Diane Lane
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- Jan 22, 1965 (age 61)
- Place of birth
- New York City, New York, USA
- Credits
- 113
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.
Known for
Inside Out
2015Movie
Mom (voice)
Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice
2016Movie
Martha Kent
Man of Steel
2013Movie
Martha Kent
Justice League
2017Movie
Martha Kent
Zack Snyder's Justice League
2021Movie
Martha Kent
Inside Out 2
2024Movie
Mom (voice)
Filmography
The Exorcist: Martyrs
2027Movie
Mary Miller
Making Marie Antoinette
2026Movie
Eleanor Coppola (voice)
Anniversary
2025Movie
Ellen Taylor
Inside Out 2
2024Movie
Mom (voice)
A Man in Full
2024TV
Martha Croker
An American Family at 50
2024Movie
Self
Extrapolations
2023TV
Martha Russell
The Jennifer Hudson Show
2022TV
Self
Y: The Last Man
2021TV
Jennifer Brown
Zack Snyder's Justice League
2021Movie
Martha Kent
Amend: The Fight for America
2021TV
Self
Let Him Go
2020Movie
Margaret Blackledge
Ocean Paradise
2019Movie
Narrator
Serenity
2019Movie
Constance
The Romanoffs
2018TV
Katherine Ford
Justice League
2017Movie
Martha Kent
Mark Felt: The Man Who Brought Down the White House
2017Movie
Audrey Felt
FEUD
2017TV
Slim Keith
Paris Can Wait
2016Movie
Anne Lockwood
Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice
2016Movie
Martha Kent
Riley's First Date?
2015Movie
Mom (voice)
Trumbo
2015Movie
Cleo Trumbo
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015TV
Self
Inside Out
2015Movie
Mom (voice)
Every Secret Thing
2014Movie
Helen Manning
Late Night with Seth Meyers
2014TV
Self
James Gandolfini: Tribute to a Friend
2013Movie
Self
Journey of Discovery: Creating Man of Steel
2013Movie
Man of Steel
2013Movie
Martha Kent
The Frame
2013TV
Martha Kent
House of Cards
2013TV
Annette Shepherd
Casting By
2012Movie
Self
Half the Sky
2012TV
Self
Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen
2012Movie
(archive footage)
Cinema Verite
2011Movie
Pat Loud
Secretariat
2010Movie
Penny Chenery
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
2009TV
Self - Guest
Killshot
2008Movie
Carmen Colson
Nights in Rodanthe
2008Movie
Adrienne
The Bonnie Hunt Show
2008TV
Self
Jumper
2008Movie
Mary Rice
Untraceable
2008Movie
Agent Jennifer Marsh
Why Be Good?: Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema
2007Movie
Narrator (voice)
Hollywoodland
2006Movie
Toni Mannix
Fierce People
2006Movie
Liz Earl
Staying Gold: A Look Back at 'The Outsiders'
2005Movie
Self
On Location in Tulsa: The Making of 'Rumble Fish'
2005Movie
Self (archive footage)
The Tyra Banks Show
2005TV
Must Love Dogs
2005Movie
Sarah
Under the Tuscan Sun
2003Movie
Frances
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
2003TV
Self
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
2003TV
Self
Searching for Debra Winger
2002Movie
Self
Unfaithful
2002Movie
Constance Sumner
The Glass House
2001Movie
Erin Glass
Hardball
2001Movie
Elizabeth Wilkes
The Perfect Storm
2000Movie
Christina "Chris" Cotter
My Dog Skip
2000Movie
Ellen Morris
The Virginian
2000Movie
Molly Stark
The Making of Ladies and Gentlemen, Fabulous Stains
1999Movie
Self
A Walk on the Moon
1999Movie
Pearl Kantrowitz
The Directors
1999TV
Self
Grace & Glorie
1998Movie
Gloria Greenwood
Gunshy
1998Movie
Melissa
The View
1997TV
Self
Murder at 1600
1997Movie
Agent Nina Chance
The Only Thrill
1997Movie
Katherine Fritzsimmons
Mad Dog Time
1996Movie
Grace Everly
Jack
1996Movie
Karen Powell
The Daily Show
1996TV
Self
Wild Bill
1995Movie
Susannah Moore
A Streetcar Named Desire
1995Movie
Stella Kowalski
Judge Dredd
1995Movie
Judge Hershey
Stallone's Law: The Making of 'Judge Dredd'
1995Movie
Herself
Inside the Actors Studio
1994TV
Self
Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All
1994Movie
Lucy Honicut Marsden
Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All
1994TV
Lucy Honicut Marsden
Intimate Portrait
1993TV
Self
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
1993TV
Self - Guest
Fallen Angels
1993TV
Bernette Stone
Indian Summer
1993Movie
Beth Warden / Clair Everett
Chaplin
1992Movie
Paulette Goddard
My New Gun
1992Movie
Debbie Bender
The Setting Sun
1992Movie
Lian Hong
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
1992TV
Self
Knight Moves
1992Movie
Kathy Sheppard
Descending Angel
1990Movie
Irina Stroia
Vital Signs
1990Movie
Gina Wyler
Lonesome Dove
1989TV
Lorena Wood Parker
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
1988TV
Self - Guest, Self
Priceless Beauty
1988Movie
China
The Big Town
1987Movie
Lorry Dane
Lady Beware
1987Movie
Katya Yarno
The Cotton Club
1984Movie
Vera Cicero
Streets of Fire
1984Movie
Ellen Aim
Rumble Fish
1983Movie
Patty
The Outsiders
1983Movie
Cherry Valance
Miss All-American Beauty
1982Movie
Sally Butterfield
Ladies and Gentlemen, the Fabulous Stains
1982Movie
Corinne Burns
Six Pack
1982Movie
Breezy
National Lampoon's Movie Madness
1982Movie
Liza ("Growing Yourself")
Child Bride of Short Creek
1981Movie
Jessica Rae Jacobs
Cattle Annie and Little Britches
1981Movie
Jenny (Little Britches)
Touched by Love
1980Movie
Karen
A Little Romance
1979Movie
Lauren King
Great Performances
1971TV
Charity Royall
The Oscars
1953TV
Self
Today
1952TV
Self
Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951TV
Glorie
Golden Globe Awards
1944TV
Self - Presenter
A Hundred Percent
TV
Suzanne
Moral Capacity
Movie
Dr. Torre
Queen City
Movie
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