Diane Lane
Born January 22, 1965 (Age: 61)
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New York City, New York, USA
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.
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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Filmography
The Exorcist
2027
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as
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Age: 62
Anniversary
2025
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as Ellen
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Age: 60
Inside Out 2
2024
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as Mom (voice)
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Age: 59
Zack Snyder's Justice League
2021
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as Martha Kent
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Age: 56
Let Him Go
2020
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as Margaret Blackledge
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Age: 55
Serenity
2019
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as Constance
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Age: 54
Justice League
2017
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as Martha Kent
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Age: 52
Mark Felt: The Man Who Brought Down the White House
2017
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as Audrey Felt
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Age: 52
Paris Can Wait
2016
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as Anne Lockwood
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Age: 51
Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice
2016
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as Martha Kent
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Age: 51
Trumbo
2015
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as Cleo Trumbo
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Age: 50
Inside Out
2015
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as Mom (voice)
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Age: 50
Every Secret Thing
2014
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as Helen Manning
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Age: 49
Man of Steel
2013
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as Martha Kent
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Age: 48
Casting By
2012
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as Self
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Age: 47
Secretariat
2010
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as Penny Chenery
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Age: 45
Killshot
2008
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as Carmen Colson
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Age: 43
Nights in Rodanthe
2008
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as Adrienne
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Age: 43
Jumper
2008
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as Mary Rice
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Age: 43
Untraceable
2008
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as Agent Jennifer Marsh
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Age: 43
Hollywoodland
2006
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as Toni Mannix
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Age: 41
On Location in Tulsa: The Making of 'Rumble Fish'
2005
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as Self (archive footage)
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Age: 40
Must Love Dogs
2005
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as Sarah
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Age: 40
Under the Tuscan Sun
2003
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as Frances
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Age: 38
Unfaithful
2002
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as Constance Sumner
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Age: 37
Hardball
2001
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as Elizabeth Wilkes
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Age: 36
The Perfect Storm
2000
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as Christina "Chris" Cotter
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Age: 35
My Dog Skip
2000
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as Ellen Morris
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Age: 34
The Virginian
2000
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as Molly Stark
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Age: 34
The Making of Ladies and Gentlemen, Fabulous Stains
1999
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as Self
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Age: 34
Murder at 1600
1997
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as Agent Nina Chance
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Age: 32
Mad Dog Time
1996
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as Grace Everly
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Age: 31
Jack
1996
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as Karen Powell
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Age: 31
Wild Bill
1995
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as Susannah Moore
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Age: 30
Judge Dredd
1995
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as Judge Hershey
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Age: 30
Chaplin
1992
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as Paulette Goddard
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Age: 27
Knight Moves
1992
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as Kathy Sheppard
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Age: 26
The Big Town
1987
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as Lorry Dane
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Age: 22
Lady Beware
1987
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as Katya Yarno
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Age: 22
The Cotton Club
1984
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as Vera Cicero
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Age: 19
Streets of Fire
1984
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as Ellen Aim
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Age: 19
Rumble Fish
1983
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as Patty
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Age: 18
The Outsiders
1983
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as Cherry Valance
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Age: 18
Six Pack
1982
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as Breezy
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Age: 17
National Lampoon's Movie Madness
1982
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as Liza ("Growing Yourself")
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Age: 17