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 the 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).
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| Full name at birth | Diane Colleen Lane
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| Claim to fame | her roles as Lauren King in the 1979 romantic comedy film A Little Romance, Charity Royall in the long-running PBS performing arts anthology series Great Performances, Ellen Aim in the 1984 action crime neo-noir film Streets of Fire, Vera Cicero in the 1984 musical crime drama film The Cotton Club, Lorry Dane in the 1987 drama neo-noir thriller film The Big Town, Katya Yarno in the 1987 thriller film Lady Beware, Connie Summer in the 2002 erotic thriller film Unfaithful, Frances Mayes in the 2003 romantic comedy-drama film Under the Tuscan Sun, Sarah Nolan in the 2005 romantic comedy film Must Love Dogs, Toni Mannix in the film Hollywoodland, FBI Special Agent Jennifer Marsh in the 2008 psychological thriller film Untraceable, Penny Chenery in the 2010 biographical sports drama film Secretariat, Martha Kent in the 2013 superhero film Man of Steel and the 2016 superhero film Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, and Senator Jennifer Brown in the FX on Hulu original post-apocalyptic drama web series Y: The Last Man
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| Date of birth | 22 January 1965
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| Place of birth | New York City, New York, USA
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| Occupation | Actress, model
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| Height | 5' 7" (170 cm)
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| Weight | 121 lbs (55 kg)
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| Dress size | 6
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| Shoe size | 8
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ADDITIONAL DETAILS
| Residence | Los Angeles, California, USA
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| Net worth | $35,000,000 USD
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| High school | Hunter College High School
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- She has done a lot of activism work for Heifer International, which aims to fight world hunger. She has claimed in her interviews that working with Heifer has had a positive impact on her relationship with her daughter.
- After the commercial and critical failure of The Cotton Club, she suspended her acting career and moved to Georgia to live with her mother and repair their relationship. She returned to the movie industry about three years later with Lady Beware and The Big Town.
- She started her professional acting journey from the age of 6 at the New York City-based La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club, where she performed in a production of Medea.
- Her first theatrical influence was her grandmother, Eleanor Scott’s sermons, who was a Pentecostal preacher of the Apostolic church.
- At the age of 15, she left her father’s home, as an act of teenage rebellion, and flew to Los Angeles with her friend Christopher Atkins, who was also an actor.
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