Dianne Wiest

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Dianne Wiest
Character Interim DA Nora Lewin
Date of birth 28 March 1948
Place of birth Kansas City, Missouri
IMDb profile

Dianne Wiest is an actress who played Interim District Attorney Nora Lewin on Law & Order. She was a regular cast member during the eleventh and twelfth season.

Wiest also made cameo appearances in the Law & Order: Special Victims Unit episodes "Ridicule" and "Chameleon", and in the pilot episode from Law & Order: Criminal Intent.

Wiest won two Oscars in the category Best Actress in a Supporting Role. The first one for Hannah and Her Sisters (1986), and the second one for Bullets Over Broadway (1994). For Bullets Over Broadway she also won a Golden Globe Award. She received an Emmy Award in 1997 for her guest appearance in the episode "Woman of Importance" from Road to Avonlea