an extended family, told mostly during a year that begins and ends with a family Thanksgiving dinner. ... Year 1986 (MCMLXXXVI) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link displays 1986 Gregorian calendar). ... For other uses, see Lost Boys (disambiguation). ... Year 1987 (MCMLXXXVII) was a common year starting on Thursday (link displays 1987 Gregorian calendar). ... For the 1984 novel, see Bright Lights, Big City (novel). ... Year 1988 (MCMLXXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Friday (link displays 1988 Gregorian calendar). ... For other uses, see Steve Martin (disambiguation). ... Mary Steenburgen (IPA: ) (born February 8, 1953) is an Academy Award-winning American actress. ... This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... Keanu Charles Reeves (pronounced in IPA: ) is an actor, born September 2, 1964 in Beirut, Lebanon, and raised in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. ... Plimpton at the New York premiere of Miramaxs Kill Bill: Volume 1 Martha Plimpton (born Martha Carradine on November 16, 1970, in New York City) is former model turned actress who was born to famous actor parents Keith Carradine and Shelley Plimpton. ... Ron Howard on the set of Ransom Ronald William Howard (born March 1, 1954, in Duncan, Oklahoma) is an American actor, film director and producer of Dutch, Scottish, English, Irish, German and Cherokee Indian descent. ... This article is about the film Parenthood. ...

In 1990, Wiest starred in Edward Scissorhands. She returned to Woody Allen in 1994 for Bullets Over Broadway, a comedy set in 1920s New York City, winning her second Best Supporting Actress Oscar for her portrayal of Helen Sinclair, a boozy, glamorous, and neurotic star of the stage. She appeared in the film Practical Magic (1998) and the television mini-series The 10th Kingdom (2000). From 2000 to 2002, Wiest portrayed Nora Lewin in the long-running NBC crime drama Law & Order. Edward Scissorhands is a 1990 fantasy film, directed and co-written by Tim Burton and written by Caroline Thompson. ... Year 1994 (MCMXCIV) The year 1994 was designated as the International Year of the Family and the International Year of the Sport and the Olympic Ideal by the United Nations. ... Poster for the movie Bullets Over Broadway is a 1994 film directed by Woody Allen. ... The 1920s is sometimes referred to as the Jazz Age or the Roaring Twenties, usually applied to America. ... New York, New York and NYC redirect here. ... In modern psychology, the term neurosis, also known as psychoneurosis or neurotic disorder, is a general term that refers to any mental imbalance that causes distress, but (unlike a psychosis or personality disorder) does not prevent rational thought or an individuals ability to function in daily life. ... Practical Magic was a 1998 film in which Sandra Bullock and Nicole Kidman star as witches who carry on a family legacy of witchcraft and tragedy. ... Year 1998 (MCMXCVIII) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display full 1998 Gregorian calendar). ... A miniseries, in a serial storytelling medium, is a production which tells a story in a limited number of episodes. ... The 10th Kingdom is a made-for-TV mini-series written by screenplay writer Simon Moore. ... Year 2000 (MM) was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will display full 2000 Gregorian calendar). ... Year 2000 (MM) was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will display full 2000 Gregorian calendar). ... Also see: 2002 (number). ... Interim District Attorney Nora Lewin Nora Lewin was a fictional television character on the TV show Law & Order, played by two-time Academy Award winning actress Dianne Wiest from 2000 to 2002. ... This article is about the television network. ... This article is about the original television series. ...

Personal life

Wiest has never married but has two adopted children born 1987 and 1991. She graduated from the University of Maryland in 1969 with a degree in Arts and Sciences. Year 1987 (MCMLXXXVII) was a common year starting on Thursday (link displays 1987 Gregorian calendar). ... Year 1991 (MCMXCI) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the 1991 Gregorian calendar). ...

Filmography

• Face of Rage (1983)
• Independence Day (1983)
• Falling in Love (1984)
• Footloose (1984)
• The Purple Rose of Cairo (1985)
• Hannah and Her Sisters (1986)
  • won Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress
  • nominated for Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture
• Radio Days (1987)
• September (1987)
• The Lost Boys (1987)
• Parenthood (1989)
  • nominated for Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress
  • nominated for Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture
• Edward Scissorhands (1990)
• Little Man Tate (1991)
• Bullets Over Broadway (1994)
  • won Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress;
  • won Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture
• The Scout (1994)
• The Associate (1996)
• The Birdcage (1996)
• Practical Magic (1998)
• The Horse Whisperer (1998)
• The 10th Kingdom (2000)
• Law & Order (2000-2002)
• I Am Sam (2001)
• Merci Docteur Rey (2002)
• The Blackwater Lightship (2004)
• Robots (2005)
• A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints (2006)
• Dan in Real Life (2007)

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References

External links

• Dianne Wiest at the Internet Movie Database