Diane Lane
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Diane Lane
Diane Lane (born January 22, 1965) is an American film actress. Diane Lane has been nominated for an Academy Award, two Golden Globe Awards, a Screen Actors Guild Award, and an Emmy Award.
Diane Lane’s maternal grandmother, Agnes Scott, was a three-times married Pentecostal preacher, and Diane Lane was influenced by the theatricality of her grandmother’s sermons. Diane Lane began acting professionally at the age of six at the La MaMa Experimental Theater Club in New York, where she appeared in an acclaimed production of Medea and at 12 she had a role in Joseph Papp’s production of The Cherry Orchard with Meryl Streep. Also at this time, Diane Lane was enrolled in an accelerated program at Hunter College High School and was put on notice when her grades suffered from her busy schedule. At thirteen, she turned down a role in Runaways on Broadway to make her feature film debut opposite Sir Laurence Olivier in A Little Romance. At fourteen, Diane Lane was featured on the cover of Time declaring her one of Hollywood’s "Whiz Kids".
One of few child actors to make a successful transition into adult roles, Diane Lane made a hit with audiences in the back-to-back cult films The Outsiders, starring with future movie stars Matt Dillon, Tom Cruise, Rob Lowe, and Patrick Swayze, and Rumble Fish, starring Dillon, Mickey Rourke, and Nicolas Cage. However, the two films that could have catapulted her to star status, Streets of Fire (she turned down Splash for this film) and The Cotton Club, were both commercial and critical failures and her career languished as a result.
She returned to the business to make The Big Town and Lady Beware but did not garner serious acclaim until 1989’s popular and critically acclaimed TV mini-series Lonesome Dove that Diane Lane made another big impression on a sizable audience. Diane Lane was nominated for an Emmy Award for the role.
Diane Lane won further praise for her role in 1999’s A Walk on the Moon, opposite Viggo Mortensen.
In 2002, she starred in Unfaithful, drama film directed by Adrian Lyne adapted from the French film La Femme infidèle. Diane Lane played a housewife who indulges in an adulterous fling with a mysterious book dealer. The film featured several sex scenes and Lyne’s repeated takes for these scenes were very demanding for the actors involved, especially for Diane Lane who had to be emotionally and physically fit for the scenes. Unfaithful received largely mixed-to-negative reviews, though Diane Lane earned widespread praise for her performance. Entertainment Weekly critic Owen Gleiberman said, "Lane, in the most urgent performance of her career, is a revelation. The play of lust, romance, degradation, and guilt on her face is the movie’s real story". Diane Lane followed that film up with Under the Tuscan Sun, based on the best-selling book by Frances Mayes.
