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Diane Lane
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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 Lonesom…
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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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BODY OF WORK
Diane Lane's Filmography
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The Exorcist: Martyrs
as Mary Miller
Making Marie Antoinette
as Eleanor Coppola (voice)
Anniversary
as Ellen Taylor
Inside Out 2
as Mom (voice)
An American Family at 50
as Self
Zack Snyder's Justice League
as Martha Kent
Let Him Go
as Margaret Blackledge
Ocean Paradise
as Narrator
Serenity
as Constance
Justice League
as Martha Kent
Mark Felt: The Man Who Brought Down the White House
as Audrey Felt
Paris Can Wait
as Anne Lockwood
Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice
as Martha Kent
Riley's First Date?
as Mom (voice)
Trumbo
as Cleo Trumbo
Inside Out
as Mom (voice)
Every Secret Thing
as Helen Manning
James Gandolfini: Tribute to a Friend
as Self
Journey of Discovery: Creating Man of Steel
Man of Steel
as Martha Kent
Casting By
as Self
Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen
as (archive footage)
Cinema Verite
as Pat Loud
Secretariat
as Penny Chenery
Killshot
as Carmen Colson
Nights in Rodanthe
as Adrienne
Jumper
as Mary Rice
Untraceable
as Agent Jennifer Marsh
Why Be Good?: Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema
as Narrator (voice)
Hollywoodland
as Toni Mannix
Fierce People
as Liz Earl
Staying Gold: A Look Back at 'The Outsiders'
as Self
On Location in Tulsa: The Making of 'Rumble Fish'
as Self (archive footage)
Must Love Dogs
as Sarah
Under the Tuscan Sun
as Frances
Searching for Debra Winger
as Self
Unfaithful
as Constance Sumner
The Glass House
as Erin Glass
Hardball
as Elizabeth Wilkes
The Perfect Storm
as Christina "Chris" Cotter
My Dog Skip
as Ellen Morris
The Virginian
as Molly Stark
The Making of Ladies and Gentlemen, Fabulous Stains
as Self
A Walk on the Moon
as Pearl Kantrowitz
Grace & Glorie
as Gloria Greenwood
Gunshy
as Melissa
Murder at 1600
as Agent Nina Chance
The Only Thrill
as Katherine Fritzsimmons
Mad Dog Time
as Grace Everly
Jack
as Karen Powell
Wild Bill
as Susannah Moore
A Streetcar Named Desire
as Stella Kowalski
Judge Dredd
as Judge Hershey
No Poster
Stallone's Law: The Making of 'Judge Dredd'
as Herself
Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All
as Lucy Honicut Marsden
Indian Summer
as Beth Warden / Clair Everett
Chaplin
as Paulette Goddard
My New Gun
as Debbie Bender
The Setting Sun
as Lian Hong
Knight Moves
as Kathy Sheppard
Descending Angel
as Irina Stroia
Vital Signs
as Gina Wyler
Priceless Beauty
as China
The Big Town
as Lorry Dane
Lady Beware
as Katya Yarno
The Cotton Club
as Vera Cicero
Streets of Fire
as Ellen Aim
Rumble Fish
as Patty
The Outsiders
as Cherry Valance
Miss All-American Beauty
as Sally Butterfield
Ladies and Gentlemen, the Fabulous Stains
as Corinne Burns
Six Pack
as Breezy
National Lampoon's Movie Madness
as Liza ("Growing Yourself")
Child Bride of Short Creek
as Jessica Rae Jacobs
Cattle Annie and Little Britches
as Jenny (Little Britches)
Touched by Love
as Karen
A Little Romance
as Lauren King
Queen City
as dian3
No Poster
Moral Capacity
as Dr. Torre