Dianne Wiest

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One of three children (she has two brothers, Greg and Don), Dianne Wiest was born in Kansas City, Missouri, USA. Her mother, Anne Stewart (Keddie), was a nurse from Auchtermuchty, Scotland, and her father, Bernard John Wiest, was a college dean and social worker who was born in Pennsylvania, of German and Croatian descent. Dianne's original ambition was to be a ballerina, but she was bitten by the acting bug after some stage work, most notably playing Desdemona to James Earl Jones' Othello on Broadway. She made her film debut in 1980, but did not make a name for herself until her performance as Emma, a prostitute during the 1930s Depression, in Woody Allen's La rose pourpre du Caire (1985). Allen was so impressed by Wiest's acting ability that he has directed her on four more occasions since. Under Allen's direction, Wiest won a well deserved Oscar for Best Supporting Actress, for her brilliant performance as the neurotic, wannabe actress Holly in Hannah et ses soeurs (1986). She followed her Academy Award success with performances in Génération perdue (1987) and Les feux de la nuit (1988) before stealing the show from the likes of Steve Martin, Mary Steenburgen, Jason Robards, Keanu Reeves and Martha Plimpton in Ron Howard's Portrait craché d'une famille modèle (1989).Playing Helen Buckman, the divorced mother of two difficult teenagers, Wiest was both touching and hilarious, and received her second Oscar nomination. Arguably her most beloved role came as Peg Boggs, the kindly Avon Lady who discovers the titular Edward aux mains d'argent (1990). Wiest returned to Woody Allen for Coups de feu sur Broadway (1994), a superb comedy film set in 1920s New York, winning her second Best Supporting Actress Oscar for her magnificent portrayal of Helen Sinclair, a boozy, glamorous and neurotic star of the stage, who could made the words "Don't speak!" the funniest sentence ever captured on film. Recently enjoying great success with witchy roles in the comedy film Les ensorceleuses (1998) and the television miniseries Le 10ème royaume (2000), Dianne Wiest lives in New York City with her two adopted daughters, Emily and Lily. - IMDb Mini Biography By: Barnaby Marriott barnabymarriott@hotmail.com

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Streaming Availability

Amazon Video has the most number of Dianne Wiest’s flixes, followed by Google Play Movies compared to other streaming platforms. See the full graph below.

Releases by Year

Dianne Wiest on average has worked on 1 movies per year from 1982 to 2020. See the full graphs of the number of Dianne Wiest movies released per year from 1999 till 2020.

Top Genres

Dianne Wiest works mostly in Drama Genre followed by Comedy Genre flixes. 39% of Dianne Wiest movies are Drama Genre movies. See Top Genres that Dianne Wiest worked on in the graph below.

Average IMDB Score

On average the IMDB score of the movies that Dianne Wiest has worked on is 6.6.

6.6 / 10

Dianne Wiest's Movies and Tv Series available to Stream now ..

A psychotherapist questions his abilities and gets help by reuniting with his old therapist, whom he has not seen for ten years.

8.3/1030 min

Available in 9 platform(s).

Adventure,Comedy,Family
The 10th Kingdom (2000)

A father and daughter are caught in a parallel universe where the great Queens Snow White (Camryn Manheim), Cinderella (Ann-Margret), and Riding Hood III (Kim Thomson) have had their kingdoms fragmented by warring trolls, giants, and goblins.

8.2/10417 min

Available in 6 platform(s).

A family comedy told through the separate stories of different family members.

8/1022 min

Available in 8 platform(s).

Drama,Fantasy,Romance
Edward Scissorhands (1990)

An artificial man, who was incompletely constructed and has scissors for hands, leads a solitary life. Then one day, a suburban lady meets him and introduces him to her world.

7.9/10105 min

Available in 10 platform(s).

Between two Thanksgivings two years apart, Hannah's husband falls in love with her sister Lee, while her hypochondriac ex-husband rekindles his relationship with her sister Holly.

7.9/10107 min

Available in 7 platform(s).

A mentally handicapped man fights for custody of his 7-year-old daughter and in the process teaches his cold-hearted lawyer the value of love and family.

7.6/10132 min

Available in 10 platform(s).

A nostalgic look at radio's golden age focusing on one ordinary family and the various performers in the medium.

7.4/1088 min

Available in 10 platform(s).

A ninety-one-year-old carpenter (Sidney Poitier), who is still in completely good health, has to fight developers who are trying to force him to sell his land.

7.3/1085 min

Available in 9 platform(s).