Dianne Wiest

Nominated for the 2009 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress In A Drama Series

Cast as Paul's (Gabriel Byrne) own therapist and mentor in the HBO series, "In Treatment"; earned Golden Globe and Emmy nominatios in 2009 for Supporting Actress in a Drama Series

Played the mother of Dane Cook and Steve Carell in "Dan in Real Life"

Cast in the coming-of-age drama "A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints"

Voiced Mrs. Copperbottom in the animated feature "Robots"

Portrayed an opera-diva mother in "Merci Docteur Rey"

Played a neighbor who befriends a mentally retarded man (Sean Penn) and his daughter (Dakota Fanning) in "I Am Sam"

Cast as the Evil Queen out to usurp the throne from the heir in the elaborate NBC miniseries "The 10th Kingdom"

Joined cast of the NBC drama series "Law & Order" as the district attorney

Reteamed with John Lithgow as husband and wife in the period comedy "Portofino"

Played the restaurant owner friend to a local craftsman (Sidney Poitier) in the CBS drama "The Simple Life of Noah Dearborn"; received Emmy nomination

Portrayed the sister-in-law of Robert Redford in "The Horse Whisperer"

Returned to the NY stage in "One Flea Spare" at the New York Shakespeare Festival

Cast as the wife of a conservative politician in Mike Nichols' "The Bird Cage"; film loosely based on "La Cage aux Folles"

Played the lead role in George Bernard Shaw's "Jitta's Atonement" at the Bershire Theater Festival; directed by and co-starred Harris Yulin

Won an Emmy guest-starring on The Disney Channel's "Avonlea"

Acted in the film, "Drunks"; directed by Peter Cohn (the son of Wiest's agent and former off-screen companion Sam Cohn)

Acted with Harris Yulin in "Don Juan in Hell"

Created role of a Holocaust survivor in Cynthia Ozick's play "Blue Light"; directed Sidney Lumet

Delivered one of her best screen performances as an over-the-hill actress in Woody Allen's "Bullets Over Broadway"; won second Best Supporting Actress Academy Award; first performer to win two Oscars in films directed by same person

Portrayed the child psychologist who clashes with the mother of a genius in Jodie Foster's directorial debut "Little Man Tate"

Played the Avon Lady who befriends the title character in Tim Burton's "Edward Scissorhands"

Earned second Best Supporting Actress Oscar nomination as the exasperated single mother in "Parenthood"

Co-starred with Ron Silver (as Polish emigres) in the play "Hunting Cockroaches"

Offered a lovely turn as the high-strung Aunt Bea in Allen's nostalgic "Radio Days"

Played the mother of teenagers who fall prey to a gang of young vampires in Joel Schumacher's flashy "The Lost Boys"

Breakthrough screen role, as the somewhat neurotic Holly in Allen's "Hannah and Her Sisters"; won Best Supporting Actress Academy Award

Directed the play "Not About Heroes" featuring Edward Hermann and Dylan Baker at the Williamstown Theatre Festival; production transferred to Off-Broadway

First film with director Woody Allen, "The Purple Rose of Cairo"; played a hooker

Cast as the long-suffering minister's wife in "Footloose"; first onscream teaming with John Lithgow

Portrayed Maggie (the character based on Marilyn Monroe) opposite Frank Langella in Arthur Miller's "After the Fall"

Played the leading role of a rape victim in the ABC movie, "The Face of Rage"

First featured film role, supporting Jill CLayburgh in "I'm Dancing as Fast as I Can"

Network TV-movie debut in "The Wall" (CBS), a fictionalized account of the Jewish Resistance to the Nazis in the Warsaw Ghetto during WWII

Returned to Broadway as Desdemona opposite James Earl Jones in "Othello"

Made Broadway debut in the ill-fated "Frankenstein"

Feature film debut in "It's My Turn" starring Jill Clayburgh

Played title role in Long Wharf staging of "Hedda Gabler"

Breakthrough stage role, "The Art of Dining"

Appeared in a supporting role in the New York Shakespeare Festival production "Ashes"

TV debut in a "Great Performances" (PBS) presentation of the Arena Theater's production of Elie Wiesel's "Zalmen/Zalmen, or the Madness of God"

At age 16, dropped ballet in favor of acting

As a child and adolescent, moved frequently due to father's military career

Left college and toured with the American Shakespeare Company

Spent four years with the Arena Theater in Washington, DC; travelled to the USSR with company

Studied at the School of American Ballet in NYC as a teenager

Will star in a revival of Arthur Miller's "All My Sons" (fall 2008)