
Diane Lane
4 FOLLOWERS • 45 CREDITS • JAN 22, 1965 • 60
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.
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Late Night with Seth Meyers

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

The Tonight Show with Jay Leno

Hallmark Hall of Fame

The Daily Show

The Oscars

Today

Jimmy Kimmel Live!

LIVE with Kelly and Mark

The Tyra Banks Show

Extrapolations

Amend: The Fight for America

Fallen Angels

House of Cards

Inside Out 2

Zack Snyder's Justice League

Inside Out 2: A Special Look

Justice League

The Outsiders

The Romanoffs

Inside Out

Man of Steel

James Gandolfini: Tribute to a Friend

Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice

Jumper

Riley's First Date?

Serenity

The Perfect Storm

FEUD

Lonesome Dove

A Man in Full

Late Night with Conan O'Brien

Jack

Judge Dredd

The Glass House

Hardball

Miss All-American Beauty

Secretariat

Under the Tuscan Sun

Must Love Dogs

Let Him Go

Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All

Y: The Last Man

Untraceable

Ladies and Gentlemen, the Fabulous Stains
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