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.
Filmography (112)
The Exorcist: Martyrs
2027
Anniversary
2025
Inside Out 2
2024
An American Family at 50
2024
A Man in Full
2024
Extrapolations
2023
The Jennifer Hudson Show
2022
Zack Snyder's Justice League
2021
Y: The Last Man
2021
Amend: The Fight for America
2021
Let Him Go
2020
Serenity
2019
Ocean Paradise
2019
The Romanoffs
2018
Mark Felt: The Man Who Brought Down the White House
2017
Justice League
2017
FEUD
2017
Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice
2016
Paris Can Wait
2016
Trumbo
2015
Inside Out
2015
Riley's First Date?
2015
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015
Every Secret Thing
2014
Late Night with Seth Meyers
2014
Man of Steel
2013
James Gandolfini: Tribute to a Friend
2013
Journey of Discovery: Creating Man of Steel
2013
House of Cards
2013
The Frame
2013
Casting By
2012
Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen
2012
Half the Sky
2012
Cinema Verite
2011
Secretariat
2010
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
2009
Untraceable
2008
Jumper
2008
Nights in Rodanthe
2008
Killshot
2008
The Bonnie Hunt Show
2008
Why Be Good?: Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema
2007
Hollywoodland
2006
Fierce People
2006
Must Love Dogs
2005
Staying Gold: A Look Back at 'The Outsiders'
2005
On Location in Tulsa: The Making of 'Rumble Fish'
2005
The Tyra Banks Show
2005
Under the Tuscan Sun
2003
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
2003
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
2003
Unfaithful
2002
Searching for Debra Winger
2002
The Glass House
2001
Hardball
2001
The Perfect Storm
2000
My Dog Skip
2000
The Virginian
2000
A Walk on the Moon
1999
The Making of Ladies and Gentlemen, Fabulous Stains
1999
The Directors
1999
Gunshy
1998
Grace & Glorie
1998
Murder at 1600
1997
The Only Thrill
1997
The View
1997
Jack
1996
Mad Dog Time
1996
The Daily Show
1996
Judge Dredd
1995
Wild Bill
1995
A Streetcar Named Desire
1995
Stallone's Law: The Making of 'Judge Dredd'
1995
Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All
1994
Inside the Actors Studio
1994
Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All
1994
Indian Summer
1993
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
1993
Intimate Portrait
1993
Fallen Angels
1993
Knight Moves
1992
My New Gun
1992
Chaplin
1992
The Setting Sun
1992
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
1992
Vital Signs
1990
Descending Angel
1990
Lonesome Dove
1989
Priceless Beauty
1988
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
1988
The Big Town
1987
Lady Beware
1987
The Cotton Club
1984
Streets of Fire
1984
The Outsiders
1983
Rumble Fish
1983
Ladies and Gentlemen, the Fabulous Stains
1982
National Lampoon's Movie Madness
1982
Six Pack
1982
Miss All-American Beauty
1982
Cattle Annie and Little Britches
1981
Child Bride of Short Creek
1981
Touched by Love
1980
A Little Romance
1979
Great Performances
1971
The Oscars
1953
Today
1952
Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951
Golden Globe Awards
1944
Queen City
Moral Capacity
A Hundred Percent
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