
Acting
January 21, 1965 (60 years old)
New York City, New York, USA
Also Known As
Даєн Лейн
دایان لین
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.

Anniversary
2025
as Ellen

Inside Out 2
2024
as Mom (voice)

A Man in Full
2024
as Martha Croker

An American Family at 50
2024
as Self

Extrapolations
2023
as Martha Russell

The Jennifer Hudson Show
2022
as Self

Y: The Last Man
2021
as Jennifer Brown

Zack Snyder's Justice League
2021
as Martha Kent

Amend: The Fight for America
2021
as Self

Let Him Go
2020
as Margaret Blackledge

Ocean Paradise
2019
as Narrator

Serenity
2019
as Constance

The Romanoffs
2018
as Katherine Ford

Justice League
2017
as Martha Kent

Mark Felt: The Man Who Brought Down the White House
2017
as Audrey Felt

FEUD
2017
as Slim Keith

Paris Can Wait
2016
as Anne Lockwood

Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice
2016
as Martha Kent

Riley's First Date?
2015
as Mom (voice)

Trumbo
2015
as Cleo Trumbo