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.
111 acting credits
Acting · 111
The Daily Show
1996
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
2009
Late Night with Seth Meyers
2014
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015
Golden Globe Awards
1944
The View
1997
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
2003
The Jennifer Hudson Show
2022
House of Cards
2013
Great Performances
1971
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
1988
Inside Out 2
2024
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
2003
Inside Out
2015
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
1993
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
1992
Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice
2016
Intimate Portrait
1993
The Tyra Banks Show
2005
The Oscars
1953
Zack Snyder's Justice League
2021
Man of Steel
2013
Unfaithful
2002
Fallen Angels
1993
Justice League
2017
The Bonnie Hunt Show
2008
FEUD
2017
Extrapolations
2023
The Directors
1999
Today
1952
The Romanoffs
2018
The Outsiders
1983
A Man in Full
2024
The Frame
2013
Jumper
2008
Lonesome Dove
1989
Y: The Last Man
2021
Judge Dredd
1995
Serenity
2019
The Perfect Storm
2000
Amend: The Fight for America
2021
Under the Tuscan Sun
2003
Secretariat
2010
Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951
Jack
1996
Let Him Go
2020
Untraceable
2008
Anniversary
2025
Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen
2012
Mark Felt: The Man Who Brought Down the White House
2017
The Glass House
2001
Hardball
2001
Killshot
2008
Streets of Fire
1984
Chaplin
1992
Paris Can Wait
2016
The Cotton Club
1984
Murder at 1600
1997
Trumbo
2015
Hollywoodland
2006
Priceless Beauty
1988
Rumble Fish
1983
Must Love Dogs
2005
Riley's First Date?
2015
Nights in Rodanthe
2008
Vital Signs
1990
Wild Bill
1995
Inside the Actors Studio
1994
Ladies and Gentlemen, the Fabulous Stains
1982
Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All
1994
Fierce People
2006
Mad Dog Time
1996
A Walk on the Moon
1999
Searching for Debra Winger
2002
The Big Town
1987
Every Secret Thing
2014
Indian Summer
1993
My Dog Skip
2000
Cinema Verite
2011
Cattle Annie and Little Britches
1981
Untitled The Exorcist Film
2027
Knight Moves
1992
National Lampoon's Movie Madness
1982
Casting By
2012
Six Pack
1982
Half the Sky: Turning Oppression Into Opportunity for Women Worldwide
2012
A Little Romance
1979
Staying Gold: A Look Back at 'The Outsiders'
2005
Lady Beware
1987
My New Gun
1992
Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All
1994
Why Be Good?: Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema
2007
Grace & Glorie
1998
James Gandolfini: Tribute to a Friend
2013
A Streetcar Named Desire
1995
The Virginian
2000
Gunshy
1998
The Only Thrill
1997
Journey of Discovery: Creating Man of Steel
2013
Descending Angel
1990
Child Bride of Short Creek
1981
Moral Capacity
—
On Location in Tulsa: The Making of 'Rumble Fish'
2005
Stallone's Law: The Making of 'Judge Dredd'
1995
The Setting Sun
1992
The Making of Ladies and Gentlemen, Fabulous Stains
1999
Touched by Love
1980
Miss All-American Beauty
1982
Ocean Paradise
2019
An American Family at 50
2024
Queen City
—