Dianne Wiest

American actress

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Born 1948 · age 78United States

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Rank in United States
#247
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Age
78
Born 1948
Known for
Edward Scissorhands
1990

Summary

Updated 2026-06-08

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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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 prestig…

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