Diane Lane
71 movies · 12 TV shows
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- Jan 22, 1965 (age 61)
- Place of birth
- New York City, New York, USA
- Also known as
- Даєн Лейн · دایان لین
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.
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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.
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Known for
Diane Lane: movies and TV shows
Acting (83)
- Upcoming Making Marie Antoinette
as Eleanor Coppola (voice)
- Upcoming The Exorcist: Martyrs
as Mary Miller
- Upcoming Queen City
as dian3
- Upcoming Moral Capacity
as Dr. Torre
- Upcoming
- 2025 Anniversary
as Ellen Taylor
- 2024 Inside Out 2
as Mom (voice)
- 2024
- 2023
- 2021
- 2021 Zack Snyder's Justice League
as Martha Kent
- 2020 Let Him Go
as Margaret Blackledge
- 2019 Ocean Paradise
as Narrator
- 2019 Serenity
as Constance
- 2018
- 2017 Justice League
as Martha Kent
- 2017 Mark Felt: The Man Who Brought Down the White House
as Audrey Felt
- 2017
- 2016 Paris Can Wait
as Anne Lockwood
- 2016 Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice
as Martha Kent
- 2015 Riley's First Date?
as Mom (voice)
- 2015 Trumbo
as Cleo Trumbo
- 2015 Inside Out
as Mom (voice)
- 2014 Every Secret Thing
as Helen Manning
- 2013
- 2013 Man of Steel
as Martha Kent
- 2013
- 2012 Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen
as (archive footage)
- 2011 Cinema Verite
as Pat Loud
- 2010 Secretariat
as Penny Chenery
- 2008 Killshot
as Carmen Colson
- 2008 Nights in Rodanthe
as Adrienne
- 2008 Jumper
as Mary Rice
- 2008 Untraceable
as Agent Jennifer Marsh
- 2007 Why Be Good?: Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema
as Narrator (voice)
- 2006 Hollywoodland
as Toni Mannix
- 2006 Fierce People
as Liz Earl
- 2005 Must Love Dogs
as Sarah
- 2003 Under the Tuscan Sun
as Frances
- 2002 Unfaithful
as Constance Sumner
- 2001 The Glass House
as Erin Glass
- 2001 Hardball
as Elizabeth Wilkes
- 2000 The Perfect Storm
as Christina "Chris" Cotter
- 2000 My Dog Skip
as Ellen Morris
- 2000 The Virginian
as Molly Stark
- 1999 A Walk on the Moon
as Pearl Kantrowitz
- 1998 Grace & Glorie
as Gloria Greenwood
- 1998 Gunshy
as Melissa
- 1997 Murder at 1600
as Agent Nina Chance
- 1997 The Only Thrill
as Katherine Fritzsimmons
- 1996 Mad Dog Time
as Grace Everly
- 1996 Jack
as Karen Powell
- 1995 Wild Bill
as Susannah Moore
- 1995 A Streetcar Named Desire
as Stella Kowalski
- 1995 Judge Dredd
as Judge Hershey
- 1994 Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All
as Lucy Honicut Marsden
- 1994
- 1993
- 1993 Indian Summer
as Beth Warden / Clair Everett
- 1992 Chaplin
as Paulette Goddard
- 1992 My New Gun
as Debbie Bender
- 1992 The Setting Sun
as Lian Hong
- 1992 Knight Moves
as Kathy Sheppard
- 1990 Descending Angel
as Irina Stroia
- 1990 Vital Signs
as Gina Wyler
- 1989
- 1988 Priceless Beauty
as China
- 1987 The Big Town
as Lorry Dane
- 1987 Lady Beware
as Katya Yarno
- 1984 The Cotton Club
as Vera Cicero
- 1984 Streets of Fire
as Ellen Aim
- 1983 Rumble Fish
as Patty
- 1983 The Outsiders
as Cherry Valance
- 1982 Miss All-American Beauty
as Sally Butterfield
- 1982 Ladies and Gentlemen, the Fabulous Stains
as Corinne Burns
- 1982 Six Pack
as Breezy
- 1982 National Lampoon's Movie Madness
as Liza ("Growing Yourself")
- 1981 Child Bride of Short Creek
as Jessica Rae Jacobs
- 1981 Cattle Annie and Little Britches
as Jenny (Little Britches)
- 1980 Touched by Love
as Karen
- 1979 A Little Romance
as Lauren King
- 1971
- 1951
Behind the camera (1)
- 2025 Anniversary
Executive Producer
Talk shows and appearances (30)
- 2024
- 2022 The Jennifer Hudson Show
1 episode
- 2021 Amend: The Fight for America
2 episodes
- 2015 The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
1 episode
- 2014 Late Night with Seth Meyers
1 episode
- 2013
- 2013 The Frame
1 episode
- 2012
- 2012 Half the Sky
2 episodes
- 2009 Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
1 episode
- 2008 The Bonnie Hunt Show
1 episode
- 2005
- 2005
- 2005 The Tyra Banks Show
1 episode
- 2003 The Ellen DeGeneres Show
2 episodes
- 2003 Jimmy Kimmel Live!
2 episodes
- 2002
- 1999
- 1999 The Directors
1 episode
- 1997 The View
3 episodes
- 1996 The Daily Show
2 episodes
- 1995
- 1994 Inside the Actors Studio
1 episode
- 1993 Intimate Portrait
1 episode
- 1993 Late Night with Conan O'Brien
2 episodes
- 1992 The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
2 episodes
- 1988 LIVE with Kelly and Mark
4 episodes
- 1953 The Oscars
2 episodes
- 1952 Today
1 episode
- 1944 Golden Globe Awards
1 episode