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 (2015)
as Mom (voice)
Inside Out 2 (2024)
as Mom (voice)
Man of Steel (2013)
as Martha Kent
Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016)
as Martha Kent
Justice League (2017)
as Martha Kent
Zack Snyder's Justice League (2021)
as Martha Kent
Unfaithful (2002)
as Constance Sumner
Judge Dredd (1995)
as Judge Hershey
The Perfect Storm (2000)
as Christina "Chris" Cotter
Anniversary (2025)
as Ellen Taylor
The Outsiders (1983)
as Cherry Valance
Jumper (2008)
as Mary Rice
The Cotton Club (1984)
as Vera Cicero
Under the Tuscan Sun (2003)
as Frances
Secretariat (2010)
as Penny Chenery
Streets of Fire (1984)
as Ellen Aim
Serenity (2019)
as Constance
Let Him Go (2020)
as Margaret Blackledge
Murder at 1600 (1997)
as Agent Nina Chance
Riley's First Date? (2015)
as Mom (voice)
Rumble Fish (1983)
as Patty
My Dog Skip (2000)
as Ellen Morris
The Glass House (2001)
as Erin Glass
Paris Can Wait (2016)
as Anne Lockwood
Untraceable (2008)
as Agent Jennifer Marsh
Mark Felt: The Man Who Brought Down the White House (2017)
as Audrey Felt
Nights in Rodanthe (2008)
as Adrienne
Chaplin (1992)
as Paulette Goddard
Jack (1996)
as Karen Powell
Must Love Dogs (2005)
as Sarah
Trumbo (2015)
as Cleo Trumbo
Priceless Beauty (1988)
as China
Hollywoodland (2006)
as Toni Mannix
The Exorcist: Martyrs (2027)
Actor
Hardball (2001)
as Elizabeth Wilkes
Knight Moves (1992)
as Kathy Sheppard
Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen (2012)
as (archive footage)
Wild Bill (1995)
as Susannah Moore
A Walk on the Moon (1999)
as Pearl Kantrowitz
Killshot (2008)
as Carmen Colson
Every Secret Thing (2014)
as Helen Manning
National Lampoon's Movie Madness (1982)
as Liza ("Growing Yourself")
Fierce People (2006)
as Liz Earl
Lady Beware (1987)
as Katya Yarno
Vital Signs (1990)
as Gina Wyler
A Little Romance (1979)
as Lauren King
Cattle Annie and Little Britches (1981)
as Jenny (Little Britches)
A Streetcar Named Desire (1995)
as Stella Kowalski
On Location in Tulsa: The Making of 'Rumble Fish' (2005)
as Self (archive footage)
Mad Dog Time (1996)
as Grace Everly
Journey of Discovery: Creating Man of Steel (2013)
Actor
James Gandolfini: Tribute to a Friend (2013)
as Self
Ladies and Gentlemen, the Fabulous Stains (1982)
as Corinne Burns
Cinema Verite (2011)
as Pat Loud
Indian Summer (1993)
as Beth Warden / Clair Everett
The Big Town (1987)
as Lorry Dane
Miss All-American Beauty (1982)
as Sally Butterfield
The Only Thrill (1997)
as Katherine Fritzsimmons
Gunshy (1998)
as Melissa
Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All (1994)
as Lucy Honicut Marsden
Six Pack (1982)
as Breezy
Casting By (2012)
as Self
Descending Angel (1990)
as Irina Stroia
Child Bride of Short Creek (1981)
as Jessica Rae Jacobs
Touched by Love (1980)
as Karen
The Making of Ladies and Gentlemen, Fabulous Stains (1999)
as Self
Why Be Good?: Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema (2007)
as Narrator (voice)
Grace & Glorie (1998)
as Gloria Greenwood
My New Gun (1992)
as Debbie Bender
Making Marie Antoinette (2026)
as Eleanor Coppola (voice)
An American Family at 50 (2024)
as Self
Searching for Debra Winger (2002)
as Self
Staying Gold: A Look Back at 'The Outsiders' (2005)
as Self
The Virginian (2000)
as Molly Stark
The Setting Sun (1992)
as Lian Hong
Stallone's Law: The Making of 'Judge Dredd' (1995)
as Herself
Queen City (—)
as dian3
Ocean Paradise (2019)
as Narrator
Moral Capacity (—)
as Dr. Torre