# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/dianne-wiest
# Generated: 2026-08-31T14:44:39.817Z

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description: "She's won two Oscars playing Woody Allen's neurotics, an Emmy for a therapist's own unraveling, and survived both vampires and scissorhands—Dianne Wiest built a career on making the fragile unforgettable."
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Born March 28, 1948, Wiest broke through in the mid-1980s with Footloose and a string of Woody Allen collaborations—The Purple Rose of Cairo, Radio Days, September—before winning her first Academy Award for Hannah and Her Sisters in 1986. She pivoted between Tim Burton's gothic Americana in Edward Scissorhands and The Lost Boys's vampire-town dread, then claimed a second Oscar for Bullets Over Broadway in 1994 and an Emmy nomination for Parenthood the same stretch. A 1997 Emmy for Road to Avonlea and a 2008 win for In Treatment confirmed her range beyond film. She's since moved between prestige drama—Synecdoche, New York, Rabbit Hole, Let Them All Talk—and a three-year run on Law & Order, landing most recently in Hulu's Only Murders in the Building in 2025.