Diane Lane
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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
Credits
Inside Out 2 (2024)
as Mom (voice)
Inside Out (2015)
as Mom (voice)
Unfaithful (2002)
as Constance Sumner
Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016)
as Martha Kent
Zack Snyder's Justice League (2021)
as Martha Kent
Man of Steel (2013)
as Martha Kent
Serenity (2019)
as Constance
Justice League (2017)
as Martha Kent
Judge Dredd (1995)
as Judge Hershey
The Outsiders (1983)
as Cherry Valance
Priceless Beauty (1988)
as China
Jumper (2008)
as Mary Rice
The Perfect Storm (2000)
as Christina "Chris" Cotter
Anniversary (2025)
as Ellen Taylor
Rumble Fish (1983)
as Patty
The Glass House (2001)
as Erin Glass
Chaplin (1992)
as Paulette Goddard
Let Him Go (2020)
as Margaret Blackledge
Jack (1996)
as Karen Powell
Under the Tuscan Sun (2003)
as Frances
Secretariat (2010)
as Penny Chenery
The Cotton Club (1984)
as Vera Cicero
Streets of Fire (1984)
as Ellen Aim
Murder at 1600 (1997)
as Agent Nina Chance
Lady Beware (1987)
as Katya Yarno
Nights in Rodanthe (2008)
as Adrienne
The Exorcist: Martyrs (2027)
Actor
Wild Bill (1995)
as Susannah Moore
Hardball (2001)
as Elizabeth Wilkes
Riley's First Date? (2015)
as Mom (voice)
Hollywoodland (2006)
as Toni Mannix
Must Love Dogs (2005)
as Sarah
Paris Can Wait (2016)
as Anne Lockwood
My Dog Skip (2000)
as Ellen Morris
Every Secret Thing (2014)
as Helen Manning
Trumbo (2015)
as Cleo Trumbo
Knight Moves (1992)
as Kathy Sheppard
Untraceable (2008)
as Agent Jennifer Marsh
Mark Felt: The Man Who Brought Down the White House (2017)
as Audrey Felt
A Walk on the Moon (1999)
as Pearl Kantrowitz
The Big Town (1987)
as Lorry Dane
Vital Signs (1990)
as Gina Wyler
Fierce People (2006)
as Liz Earl
Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen (2012)
as (archive footage)
Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All (1994)
as Lucy Honicut Marsden
Casting By (2012)
as Self
Killshot (2008)
as Carmen Colson
Mad Dog Time (1996)
as Grace Everly
Six Pack (1982)
as Breezy
Indian Summer (1993)
as Beth Warden / Clair Everett
Gunshy (1998)
as Melissa
Searching for Debra Winger (2002)
as Self
My New Gun (1992)
as Debbie Bender
Cinema Verite (2011)
as Pat Loud
A Little Romance (1979)
as Lauren King
Ladies and Gentlemen, the Fabulous Stains (1982)
as Corinne Burns
The Virginian (2000)
as Molly Stark
Cattle Annie and Little Britches (1981)
as Jenny (Little Britches)
A Streetcar Named Desire (1995)
as Stella Kowalski
Grace & Glorie (1998)
as Gloria Greenwood
Why Be Good?: Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema (2007)
as Narrator (voice)
The Only Thrill (1997)
as Katherine Fritzsimmons
National Lampoon's Movie Madness (1982)
as Liza ("Growing Yourself")
The Setting Sun (1992)
as Lian Hong
Touched by Love (1980)
as Karen
Moral Capacity (—)
as Dr. Torre
Journey of Discovery: Creating Man of Steel (2013)
Actor
Staying Gold: A Look Back at 'The Outsiders' (2005)
as Self
Child Bride of Short Creek (1981)
as Jessica Rae Jacobs
Stallone's Law: The Making of 'Judge Dredd' (1995)
as Herself
Half the Sky: Turning Oppression Into Opportunity for Women Worldwide (2012)
as Self
James Gandolfini: Tribute to a Friend (2013)
as Self
Descending Angel (1990)
as Irina Stroia
On Location in Tulsa: The Making of 'Rumble Fish' (2005)
as Self (archive footage)
An American Family at 50 (2024)
as Self
Miss All-American Beauty (1982)
as Sally Butterfield
Queen City (—)
as dian3
The Making of Ladies and Gentlemen, Fabulous Stains (1999)
as Self
Ocean Paradise (2019)
as Narrator
Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice - Ultimate Edition (—)
as Martha Kent