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Dianne Wiest
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Person

Dianne Wiest

b. 1948

American actress

Born
28 Mar 1948 · Kansas City

Life timeline

Their life from birth to death. On the timeline, world events of the time are shown faintly.

Showing 90 years
  1. 28 Mar 1948BornBorn in Kansas City
  2. 1980AwardTheatre World Award
  3. 1987AwardAcademy Award for Best Supporting Actress
  4. 1995AwardAcademy Award for Best Supporting Actress
  5. 1995AwardGolden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture
  6. 1997AwardPrimetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series
  7. 2008AwardPrimetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series

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Meanwhile in the world

Major world events during their lifetime (1948 – today).

  1. 19501950 FIFA World Cup
  2. 1950 – 1953Korean War
  3. 1953 – 1959Cuban Revolution
  4. 19541954 FIFA World Cup
  5. 1955 – 1975Vietnam War
  6. 1956Hungarian Revolution of 1956
  7. 1956Suez Crisis
  8. 19581958 FIFA World Cup
  9. 1959Antarctic Treaty System
  10. 19621962 FIFA World Cup
  11. 1962Cuban Missile Crisis
  12. 19661966 FIFA World Cup
  13. 1966 – 1976Cultural Revolution
  14. 1968Prague Spring
  15. 1969Apollo 11 Moon landing
  16. 19721972 Summer Olympics
  17. 19741974 FIFA World Cup
  18. 19781978 FIFA World Cup
  19. 1978 – 1979Iranian Revolution
  20. 1979 – 1989Soviet–Afghan War
  21. 1980 – 1988Iran–Iraq War
  22. 19841984 Summer Olympics
  23. 1985Schengen Agreement
  24. 19891989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre
  25. 1989Fall of the Berlin Wall
  26. 19901990 FIFA World Cup
  27. 1991Dissolution of the Soviet Union
  28. 19941994 FIFA World Cup
  29. 1994 – 1996First Chechen War
  30. 19981998 FIFA World Cup
  31. 2001 – 2021War in Afghanistan
  32. 2003 – 2011Iraq War
  33. 20042004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami
  34. 20062006 FIFA World Cup
  35. 20082008 Summer Olympics
  36. 2008Russo-Georgian War
  37. 20102010 Haiti earthquake
  38. 2010 – 2012Arab Spring
  39. 20112011 Norway attacks
  40. 2011Libyan civil war

Biography

Dianne Evelyn Wiest (born March 28, 1948) 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) (both directed by Woody Allen), 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 Series for In Treatment. In addition, she was nominated for an Academy Award for Parenthood (1989).

Other film appearances by Wiest include Footloose (1984), Woody Allen's The Purple Rose of Cairo (1985), Radio Days and September (both 1987), The Lost Boys (1987), Bright Lights, Big City (1988), Edward Scissorhands (1990), Little Man Tate (1991), The Birdcage (1996), Practical Magic (1998), Dan in Real Life (2007), Synecdoche, New York (2008), Rabbit Hole (2010), The Mule (2018), Let Them All Talk (2020) and I Care a Lot (2020). She also appeared in the television series Law & Order (2000–2002), the CBS comedy Life in Pieces (2015–2019), and the Hulu comedy Only Murders in the Building (2025).

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