Diane Lane
Acting
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.
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Filmography of
Diane Lane
Ellen
... 2025
Mom (voice)
... 2024
Martha Kent
... 2021
Margaret Blackledge
... 2020
Narrator
... 2019
Constance
... 2019
Martha Kent
... 2017
... 2017
Anne Lockwood
... 2016
Martha Kent
... 2016
Mom (voice)
... 2015
Cleo Trumbo
... 2015
Mom (voice)
... 2015
Helen Manning
... 2014
Self (archive footage)
... 2014
... 2013
Martha Kent
... 2013
Self
... 2012
(archive footage)
... 2012
Pat Loud
... 2011
Penny Chenery
... 2010
Carmen Colson
... 2008
Adrienne
... 2008
Mary Rice
... 2008
Agent Jennifer Marsh
... 2008
Narrator (voice)
... 2007
Liz Earl
... 2006
Toni Mannix
... 2006
... 2005
Sarah
... 2005
Frances
... 2003
... 2002
Constance Sumner
... 2002
Erin Glass
... 2001
Elizabeth Wilkes
... 2001
Christina "Chris" Cotter
... 2000
Ellen Morris
... 2000
Molly Stark
... 2000
Pearl Kantrowitz
... 1999
Gloria Greenwood
... 1998
Melissa
... 1998
Agent Nina Chance
... 1997
Katherine Fritzsimmons
... 1997
Grace Everly
... 1996
Karen Powell
... 1996
Susannah Moore
... 1995
Stella Kowalski
... 1995
Judge Hershey
... 1995
... 1995
Lucy Honicut Marsden
... 1994
Beth Warden / Clair Everett
... 1993
Paulette Goddard
... 1992
Debbie Bender
... 1992
Lian Hong
... 1992
Kathy Sheppard
... 1992
Irina Stroia
... 1990
Gina Wyler
... 1990
China
... 1988
Lorry Dane
... 1987
Katya Yarno
... 1987
Vera Cicero
... 1984
Ellen Aim
... 1984
Patty
... 1983
Cherry Valance
... 1983
Sally Butterfield
... 1982
Corinne Burns
... 1982
Breezy
... 1982
Liza ("Growing Yourself")
... 1982
Jessica Rae Jacobs
... 1981
Jenny (Little Britches)
... 1981
Karen
... 1980
Lauren King
... 1979
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