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Diane Lane

Born
January 22, 1965
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 2
(2024)
Mom (voice)
Inside Out
(2015)
Mom (voice)
Judge Dredd
(1995)
Judge Hershey
Justice League
(2017)
Martha Kent
Zack Snyder's Justice League
(2021)
Martha Kent
Man of Steel
(2013)
Martha Kent
Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice
(2016)
Martha Kent
Serenity
(2019)
Constance
Jumper
(2008)
Mary Rice
The Outsiders
(1983)
Cherry Valance
Unfaithful
(2002)
Connie Sumner
Riley's First Date?
(2015)
Mom (voice)
The Perfect Storm
(2000)
Christina "Chris" Cotter
Secretariat
(2010)
Penny Chenery
Trumbo
(2015)
Cleo Trumbo
Chaplin
(1992)
Paulette Goddard
Full Filmography
Acting
A Little Romance
(1979)
Lauren King
Touched by Love
(1980)
Karen
Cattle Annie and Little Britches
(1981)
Jenny (Little Britches)
Child Bride of Short Creek
(1981)
Jessica Rae Jacobs
Ladies and Gentlemen, the Fabulous Stains
(1982)
Corinne Burns
National Lampoon's Movie Madness
(1982)
Liza ("Growing Yourself")
Six Pack
(1982)
Breezy
Miss All-American Beauty
(1982)
Sally Butterfield
The Outsiders
(1983)
Cherry Valance
Rumble Fish
(1983)
Patty
The Cotton Club
(1984)
Vera Cicero
Streets of Fire
(1984)
Ellen Aim
The Big Town
(1987)
Lorry Dane
Lady Beware
(1987)
Katya Yarno
Priceless Beauty
(1988)
China
Vital Signs
(1990)
Gina Wyler
Descending Angel
(1990)
Irina Stroia
Knight Moves
(1992)
Kathy Sheppard
My New Gun
(1992)
Debbie Bender
Chaplin
(1992)
Paulette Goddard
The Setting Sun
(1992)
Lian Hong
Indian Summer
(1993)
Beth Warden / Clair Everett
Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All
(1994)
Lucy Honicut Marsden
Judge Dredd
(1995)
Judge Hershey
Wild Bill
(1995)
Susannah Moore
A Streetcar Named Desire
(1995)
Stella Kowalski
Stallone's Law: The Making of 'Judge Dredd'
(1995)
Herself
Jack
(1996)
Karen Powell
Mad Dog Time
(1996)
Grace Everly
Murder at 1600
(1997)
Agent Nina Chance
The Only Thrill
(1997)
Katherine Fritzsimmons
Gunshy
(1998)
Melissa
Grace & Glorie
(1998)
Gloria Greenwood
A Walk on the Moon
(1999)
Pearl Kantrowitz
Making of The Fabulous Stains
(1999)
Self
The Perfect Storm
(2000)
Christina "Chris" Cotter
My Dog Skip
(2000)
Ellen Morris
The Virginian
(2000)
Molly Stark
The Glass House
(2001)
Erin Glass
Hardball
(2001)
Elizabeth Wilkes
Unfaithful
(2002)
Connie Sumner
Searching for Debra Winger
(2002)
Self
Under the Tuscan Sun
(2003)
Frances
Must Love Dogs
(2005)
Sarah Nolan
Hollywoodland
(2006)
Toni Mannix
Fierce People
(2007)
Liz Earl
Why Be Good?: Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema
(2007)
Narrator (voice)
Untraceable
(2008)
Agent Jennifer Marsh
Jumper
(2008)
Mary Rice
Nights in Rodanthe
(2008)
Adrienne
Killshot
(2008)
Carmen Colson
Secretariat
(2010)
Penny Chenery
Cinema Verite
(2011)
Pat Loud
Half the Sky: Turning Oppression Into Opportunity for Women Worldwide
(2012)
Self
Casting By
(2012)
Self
Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen
(2012)
(archive footage)
Man of Steel
(2013)
Martha Kent
James Gandolfini: Tribute to a Friend
(2013)
Herself
Every Secret Thing
(2014)
Helen Manning
And the Oscar Goes To...
(2014)
Self (archive footage)
Trumbo
(2015)
Cleo Trumbo
Inside Out
(2015)
Mom (voice)
Riley's First Date?
(2015)
Mom (voice)
Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice
(2016)
Martha Kent
Paris Can Wait
(2016)
Anne Lockwood
Justice League
(2017)
Martha Kent
Mark Felt: The Man Who Brought Down the White House
(2017)
Audrey Felt
Serenity
(2019)
Constance
Let Him Go
(2020)
Margaret Blackledge
Zack Snyder's Justice League
(2021)
Martha Kent
Inside Out 2
(2024)
Mom (voice)
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