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Diane Lane is an American actress who made her motion picture debut in George Roy Hill's 1979 film A Little Romance.
Lane would earn critical acclaim for her performance as Constance "Connie" Sumner in Adrian Lyne's 2002 film Unfaithful, and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress, in addition to nominations for the Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild Award.
Other notable film credits for Lane include The Outsiders (1983), The Perfect Storm (2000), Under the Tuscan Sun (2003), and as Martha Kent in Zack Snyder's films Man of Steel (2013), Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016), Justice League (2017) and Zack Snyder's Justice League (2021).
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1979 | A Little Romance | Lauren King | |
| 1980 | Touched by Love | Karen | |
| 1981 | Cattle Annie and Little Britches | Jenny "Little Britches" Stevens | |
| 1982 | National Lampoon's Movie Madness | Liza | |
| Six Pack | Heather "Breezy" Aikens | ||
| Ladies and Gentlemen, The Fabulous Stains | Corinne Burns | ||
| 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 | |
| 1990 | Vital Signs | Gina Wyler | |
| 1992 | Knight Moves | Kathy Sheppard | |
| My New Gun | Debbie Bender | ||
| The Setting Sun | Lian Hong | ||
| Chaplin | Paulette Goddard | ||
| 1993 | Indian Summer | Beth Warden | |
| 1995 | Judge Dredd | Judge Barbara Hershey | |
| Wild Bill | Susannah Moore | ||
| 1996 | Jack | Karen Powell | |
| Mad Dog Time | Grace Everly | ||
| 1997 | The Only Thrill | Katherine Fitzsimmons | |
| Murder at 1600 | USSS Agent Nina Chance | ||
| 1998 | Gunshy | Dr. Melissa | |
| 1999 | A Walk on the Moon | Pearl Kantrowitz | |
| 2000 | My Dog Skip | Ellen Morris | |
| The Perfect Storm | Christina "Chris" Cotter | ||
| 2001 | The Glass House | Erin Glass | |
| Hardball | Elizabeth Wilkes | ||
| 2002 | Unfaithful | Connie Sumner | |
| 2003 | Under the Tuscan Sun | Frances Mayes | |
| 2005 | Fierce People | Liz Earl | |
| Must Love Dogs | Sarah Nolan | ||
| 2006 | Hollywoodland | Toni Mannix | |
| 2008 | Untraceable | FBI Agent Jennifer Marsh | |
| Jumper | Mary Rice | ||
| Nights in Rodanthe | Adrienne Willis | ||
| 2009 | Killshot | Carmen Colson | |
| 2010 | Secretariat | Penny Chenery | |
| 2013 | Man of Steel | Martha Kent | [1] |
| 2014 | Every Secret Thing | Helen Manning | |
| 2015 | Inside Out | Riley's Mom | Voice role[2] |
| Trumbo | Cleo Trumbo | [3] | |
| 2016 | Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice | Martha Kent | |
| 2017 | Paris Can Wait | Anne Lockwood | |
| Mark Felt: The Man Who Brought Down the White House | Audrey Felt | [4] | |
| Justice League | Martha Kent | ||
| 2018 | Tully | Corrine Burns | |
| 2019 | Serenity | Constance | |
| 2020 | Let Him Go | Margaret Blackledge | [5] |
| 2021 | Zack Snyder's Justice League | Martha Kent | |
| 2024 | Inside Out 2 | Riley's Mom | Voice |
| TBA | Anniversary | Filming |
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1981 | Great Performances | Charity Royall | Episode: "Summer" |
| Child Bride of Short Creek | Jessica Rae Jacobs | Television film | |
| 1982 | Miss All-American Beauty | Sally Butterfield | Television film |
| 1989 | Lonesome Dove | Lorena Wood | Miniseries; 4 episodes |
| 1990 | Descending Angel | Irina Stroia | Television film |
| 1993 | Fallen Angels | Bernette Stone | Episode: "Murder, Obliquely" |
| 1994 | Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All | Lucy Honicut Marsden | Television film |
| 1995 | A Streetcar Named Desire | Stella Kowalski | Television film |
| 1998 | Grace & Glorie | Gloria | Television film |
| 2000 | The Virginian | Molly Stark | Television film |
| 2011 | Cinema Verite | Pat Loud | Television film |
| 2018 | The Romanoffs | Katherine Ford | 2 episodes |
| House of Cards | Annette Shepherd | Main role, 7 episodes[6] | |
| 2021 | Y: The Last Man | Senator Jennifer Brown | Main role, 10 episodes[7] |
| 2023 | Extrapolations | Martha Russell | Episode: "2059: Face of God" |
| 2024 | Feud: Capote Vs. The Swans | Slim Keith | Upcoming miniseries |
| TBA | A Man in Full | Martha Croker | Upcoming miniseries |
| Year | Title | Role | Theatre/company | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1971–76 | The Trojan Women, Electra, The Good Woman of Szechuan, Blood Wedding, The Silver Queen, As You Like It | Various | La MaMa, E.T.C. | Performed in New York and toured abroad |
| 1976–77 | The Cherry Orchard | Ensemble (child peasant) | Vivian Beaumont Theater at Lincoln Center (New York) | Broadway; New York Shakespeare Festival |
| Agamemnon | Iphigenia | Vivian Beaumont Theatre at Lincoln Center (New York) | Broadway; New York Shakespeare Festival | |
| 1978 | Runaways | Jackie | The Public Theater (New York)[8] | Off-Broadway |
| 1989 | Twelfth Night | Olivia | American Repertory Theater (Cambridge, MA) | Shakespeare play |
| 2012 | Sweet Bird of Youth | Alexandra Del Lago / Princess Kosmonopolis | Goodman Theatre (Chicago) | |
| 2015 | The Mystery of Love and Sex | Lucinda | Mitzi Newhouse Theatre at Lincoln Center (New York) | Off-Broadway |
| 2016 | The Cherry Orchard | Madam Ranevskya | American Airlines Theatre, Roundabout Theatre (New York) | Broadway |