Dianne Wiest

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Summary

Dianne Wiest is an American actor whose career spans stage, film and television, including Hannah and Her Sisters, Bullets Over Broadway, Law & Order and In Treatment. She often plays emotionally nuanced, soft-spoken women, including mothers and other family figures. She has said that older actors in film are often offered roles such as witches, grotesques or grandmothers, and has described the difficulty of finding work after her Oscar-winning performances. No public statements on identity politics, DEI, or activism are on record.