Diane Lane

Diane Lane (born January 22 1965) is an Academy Award-nominated American actress.

Biography

Early life

Lane was born in New York City, New York. The daughter of acting coach Burt Lane and singer/centerfold Colleen Farrington, Lane was raised by her father after her parents' divorce when she was a baby. She began acting professionally at the age of six at the La Mama Experimental Theatre in New York.

Career

Lane was chosen from a casting call to perform in Andrei Şerban's "Medea." She subsequently starred in his films "Electra", "The Trojan Women", "The Good Woman of Szechuan", and "As You Like It" within the next five years. At 13, she made her film debut opposite Laurence Olivier in A Little Romance, and was featured on the cover of Time. The following year, she starred in the true story-based film Touched by Love as a girl crippled by cerebral palsy who is encouraged to write to Elvis Presley. Lane is one of the few child performers to have made a successful transition into adult roles. In 2002 she was nominated for an Academy Award as Best Actress for her performance in Unfaithful, and was honoured for her work in that film by The New York Film Critics and The National Society of Film Critics.

Earlier on, Lane made a hit with audiences in the back to back cult hits The Outsiders and Rumble Fish and for a time was designated a member of the so-called "Brat pack." However the two films that should have catapulted her to star status, Streets of Fire and The Cotton Club, were both box office flops and her career languished as a result. In 1999's A Walk on the Moon, however, she began to gain serious attention in more mature roles.

Personal life

Lane was married to actor Christopher Lambert from 1988 to 1994. They had one child, Eleanor Jasmine Lambert, born September 5 1993. Lane married actor Josh Brolin on August 14, 2004. On December 20 of that year, Lane called the police after an altercation with Brolin and he was arrested on a misdemeanor charge of domestic battery. Lane declined to press the charge and the couple's spokesperson characterized the incident as a misunderstanding.^*

Filmography

A Little Romance (1979)
Touched by Love (1980)
Ladies and Gentlemen, The Fabulous Stains (1981)
Cattle Annie and Little Britches (1981)
National Lampoon Goes to the Movies (1982)
Six Pack (1982)
The Outsiders (1983)
Rumble Fish (1983)
Streets of Fire (1984)
The Cotton Club (1984)
Lady Beware (1987)
The Big Town (1987)
Priceless Beauty (1988)
Lonesome Dove (1989)
Vital Signs (1990)
Knight Moves (1992)
My New Gun (1992)
The Setting Sun (1992)
Chaplin (1992)
Indian Summer (1993)
Judge Dredd (1995)
Wild Bill (1995)
Jack (1996)
Mad Dog Time (1996)
The Only Thrill (1997)
Murder at 1600 (1997)
Gunshy (1998)
A Walk on the Moon (1999)
My Dog Skip (2000)
The Perfect Storm (2000)
Hardball (2001)
The Glass House (2001)
Unfaithful (2002)
Searching for Debra Winger (2002) (documentary)
Under the Tuscan Sun (2003)
Fierce People (2005)
Must Love Dogs (2005)

Upcoming:

Hollywoodland (2006)
Killshot (2006)

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