Acting
Diane Lane
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.
Movies with Diane Lane
Inside Out
2015
Inside Out 2
2024
Unfaithful
2002
Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice
2016
Man of Steel
2013
Zack Snyder's Justice League
2021
Judge Dredd
1995
Justice League
2017
The Perfect Storm
2000
Murder at 1600
1997
Jumper
2008
The Outsiders
1983
Anniversary
2025
Priceless Beauty
1988
Serenity
2019
Jack
1996
Secretariat
2010
Chaplin
1992
Under the Tuscan Sun
2003
Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice - Ultimate Edition
2016
Streets of Fire
1984
The Glass House
2001
Hollywoodland
2006
Rumble Fish
1983
Let Him Go
2020
Nights in Rodanthe
2008
The Cotton Club
1984
The Exorcist: Martyrs
2027
Paris Can Wait
2016
Killshot
2008
Must Love Dogs
2005
Riley's First Date?
2015
My Dog Skip
2000
A Walk on the Moon
1999
Hardball
2001
Untraceable
2008
Knight Moves
1992
Wild Bill
1995
A Little Romance
1979
Mark Felt: The Man Who Brought Down the White House
2017
Every Secret Thing
2014
Trumbo
2015
Lady Beware
1987
Fierce People
2006
Indian Summer
1993
Gunshy
1998
Mad Dog Time
1996
The Big Town
1987
Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen
2012
The Only Thrill
1997
Journey of Discovery: Creating Man of Steel
2013
Vital Signs
1990
The Setting Sun
1992
Cinema Verite
2011
Casting By
2012
Touched by Love
1980
The Virginian
2000
My New Gun
1992
Six Pack
1982
Descending Angel
1990
Grace & Glorie
1998
A Streetcar Named Desire
1995
National Lampoon's Movie Madness
1982
Ladies and Gentlemen, the Fabulous Stains
1982
Cattle Annie and Little Britches
1981
An American Family at 50
2024
Searching for Debra Winger
2002
James Gandolfini: Tribute to a Friend
2013
Why Be Good?: Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema
2007
Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All
1994
Ocean Paradise
2019
Half the Sky: Turning Oppression Into Opportunity for Women Worldwide
2012
Queen City
Moral Capacity
On Location in Tulsa: The Making of 'Rumble Fish'
2005
Staying Gold: A Look Back at 'The Outsiders'
2005
Child Bride of Short Creek
1981
Stallone's Law: The Making of 'Judge Dredd'
1995
Miss All-American Beauty
1982
The Making of Ladies and Gentlemen, Fabulous Stains
1999
TV Shows with Diane Lane
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
2009
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015
Late Night with Seth Meyers
2014
The Daily Show
1996
The Jennifer Hudson Show
2022
Golden Globe Awards
1944
The View
1997
House of Cards
2013
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
2003
Great Performances
1971
Intimate Portrait
1993
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
1993
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
1992
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
1988
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
2003
The Tyra Banks Show
2005
Today
1952
Fallen Angels
1993
The Oscars
1953
Lonesome Dove
1989
FEUD
2017
The Bonnie Hunt Show
2008
Extrapolations
2023
The Romanoffs
2018
The Directors
1999
Y: The Last Man
2021
Amend: The Fight for America
2021
The Frame
2013
A Man in Full
2024
Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951
Half the Sky
2012
A Hundred Percent
Inside the Actors Studio
1994
Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All
1994