Diane Lane
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Born | New York City, New York, U.S. | January 22, 1965
Occupation | Actress |
Years active | 1971–present |
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Diane Lane (born January 22, 1965)[1][2] is an American actress. She made her motion picture debut in George Roy Hill's 1979 film A Little Romance. The film that could have catapulted her to star status, Streets of Fire[3] (1984), was both a commercial and critical failure, and her career languished as a result. After taking a break, Lane returned to acting to appear in The Big Town and Lady Beware (both 1987), but did not make another big impression on a sizable audience until 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.[4] 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, The Perfect Storm (both 2000), The Glass House, and Hardball (both 2001).
Lane received critical acclaim for her performance as an adulterous wife in the erotic thriller
She has appeared in four films directed by Francis Ford Coppola: The Outsiders, Rumble Fish (both 1983), The Cotton Club (1984), and Jack (1996), and also appeared in one film directed by his 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.
Since then Diane Lane has remained in demand for highly prestigious movies and shows including lead roles in the thriller
Early life
Lane was born January 22, 1965, in New York City. Her mother,
When Lane was 15, she declared her independence from her father and flew to Los Angeles for a week with actor and friend Christopher Atkins with whom she starred in the 1981 film Child Bride of Short Creek. Lane later remarked, "It was reckless behavior that comes from having too much independence too young."[6] She returned to New York and moved in with a friend's family, paying them rent. In 1981, she enrolled in high school after taking correspondence courses. However, Lane's mother kidnapped her and took her back to Georgia. Lane and her father challenged her mother in court, and six weeks later, she was back in New York. Lane did not speak to her mother for the next three years, but they eventually reconciled.[6]
Career
1979–1999: Career beginnings and breakthrough
Lane's grandmother, Eleanor Scott, was a
In the early 1980s, Lane made a successful transition from inexperienced actress to confirmed roles. She appeared as the teen-age lead in the tear-jerker Touched by Love, was cast as the young female outlaw Little Britches in the 1981 Lamont Johnson film, Cattle Annie and Little Britches, with Amanda Plummer in her own debut role as Cattle Annie.[12] She played the role of Heather (Breezy) in Six Pack (1982) with Kenny Rogers.[13] Lane starred as Corinne Burns, leader of a punk rock band in 1982's Ladies and Gentlemen, The Fabulous Stains, with Laura Dern and punk musicians Steve Jones and Paul Cook of the Sex Pistols, and Paul Simonon from the Clash. The film has become a cult classic.[14][15]
Lane's breakout performances came with back-to-back adaptations of novels by
However, Streets of Fire (she turned down Splash and Risky Business for this film)[9][3] and The Cotton Club, were both commercial and critical failures, and her career languished as a result.[5] After The Cotton Club, Lane dropped out of the movie business and lived with her mother in Georgia.[17] According to the actress, "I hadn't been close to my mom for a long time, so we had a lot of homework to do. We had to repair our relationship because I wanted my mother back."[18]
Lane returned to acting to appear in
2000–2011: Unfaithful and further acclaim
In 2000, Lane had a supporting role as Mark Wahlberg's love interest in The Perfect Storm.[23] In 2002, she starred in Unfaithful, an erotic thriller directed by Adrian Lyne and adapted from the French film The Unfaithful Wife. Lane played a housewife who indulges in an affair with a mysterious book dealer. The film featured several sex scenes, and Lane's repeated takes for these scenes were very demanding for the actors involved, especially for Lane, who had to be emotionally and physically fit for the duration.[24] Unfaithful received mixed reviews, though Lane earned high praise for her performance. Besides winning Best Actress at the National Society of Film Critics and the New York Film Critics Circle, she also received nominations for the Academy Award for Best Actress, the Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Actress, the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama and the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role.[25] Entertainment Weekly critic Owen Gleiberman stated that "Lane, in the most urgent performance of her career, is a revelation. The play of lust, romance, degradation, and guilt on her face is the film's real story."[26] Following Unfaithful, Lane starred in Under the Tuscan Sun, a romantic comedy-drama based on the best-selling book by Frances Mayes[27] for which Lane won a nomination for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Comedy or Musical.[28] This was followed by lead roles in Fierce People, Must Love Dogs, and Hollywoodland.[29]
In 2008, Lane reunited with
Lane then starred in
2013–present: Later career and return to theater
Following the success of Cinema Verite, Lane starred in
Shortly after the release of Man of Steel, Lane was tapped to play Hillary Clinton in an NBC miniseries, Hillary, which was supposed to "start with the Monica Lewinsky morning-after ... And then continue on until she was embarking on her [2008] presidential bid."[38] Intense media backlash ultimately caused NBC to cancel the series.[39] In 2015, Lane appeared in the drama Every Secret Thing (alongside Dakota Fanning and Elizabeth Banks),[40] had a voice role in the Pixar animated feature Inside Out, and co-starred in the biopic Trumbo (opposite Bryan Cranston and Helen Mirren), which received a Screen Actors Guild nomination for Best Ensemble Cast.[41] Besides Justice League, Lane appeared in two other films in 2017: Eleanor Coppola's Paris Can Wait and Mark Felt: The Man Who Brought Down the White House.[42][43]
In the end of 2012, and before her divorce from Josh Brolin in early 2013, Lane returned to her theater roots and headlined a production of the David Cromer directed Sweet Bird of Youth (by Tennessee Williams) at the Goodman Theatre in Chicago. Lane played Princess Kosmonopolis, a fading Hollywood movie star, opposite Finn Wittrock, who portrayed Chance, her attractive gigolo. This was the first time she had done a stage play since 1989, when she played Olivia in William Shakespeare's Twelfth Night at the American Repertory Theater in Cambridge, Massachusetts.[44] Lane returned to theatre in the winter of 2015, starring with Tony Shalhoub in the off-Broadway original production of Bathsheba Doran's The Mystery of Love and Sex.[45] In 2016, nearly four decades after she first appeared on Broadway, Lane starred in a play in which she previously performed: Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard (1977). While Lane played a child peasant (with no lines) in Broadway's 1977 run of the play, this time she played the lead role of Madame Lyubov Andreyevna Ranevskaya.[46]
In 2018, Lane starred in the Amazon original miniseries The Romanoffs, which premiered in October, and as Annette Shepherd in the final season of Netflix's hit series House of Cards, which was released on the streaming service on November 2.[47][48] These roles "seemingly "mark[ed] rare TV appearance[s] for Lane, who has primarily worked in film throughout her career."[49]
In 2019, she played one of
Personal life
Family
Lane met actor Christopher Lambert in Paris while promoting The Cotton Club in 1984.[6] They had a brief affair and split up. They met again two years later in Rome to make a film together, entitled Priceless Beauty, and in two weeks they were a couple again. Lane and Lambert married in October 1988 in Santa Fe, New Mexico.[6] They have a daughter, Eleanor.[53] They divorced in March 1994.[54]
Lane became engaged to actor Josh Brolin in July 2003[55] and they were married on August 15, 2004.[56] On December 20 of that year, she called police after an altercation with him, and he was arrested on a misdemeanor charge of domestic battery. Lane declined to press charges, however, and the couple's spokesperson described the incident as a "misunderstanding".[57] Lane and Brolin filed for divorce in February 2013.[58] Their divorce was finalized on December 2, 2013.[59]
Charity work
Lane is also involved in several charities, including Heifer International, which focuses on world hunger,[60] Artists for Peace and Justice, a Hollywood organization that supports Haiti relief, and the BrandAID Project.[61] However, she tries not to draw attention to her humanitarian efforts: "Sometimes I give with my heart. Sometimes I give financially, but there's something about [helping others] that I think ought to be anonymous. I don't want it to be a boastful thing."[62]
Lane was featured heavily in the documentary Half the Sky, based on the book
On August 22, 2014, Lane was honored for her work with Heifer International at its third annual Beyond Hunger: A Place at the Table gala at the Montage Beverly Hills. Lane says working with Heifer International has affected her life and nurtured the relationship she has with her daughter.[64]
Theater
At age six, Lane landed her first acting role in
From 1976 to 1977, Lane appeared in
Awards and nominations
Four days before the
Lane ranked at No. 79 on VH1's 100 Greatest Kid Stars. She was ranked No. 45 on AskMen.com's Top 99 Most Desirable Women in 2005,[76] No. 85 in 2006,[77] and No. 98 in 2007.[78]
Honors
- 2003: Honored as the Female Star of the Year by the ShoWest Convention.[74]
- 2004: Received the American Riviera Award during the Santa Barbara International Film Festival.[79][80]
- 2012: Received the Outstanding Achievement in Cinema Award during the Savannah Film Festival.[81]
- 2017: Received the Career Achievement Award during the Sarasota Film Festival.[82]
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Further reading
- Ascher-Walsh, Rebecca. "Confidence: The Ultimate Seducer". Men's Health. Archived from the original on October 17, 2010. Retrieved March 25, 2010.
- "Diane Lane: Her Best Roles". Empire.
- Directo, Debby (March 23, 2015). "Behind the scenes with 21-year-old Julia Roberts". CBS News.
- Hensley, Dennis (June 1, 2000). "Diane Lane: Lane Changes". Movieline. Archived from the original on December 2, 2011. Retrieved June 30, 2011.
- Kaplan, Michael (April 1, 1996). "Diane Lane: A Career with a View". Movieline. Archived from the original on December 2, 2011. Retrieved June 30, 2011.
- Radziwill, Carole (September 1, 2008). "Gorgeous At Any Age: Diane Lane". Glamour. Retrieved March 25, 2010.
- Rebello, Stephen (October 1, 2003). "Diane Lane: Sudden Lane Changes". Movieline. Archived from the original on December 2, 2011. Retrieved June 30, 2011.
- Robinson, Tasha (October 7, 2010). "Interview: Diane Lane". The Onion. The A.V. Club. Retrieved October 8, 2010.
External links
- Diane Lane at IMDb
- Diane Lane at the Internet Broadway Database
- Diane Lane at the Internet Off-Broadway Database
- Diane Lane at AllMovie
- Diane Lane at Film Reference
- Diane Lane at Emmys.com