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