Early Life
Wiest was born in Kansas City, Missouri. Her mother, Anne Stewart (née Keddie), was born in Auchtermuchty, Scotland, and worked as a nurse, and her father, Bernard John Wiest, was a college dean and former psychiatric social worker for the U.S. Army. The two met in Algiers. She has two brothers: Greg and Don Wiest. Wiest's original ambition was to be a ballerina, but in her senior year at Nurnberg American High School she switched her goal to theatre.
Wiest graduated from the University of Maryland in 1969 with a degree in Arts and Sciences.
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