Diane Lane

Diane Lane
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Diane Lane at the 41st Emmy Awards on September 17, 1989.
Born January 22, 1965 (1965-01-22) (age 44)
New York City, New York, U.S.A.
Occupation Film actor
Years active 1979 β€” present
Spouse(s) Christopher Lambert (1988-1994)
Josh Brolin (2004-present)
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Diane Lane (born January 22, 1965) is an American film actress. She has been nominated for an Academy Award, two Golden Globe Awards, a Screen Actors Guild Award, and an Emmy Award.

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Biography

Early life

Diane Lane was born in New York City. Her mother, Colleen Farrington, was a night club singer and Playboy centerfold (Miss October 1957) who was also known as "Colleen Price". Her father, Burton Eugene Lane, was a Manhattan drama coach who ran an acting workshop with John Cassavetes, worked as a cab driver, and later taught humanities at City College.[1] When Lane was 13 days old, her parents split up and her mother went to Mexico and obtained a divorce while retaining custody of her daughter until age 6.[1] Her father got custody of his daughter after Farrington moved to Georgia. Lane and her father lived in a number of residential hotels in New York City and she would ride with him in his taxi.[2]

When Lane was 15, she declared her independence from her father and ran away to Los Angeles for a week with actor and friend Christopher Atkins. Lane remembers, "It was reckless behavior that comes from having too much independence too young".[2] She came back and moved in with a friend's family, paying them rent. In 1981, she enrolled in high school after having taken correspondence courses. However, Lane's mother kidnapped her and took the young girl back to Georgia. Lane and her father challenged her mother in court and six weeks later she was back in New York. Lane did not speak to her mother for three years but they have since reconciled.[2]

Career

Lane's maternal grandmother, Eleanor Scott, was a three-times married Pentecostal preacher of the Apostolic denomination, and Lane was influenced by the theatricality of her grandmother's sermons.[3][4] 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.[1] Also at this time, 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.[1] 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.[2] At fourteen, Lane was featured on the cover of Time declaring her one of Hollywood's "Whiz Kids".[5][6]

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, starring with future movie stars Matt Dillon, Tom Cruise, Rob Lowe, and Patrick Swayze, and Rumble Fish, starring Dillon, Mickey Rourke, and Nicolas Cage.[1] Subsequently, Andy Warhol proclaimed Lane, "the undisputed female lead of Hollywood's new rat pack".[7] However, the two films that could have catapulted her to star status, Streets of Fire (she turned down Splash and Risky Business for this film)[8][9] and The Cotton Club, were both commercial and critical failures and her career languished as a result.[1]

She returned to the business to make The Big Town and Lady Beware but it was not until 1989s popular and critically acclaimed TV mini-series Lonesome Dove that Lane made another big impression on a sizable audience.[10] She was nominated for an Emmy Award for the role. She also enjoyed positive reviews for her performance in the independent film My New Gun, which was well received at the Cannes Film Festival. She went on to appear as actress Paulette Goddard in Sir Richard Attenborough's big-budget biopic of Charles Chaplin.[7]

Lane won further praise for her role in 1999s A Walk on the Moon, opposite Viggo Mortensen. One reviewer wrote, "Lane, after years in post-teenaged-career limbo, is meltingly effective".[11] The film's director Tony Goldwyn and producer Dustin Hoffman wanted Lane for the role of housewife Pearl even though she did not look or sound Jewish. Goldwyn said of the actress, "There's also this potentially volcanic sexuality that is in no way self-conscious or opportunistic. I thought all those things mattered more than her looking Jewish".[12] Lane earned an Independent Spirit Award nomination for Best Female Lead. At this time, Lane was interested in making a film about actress Jean Seberg in which she would play Seberg.[13]

In 2002, she starred in Unfaithful, a drama film directed by Adrian Lyne adapted from the French film La Femme infidèle. Lane played a housewife who indulges in an adulterous fling with a mysterious book dealer. The film featured several sex scenes. Lyne's repeated takes for these scenes were very demanding for the actors involved, especially for Lane, who had to be emotionally and physically fit for the scenes.[14] Unfaithful received mostly mixed to negative reviews, though 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".[15] She followed that film up with Under the Tuscan Sun, based on the best-selling book by Frances Mayes.

Recently, Lane has expressed frustration with being typecast and is "gunning for something that's not so sympathetic. I need to be a bitch, and I need to be in a comedy. I've decided. No more Miss Nice Guy".[16] The actress has even contemplated quitting acting and spending more time with her family if she is unable to get these kinds of roles. She said in an interview, "I can't do anything official. My agents won't let me. Between you and me, I don't have anything else coming out".[16]

Awards

Four days before the New York Film Critics Circle's vote, Lane was given a career tribute by the Film Society of Lincoln Center. A day before that, Lyne held a dinner for the actress at the Four Seasons Hotel. Critics and award voters were invited to both.[17] She went on to win the National Society of Film Critics, the New York Film Critics Circle awards and was nominated for a Golden Globe and an Academy Award for Best Actress. In 2003, she was named ShoWest's 2003 Female Star of the Year.[18]

She ranked at #79 on VH1's 100 Greatest Kid Stars. She was ranked #45 on AskMen.com's Top 99 Most Desirable Women in 2005,[19] #85 in 2006[20] and #98 in 2007.[21]

Personal life

In the early 1980s, Lane dated actors Timothy Hutton, Christopher Atkins, Matt Dillon, and later rock star Jon Bon Jovi.[1] After the commercial and critical failure of The Cotton Club, Lane dropped out of the movie business and lived with her mother in Georgia.[10] Lane met actor Christopher Lambert in Paris while promoting Coppola's film.[2] They had a brief affair and split up. They met again two years later in Rome to make a film together, entitled After the Rain, and in two weeks they were a couple again. Lane and Lambert married in October 1988 in Santa Fe, New Mexico.[2] They had a daughter, Eleanor Jasmine Lambert (born September 5, 1993), and were divorced following a prolonged separation in 1994.[22] While making Judge Dredd, Lane began dating the film's director, Danny Cannon.[23]

Lane became engaged to actor Josh Brolin in July 2003[24] and they were married on August 15, 2004.[25] 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 described the incident as a "misunderstanding".[26]

Filmography

Year Film Role Other notes
1979 A Little Romance Lauren King
1980 Touched by Love Karen
1981 Cattle Annie and Little Britches Jenny (Little Britches)
Ladies and Gentlemen, The Fabulous Stains Corinne Burns
1982 National Lampoon Goes to the Movies Liza
Six Pack Breezy
1983 The Outsiders Sherri 'Cherry' Valance
Rumble Fish Patty
1984 Streets of Fire Ellen Aim
The Cotton Club Vera Cicero
1987 Lady Beware Katya Yarno
The Big Town Lorry Dane
1988 Priceless Beauty China
Lonesome Dove Lorena Wood
1990 Vital Signs Gina Wyler
1992 Knight Moves Kathy Sheppard
My New Gun Debbie Bender
The Setting Sun Cho Renko
Chaplin Paulette Goddard
1993 Indian Summer Jahnvi
1995 A Streetcar Named Desire Stella
Judge Dredd Judge Hershey
1996 Wild Bill Susannah Moore
Jack Karen Powell
Mad Dog Time Grace Everly
1997 The Only Thrill Katherine Fitzsimmons
Murder at 1600 Agent Nina Chance
1998 Gunshy Melissa
Grace & Glorie Gloria
1999 A Walk on the Moon Pearl Kantrowitz
2000 My Dog Skip Ellen Morris
The Perfect Storm Christina Cotter
2001 Hardball Elizabeth Wilkes
The Glass House Erin Glass
2002 Unfaithful Connie Sumner
2003 Under the Tuscan Sun Frances
2005 Fierce People Liz Earl
Must Love Dogs Sarah Nolan
2006 Hollywoodland Toni Mannix
2008 Untraceable Jennifer Marsh
Jumper Mary Rice
Nights in Rodanthe Adrienne Willis
2009 Killshot Carmen Colson


Awards and achievements
Preceded by
Sissy Spacek
for In the Bedroom
NYFCC Award for Best Actress
2002
for Unfaithful
Succeeded by
Hope Davis
for American Splendor

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 Sager, Mike (June 1, 2000). "The Happy Life of Diane Lane", Esquire. Retrieved on 2008-05-02. 
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 Dougherty, Margot; David Hutchings (February 13, 1989). "Diane Lane, with a New Husband and No Fear of Flying, Takes Wing Again in Lonesome Dove", People. Retrieved on 2008-05-01. 
  3. ↑ "Diane Lane". Inside the Actors Studio. Bravo. 2004.
  4. ↑ Cagle, Jess (May 19, 2002). "Diane Lane Gets Lucky", Time. Retrieved on 2008-05-01. 
  5. ↑ "Cover of Time Magazine", Time (August 13, 1979). Retrieved on 2008-05-01. 
  6. ↑ Skow, John (August 13, 1979). "Hollywood's Whiz Kids", Time. Retrieved on 2008-05-01. 
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 Williamson, K (January 2, 1993). "Child Star Lane Makes a Comeback β€” at 28!", Herald Sun. 
  8. ↑ Bhattacharya, Sanjiv (May 26, 2002). "Memory Lane", The Guardian. Retrieved on 2008-05-02. 
  9. ↑ Saroyan, Strawberry (October 5, 2008). "Diane Lane: a fortysomething sex symbol", Daily Telegraph. Retrieved on 2008-10-06. 
  10. ↑ 10.0 10.1 Wolk, Josh (May 24, 2002). "Meet Unfaithfuls Diane Lane", Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved on 2008-05-02. 
  11. ↑ Lacey, Liam (April 9, 1999). "A Walk on the Moon", Globe and Mail. 
  12. ↑ Arnold, Gary (April 2, 1999). "Moon finally shines", Washington Times. 
  13. ↑ Braun, Liz (April 11, 1999). "Looking for Lane Change", Toronto Sun. 
  14. ↑ Kobel, Peter (May 5, 2002). "Smoke to Go With the Steam", New York Times. Retrieved on 2008-06-19. 
  15. ↑ Gleiberman, Owen (May 5, 2002). "Unfaithful", Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved on 2008-06-19. 
  16. ↑ 16.0 16.1 "Lane Contemplates Quitting Acting", Showbiz Spy (September 23, 2008). Retrieved on 2008-09-25. 
  17. ↑ Bowles, Scott (January 15, 2003). "Studio keeps Unfaithful out in open", USA Today. Retrieved on 2008-06-19. 
  18. ↑ Garvey, Spencer (January 30, 2003). "ShoWest Salutes Diane Lane", FilmStew.com. Retrieved on 2008-04-24. 
  19. ↑ "Top 99 Most Desirable Women - 2005", AskMen.com (2005). Retrieved on 2008-04-24. 
  20. ↑ "Top 99 Most Desirable Women - 2006", AskMen.com (2006). Retrieved on 2008-04-24. 
  21. ↑ "Top 99 Most Desirable Women - 2007", AskMen.com (2007). Retrieved on 2008-04-24. 
  22. ↑ Spines, Christine (May 2005). "Diane on Top", Red. 
  23. ↑ Pratt, Steve (July 22, 1995). "In Love with a Lady Judge", The Northern Echo. 
  24. ↑ Eimer, David (March 14, 2004). "Diane Lane", The Times. Retrieved on 2008-05-02. 
  25. ↑ Schneller, Johanna (January 2005). "Changing Lane", In Style. 
  26. ↑ Rush, George (December 20, 2004). "Lane calls cops & hubby's arrested", New York Daily News. Retrieved on 2008-05-05. 

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NAME Lane, Diane
ALTERNATIVE NAMES
SHORT DESCRIPTION Film actor
DATE OF BIRTH 1965-1-22
PLACE OF BIRTH New York City, New York, USA
DATE OF DEATH
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