Birth information28 March 1948, Kansas City, Missouri, USA BioOne of three children (she has two brothers, Greg and Don), Dianne Wiest was born in Kansas City, Missouri, USA on 28 March 1948. Her original ambition was to be a ballerina, but she was bitten by acting bug after some stage work, most notably playing Desdemona to James Earl Jones' Othello on Broadway. She made her film debut in 1980, but didn't make a name for herself until her performance as Emma, a prostitute during the 1930s Depression, in Woody Allen's The Purple Rose of Cairo (1985). Allen was so impressed by Wiest's acting ability that he has directed her on four more occasions since. Under Allen's direction, Wiest won a well deserved Oscar for Best Supporting Actress, for her brilliant performance as the neurotic, wannabe actress Holly in Hannah and Her Sisters (1986). She followed her Academy Award success with performances in The Lost Boys (1987) and Bright Lights, Big City (1988) before stealing the show from the likes of Steve Martin, Mary Steenburgen, Jason Robards, Keanu Reeves, and Martha Plimpton in Ron Howard's Parenthood (1989). Playing Helen Buckman, the divorced mother of two difficult teens, Wiest was both touching and hilarious, and received her second Oscar nomination.Arguably her most beloved role came as Peg Boggs, the kindly Avon Lady who discovers the titular Edward Scissorhands (1990). Wiest returned to Woody Allen in 1994 for Bullets Over Broadway (1994), a superb comedy set in 1920s New York, winning her second Best Supporting Actress Oscar for her magnificent portrayal of Helen Sinclair, a boozy, glamorous and neurotic star of the stage, who could made the words "Don't speak!" the funniest sentence ever captured on film. Recently enjoying great success with witchy roles in the film Practical Magic (1998) and the TV mini-series "The 10th Kingdom" (2000), Dianne Wiest lives in New York City with her two adopted daughters, Emily and Lily.

Katie Holmes headed to Washington DC over the weekend to take the stage with Diane Wiest, her All My Sons costar, at a special Memorial Day concert. After a quick run-through on Saturday afternoon in her floral shirt, Katie put on a navy blue top to act out a scene later in the evening. She opened up about her participation in the event, saying, "It's a real gift." Katie also revealed that she's prepping to spend the Summer filming her latest project in Australia, where she'll be joined by Tom and Suri. Her husband and daughter also spent the past few days in the capital and were on hand to cheer her on from the audience. www.wireimage.com, www.gettyimages.com, and Splash News Online View 10 Photos › To see more of Katie, just read more. View 10 Photos ›
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One more month and the year is half over! Yikes. I only have six months left to churn out some fantastic life-saving (my life anyway) "best of the decade" book for you to purchase. In case you missed anything, here's the best of May.

The Blockbuster Loop I buried the lead. Everyone thought it was about Christian Bale but what I really wanted to discuss was the loop!
May Flowers My favorites were Vertigo and My Fair Lady. Yours?
9 for Nine I should talk about this everyday given your enthusiasm.
Juliette Binoche Ja thinks she's the "best crier" in cinema. A lively discussion followed.
Terminator a retrospective and the debut vodcast.
'Precioussssss' the new movie looks great but I can't stop thinking about the white poodle and the girl in the pit.
John Cameron Mitchell on Nicole Kidman "a stradivarius"
Signatures: Jamie Lee Curtis Adam chose a truly undervalued actress to celebrate.
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Nicole Kidman has been attached to star and produce the BBC Films-acquired project "Little Bee," based on the bestselling Chris Cleave novel.
The film will follow a fateful encounter on an African beach wherein a 16-year-old Nigerian orphan named Little Bee meets an upper middle class British couple who have wandered outside the safety of their vacation resort.
Shawn Slovo, who wrote the autobiographical "A World Apart," is writing the script, Variety Reports.
Kidman will next be seen in "Rabbit Hole" alongside Aaron Eckhart and Dianne Wiest. She was supposed to appear in an as-yet untitled Woody Allen film, but had to drop out because of scheduling conflicts.

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