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| Birth Name(s) : Diane Lane |
Date of Birth: January 22, 1965 |
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Diane Lane was born on 22 January 1965 in New York. Her parents are acting coach Burt Lane and nightclub singer/centrefold Colleen Farrington. Diane was acting from a very young age and had debuted on stage by the time she was only 6 years old. Acclaimed theatre productions like 'The Cherry Orchard' and 'Medea' led to her being discovered by Hollywood. She was 13 when she was cast by director George Roy Hill in his wonderful 1979 film Little Romance, A (1979), opposite Sir Laurence Olivier. The film only did so-so commercially, but Olivier praised his young co-star calling her the new Grace Kelly. After her acclaimed debut, Diane found herself on magazine covers all over the world including 'Time' magazine which declared her as the 'new young acting sensation'. However, things were to go a little quiet as her next films Touched by Love (1980), Cattle Annie and Little Britches (1981), National Lampoon Goes to the Movies (1981), Ladies and Gentlemen, the Fabulous Stains (1981), and Six Pack (1982) all failed to make an impression.
Diane also made several TV movies during this period, but it was in 1983 that she finally began to make inroads again into being a top star. Acclaimed director Francis Ford Coppola noticed Diane's appeal and cast her in two 'youth' oriented films based on S.E. Hinton novels. Indeed Rumble Fish (1983) and Outsiders, The (1983) have both become cult classics and gave her a loyal fan base. The industry was now taking notice and Diane Lane had secured lead roles in three big budget studio epics. She turned down the first, 'Splash', (which was a surprise hit for Daryl Hannah). And then sadly, the other two were both poorly received bombs. Walter Hill's glossy 'rock 'n' roll fable' Streets of Fire (1984) was not the huge summer success that many had thought it would be and the hugely troubled Coppola epic Cotton Club, The (1984) co-starring Richard Gere was also a high-profile flop. In many ways the dual failure of these films could have ended her career there and then - but thankfully it didn't. Diane (maybe or maybe not burned by the poor reception these films received) 'retired' for over 3 years and at only 19 years old and claimed that she had forgotten what she had started acting for. Diane's performances in both films certainly wasn't to blame and ironically, both have grown in popularity over the years, seeming to have found an audience.
The process of rebuilding her career was a slow and gradual one. First came the obscure and very sexy straight-to-video thriller Lady Beware (1987) followed by the acclaimed but little seen Big Town, The (1987) with Matt Dillon and Tommy Lee Jones. In the former, Diane plays a very mysterious and sexy stripper and her memorable strip sequence is a highlight of the film. Despite her sexy on screen image, it wasn't until 1989's smash hit TV mini-series "Lonesome Dove" (1989) (mini) that Diane Lane made another big impression on a sizable audience. Her performance in the hugely acclaimed western epic as a vulnerable 'whore with a heart' won her an Emmy nomination and much praise. Film producers were now interested in her again. Another acclaimed TV production Descending Angel (1990) (TV) was followed by smaller roles in major films like Richard Attenborough's Chaplin (1992), and Mike Binder's Indian Summer (1993) and larger parts in small indie films like My New Gun (1992), Vital Signs (1990) and Knight Moves (1992). Indeed the latter two films co-starred her then husband, Christopher Lambert, with whom she had a daughter named Eleanor.
Diane was now re-established in Hollywood and started to appear in higher profile co-starring roles in some big budget, major movies like Walter Hill's Wild Bill (1995), the Stallone actioner Judge Dredd (1995), the 'Robin William' 's comedy, Jack (1996) and Murder at 1600 (1997) co-starring Wesley Snipes. However, all of these still did not quite make Diane a 'big name star' and by 1997 she found herself (maybe by choice) back in smaller, personal projects.
Her next role as a frustrated 60s housewife in the highly acclaimed indie hit Walk on the Moon, A (1999) deservedly won huge praise and at last gave her profile a huge lift. The cute but tearjerking comedy My Dog Skip (2000) also proved to be a small-scale success. But it was the £330 million worldwide grossing blockbuster hit Perfect Storm, The (2000) that finally made Diane Lane the household name star that she always should have been.
After the worldwide success of The Perfect Storm, Diane Lane was more in demand than ever. She played Leelee Sobieski's sinister junkie guardian in the slick thriller Glass House, The (2001/I), and co-starred with Keanu Reeves in the number one smash hit _Hardball (2001)_ . However, Diane's greatest career moment was still to come with her lead role in the enormous critical and commercial smash-hit Unfaithful (2002), in which superbly portrayed Richard Gere's cheating wife. Her performance won the hearts of critics and audiences alike, and there is much speculation about Academy Awards recognition. Media and critical attention quickly followed the films successful opening, and the Hollywood A-list beckons.
She is very well regarded within the industry, unanimously adored by film fans, and has a credibility and quality that is all too rare today. Her immense talent at playing human and real characters, her incredible 'drop dead gorgeous' beauty, and down-to-earth grittiness will almost surely guarantee that she soon becomes a major star the world over, and she has already shown the kind of resilience that will keep her working for a long, long time. |
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Additional Diane Lane Biography
Lane was born in New York City, the daughter of Colleen Farrington, a night club singer and Playboy centerfold who was also known as "Colleen Price", and Burton Eugene Lane, a drama coach who also worked as a cab driver. Lane's maternal grandmother, Agnes Scott, was a Pentecostal preacher, and Lane was influenced by the theatricality of her grandmother's sermons. Lane was raised by her father after her parents divorced while she was still a baby.
Lane began acting professionally at the age of six at the La Mama Experimental Theatre in New York, where she appeared in acclaimed productions of Medea and The Cherry Orchard, among others. At thirteen, she made her film debut opposite Sir Laurence Olivier in A Little Romance, and at fourteen was featured on the cover of Time.
One of few child actors to make a successful transition into adult roles, Lane made a hit with audiences in the back-to-back cult films The Outsiders and Rumble Fish, and for a time was designated a member of the so-called "Brat pack". However the two films that could 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. It was not until 1989's popular and critically acclaimed TV mini-series Lonesome Dove that Lane made another big impression on a sizable audience. She was nominated for an Emmy Award for the role. Lane won further praise for her role in 1999's A Walk on the Moon, opposite Viggo Mortensen.
In 2002, Lane was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance in Unfaithful, and was honored for her work in that film by The New York and The National Society of Film Critics. She followed that film up with Under the Tuscan Sun (2003), based on the best-selling book by Frances Mayes.
Lane married actor Josh Brolin on August 14, 2004. On December 20 of that year, she called police after an altercation with him, and he was arrested on a misdemeanor charge of domestic battery. Lane declined to press charges, however, and the couple's spokesperson characterized the incident as a "misunderstanding". |
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