Dianne Wiest Footloose

Dianne Wiest (born March 28, 1948, Kansas City, Missouri) played Vi Moore, the reverend's wife, in Footloose (1984).

Vi is the household's translator

Wiest's role is small in screen time and large in structural weight. Vi is the person who finally says out loud, in the kitchen scene late in the film, the thing the picture has been circling — that Shaw's love for his daughter has fused with his fear of her, and that holding tighter is now the same gesture as letting her go. The Wiest of Footloose is the early sketch of the warmth that would become her signature.

She was thirty-five when she made the film. Her career to that point was primarily on stage — she had spent years with the New York Shakespeare Festival and the Trinity Repertory Company. Footloose was one of her first major film roles.

Two Best Supporting Actress Oscars under Woody Allen

Wiest won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress twice, both for Woody Allen films:

"Dianne Wiest won two Academy Awards for Best Supporting Actress for her roles in Woody Allen's Hannah and Her Sisters (1986) and Bullets Over Broadway (1994)." — Wikipedia, Wikipedia

In Hannah and Her Sisters she played the flighty, cocaine-snorting Holly. In Bullets Over Broadway she played the alcoholic, theatrical has-been actress Helen Sinclair, with the line that has followed her through three decades of clip reels: "Don't speak."

She was also nominated for Parenthood (1989) — three nominations, two wins.

A selected filmography

Year	Film	Notes
1980	It's My Turn	Feature debut
1984	Footloose	Vi Moore
1985	The Purple Rose of Cairo	First Allen collaboration
1986	Hannah and Her Sisters	First Oscar
1987	Radio Days	Allen ensemble
1987	The Lost Boys	Joel Schumacher
1989	Parenthood	Oscar nomination
1990	Edward Scissorhands	Tim Burton
1994	Bullets Over Broadway	Second Oscar
1996	The Birdcage	Mike Nichols
1999	The Horse Whisperer
2007–14	In Treatment	Emmy Award
2015	The Big Short	Adam McKay