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Born: on 01/22/1965 in New York, Daughter: Eleanor Jasmine Lambert. born on September 5, 1993; Her father is actor , Christopher Lambert Lanes father : Burt Lane. divorced from Lane's mother on February 4, 1965; had custody of Lane and served as her manager; died on February 22, 2002 at age 71 Mother: Colleen Farrington. was a Playboy playmate in 1957 had a stormy realationship with her mom she had some famous boyfriends as you can see!
Significant Others Danny Cannon. British; born in 1968; met while filming "Judge Dredd" (1995); together from c. 1994 to c. 1996; Jon Bon Jovi. briefly dated in the 1980s Rick Kolster. together from c. 1980 to c. 1983 As of now her adorable husband Josh Brolin! I think they were made for each other!
Education University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California Diane Lane is one of the most talented actresses around. She began her career on the stage as a teenager, Diane was on the cover of Time magazine in a 1979 profile of rising child stars. Few of those feature, however, were as lucky as Lane in making the transition to adult roles, and while her career has had the requisite peaks and valleys, she has continued to land challenging and diverse roles ranging from a walk on the moon to unfaithful.
The only daughter of parents who separated when she was a baby, Lane was raised by her father in NYC. By the age of six, she had begun her Acting career in with a role in "Medea" staged by the famed Lamama theater company. Throughout the remainder of the 1970s, Lane amassed numerous stage credits, including a world tour with LaMaMa and in various productions at the New York Shakespeare Festival (most notably Elizabeth Swados' "Runaways"). While she was deemed inappropriate model material, the poised, attractive teenager quickly made the transition to films.
Her breakthrough role came in "A Little Romance" (1979), as a precocious American girl who experiences first love with an equally gifted French boy, and en eccentric Englishman. That she shared screen time with Laurence Olivier and proved a strong and strong presence helped give her super star status. Diane Lane starred in some wonderful but small t.v movie(e.g., "Miss All-American,” CBS 1982) and the femme lead opposite Matt Dillon in a pair of films adapted from S E Hinton novels, "The Outsiders" and Rumble Fish" (both 1983), both directed by Francis Ford Coppola.
The helmer has admitted to being infatuated with the starlet which is a possible explanation for his hiring her to co-star with Richard Gere in the ill-fated "The Cotton Club" (1984). A sprawling would-be epic, the movie suffered greatly from the lack of chemistry between Gere and Lane (although she looked fabulous in the period clothing) as well as from her miscasting--at 18, she was clearly too young to play a world-weary gangster's moll who tempts a musician into an affair.
She instead worked an another film called STREETS OF FIRE!! "Lady Beware" (1987 The BIG TOWN LONESOMEDOVE Soon followed. She worked with Erik Roberts in DESCENDING ANGEL/"Chaplin" (1992). Once again television provided a pair of fine roles: as the young version of the titular "Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All" (CBS, 1994) and as Stella to Alec Baldwin's Stanley Kowalski in a remake of "A Streetcar Named Desire" (CBS, 1995).
In between, the actress also worked on JUDGE DREDD with Sylvester Stallone's (1995) . "Wild Bill" (also 1995) Jack with Eobin Williams and the a stellar performance in MURDER AT 1600. The 1969- "A Walk on the Moon" (1999), Tony Goldwyn's directorial debut was the highlight that started this admiration for miss Lane As a unhappy Jewish wife and mother who embarks on an affair, Lane earned some of the best reviews of her Career. "The Virginian" (TNT, 2000) and portrayed Mark Wahlberg's girlfriend in "The Perfect Storm" (2000). Even as audiences were growing aware of this beauty "My Dog Skip" (2000) as well as the thriller "The Glass House" (2001).Which ended in a horrible scene.
Finally, in 2002 Lane was cast in "Unfaithful," director Adrian Lyne's remake of a french erotic thriller mature woman upsets her happy home life but an affair with a young lover that ultimately results in tragedy. Lane's sensual performance left the audience begging for more!! She received an Academy Award nomination as Best Actress.
At last established as a bankable leading lady, Lane's follow-up was the lighter-weight romantic comedy "Under the Tuscan Sun" (2003),It was a delightful showcase of her talent!! Recently Lane decided to join John Cusack for the ultimate chick flick MUST LOVE DOGS-2005 And then the lovely TONI MANNIX in Hollywoodland!! Opposite hart throb BEN AFFLECK.
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