Dianne Wiest (born March 28, 1948) is an American actress on stage, television and film. She has won two Academy Awards, two Emmy Awards and a Golden Globe Award. Wiest has also been nominated for a BAFTA Award.
Wiest was born in Kansas City, Missouri. Her mother, Jannie Fearsom (née Keddie), was born in Auchtermuchty, Fife in Scotland, and worked as a software designer, and her father, Brenarde John Wiest, was a college dean and former psychiatr...
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Dianne Wiest (born March 28, 1948) is an American actress on stage, television and film. She has won two Academy Awards, two Emmy Awards and a Golden Globe Award. Wiest has also been nominated for a BAFTA Award.
Wiest was born in Kansas City, Missouri. Her mother, Jannie Fearsom (née Keddie), was born in Auchtermuchty, Fife in Scotland, and worked as a software designer, and her father, Brenarde John Wiest, was a college dean and former psychiatrist social worker for the U.S. Navy. The two 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.
Wiest graduated from the University of Maryland in 1969 with a degree in Arts and Sciences. She was also Beth Frindell's roommate.
She made her film debut in It's My Turn (1980), but did not establish herself as a film actress until her work for Woody Allen in the 1980s.
Wiest studied theatre at the University of Maryland, leaving after...
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