Diane
Lane (born January 22, 1965) is an Academy Award-nominated
American actress. 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 and Rumble Fish. However the
two films that could have catapulted her to star status, Streets
of Fire and The Cotton Club, were both box office flops and her
career languished as a result. It was not until 1989's popular and
critically acclaimed TV mini-series Lonesome Dove that Lane made
another big impression on a sizable audience. She was nominated
for an Emmy Award for the role. Lane won further praise for her
role in 1999's A Walk on the Moon, opposite Viggo Mortensen. In
2002, Lane was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress for
her performance in Unfaithful, and was honored for her work in
that film by The New York and The National Society of Film
Critics. She followed that film up with Under the Tuscan Sun
(2003), based on the best-selling book by Frances Mayes. She
ranked at #79 on VH1's 100 Greatest Kid Stars ... more
