Dianne Wiest

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Dianne Wiest at a benefit concert in Washington, DC in May 2009

Dianne Wiest [ daɪˈjæn ˈwiːst ] (born March 28, 1948 in Kansas City , Missouri ) is an American actress . She first established herself as a theater actress on Broadway and made her film debut ten years later. She has received prestigious theater awards for numerous portrayals in on and off Broadway productions . She established herself as a versatile supporting actress in various film genres ; for this she won two Oscars, among other things .

Private life

Main entrance to the University of Maryland , where Wiest studied Arts and Sciences for three semesters

childhood and education

Dianne Wiest's father, Bernard John Wiest, was a psychiatric social worker in the US Army . Her mother Anne Stewart was a nurse ; she came from the Scottish town of Auchtermuchty . The couple met in Algeria during World War II . After the war ended, both returned to the United States and settled in the state of Missouri . Their first daughter Dianne was born there on March 28, 1948, and sons Greg and Don were added in the following years. Even during her school days, Dianne had ambitions to be on stage; so she began training as a ballet dancer at the renowned New York School of American Ballet .

Due to the father's job, the family often moved and so Dianne Wiest had to end her training in favor of a stay in Nuremberg . The time in the country “with the foreign language” was not easy for her. At the school for the soldiers' children, a teacher discovered the student's talent and encouraged her. So she stood on stage in several performances of the school theater and developed a passion for acting.

After returning to the United States, Dianne Wiest enrolled at the University of Maryland and studied there for three semesters. In 1969 she graduated in Arts and Sciences . She then joined the American Shakespeare Company and toured the United States and other countries with the company.

family

The actress keeps her private life largely under lock and key. She was in a relationship with her agent Sam Cohn for several years. In the late 1980s , the actress adopted a girl. A second girl was added in the early 1990s. In order to be able to concentrate on raising the children, Dianne Wiest withdrew from the film business for a few years and was also not on stage. The actress lives with her family in her adopted home New York on the Upper West Side .

Theater career

Beginnings

Wiest made her stage debut in the late 1960s as a supporting actress in the play Ashes, a production by the American Shakespeare Company at the Shakespeare Festival in New York. The role of Hedda Gabler in the production of Henrik Ibsen 's play of the same name at the Long Wharf Theater in New Haven was one of her first leading roles. In the original production of Kurt Vonnegut's Happy Birthday Wanda June , Wiest appeared as the understudy in the Off-Broadway performance in 1970 . After the play was moved to Broadway, she was again the understudy, but was not used. She made her Broadway debut in 1971 during her next engagement, in Robert Anderson's Solitaire / Double Solitaire . She then got a contract with the regional theater "Arena Stage" in Washington, DC There she played for four years in plays such as Our Little Town , Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? or night asylum . The theater troupe of the "Arena Stage" took the young actress on a theater tour through the Soviet Union .

breakthrough

The actress celebrated her breakthrough with audiences and critics in 1980 in the off-Broadway production The Art of Dining . She was awarded three prizes for her performance, the Obie Award , the Theater World Award and the Clarence Derwent Awards . She was also nominated for the Drama Desk Award . Another success was the female lead alongside John Lithgow in the performance of Christopher Durang Beyond Therapy in 1982, that five years later with Julie Hagerty and Jeff Goldblum filmed was. For her performance in the off-Broadway plays Serenading Louie and Other Places , Wiest received an Obie Award in 1984.

Wiest had never read the play After the Fall, originally written by Arthur Miller for his then wife Marilyn Monroe ; she was only convinced of the material during the 1984 casting. Her embodiment of Maggie at the side of Frank Langella was received with enthusiasm by the specialist press as well as by the audience.

In the course of her career, Wiest played a wide variety of characters. She embodied numerous classic characters such as Desdemona alongside James Earl Jones as Othello and Hedda Gabler in Henrik Ibsen 's play of the same name.

In the summer of 1993 Dianne Wiest played together with Frances Conroy and Liev Schreiber on Broadway in the play In the Summer House . Her interpretation of the dominant Mrs. Eastman Cuevas has been described as "brave" by theater critic David Richards in the New York Times . He also praised the actress for her strong performance, which "never looks very real".

Theater work since 2000

John Lithgow , Dianne Wiest's frequent stage partner

In a reading of Oscar Wilde's play Salome, about the life of the biblical figure of the same name , played by Marisa Tomei , Dianne Wiest played the role of Herodias , alongside Al Pacino as Herod and David Strathairn as Jokannan . It was directed by Estelle Parsons , who, according to John Rockwell, skillfully staged the ensemble .

In spring 2005, the Mimin was seen in Memory House , a play about the problems and different worldviews of two generations using the example of a mother and her teenage daughter. Charles Isherwood of the New York Times found Wiests “warm-hearted, enchanting game” gives an interesting salary to the play about the tense situation between two women. The actress also manages to draw the audience's sympathy to the soulful undertone of the story. There is no recipe for such a task that one can follow.

In the successful comedy Third by Wendy Wasserstein that same year she portrayed a strong, but also vulnerable professor at the side of Charles Durning , Jason Ritter and Gaby Hoffmann . Although Ben Brantley thought Wiest was wrongly cast in this role, he liked the way how the actress tried to allude to it.

In 2008 Wiest appeared on stage alongside Alan Cumming in Chekhov's Die Möwe and also oversaw the production as an acting manager. In this role she ensured, among other things, that a collaboration with the Russian- based director Vyacheslav Dolgachev, the artistic director of the Moscow New Drama Theater, came about. Wiest also brought the designer Santo Loquasto into the team, whose achievements as a production and costume designer she knew and valued because of his work on several Woody Allen films. The performance of the play was very successful and critics praised, among other things, Wiest's “artificial girlish portrait of Arkadina”, which, according to Hilton Als, “feels absolutely right” from the New Yorker .

In the winter season 2008/2009 she celebrated success with the audience with her role in All our Sons . Again it was a play by Arthur Miller, in which she stood next to John Lithgow and Patrick Wilson on stage. The play attracted press attention largely due to the participation of Katie Holmes . However, critic Tom O'Neil made it clear in his assessment that the two "Broadway legends" Wiest and Lithgow alone made the performance worth seeing.

Film career

Beginnings

After Dianne Wiest had established herself as a stage actress within ten years, she played her first small role in 1980 in the movie It's My Turn - I call it love at the side of Michael Douglas and Beverly Garland . Other supporting roles followed, such as as a therapist for Jill Clayburgh in The Hunt for Life . In 1984 she was the mother of Lori Singer and the wife of her theater colleague John Lithgow in the dance film Footloose by director Herbert Ross . That same year she played Meryl Streep's best friend in Falling in Love .

For the dubbed version in German , Wiests roles are spoken by the theater actress Kerstin Sanders-Dornseif . In early films she also dubbed other female speakers before Sanders-Dornseif established herself as a regular speaker in the mid-1980s.

Success with Woody Allen

In the mid-1980s, Woody Allen became aware of the actress and cast her in a small role as a prostitute in his film The Purple Rose of Cairo . Wiest's performance convinced the director and so he also used it in his subsequent projects. Her breakthrough in the film business came in 1986 with her next collaboration with Allen. In Hannah and Her Sisters , she played Hannah's ( Mia Farrow ) neurotic sister, Holly, a budding actress and catering business owner who always gets caught up in the wrong men and eventually marries her sister's (Woody Allen) impotent ex-husband, leaving her pregnant will (by whom remains unclear). Allen managed to use the theater-influenced actress in such a way that she was able to achieve an equally haunting presence in front of the camera as she was on stage. She was honored for this with the Oscar for best supporting actress .

In 1987 she worked with Allen two more times. In the autobiographical comedy Radio Days , she played the young hero's aunt, Woody Allen's alter ego Joe Needleman, played by Seth Green . In the drama September, she acted as a lonely housewife and mother who has an affair with the writer Peter ( Sam Waterston ) over a weekend at her friend Lane's (Mia Farrow) vacation home , but who Lane is also in love with. The fact that Woody Allen directed these two films like plays benefited the play of his new "family member", as the director calls his regular actors.

Hollywood comedies and mother roles

After September they parted ways at first. Wiest was seen in numerous comedies as a "maternal figure" in the following years, for example in Bright Lights, Big City in flashbacks as the cancer-stricken mother of Michael J. Fox . In Susan Seidelman's crime comedy Cookie , she played Emily Lloyd's mother and lover of godfather Dominick Capisco aka Peter Falk . Her portrayal of the over-the-top gangster bride who, as a worried mother, still wants to keep her daughter away from the mafia , was described by Roger Ebert as "very original".

Directed by Ron Howard , she played the single parent Helen Buckmann, who has her hands full with her adolescent daughter Julie ( Martha Plimpton ) and her violent son Garry ( Joaquín Phoenix ) in An Insane Family at the Side of Steve Martin . Dianne Wiest received critical acclaim for her “realistic portrayal” and was nominated for an Oscar and a Golden Globe .

She scissorhanded for Tim Burton in 1990's Edward . In the Fantasy - tragicomedy she played the Avon lady Peg, during one of their trips consulting the artificial man Edward ( Johnny Depp place) in an old castle, and to take home with them. Her attempts to integrate the scissorhanded man into the small town community fail, however, and Peg realizes that a lonely life in the castle is the most sensible thing for him. In Jodie Foster's directorial debut, The Child Prodigy Tate , Wiest played a scientist who tried to promote the gifted Fred Tate . However , she encounters resistance from his mother Dede , which leads to a tug of war for the boy among the women.

Another collaboration with Woody Allen

After more than six years since the last collaboration, Woody Allen wrote a role for his regular actress. In his comedy Bullets Over Broadway , set in the 1920s , Wiest played a character who had nothing in common with the “nice mothers” and sometimes “sweet” female characters of the past few years. Wiest himself described Allen as "the director who knows how to best use them and who also takes the risk of letting them play rather untypical roles".

For the character of the aging theater diva, Wiest used a lower voice, which she had only used on stage until then to pay tribute to Helen Sinclair's excessive consumption of alcohol and cigarettes . For her portrayal of the often cursing actress who begins an affair with the young director David Shayne alias John Cusack , Wiest was awarded her second Oscar for best supporting actress in 1995. Bullets Over Broadway was her fifth film under director Woody Allen. After Mia Farrow and Diane Keaton, she is the most frequently cast actress in his films.

Comedies in the 1990s

Dianne Wiest was able to prove her talent for comedy once again as Senator's wife Louise Keeley in 1996 in The Birdcage - A Paradise for Shrill Birds . The remake of the French original A Cage Full of Fools from 1978 was prepared by Mike Nichols for the US market with Robin Williams , Gene Hackman and Nathan Lane . Again in a mother role, Wiest was praised for her “solid performance” by James Berardinelli and others and honored with various film awards. In the same year she starred opposite Whoopi Goldberg , directed by Donald Petrie in Who is Mr. Cutty? a secretary who can actually do a lot more than just type. Together with her boss, she conquered the male-dominated New York financial and stock exchange market. The film critic Peter Stack was very impressed with her performance.

The actor and director Griffin Dunne cast Wiest in 1998 in his film adaptation of Alice Hoffman's novel Practical Magic alongside Sandra Bullock , Nicole Kidman and Stockard Channing . The four women together with the young actresses Evan Rachel Wood and Alexandra Artrip embodied three generations of a cursed family of witches. Two years later, the actress slipped back into the role of a witch for the five-part fantasy miniseries The Tenth Kingdom . The story is loosely based on various fairy tales by the Brothers Grimm that were carried over into the 20th century. Wiest was seen as the Evil Queen who tyrannized the so-called nine kingdoms.

TV series and independent films

In 2000, Dianne Wiest met Sam Waterston again, with whom she had already stood in front of the camera in the late 1980s, when she succeeded District Attorney Adam Schiff (played by Steven Hill ) in the series Law & Order . She played the role of District Attorney Nora Lewin in seasons 11 and 12 and was nominated twice for the Screen Actors Guild Award along with her series colleagues .

In the 2001 family drama I'm Sam , she starred alongside Sean Penn , Michelle Pfeiffer and Dakota Fanning . She embodied the agoraphobic neighbor of the mentally disabled Sam, who is fighting for custody of his daughter. Like the other characters in the film, Annie Cassell has to face her fear; During the hearing in the courtroom, she finally takes sides with the mentally handicapped father.

Wiest then played in smaller productions such as Not Afraid, Not Afraid, in the French production Merci Docteur Rey with Jane Birkin and Bulle Ogier and in Kids - In the Streets of New York . The latter is based on an autobiographical novel by Dito Montiel and has been shown at various film festivals, such as the 2006 Venice International Film Festival and the Sundance Film Festival . The ensemble, including Robert Downey Jr. , Chazz Palminteri and Rosario Dawson , was awarded the Special Jury Prize, the Critics Week Prize and the Isvema Prize .

In 2005, the actress voiced the character of Mrs. Coperbottom in the animated film Robots . In Dedication , Justin Theroux's directorial debut , she played a minor supporting role alongside Tom Wilkinson and Mandy Moore . In the comedy Dan - In the Middle of Life! She embodied the mother of two brothers, played by Steve Carell and Dane Cook , who only wants the best for her widowed son Dan and tries to pair him up again. The critics welcomed her presentation and described her as "solid".

In 2008 Wiest played in Synecdoche, New York alongside Oscar winner Philip Seymour Hoffman and Samantha Morton . The tragic comedy by Charlie Kaufman premiered at the Cannes International Film Festival and was screened in the competition for the Palme d'Or . In 2008 and 2009 she was in the drama series In Treatment - The Therapist as the supervisor of the psychotherapist Paul, played by Gabriel Byrne . She received an Emmy for her role . She was also nominated for a Golden Globe in the category Best Supporting Actress - Series, Mini-Series or TV Movie .

In the British production Rage , she can be seen as managing director and former owner of a fashion house, which, like 13 other characters from the company , is filmed over seven days by the young blogger Michelangelo . Sally Potter's unusual work premiered at the Berlinale in 2009 .

From 2015 to 2019 Wiest was one of the main characters in the US comedy series Life in Pieces , alongside James Brolin , Colin Hanks , Betsy Brandt and Thomas Sadoski .

analysis

Although she had no classical acting training, Dianne Wiest received roles in the New York theaters and thus learned her trade while she was on stage. Today the actress regrets that she never attended drama school. However, the lack of experience helped the young actress play freely, even though she always felt she was not good. For the piece Country People of Maxim Gorky she was engaged, despite his own doubts and they played well during the mid-term. In later performances, however, she lost control because she had not yet acquired any technique. So she forced her emotions for the further appearances, which the audience noticed and therefore reacted negatively. Wiest could not afford to attend an acting school because she had to finance her living with acting. So she tried to learn from her colleagues while auditioning or performing. The role of Hermia in Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream , which she played at the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis while she attended various expression courses at the theater , turned out to be a stroke of luck . The director John Hirsch was initially disappointed with his actress and had given her hard at the rehearsals. Towards the end of the season, Wiest had learned a lot and developed his own technique, which was also rewarded by her colleagues. She continued to develop as a stage actress and found her own style that worked well on stage. In front of the camera, however, she could not achieve the same success with her kind. Tim Burton called Dianne Wiest an actress with a lot going on below the surface. Something that cannot be received as well by a cinema audience as it is by a theater audience. According to Wiest, Woody Allen is one of the few who manage to get the same performance out of her in front of the camera that she shows on stage. Critic David Denby shares Wiest's opinion, who, in his opinion, has had some good moments in films, but has never really been able to control the screen. As the aging theater actress Helen Sinclair in Woody Allen's Bullets over Broadway, however, she convinces according to Denby and looks bigger and stronger than in previous roles.

Wiest is considered a shy personality, but his acting is very emotional because she often experiences the emotions played herself. Something that, according to Rosemarie Tichler and Barry Jay Kapla, also comes to the fore when she describes events in interviews. Wiest risk embarrassing himself in order to guarantee the originality and authenticity of feelings.

"She's not holding anything back, and that's one of the hallmarks that make her acting so valuable."

reception

For one of her first supporting roles in front of the camera, Dianne Wiest was praised as "convincing" because she managed the impossible and in her last chance the audience for the story of the simple housewife Nancy, who is overwhelmed with her children and abused by her husband , inspire.

Director Woody Allen said of actors in general:

"[...] what differentiates the great ones from the lesser ones is that they can thrill you with the turn of a phrase, a run, or the bending of a note. That is true acting. "

“[...] what separates the great [actors] from the less great is the fact that they can turn you on with the twist of a sentence, a pass, or the twist of a note. It's real acting. "

In the same breath, Allen referred to Dianne Wiest, with whom you never know what she will do next. Director Tim Burton said of Dianne Wiest that she was highly respected in the film industry, which he did scissorhandle when he made the film Edward . Wiest was the first to sign a contract for the project, which motivated other actors to do the same.

"She [Dianne Wiest] was my guardian angel."

Theater roles

Broadway

Others

Filmography (selection)

Awards

Theater awards

  • 1980: Theater World Award for The Art of Dinning
  • 1980: Nomination for the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actress in One Play for The Art of Dinning
  • 1984: Nomination for the Drama Desk Award in the category of Outstanding Actress in a Play for Other Places and Serenading Louie
  • 1987: Nomination for the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actress in a Play for Hunting Cockroaches

Movie and TV

Dianne Wiest at the 1990 Academy Awards

Dianne Wiest shares the title of Oscar-winning supporting actress with Shelley Winters . In addition, she has won numerous other awards in the course of her career.

Oscar

  • 1987 : Award for Best Supporting Actress for Hannah and her sisters
  • 1990 : Nomination for Best Supporting Actress for Parenthood
  • 1995 : Best Supporting Actress Award for Bullets over Broadway

American Comedy Awards

  • 1994: Award for Bullets over Broadway
  • 1996: Award for The Birdcage - A paradise for shrill birds
  • 1999: Nomination for Magical Sisters

Blockbuster Entertainment Award

  • 1996: Award for The Birdcage - A paradise for shrill birds
  • 1999: Nomination for Magical Sisters

Boston Society of Film Critics Award

Emmy

Golden Globe Award

National Society of Film Critics Award

Screen Actors Guild Awards

Others

literature

  • Janet Sonenberg: The actor speaks: twenty-four actors talk about process and technique . Crown Trade Paperbacks, 1996, ISBN 0-517-88388-0 .
  • Rosemarie Tichler, Barry Jay Kaplan: Actors at Work . Macmillan, 2007, ISBN 0-86547-955-0 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Leslie Benetts: DIANNE WIEST MAKES NEUROSIS A SUCCESS STORY. The New York Times Company, March 18, 1987, accessed May 15, 2009 .
  2. ↑ a b c d Ellen Pall: Hannah's Neurotic Sister? That Was Ages Ago. The New York Times Company, October 9, 1994, accessed May 13, 2009 .
  3. ↑ Alumni Who Have Made A Difference. Office of University Communications, accessed on May 13, 2009 : "Dianne Wiest - Wiest, class of 1969, won the 1995 Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for the movie" Bullets over Broadway "; she also won the same award in 1986 for "Hannah and Her Sisters." "
  4. ↑ Bruce Weber : Sam Cohn, Powerful Talent Broker, Dies at 79. The New York Times Company, May 6, 2009, accessed May 13, 2009 : “Mr. Cohn was married three times and had a long relationship with the actress Dianne Wiest. "
  5. ^ Profile of Dianne Wiest. In: E! Online. Retrieved September 7, 2012 .
  6. ^ Dianne Wiest. The Broadway League, accessed May 13, 2009 .
  7. ↑ unknown: TWO WORKS SHARE OBIE. The New York Times Company, May 22, 1984, accessed May 15, 2009 .
  8. ^ Samuel G. Freedman : Wiest and Langella Play Complex Roles in 'Fall'. The New York Times Company, November 5, 1984, accessed on May 13, 2009 : “But there has been little dissent about the starring performances of Frank Langella and Dianne Wiest in the revival of After the Fall now at Playhouse 91. In a drama that makes people uncomfortable - and that is its strength as well as its weakness - they have won the applause of both critics and audiences. "
  9. ↑ Bernard Weinraub: Discovering the Modern Ties Add a Corsetted Ibsen Creation. The New York Times Company, March 14, 1999, accessed May 15, 2009 : "The tragedy, about a bored, vengeful wife on the edge of madness, has been interpreted, with various degrees of Freudian and feminist shadings, by Eva Le Gallienne, Geraldine Page, Maggie Smith, Glenda Jackson, Jane Alexander and Dianne Wiest, among others. "
  10. ↑ a b David Richards: SUNDAY VIEW; 'In the Summer House' Preserves Its Riddles. The New York Times Company, August 8, 1993, retrieved May 15, 2009 : “Ms. Wiest gives a valiant performance as the imperious Mrs. Eastman Cuevas, issuing edicts, airing firm opinions ("I don't believe in toys for grown-ups. I think they should buy other things if they have money to spare") and generally keeping people in a lowly place. Under the airs of the grande dame there lurks a vulgar barmaid in a red wig, and the barmaid is a bit of a bully. Blending the three together, the actress comes up with a full-bodied characterization that, paradoxically, never seems entirely real. "
  11. ↑ John Rockwell : CORRESPONDENT'S NOTEBOOK; Play? Opera? A Challenge To Daunt the Eye and Ear. The New York Times Company, December 3, 2002, accessed on May 14, 2009 : “[…] was developed at the Actors Studio and has been directed by Estelle Parsons with blocking and lighting and original music and all the trappings of a show. [...] But for all the wit and eccentricity that Mr. Pacino quite properly brings to Herod, and for all the stentorian utterances of David Strathairn as Jokannan (as John is known here), and for all of Dianne Wiest's nice underplaying of Salome's mother, Herodius, none of them is that different from the characters as they appear in a good production of Strauss's opera. "
  12. ^ A b Charles Isherwood: New Year's Eve, America, Motherhood and Blueberry Pie. The New York Times Company, May 18, 2005, accessed May 13, 2009 : “Ms. Wiest's warm, engaging performance provides the juicy filling in Ms. Tolan's play about a tense standoff between a mother and her teenage daughter over their differing philosophies of life. In addition to baking that pie - from scratch, mind you - Ms. Wiest performs the challenging feat of keeping our sympathies keenly attuned to the appealing emotional undercurrents in Ms. Tolan's slight but sensitively drawn play, a task for which no recourse to a recipe is possible. "
  13. ↑ Morgan Allen: Wasserstein Aims for Another Triumph with Third. (No longer available online.) Playbill, Inc., October 25, 2005, formerly original ; accessed on May 13, 2009 : "Playwright Wendy Wasserstein, who won a Pulitzer Prize for The Heidi Chronicles, saw her new play Third celebrate its opening night [...] Academy Award winner Dianne Wiest [...] stars as Laurie Jameson, a college professor whose entire way of life is turned upside when she accuses a student of plagiarism. "
  14. ↑ Ben Brantley: As Feminism Ages, Uncertainty Still Wins. The New York Times Company, October 25, 2005, accessed on May 13, 2009 : “But it's easy to see Laurie Jameson, the lovably perplexed 54-year-old college professor portrayed by Dianne Wiest in“ Third, ”as a reassuringly familiar cousin to Heidi, the lovably perplexed 40-ish college professor first played by Joan Allen 17 years ago. "
  15. ^ A b Stefen McElroy: Theater Listings - THE SEAGULL. New York Times Company, February 24, 2008, accessed May 14, 2009 : “This Chekhov classic, written in 1896, stars Dianne Wiest as the aging actress Arkadina and Alan Cumming as her narcissistic lover, the writer Trigorin. It may be a story of unrequited passion and frustrated ambition, but still, Chekhov insisted it was a comedy. The Classic Stage Company production is directed by Viacheslav Dolgachev, the artistic director of the Moscow New Drama Theater. In previews. Opens March 13th Closes April 13th Classic Stage Company, 136 East 13th Street, East Village. Theater mania. classicstage.org. "
  16. ^ Rosemarie Tichler: Thinking Russian, but at American Speed. The New York Times Company, March 2, 2008, accessed May 13, 2009 : “You also functioned as actor-manager, helping to put the production together. You got the designer Santo Loquasto involved, I believe. "
  17. ↑ Hilton As: Servants of Art. Conde Nast, March 24, 2008, accessed on May 13, 2009 (English): “Wiest brings a certain strained girlishness to her portrayal of Arkadina, which feels absolutely fitting — Arkadina can't mask her fear and hatred of the young and beautiful Nina, with whom she finds she must share Trigorin's attentions, nor can she hide her inability to love or care for her son. "
  18. ↑ Ben Brantley: Oedipus & Company. The New York Times Company, October 17, 2008, accessed May 13, 2009 .
  19. ↑ a b Tom O'Neil: Dianne Wiest pulls off a shrewd Emmy win for 'In Treatment'. Los Angeles Times, September 21, 2008, accessed May 17, 2009 : "Dianne Wiest couldn't attend the Emmys tonight as she is appearing on Broadway in the revival of Arthur Miller's" All My Sons. "While that show is generating lots of ink for the appearance of Katie Holmes in her Rialto debut, Wiest and John Lithgow are the stage vets who make this one worth attending. This is Wiest's third Emmy nod after a 1997 win (guest actress in a drama series, "Avonlea") and a 1998 loss (supporting actress in a mini or movie, "The Simple Life of Noah Dearborn"). "
  20. ↑ a b Berndt Schulz : Woody Allen Lexicon . Lexikon Imprint Verlag, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-89602-276-8 .
  21. ↑ Benjamin Svetkey: The Motherload. Entertainment Weekly, December 7, 1990, accessed May 17, 2009 : “Some actresses are born to play mothers. Others, like Dianne Wiest, have motherhood thrust upon them. For the last six years, the 42-year-old actress has played virtually nothing but dizzy, neurotic, and endearingly befuddled moms "
  22. ^ Roger Ebert : Chicago Sun-Times . 2nd August 1989.
  23. ↑ James Berardinelli : The Birdcage. Retrieved May 14, 2009 .
  24. ^ Peter Stack: San Francisco Chronicle . April 18, 1997.
  25. ^ Warner Bros. Film GmbH: Magical Sisters . In: press release . 1998, p. 3 .
  26. ^ Warner Bros. Film GmbH: I am Sam . In: press release . 2002, p. 5 .
  27. ↑ Kevin Lally: Dan in real life. (No longer available online.) Film Journal International, formerly in the original ; Retrieved May 14, 2009 : "Wiest and Mahoney are solid as Dan's formidable parents, and Alison Pill, Brittany Robertson and Marlene Lawston are spirited as Dan's demanding daughters."
  28. ^ Dave Itzkoff: Berlin Film Festival Announces Lineup. The New York Times Company, December 12, 2008, accessed May 13, 2009 : “Among the films in competition will be 'Rage,' a black comedy about a New York fashion company, starring Jude Law, Judi Dench, Dianne Wiest and Steve Buscemi; [...] "
  29. ↑ Janet Sonenberg: The actor speaks: twenty-four actors talk about process and technique . S. 5 (English): “She regrets her lack of preprofessional training.”
  30. ^ Rosemarie Tichler, Barry Jay Kaplan: Actors at Work . ISBN 0-86547-955-0 , pp. 237-239 .
  31. ↑ Tim Burton, Mark Salisbury, Johnny Depp: Burton on Burton . S. 94 (English): “I love actors like Johnny [Depp] and Dianne Wiest and Alan Arkin who are really doing a lot under the surface […]”
  32. ↑ David Denby : Distressed Woody Allen . In: New York Magazine . October 17, 1994, ISSN  0028-7369 , p. 70-71 .
  33. ↑ Original: She holds nothing back, and that is a hallmark she values ​​most in acting. Rosemarie Tichler, Barry Jay Kaplan: Actors at Work p. 232
  34. ^ Marsha McCreadie: The casting couch and other front row seats: women in films of the 1970s and ... ISBN 978-0-275-92912-1 , p. 11 .
  35. ↑ Woody Allen, Robert E. Kapsis, Kathie Coblentz: Woody Allen: interviews. P. 158.
  36. ↑ Woody Allen, Robert E. Kapsis, Kathie Coblentz: Woody Allen: interviews . S. 158 (English): “You never know what Diane Keaton's going to do or what Dianne Wiest is going to do or Marlon Brando's goin to do.”
  37. ↑ Jim Smith, J. Clive Matthews: Tim Burton . Virgin Books, London 2002, ISBN 0-7535-0682-3 , pp. 196 (English): “She was my guardian angel.”
  38. ^ Alvin Klein: Summer Theater as a Challenge. The New York Times Company, May 23, 1999, accessed May 15, 2009 : “Bay Street may have an image as a celebrity-driven theater, but more often than not, to heady effect. Paula Vogel's Desdemona, with Cherry Jones, had its premiere there in 1993, and Blue Light, Cynthia Ozick's play about Holocaust denial, with Dianne Wiest and Mercedes Ruehl, in 1994. "
  39. ^ Dianne Wiest on stage. The New York Times, accessed May 13, 2009 .

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SURNAME Wiest, Dianne
BRIEF DESCRIPTION US-american actress
DATE OF BIRTH March 28, 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH Kansas City , Missouri, USA