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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 seasons.

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  The Road to Avonlea

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