Diane Lane 1965 60
Diane Lane 1965 60
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.
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Popularity75
Credits6.5
Rating123M
Budget434M
RevenueActing
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Credit 75
2025 Anniversary as Ellen
2025 Queen City as dian3
2024 Inside Out 2 as Mom (voice)
2021 Zack Snyder's Justice League as Martha Kent
2020 Let Him Go as Margaret Blackledge
2019 Ocean Paradise as Narrator
2019 Serenity as Constance
2017 Justice League as Martha Kent
2017 Mark Felt: The Man Who Brought Down the White House as Audrey Felt
2016 Paris Can Wait as Anne Lockwood
2016 Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice as Martha Kent
2015 Riley's First Date? as Mom (voice)
2015 Trumbo as Cleo Trumbo
2015 Inside Out as Mom (voice)
2014 Every Secret Thing as Helen Manning
2014 And the Oscar Goes To... as Self (archive footage)
2013 James Gandolfini: Tribute to a Friend as Self
2013 Man of Steel as Martha Kent
2013 House of Cards as Annette Shepherd
2012 Casting By as Self
2012 Half the Sky: Turning Oppression Into Opportunity for Women Worldwide as Self
2012 Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen as (archive footage)
2011 Cinema Verite as Pat Loud
2010 Secretariat as Penny Chenery
2008 Killshot as Carmen Colson
2008 Nights in Rodanthe as Adrienne
2008 Jumper as Mary Rice
2008 Untraceable as Agent Jennifer Marsh
2007 Why Be Good?: Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema as Narrator (voice)
2006 Fierce People as Liz Earl
2006 Hollywoodland as Toni Mannix
2005 Staying Gold: A Look Back at 'The Outsiders' as Self
2005 Must Love Dogs as Sarah
2003 Under the Tuscan Sun as Frances
2002 Searching for Debra Winger as Self
2002 Unfaithful as Constance Sumner
2001 The Glass House as Erin Glass
2001 Hardball as Elizabeth Wilkes
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 Mad Dog Time as Grace Everly
1996 Jack as Karen Powell
1995 Wild Bill as Susannah Moore
1995 A Streetcar Named Desire as Stella Kowalski
1995 Stallone's Law: The Making of 'Judge Dredd' as Herself
1995 Judge Dredd as Judge Hershey
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 My New Gun as Debbie Bender
1992 The Setting Sun as Lian Hong
1992 Knight Moves as Kathy Sheppard
1990 Descending Angel as Irina Stroia
1990 Vital Signs as Gina Wyler
1988 Priceless Beauty as China
1987 The Big Town as Lorry Dane
1987 Lady Beware as Katya Yarno
1984 The Cotton Club as Vera Cicero
1984 Streets of Fire as Ellen Aim
1983 Rumble Fish as Patty
1983 The Outsiders as Cherry Valance
1982 Miss All-American Beauty as Sally Butterfield
1982 Ladies and Gentlemen, the Fabulous Stains as Corinne Burns
1982 Six Pack as Breezy
1982 National Lampoon's Movie Madness as Liza ("Growing Yourself")
1981 Child Bride of Short Creek as Jessica Rae Jacobs
1981 Cattle Annie and Little Britches as Jenny (Little Britches)
1980 Touched by Love as Karen
1979 A Little Romance as Lauren King
Genres
7.55 Animation 3
7.03 Family 6
6.86 Adventure 8
6.27 Music 1
6.22 Action 12
6.19 Crime 12
6.18 Science Fiction 4
6.08 Drama 42
5.99 Horror 2
5.96 Thriller 15
5.95 Mystery 6
5.95 History 2
5.93 Documentary 7
5.87 Western 4
5.82 Comedy 15
5.78 Romance 15
5.70 Fantasy 3
5.33 War 2
5.03 TV Movie 10