Diane Lane

Known for ActingBorn 1965-01-22 (age 61)New York City, New York, USA

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.Read more

Movies & web series

The Frame

Staying Gold: A Look Back at 'The Outsiders'

Zack Snyder's Justice League

Hallmark Hall of Fame

House of Cards

Inside Out

On Location in Tulsa: The Making of 'Rumble Fish'

Lonesome Dove

Inside Out 2

FEUD

Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen

James Gandolfini: Tribute to a Friend

Inside the Actors Studio

Half the Sky: Turning Oppression Into Opportunity for Women Worldwide

Secretariat

The Making of Ladies and Gentlemen, Fabulous Stains

Riley's First Date?

Chaplin

Trumbo

Amend: The Fight for America

Late Night with Conan O'Brien

Anniversary

A Streetcar Named Desire

Let Him Go

The Outsiders

Casting By

Y: The Last Man

Under the Tuscan Sun

Rumble Fish

Man of Steel

Streets of Fire

Unfaithful

My Dog Skip

Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All

Golden Globe Awards

A Little Romance

A Man in Full

The Romanoffs

The Oscars

Hardball

The Perfect Storm

Searching for Debra Winger

The Daily Show

Mark Felt: The Man Who Brought Down the White House

Cattle Annie and Little Britches

Child Bride of Short Creek

The Cotton Club

Six Pack