Dianne Wiest (born March 28, 1948) is an American actress. She has enjoyed a successful career on stage, television, and film, and has won a Golden Globe, an Emmy and two Academy Awards. Wiest has also been nominated for the BAFTA award.
Early life
Wiest was born in Kansas City, Missouri. Her father was a college dean and former psychiatric social worker for the U.S. Army, and her Scottish-born mother, Anne, worked as a nurse; her parents met in Algiers. She has two brothers: Greg and Don Wiest. Wiest's original ambition was to be a ballerina, but in late high school she switched her goal to theatre. She made her film debut in 1980 in It's My Turn, but did not establish herself as a film actress until her association with Woody Allen during the 1980s.
Stage career
Wiest studied theatre at the University of Maryland, leaving after her third term in order to tour with a Shakespearean troupe, eventually appearing in a supporting role in the New York Shakespeare Festival production Ashes. She appeared at the Long Wharf Theatre in New Haven, CT, playing the title role in Hedda Gabler, and understudied off-Broadway in Kurt Vonnegut's Happy...
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