Personal Info
Known For:
Acting
Birthday:
January 22, 1965
Place of Birth:
New York City, New York, USA
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Diane Lane
Biography
Diane Colleen Lane (born January 22, 1965) is an American actress and producer. Born and raised in New York City, Lane made her screen debut at age 14 in George Roy Hill's 1979 film A Little Romance. Laurence Olivier, who played a major supporting role in the film, called her "the new Grace Kelly".
The two films that could have catapulted her to star status, Streets of Fire and The Cotton Club, were both commercial and critical failures, and her career languished as a result. After taking a break, Lane returned to acting to appear in The Big Town and Lady Beware, but did not make another big impression on a sizable audience until 1989's popular and critically acclaimed TV miniseries Lonesome Dove, for which she was nominated for an Emmy Award. It was not until 1999 that Lane earned further recognition for her role in A Walk on the Moon, and that was followed by her performance alongside George Clooney and Mark Wahlberg in the 2000 blockbuster The Perfect Storm.
She was especially lauded and honored for the 2002 film Unfaithful, which earned her Satellite, New York Film Critics Circle, and National Society of Film Critics awards for Best Actress in a Motion Picture (Drama). Her performance in Unfaithful also garnered her Academy Award, Golden Globe, and Screen Actors Guild Award nominations for Best Actress. She was also highly lauded by critics for her performance in the immediately subsequent film Under the Tuscan Sun. For much of the rest of the decade, she alternately appeared as a lead actress in romantic films such as Must Love Dogs (2005) and Nights in Rodanthe (2008), and thrillers such as Fierce People (2005), Hollywoodland (2006), and Untraceable (2008).
She has appeared in four films directed by Francis Ford Coppola: The Outsiders, Rumble Fish, The Cotton Club, and Jack. She has been in one film directed by his wife Eleanor Coppola: Paris Can Wait.
She also played the recurring role of Martha Kent, the adoptive mother of Superman, in Man of Steel (2013) and appeared in subsequent films of the DC Extended Universe. Her most recent film is the 2020 neo-western Let Him Go.
Known For
Filmography
| Year | Movie | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Anniversary | Ellen |
| 2024 | Inside Out 2 | Mom (voice) |
| 2021 | Zack Snyder's Justice League | Martha Kent |
| 2020 | Let Him Go | Margaret Blackledge |
| 2019 | Serenity | Constance |
| 2019 | Ocean Paradise | Narrator |
| 2017 | Mark Felt: The Man Who Brought Down the White House | Audrey Felt |
| 2017 | Justice League | Martha Kent |
| 2016 | Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice | Martha Kent |
| 2016 | Paris Can Wait | Anne Lockwood |
| 2015 | Trumbo | Cleo Trumbo |
| 2015 | Inside Out | Mom (voice) |
| 2015 | Riley's First Date? | Mom (voice) |
| 2014 | Every Secret Thing | Helen Manning |
| 2014 | And the Oscar Goes To... | Self (archive footage) |
| 2013 | Man of Steel | Martha Kent |
| 2013 | James Gandolfini: Tribute to a Friend | Self |
| 2012 | Casting By | Self |
| 2012 | Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen | (archive footage) |
| 2012 | Half the Sky: Turning Oppression Into Opportunity for Women Worldwide | Self |
| 2011 | Cinema Verite | Pat Loud |
| 2010 | Secretariat | Penny Chenery |
| 2008 | Untraceable | Agent Jennifer Marsh |
| 2008 | Jumper | Mary Rice |
| 2008 | Nights in Rodanthe | Adrienne |
| 2008 | Killshot | Carmen Colson |
| 2007 | Why Be Good?: Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema | Narrator (voice) |
| 2006 | Hollywoodland | Toni Mannix |
| 2006 | Fierce People | Liz Earl |
| 2005 | Must Love Dogs | Sarah |
| 2005 | Staying Gold: A Look Back at 'The Outsiders' | Self |
| 2003 | Under the Tuscan Sun | Frances |
| 2002 | Unfaithful | Constance Sumner |
| 2002 | Searching for Debra Winger | Self |
| 2001 | The Glass House | Erin Glass |
| 2001 | Hardball | Elizabeth Wilkes |
| 2000 | The Perfect Storm | Christina "Chris" Cotter |
| 2000 | My Dog Skip | Ellen Morris |
| 2000 | The Virginian | Molly Stark |
| 1999 | A Walk on the Moon | Pearl Kantrowitz |
| 1998 | Gunshy | Melissa |
| 1998 | Grace & Glorie | Gloria Greenwood |
| 1997 | Murder at 1600 | Agent Nina Chance |
| 1997 | The Only Thrill | Katherine Fritzsimmons |
| 1996 | Jack | Karen Powell |
| 1996 | Mad Dog Time | Grace Everly |
| 1995 | Judge Dredd | Judge Hershey |
| 1995 | Wild Bill | Susannah Moore |
| 1995 | A Streetcar Named Desire | Stella Kowalski |
| 1995 | Stallone's Law: The Making of 'Judge Dredd' | Herself |
| 1994 | Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All | Lucy Honicut Marsden |
| 1993 | Indian Summer | Beth Warden / Clair Everett |
| 1992 | Knight Moves | Kathy Sheppard |
| 1992 | My New Gun | Debbie Bender |
| 1992 | Chaplin | Paulette Goddard |
| 1992 | The Setting Sun | Lian Hong |
| 1990 | Vital Signs | Gina Wyler |
| 1990 | Descending Angel | Irina Stroia |
| 1988 | Priceless Beauty | China |
| 1987 | The Big Town | Lorry Dane |
| 1987 | Lady Beware | Katya Yarno |
| 1984 | The Cotton Club | Vera Cicero |
| 1984 | Streets of Fire | Ellen Aim |
| 1983 | The Outsiders | Cherry Valance |
| 1983 | Rumble Fish | Patty |
| 1982 | Ladies and Gentlemen, the Fabulous Stains | Corinne Burns |
| 1982 | National Lampoon's Movie Madness | Liza ("Growing Yourself") |
| 1982 | Six Pack | Breezy |
| 1982 | Miss All-American Beauty | Sally Butterfield |
| 1981 | Cattle Annie and Little Britches | Jenny (Little Britches) |
| 1981 | Child Bride of Short Creek | Jessica Rae Jacobs |
| 1980 | Touched by Love | Karen |
| 1979 | A Little Romance | Lauren King |
| Queen City | dian3 |