It was announced that she would be joining the cast of Only Murders in the Building as the grieving widow of doorman Lester, Lorraine
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Dianne Wiest
Dianne Evelyn Wiest 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), 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…
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entertainment · American actress (born 1948) · character actor · stage actor · film actor · television actor · actor · also Dianne Wiest, Dianne Evelyn Wiest, Wiest
Born 28 March 1948 · Q217573
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Wiest starred in Steven Soderbergh's drama Let Them All Talk alongside Meryl Streep and Candice Bergen
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Wiest took on the role of "Winnie" in The Yale Repertory Theatre's production of Samuel Beckett's Happy Days
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2009· 1 entry
Wiest appeared in the National Memorial Day Concert on the Mall in Washington, D
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2008· 2 entries
Awarded Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series for In Treatment (2008).
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Also appeared as Gabriel Byrne's therapist, Gina Toll, on the HBO television series In Treatment, for which she received her second Emmy Award, for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series
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2005· 1 entry
Starred in Kathleen Tolan's Memory House
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2003· 1 entry
Appeared with Al Pacino and Marisa Tomei in Oscar Wilde's Salome
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1997· 2 entries
Awarded Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series for Road to Avonlea (1997).
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Brought her her first Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Dramatic Series
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1995· 2 entries
Won Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture for Bullets Over Broadway (1995).
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Awarded Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for Bullets Over Broadway (1995).
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1987· 1 entry
Awarded Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for Hannah and Her Sisters (1987).
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1984· 1 entry
Starred in Footloose, as the reverend's wife and Ariel Moore's mother
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1980· 1 entry
Awarded Theatre World Award (1980).
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1979· 1 entry
Originated the role of Agnes in Agnes of God in its first production in Waterford, Connecticut
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1976· 1 entry
Wiest attended the Eugene O'Neill National Playwrights Conference and starred in leading roles in Amlin Gray's Pirates and Christopher Durang's A History of the American Film
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1948· 1 entry
Born 1948-03-28.
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