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With a smoldering sensuality that perfectly compliments her
remarkable subtlety as an actress, Diane Lane has frequently been
singled out for her memorable work in such films as Rumble Fish
(1983), A Walk on the Moon (1999) and The Perfect Storm (2000).
From her earliest stage appearances to her later status as a
powerful star of feature films, Lane's uncanny ability to project
her character's innermost emotions into the hearts of filmgoers
has earned her a much-deserved rank among the Hollywood elite.
Diane Lane was born in New York City in 1965, the daughter of
drama coach Burt Lane and thrush 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 mid-'70s found Lane reaching the apex
of her early career, and in 1979 she made her film debut in director
George Roy Hill's A Little Romance. Cast alongside such luminaries
as 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 mostly forgettable films, though her 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.
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.
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 throws
of an alluring stranger. Unfaithful pondered the crushing reverberations
of extramarital relations, and Lane provided an ample and intriguing
center of gravity for the film. Following up with roles in Just
Like Mona (2002) and Under the Tuscan Sun (2003), one could only
hope that Lane's career had finally found solid ground.
When February 2003 rolled around and the Oscar nominations for
the previous year were announced, Lane recieved her first-ever
Academy Award nomination for her emotional turn in Unfaithful.
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FILMOGRAPHY
• Fierce People (2004)
• Under the Tuscan Sun (2003)
• Unfaithful (2002)
• The Glass House (2001)
• Hardball (2001)
• My Dog Skip (2000)
• The Perfect Storm (2000)
• Virginian (2000)
• A Walk On the Moon (1999)
• Grace and Glorie (1998)
• Gunshy (1998)
• The Full Monty (1997)
• Murder at 1600 (1997)
• The Only Thrill (1997)
• Jack (1996)
• Mad Dog Time (1996)
• Judge Dredd (1995)
• A Streetcar Named Desire (1995)
• Wild Bill (1995)
• The Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All (1994)
• Indian Summer (1993)
• Knight Moves (1993)
• My New Gun (1993)
• Chaplin (1992)
• The Setting Sun (1992)
• Descending Angel (1990)
• Lonesome Dove (1990)
• Vital Signs (1990)
• Priceless Beauty (1989)
• The Big Town (1987)
• Lady Beware (1987)
• The Cotton Club (1984)
• Streets of Fire (1984)
• The Outsiders (1983)
• Rumble Fish (1983)
• Miss All American Beauty (1982)
• Six Pack (1982)
• The Child Bride of Short Creek (1981)
• National Lampoon's Movie Madness (1981)
• Touched By Love (1980)
• A Little Romance (1979) |
