Diane Lane

Diane Lane is an American actress whose film career began at thirteen and includes A Little Romance, The Outsiders, Rumble Fish, Lonesome Dove, and Unfaithful, the last earning her an Academy Award nomination for Best Actress in 2003. She was born Diane Colleen Lane on January 22, 1965, in New York City, to acting coach Burt Lane and nightclub singer Colleen Leigh Farrington.

Her parents separated when she was thirteen days old, and she was raised primarily by her father in Manhattan. She made her stage debut at six with the experimental La MaMa company and worked with Joseph Papp's Public Theater throughout her youth.

George Roy Hill cast her opposite Laurence Olivier in the 1979 romance A Little Romance, and Time magazine put her on its cover at fourteen. Francis Ford Coppola directed her in The Outsiders and Rumble Fish in 1983, and she earned an Emmy nomination for the 1989 western miniseries Lonesome Dove.

Adrian Lyne's 2002 thriller Unfaithful brought her an Oscar nomination, followed by leading roles in Under the Tuscan Sun, Must Love Dogs, and Man of Steel, in which she played Martha Kent. She was married to actor Christopher Lambert from 1988 to 1994 and to actor Josh Brolin from 2004 to 2013, and has one daughter.

Their name Diane derives from the Roman goddess Diana, whose name traces to the Indo-European root meaning "heavenly" or "divine." Diane was a top-twenty girls' name in the United States during the 1950s and remains a familiar mid-century classic.