Diane Lane

Diane Lane (born January 22, 1965) is an American actress. She made her motion picture debut in George Roy Hill's 1979 film ''A Little Romance''. Later she acted in a movie ''Streets of Fire'' (1984). Lane returned to acting to appear in ''The Big Town'', ''Lady Beware'' (both 1987) and 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'', ''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 ''Unfaithful'' (2002), which earned her Satellite, New York Film Critics Circle, and National Society of Film Critics awards for Best Actress. Her performance in the film also garnered her Academy Award, Critics' Choice, Golden Globe, and Screen Actors Guild Award nominations for Best Actress. She also 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).

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 ''Let Him Go'' (a box office Number 1 in 2020) co-starring Kevin Costner, in the Ryan Murphy epic ''Feud: Capote vs. The Swans'' (for which she won a further Primetime Emmy nomination), the Scott Z. Burns anthology series ''Extrapolations'' for Apple TV+, the animated Pixar sequel ''Inside Out 2'' (reprising her role as Riley’s Mom), the upcoming Netflix show ''A Man in Full'', based on the Tom Wolfe novel of the same name, and most recently, the thriller movie ''Anniversary'' set to be released in 2024-25. Provided by Wikipedia