Dianne Wiest Filmography: Movies and Television Credits

This Dianne Wiest filmography covers 45 movie titles and 12 television titles from the available cast credits. Multiple roles in the same title are grouped together. It is a selection of screen credits, rather than a complete record of every performance. Credits may include acting, voice work, uncredited roles and appearances as themselves.

Dianne Wiest movies by release year

The years below are film release years, not filming dates.

• It's My Turn (1980) as Gail
• Falling in Love (1984) as Isabelle
• Footloose (1984) as Vi Moore
• The Purple Rose of Cairo (1985) as Emma
• Hannah and Her Sisters (1986) as Holly
• Radio Days (1987) as Aunt Bea
• September (1987) as Stephanie
• The Lost Boys (1987) as Lucy
• Bright Lights, Big City (1988) as Mother
• Cookie (1989) as Lenore
• Parenthood (1989) as Helen Buckman Lampkin Bowman
• Edward Scissorhands (1990) as Peg
• The Making of Edward Scissorhands (1990) as Self
• Little Man Tate (1991) as Jane Grierson
• Bullets Over Broadway (1994) as Helen Sinclair
• Cops & Robbersons (1994) as Helen Robberson
• The Scout (1994) as Doctor H. Aaron
• The Associate (1996) as Sally Dugan
• The Birdcage (1996) as Louise Keeley
• Practical Magic (1998) as Aunt Jet
• The Horse Whisperer (1998) as Diane Booker
• The Simple Life of Noah Dearborn (1999) as Sarah McClellan
• I Am Sam (2001) as Annie Cassell
• Category 6: Day of Destruction (2004) as Shirley Abbott
• Robots (2005) as Mrs. Copperbottom (voice)
• A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints (2006) as Dito's Mother
• Dan in Real Life (2007) as Nana
• Dedication (2007) as Carol
• Passengers (2008) as Toni
• Synecdoche, New York (2008) as Ellen Bascomb / Millicent Weems
• Rage (2009) as Miss Roth
• Rabbit Hole (2010) as Nat
• The Big Year (2011) as Brenda Harris
• Woody Allen: A Documentary (2011) as Self
• Darling Companion (2012) as Penny
• The Odd Life of Timothy Green (2012) as Ms. Bernice Crudstaff
• The Humbling (2014) as Carol
• Sisters (2015) as Deana Ellis
• Five Nights in Maine (2016) as Lucinda
• Always at The Carlyle (2018) as Self
• The Mule (2018) as Mary
• Let Them All Talk (2020) as Susan
• I Care a Lot (2021) as Jennifer Peterson
• My Father's Dragon (2022) as Iris the Rhinoceros (voice)
• Apartment 7A (2024) as Minnie Castevet

Dianne Wiest television roles and appearances

Television titles are listed alphabetically. An appearance date is included only where verified for Dianne Wiest; a programme's premiere year does not establish when a performer appeared in it.

• Elsbeth as Reverend Mother Constance Mary Cabot
• Great Performances as Elizabeth Gertrude Stern
• In Treatment as Dr. Gina Toll
• Law & Order as Nora Lewin
• Law & Order: Criminal Intent as Nora Lewin
• Law & Order: Special Victims Unit as Interim D.A. Nora Lewin
• Life in Pieces as Joan Short
• Mayor of Kingstown as Miriam McLusky
• Only Murders in the Building as Lorraine
• The 10th Kingdom as Evil Queen
• The Blacklist as Ruth Kipling
• The Oscars as Self

Credit information: TMDB, with additional sources listed below where used. The titles shown here do not establish the beginning or end of Dianne Wiest's career, and omissions should not be treated as evidence that a credit does not exist.