53 Facts About Diane Lane

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Diane Colleen Lane was born on January 22,1965 and is an American actress.

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Diane Lane 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.

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Diane Lane was highly acclaimed by critics for her performance in the immediately subsequent film Under the Tuscan Sun.

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Diane Lane has appeared in four films directed by Francis Ford Coppola: The Outsiders, Rumble Fish, The Cotton Club, and Jack.

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Diane Lane has been in one film directed by his wife Eleanor Coppola: Paris Can Wait.

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Diane Lane played the recurring role of Martha Kent, the adoptive mother of Superman, in Man of Steel and subsequent films of the DC Extended Universe.

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Diane Lane's mother, Colleen Leigh Farrington, was a nightclub singer and Playboy centerfold, who was known as "Colleen Price".

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Diane Lane's father, Burton Eugene Lane, was a Manhattan drama coach who ran an acting workshop with John Cassavetes, worked as a cab driver, and later taught humanities at City College.

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Diane Lane's mother went to Mexico and obtained a divorce while retaining custody of Diane Lane until she was six years old.

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Diane Lane's father received custody of her after Diane Lane's mother moved to the state of Georgia.

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When Diane 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.

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However, Diane Lane's mother kidnapped her and took her back to Georgia.

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Diane Lane did not speak to her mother for the next three years, but they eventually reconciled.

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Diane Lane's grandmother, Eleanor Scott, was a Pentecostal preacher of the Apostolic denomination, and Diane Lane was influenced theatrically by the demonstrative quality of her grandmother's sermons.

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Diane Lane began acting professionally at the age of six at the La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club in New York, where she appeared in a production of Medea.

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When Diane Lane was 12 years old, she had a role in Joseph Papp's production of The Cherry Orchard with Meryl Streep and Irene Worth.

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When Diane Lane was 13, she turned down a role in Runaways on Broadway to make her feature-film debut opposite Laurence Olivier in A Little Romance.

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Diane Lane won high praise from Olivier, who declared her "The New Grace Kelly".

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Diane Lane 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.

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Diane Lane played the role of Heather in Six Pack with Kenny Rogers.

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Diane Lane returned to acting to appear in The Big Town and Lady Beware, but Diane Lane had not made another big impression on a sizable audience until 1989's popular and critically acclaimed TV miniseries Lonesome Dove, and was nominated for an Emmy Award for her role.

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Diane Lane came very close to being cast as Vivian Ward in 1990's blockbuster hit Pretty Woman, but due to scheduling conflicts, was unable to take the role.

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Diane Lane was given positive reviews for her performance in the independent film My New Gun, which was well received at the Cannes Film Festival.

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Diane Lane went on to appear as actress Paulette Goddard in Sir Richard Attenborough's big-budget biopic of Charles Chaplin, 1992's Chaplin.

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In 2000, Diane Lane had a supporting role as Mark Wahlberg's love interest in The Perfect Storm.

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Diane Lane played a housewife who indulges in an affair with a mysterious book dealer.

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Unfaithful received mostly mixed reviews, though Diane Lane earned widespread praise for her performance.

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In 2008, Diane Lane reunited with Richard Gere for the romantic drama Nights in Rodanthe.

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Diane Lane co-starred in Jumper and Untraceable in the same year.

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Diane Lane then appeared in Killshot with Mickey Rourke, which was given a limited theatrical release before being released on DVD in 2009.

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Diane Lane then starred in Cinema Verite, an HBO movie about the making of the first reality television show, An American Family.

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Diane Lane earned Emmy, Screen Actors Guild, Satellite, and Golden Globe award nominations for her portrayal of Pat Loud.

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In 2012, Diane Lane was featured in the PBS documentary Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide, which showcased women and girls living under very difficult circumstances and bravely fighting to challenge them.

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In 2015, Diane Lane appeared in the drama Every Secret Thing, had a voice role in the Pixar animated feature Inside Out, and co-starred in the biopic Trumbo, which received a Screen Actors Guild nomination for Best Ensemble Cast.

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Besides Justice League, Diane 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.

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Diane Lane played Princess Kosmonopolis, a fading Hollywood movie star, opposite Finn Wittrock, who portrayed Chance, her attractive gigolo.

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In 2016, nearly four decades after she first appeared on Broadway, Diane Lane starred in a play in which she previously performed: Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard.

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In 2018, Diane 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.

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Diane Lane co-starred with Kevin Costner in the 2020 thriller Let Him Go.

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Diane Lane met actor Christopher Lambert in Paris while promoting The Cotton Club in 1984.

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Diane Lane became engaged to actor Josh Brolin in July 2003 and they were married on August 15,2004.

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Diane Lane declined to press charges and the couple's spokesperson described the incident as a "misunderstanding".

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Diane Lane is involved in several charities, including Heifer International, which focuses on world hunger, Artists for Peace and Justice, a Hollywood organization that supports Haiti relief, and the BrandAID Project.

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Diane Lane was featured heavily in the documentary Half the Sky, based on the book Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide.

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Diane Lane has become an ambassador for this kind of work and charity work in general.

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Diane Lane says working with Heifer International has affected her life and nurtured the relationship she has with her daughter.

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At age six, Diane Lane landed her first acting role in La Mama Experimental Theatre Company's 1971 production of Medea in which she played Medea's daughter.

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From 1976 to 1977, Diane Lane appeared in The Cherry Orchard and Agamemnon at New York's Vivian Beaumont Theater.

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In 1989, Diane Lane returned to the stage to play Olivia in Twelfth Night at the American Repertory Theater in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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Diane Lane took another hiatus from theatre until 2012, when she starred opposite Finn Wittrock in Sweet Bird of Youth at the Goodman Theatre in Chicago.

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Four days before the New York Film Critics Circle's vote in 2002, Diane Lane was given a career tribute by the Film Society of Lincoln Center.

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Diane Lane went on to win the National Society of Film Critics, the New York Film Critics Circle awards and was nominated for a Golden Globe and an Academy Award for Best Actress.

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Diane Lane ranked at No 79 on VH1's 100 Greatest Kid Stars.