Diane Lane
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New York City, NY
Diane Lane was born in New York City in 1965, the daughter of drama coach Burt Lane and Playboy centrespread Colleen Farrington; her eyes seemed to sparkle with stars from the tender age of six. Cast in a La Mama Experimental Theatre production of Medea, Lane would subsequently appear on stage in numerous productions, both in her native New York and abroad. It wasn't long before the late-'70s found Lane reaching the apex of her early career, and in 1978 she made her film debut in director George Roy Hill's A Little Romance. Cast alongside no less than Sir Laurence Olivier, Lane held her own in the role of an American student who finds love while studying abroad, and as a result gained remarkable exposure on the cover of Time Magazine in August of the following year. Lane was touted as one of the most promising actors of her generation, and this success parlayed her into a series of neglected films. In a number of these instances, she could not be faulted for choosing substandard material; her appearance in Lamont Johnson's fresh and rousing female western Cattle Annie and Little Britches (1981), for example (alongside Amanda Plummer, Burt Lancaster and Rod Steiger) drew lavish critical praise even as the studio inexplicably threw the film into the wastecan. Lane fared better with twin roles in a pair of teen dramas from director Francis Ford Coppola in 1983 (The Outsiders and Rumble Fish) once again earned the burgeoning film actress the spotlight and reminded audiences of her immense talent; she became a Coppola favorite, but didn't fare as well with his Cotton Club, a massive critical and commercial flop that did little to boost her career, even as it introduced her to co-star Richard Gere (with whom she would reteam, professionally, years later).After rounding out the decade with yet another memorable turn in the television miniseries Lonesome Dove (1989), Lane's career once again became a more low-key affair, though her performances frequently outshined the otherwise unremarkable series of films she appeared in.Though roles in such efforts as Chaplin (1992), A Streetcar Named Desire (1995), and Jack (1996) kept her from falling off the radar, Lane didn't truly shine again until her role as a housewife who embarks on a fragile extramarital affair in A Walk on the Moon (1998). Following that film with a pair of memorable performances in My Dog Skip and The Perfect Storm (both in 2000), Lane's career seemed to have achieved some stability, but it wasn't before a pair of forgettable features (Hardball and The Glass House, both in 2001) that Lane scored with yet another tale of marital infidelity. Director Adrian Lyne's Unfaithful, a retooling of Claude Chabrol's La Femme Infidèle, once again found Lane in the throes of an alluring stranger. Unfaithful - the anticipated onscreen reunion of Lane with Richard Gere - pondered the crushing reverberations of extramarital carnality, and Lane provided an ample and intriguing center of gravity for the film. When February 2003 rolled around and the Academy announced its nominations for the previous year, Lane received her first-ever Oscar nod for her emotional turn in Unfaithful. It did not pay off with a win, but Lane's follow-ups with roles in substantial fare including Just Like Mona (2002) and the wildly-popular Under the Tuscan Sun (2003) suggested that Lane's career had finally found solid box-office ground. Time validated this assertion: 2005's Must Love Dogs, a romantic comedy vehicle co-starring Lane and John Cusack, drew positive responses from many moviegoers and did decent, if not spectacular, box office, despite the excoriation of some critics (Salon's Stephanie Zacharek moaned, "It's ostensibly about adults, but there's nothing remotely adult about it.") 2006's Hollywoodland casts Lane in a mystery about the enigmatic demise of Superman's George Reeves. Over the next several years, Lane would prove she had no intention of slowing down , appearing in films like Untraceable,
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Highest Rated Movies
Filmography
MOVIES
RATING | TITLE | CREDIT | BOX OFFICE | YEAR |
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71% | Zack Snyder's Justice League |
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— | 2021 |
83% | Let Him Go |
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— | 2020 |
20% | Serenity |
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— | 2019 |
No Score Yet | Penny & Red: The Life of Secretariat's Owner |
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— | 2018 |
40% | Justice League |
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$227.1M | 2017 |
36% | Mark Felt: The Man Who Brought Down the White House |
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$0.8M | 2017 |
47% | Paris Can Wait (Bonjour Anne) |
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$5.7M | 2017 |
29% | Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice |
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$293.8M | 2016 |
74% | Trumbo |
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— | 2015 |
98% | Inside Out |
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$264.4M | 2015 |
32% | Every Secret Thing |
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$97.5k | 2015 |
No Score Yet | Ny Film Critics Series: Every Secret Thing |
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— | 2015 |
No Score Yet | Penny & Red: The Life of Secretariat's Owner |
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— | 2014 |
94% | Casting By |
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$14.5k | 2013 |
56% | Man of Steel |
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$291.1M | 2013 |
61% | Cinema Verite |
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— | 2011 |
63% | Secretariat |
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$59.7M | 2010 |
29% | Killshot |
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— | 2008 |
30% | Nights in Rodanthe |
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$41.9M | 2008 |
15% | Jumper |
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$80.1M | 2008 |
16% | Untraceable |
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$28.7M | 2008 |
No Score Yet | Why Be Good? Sexuality and Censorship in Early Cinema |
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— | 2008 |
68% | Hollywoodland |
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$14.3M | 2006 |
36% | Must Love Dogs |
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$43.9M | 2005 |
24% | Fierce People |
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— | 2005 |
62% | Under the Tuscan Sun |
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$43.5M | 2003 |
50% | Unfaithful |
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$52.7M | 2002 |
21% | The Glass House |
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$17.4M | 2001 |
41% | Hardball |
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$39.7M | 2001 |
47% | The Perfect Storm |
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— | 2000 |
73% | My Dog Skip |
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— | 2000 |
No Score Yet | The Virginian |
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— | 2000 |
72% | A Walk on the Moon |
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— | 1999 |
20% | Gunshy |
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— | 1998 |
No Score Yet | The Only Thrill |
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— | 1998 |
No Score Yet | Grace & Glorie |
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— | 1998 |
96% | The Full Monty |
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— | 1997 |
33% | Murder at 1600 |
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— | 1997 |
17% | Mad Dog Time |
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— | 1996 |
18% | Jack |
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— | 1996 |
44% | Wild Bill |
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— | 1995 |
20% | Judge Dredd |
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— | 1995 |
No Score Yet | A Streetcar Named Desire |
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— | 1995 |
No Score Yet | Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All |
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— | 1994 |
58% | Indian Summer |
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— | 1993 |
17% | Knight Moves |
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— | 1993 |
59% | Chaplin |
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— | 1992 |
No Score Yet | The Setting Sun |
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— | 1992 |
50% | My New Gun |
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— | 1992 |
No Score Yet | Descending Angel |
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— | 1990 |
No Score Yet | Love Dream |
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— | 1990 |
50% | Vital Signs |
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— | 1990 |
No Score Yet | Lonesome Dove - The Making of An Epic |
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— | 1990 |
57% | The Big Town |
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— | 1987 |
No Score Yet | Lady Beware |
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— | 1987 |
77% | The Cotton Club |
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— | 1984 |
67% | Streets of Fire |
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— | 1984 |
No Score Yet | Music Video from "Streets of Fire" |
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— | 1984 |
74% | Rumble Fish |
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— | 1983 |
63% | The Outsiders |
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— | 1983 |
No Score Yet | Miss All-American Beauty |
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— | 1982 |
No Score Yet | Six Pack |
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— | 1982 |
0% | National Lampoon's Movie Madness |
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— | 1982 |
No Score Yet | Child Bride of Short Creek |
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— | 1981 |
No Score Yet | Cattle Annie and Little Britches |
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— | 1981 |
64% | Ladies and Gentlemen: The Fabulous Stains |
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— | 1981 |
No Score Yet | Touched by Love |
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— | 1980 |
71% | A Little Romance |
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— | 1979 |
TV
RATING | TITLE | CREDIT | YEAR |
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100% |
Amend: The Fight for America
2021
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No Score Yet |
Zack Snyder's Justice League
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No Score Yet |
Lonesome Dove
1989
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77% |
House of Cards
2013-2018
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No Score Yet |
Late Night With Seth Meyers
2014
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49% |
The Romanoffs
2018
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No Score Yet |
Sunday Morning
2011-2018
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No Score Yet |
The Chew
2011-2018
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No Score Yet |
The Talk
2010
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No Score Yet |
Today
2017-2019
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No Score Yet |
The Late Late Show With James Corden
2015
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No Score Yet |
Watch What Happens Live With Andy Cohen
2009
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No Score Yet |
Conan
2010
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No Score Yet |
The Late Show With Stephen Colbert
2015
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No Score Yet |
The View
1997
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No Score Yet |
Arts & the Mind
2012
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No Score Yet |
Half the Sky: Turning Oppression Into Opportunity for Women Worldwide
2012
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No Score Yet |
The Tonight Show With Jay Leno
1992-2014
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No Score Yet |
Late Night With Jimmy Fallon
2009-2014
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No Score Yet |
Rachael Ray
2006
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No Score Yet |
The Bonnie Hunt Show
2008-2010
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No Score Yet |
The Daily Show With Jon Stewart
1999-2015
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No Score Yet |
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2020
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Quotes from Diane Lane's Characters
Bruce Wayne/Batman: | I'm a friend of your son's. |
Martha Kent: | I know. The cape |
Martha Kent: | I know. The cape. |
Martha Kent: | The world hates what he does not understand. |
Martha Kent: | You don't owe this world a thing, you never did. |
Martha Kent: | I coud tell. The cape. |
Jack Morris: | You know I.C.? Colored fellow at the service station? |
Ellen Morris: | Sure. |
Jack Morris: | His son came back from Europe today. |
Ellen Morris: | Wonderful. |
Jack Morris: | In a box. |
Willie Morris: | (writing a letter to Dink) How long does it take mail to get from here to Europe? |
Ellen Morris: | Where in Europe? |
Willie Morris: | Where Dink is, Foxhole in the south of France. |
Skip: | (Barks. Willie turns to Skip) |
Willie Morris: | Are you for Roosevelt, boy? |
Skip: | (Barks) |
Willie Morris: | What do you think about Hitler? |
Willie Morris: | (Growls, and Skip growls ever fiercer) |
Adrienne Willis: | I know you've only ever known your father and me. And I love Jack, because he is your father. But there's another kinda love, Amanda. One that gives you the courage to be better than you are, not less than you are. One that makes you feel that anything is possible. I want you to know that you could have it. I want you to hold out for it. |
Dr. Paul Flanner: | What keeps you safe? |
Adrienne Willis: | Well, you fall in love with someone, you know... and you make a family... and you become what you think you're supposed to be. And you change and you give up certain things. Then they look at what you've got left and you wish you... I don't know, you just think maybe you shouldn't have. |
Dr. Paul Flanner: | Don't. |
Dr. Paul Flanner: | Just don't do it. |
Adrienne Willis: | ...Huh. |
Dr. Paul Flanner: | We all make choices, Adrianne. You chose that life, you chose that man. Do you even remember who you really are anymore? |
Adrienne Willis: | Just stop it. |
Adrienne Willis: | When Jack left me, it wasn't just our marriage ending. It was the loss of all the hopes that I'd had for future. I tried to move on, but the world didn't seem that interested in me anymore. Then you came along, and helped me believe in myself again. |
Ellen Morris: | I'm not askin'. |
General Zod: | Where is the Codex? |
Martha Kent: | Go to hell! |
Clark Kent/Kal-El: | The world's too big, Mom. |
Martha Kent: | then make it small. Focus on my voice. Pretend it's an island out in the ocean. Can you see it? |
Clark Kent/Kal-El: | I see it. |
Martha Kent: | What are you going to do when you are not saving the world? |
Martha Kent: | Nice suit son. |
Cherry Valance: | Thank you... he had me scared to death! |
Johnny Cade: | You sure didn't show it. Ain't nobody ever talk to Dal like that! |
Cherry Valance: | From what I saw, you do. |
Cherry Valance: | Maybe that'll cool YOU off, Greaser... when you learn to talk and act decent, then maybe I'll cool off too. |
Cherry Valance: | Can't you leave us alone? BE NICE AND LEAVE US ALONE! |
Dallas Winston: | I'm never nice. Can I interest you in a Coca-Cola or a 7-Up? |
Cherry Valance: | GET LOST, HOOD! |
Pat Loud: | The hardest thing that I cn think of in life is disappointing the people I love the most in the whole world. |
Pat Loud: | When Bill would go away, I was just left at home with my own worst fears. Finally, I decided what I needed to do was to keep Bill home, and show him and the world that his family was an indestructible thing. |
Frances Mayes: | When she falls in love marcelo. |
Frances Mayes: | They say they built the train tracks over the Alps before there was a train that could make the trip. They built it anyway. They knew one day the train would come. Any arbitrary turning along the way,and I would be elsewhere. I would be different. What are four walls, anyway? They are what they contain.The house protects the dreamer.Unthinkably good things can happen, even late in the game. and I would be elsewhere. |
Frances Mayes: | They say they built the train tracks over the Alps before there was a train that could make the trip. They built it anyway. They knew one day the train would come. Any arbitrary turning along the way,and I would be elsewhere. I would be different. What are four walls, anyway? They are what they contain.The house protects the dreamer. Unthinkably good things can happen, even late in the game. and I would be elsewhere. |
Ellen Morris: | Hmmm. That's impressive. |
Jack Morris: | A dog is a fabalous. Will. He's not ready for that. He's frail, he's sentanced, he can't handle it. |
Ellen Morris: | He is responsibility a boy. Who needs a *friend*. He's not a baby. He keeps the dog!. Okay?. |
Ellen Morris: | He is responsibility a boy. Who needs a *friend*. He's not a baby. He keeps the dog! Okay? |
Ellen Morris: | I'm not askin'!. |
Ellen Morris: | I'm not asking! |
Penny Chenery: | "This is about life being ahead of you and you run at it! Because you never know how far you can run unless you run." |
Penny Chenery: | This is not about going back. This is about life being ahead of you and you run at it! Because you never know how far you can run unless you run. |
Cherry Valance: | I hope I never see Dallas Winston again. If I do, I'd probably fall in love with him. |
Penny Chenery: | This is not about going back. This is about life being ahead of you and you running at it! You never know where is will take you! |