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.
The Exorcist
Anniversary
Ellen Taylor
Inside Out 2
Mom (voice)
An American Family at 50
Self
Zack Snyder's Justice League
Martha Kent
Let Him Go
Margaret Blackledge
Ocean Paradise
Narrator
Serenity
Constance
Justice League
Martha Kent
Mark Felt: The Man Who Brought Down the White House
Audrey Felt
Paris Can Wait
Anne Lockwood
Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice
Martha Kent
Riley's First Date?
Mom (voice)
Trumbo
Cleo Trumbo
Inside Out
Mom (voice)
Every Secret Thing
Helen Manning
James Gandolfini: Tribute to a Friend
Self
Man of Steel
Martha Kent
Casting By
Self
Half the Sky: Turning Oppression Into Opportunity for Women Worldwide
Self
Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen
(archive footage)
Cinema Verite
Pat Loud
Secretariat
Penny Chenery
Killshot
Carmen Colson
Nights in Rodanthe
Adrienne
Jumper
Mary Rice
Untraceable
Agent Jennifer Marsh
Why Be Good?: Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema
Narrator (voice)
Fierce People
Liz Earl
Hollywoodland
Toni Mannix
Staying Gold: A Look Back at 'The Outsiders'
Self
On Location in Tulsa: The Making of 'Rumble Fish'
Self (archive footage)
Must Love Dogs
Sarah
Under the Tuscan Sun
Frances
Searching for Debra Winger
Self
Unfaithful
Constance Sumner
Hardball
Elizabeth Wilkes
The Glass House
Erin Glass
The Perfect Storm
Christina "Chris" Cotter
My Dog Skip
Ellen Morris
The Virginian
Molly Stark
The Making of Ladies and Gentlemen, Fabulous Stains
Self
A Walk on the Moon
Pearl Kantrowitz
Grace & Glorie
Gloria Greenwood
Gunshy
Melissa
Murder at 1600
Agent Nina Chance
The Only Thrill
Katherine Fritzsimmons
Mad Dog Time
Grace Everly
Jack
Karen Powell
Wild Bill
Susannah Moore
A Streetcar Named Desire
Stella Kowalski
Stallone's Law: The Making of 'Judge Dredd'
Herself
Judge Dredd
Judge Hershey
Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All
Lucy Honicut Marsden
Indian Summer
Beth Warden / Clair Everett
Chaplin
Paulette Goddard
My New Gun
Debbie Bender
The Setting Sun
Lian Hong
Knight Moves
Kathy Sheppard
Descending Angel
Irina Stroia
Vital Signs
Gina Wyler
Priceless Beauty
China
The Big Town
Lorry Dane
Lady Beware
Katya Yarno
The Cotton Club
Vera Cicero
Streets of Fire
Ellen Aim
Rumble Fish
Patty
The Outsiders
Cherry Valance
Miss All-American Beauty
Sally Butterfield
Ladies and Gentlemen, the Fabulous Stains
Corinne Burns
Six Pack
Breezy
National Lampoon's Movie Madness
Liza ("Growing Yourself")
Child Bride of Short Creek
Jessica Rae Jacobs
Cattle Annie and Little Britches
Jenny (Little Britches)
Touched by Love
Karen
A Little Romance
Lauren King