
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.
Acting (70 movies)

The Outsiders
1983

Rumble Fish
1983

Hollywoodland
2006

The Perfect Storm
2000

The Cotton Club
1984

The Glass House
2001

Unfaithful
2002

Under the Tuscan Sun
2003

Hardball
2001

A Little Romance
1979

Knight Moves
1992

Must Love Dogs
2005

Jack
1996

Untraceable
2008

Jumper
2008

Murder at 1600
1997

Judge Dredd
1995

Indian Summer
1993

Ladies and Gentlemen, the Fabulous Stains
1982

National Lampoon's Movie Madness
1982

A Walk on the Moon
1999

Nights in Rodanthe
2008

Streets of Fire
1984

Killshot
2008

Cinema Verite
2011

Mad Dog Time
1996

Vital Signs
1990

My Dog Skip
2000

Six Pack
1982

Wild Bill
1995

The Big Town
1987

Secretariat
2010

Man of Steel
2013

Miss All-American Beauty
1982

Casting By
2012

Anniversary
2025

Fierce People
2006

My New Gun
1992

Lady Beware
1987

Gunshy
1998

A Streetcar Named Desire
1995

Half the Sky: Turning Oppression Into Opportunity for Women Worldwide
2012

Why Be Good?: Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema
2007

Descending Angel
1990

Cattle Annie and Little Britches
1981

Child Bride of Short Creek
1981

Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice
2016

The Virginian
2000

The Only Thrill
1997

Touched by Love
1980

Every Secret Thing
2014

Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All
1994

Inside Out 2
2024

Priceless Beauty
1988

Trumbo
2015

Chaplin
1992

Inside Out
2015

Riley's First Date?
2015

Paris Can Wait
2016

Mark Felt: The Man Who Brought Down the White House
2017

Justice League
2017

Grace & Glorie
1998

The Setting Sun
1992

Serenity
2019

Let Him Go
2020

James Gandolfini: Tribute to a Friend
2013

Searching for Debra Winger
2002

Zack Snyder's Justice League
2021

Staying Gold: A Look Back at 'The Outsiders'
2005

Ocean Paradise
2019
| Title | Year | Job |
|---|---|---|
| Anniversary | 2025 | Executive Producer |