Diane Lane

Born: 22 January 1965

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Years Active: 1971-present

Diane Lane (born January 22, 1965) is an American actress. She has starred in numerous leading lady and supporting roles in a huge variety of films ranging from independent film features to major film studio blockbuster productions. Her accolades include nominations for an Academy Award, three Primetime Emmy Awards, three Golden Globe Awards, several Screen Actors Guild Awards, several Satellite Awards, and an ICON Award.

Lane made her film debut in the George Roy Hill film A Little Romance (1979). She had already been professionally acting on stage since 1971, at the age of six. Later, she acted in the movies Streets of Fire (1984) and The Cotton Club (1984).

Lane returned to acting to appear in The Big Town (1987), Lady Beware (1987), and the Western miniseries Lonesome Dove (1989), for which she was nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie.

Lane earned further recognition for her role in A Walk on the Moon (1999), for which she was nominated for the Independent Spirit Award for Best Female Lead. This was followed by several film roles of varying degrees of success, such as My Dog Skip (2000), The Perfect Storm (2000), The Glass House (2001), and Hardball (2001).

Lane received critical acclaim for her performance as an adulterous wife in the erotic thriller Unfaithful (2002), which earned her a nomination for Academy Award for Best Actress. She then acted in the romantic comedy-drama Under the Tuscan Sun (2003), which earned her a second Golden Globe Award nomination. For much of the rest of the decade, she alternately appeared in romances such as Must Love Dogs (2005) and Nights in Rodanthe (2008), and thrillers such as Fierce People (2005), Hollywoodland (2006), and Untraceable (2008).

Lane has appeared in four films directed by Francis Ford Coppola: The Outsiders (1983); Rumble Fish (1983); The Cotton Club (1984); and Jack (1996). She also appeared in one film directed by his late wife Eleanor Coppola: Paris Can Wait (2016).

Lane had a recurring role as Martha Kent, the adoptive mother of Superman, in Man of Steel (2013), and subsequent films of the DC Extended Universe.

Lane's later roles have included leads in the thriller Let Him Go (2020), which was a top box office hit during the COVID pandemic, the Ryan Murphy series Feud: Capote vs. The Swans (for which she won a further Primetime Emmy nomination), the Scott Z. Burns anthology series Extrapolations (premiered 2023) for Apple TV+, the animated Pixar films Inside Out (2015), and Inside Out 2 (2024), the Netflix series A Man in Full (premiered 2024), and the dystopian thriller film Anniversary (2025), for which she received a Best Lead Actress Satellite Award.

In October 2025, Lane was awarded the ICON Award at the Newport Beach Film Festival.