Diane Lane

Diane Lane

CountryUnited States United States
GenderFemale
Birthdayjanv. 22, 1965
BiographyDiane Lane (born January 22, 1965) is an American actress. Her accolades include nominations for an Academy Award, three Primetime Emmy Awards, and three Golden Globe Awards.

Lane made her film debut in George Roy Hill's 1979 film A Little Romance. She had already been professionally acting on stage since the age of six. Later, she acted in the movies Streets of Fire (1984) and The Cotton Club (1984). Lane returned to acting to appear in The Big Town, Lady Beware (both 1987) and the Western miniseries Lonesome Dove (1989), for which she was nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie. Lane earned further recognition for her role in A Walk on the Moon (1999), for which she was nominated for the Independent Spirit Award for Best Female Lead. This was followed by several film roles of varying degrees of success, such as My Dog Skip, The Perfect Storm (both 2000), The Glass House, and Hardball (both 2001).

Lane received critical acclaim for her performance as an adulterous wife in the erotic thriller Unfaithful (2002), which earned her a nomination for Academy Award for Best Actress. She acted in the romantic comedy-drama Under the Tuscan Sun (2003), which earned her a second Golden Globe Award nomination. For much of the rest of the decade, she alternately appeared in romances 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 (both 1983), The Cotton Club (1984), and Jack (1996), and appeared in one film directed by his wife Eleanor Coppola: Paris Can Wait (2016). Lane had a recurring role as Martha Kent, the adoptive mother of Superman, in Man of Steel (2013), and subsequent films of the DC Extended Universe.

Lane's later roles have included lead roles in the thriller Let Him Go (2020), the Ryan Murphy series Feud: Capote vs. The Swans (for which she won a further Primetime Emmy nomination), the Scott Z. Burns anthology series Extrapolations for Apple TV+, the animated Pixar film Inside Out and its sequel, the Netflix series A Man in Full, and most recently, the thriller film Anniversary which is set to be released in 2025.

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