
Diane Lane
Personal Info
Known for
Acting
Gender
Female
Birthday
1965-01-22 (60 years old)
Place of Birth
New York City, New York, USA
Diane Lane
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.
Known For
Acting
Queen City
as dian3
(2025)
Anniversary
as Ellen
(2024)
Inside Out 2
as Mom (voice)
(2021)
Zack Snyder's Justice League
as Martha Kent
(2020)
Let Him Go
as Margaret Blackledge
(2019)
Serenity
as Constance
(2019)
Ocean Paradise
as Narrator
(2017)
Justice League
as Martha Kent
(2017)
Mark Felt: The Man Who Brought Down the White House
as Audrey Felt
(2016)
Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice
as Martha Kent
(2016)
Paris Can Wait
as Anne Lockwood
(2015)
Inside Out
as Mom (voice)
(2015)
Riley's First Date?
as Mom (voice)
(2015)
Trumbo
as Cleo Trumbo
(2014)
Every Secret Thing
as Helen Manning
(2014)
And the Oscar Goes To...
as Self (archive footage)
(2013)
Man of Steel
as Martha Kent
(2013)
(2012)
Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen
as (archive footage)
(2012)
Casting By
as Self
(2012)
(2011)
Cinema Verite
as Pat Loud
(2010)
Secretariat
as Penny Chenery
(2008)
Jumper
as Mary Rice
(2008)
Untraceable
as Agent Jennifer Marsh
(2008)
Nights in Rodanthe
as Adrienne
(2008)
Killshot
as Carmen Colson
(2007)
Why Be Good?: Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema
as Narrator (voice)
(2006)
Hollywoodland
as Toni Mannix
(2006)
Fierce People
as Liz Earl
(2005)
Must Love Dogs
as Sarah
(2005)
(2003)
Under the Tuscan Sun
as Frances
(2002)
Unfaithful
as Constance Sumner
(2002)
Searching for Debra Winger
as Self
(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
(1998)
Grace & Glorie
as Gloria Greenwood
(1998)
Gunshy
as Melissa
(1997)
Murder at 1600
as Agent Nina Chance
(1997)
The Only Thrill
as Katherine Fritzsimmons
(1996)
Jack
as Karen Powell
(1996)
Mad Dog Time
as Grace Everly
(1995)
Judge Dredd
as Judge Hershey
(1995)
Wild Bill
as Susannah Moore
(1995)
A Streetcar Named Desire
as Stella Kowalski
(1995)
(1994)
Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All
as Lucy Honicut Marsden
(1993)
Indian Summer
as Beth Warden / Clair Everett
(1992)
Chaplin
as Paulette Goddard
(1992)
Knight Moves
as Kathy Sheppard
(1992)
My New Gun
as Debbie Bender
(1992)
The Setting Sun
as Lian Hong
(1990)
Vital Signs
as Gina Wyler
(1990)
Descending Angel
as Irina Stroia
(1988)
Priceless Beauty
as China
(1987)
The Big Town
as Lorry Dane
(1987)
Lady Beware
as Katya Yarno
(1984)
Streets of Fire
as Ellen Aim
(1984)
The Cotton Club
as Vera Cicero
(1983)
The Outsiders
as Cherry Valance
(1983)
Rumble Fish
as Patty
(1982)
National Lampoon's Movie Madness
as Liza ("Growing Yourself")
(1982)
Ladies and Gentlemen, the Fabulous Stains
as Corinne Burns
(1982)
Six Pack
as Breezy
(1982)
Miss All-American Beauty
as Sally Butterfield
(1981)
Cattle Annie and Little Britches
as Jenny (Little Britches)
(1981)
Child Bride of Short Creek
as Jessica Rae Jacobs
(1980)
Touched by Love
as Karen
(1979)
A Little Romance
as Lauren King