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Diane Lane Profile |
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Birth Date: January 22, 1965
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Birth Place: New York, New York, USA
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Birth Name: Diane Lane
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Height: 5'6"
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Biography |
Diane Lane was born in New York City on January 22, 1965, to
acting coach father Burt Lane and nightclub
singer/centerfold Colleen Farrington. With those two for
parents, it was almost genetically inevitable that Diane
would possess a mix of acting ability, stunning good looks,
and smoldering sexuality. Of course, she would have to grow
into those last two attributes.
The acting ability came almost as soon as she was born, and
by age six Diane had made her stage debut in acclaimed
theater director Andrei Serbian's Medea. Her performance so
captivated Serbian that he continued to cast her in his
productions for the next five years.
By 1976 her reputation as a talented and capable child star
landed her in Joseph Papp's productions of The Cherry
Orchard and Agamemnon at the Lincoln Center in New York.
Performing at such a distinguished venue meant that her
reviews would be read throughout the United States, most
notably in Hollywood.
Film director George Roy Hill cast young Diane to star
opposite Sir Lawrence Olivier in his 1978 feature film A
Little Romance. Despite the film's critical praise, its box
office success was mediocre at best. But Olivier was very
vocal in press interviews about how wonderful an actress his
young co-star was. He even went so far as to call her the
new Grace Kelly. Eventually, all of this media hype placed
Diane on the cover of Time in August of 1979 at the age of
fourteen.
Expectations were running high for Diane's follow-up
projects and none of them lived up to their promise. Touched
by Love (1980), Cattle Annie and Little Britches (1981),
National Lampoon Goes to the Movies (1981), Ladies and
Gentlemen, the Fabulous Stains (1981), and Six Pack (1982)
were all box-office duds.
With the shine of her star fading, Diane began to take on
roles with smaller paychecks and bigger opportunities to
grow as an actor. Roles in two Francis Ford Coppola movies,
Rumble Fish (1983) and The Outsiders (1983), proved that
Diane was more than capable of taking on adult roles, and
once again she was extremely hot property. Coppola even
admitted to always having had a crush on her, even when she
was a young actress.
With studio executives falling over themselves to offer her
a multiple-picture deal, she was offered the lead role in
three big budget Hollywood epics. Perhaps trying to exercise
some of the judgment she lacked as a child actor, she passed
on the first picture. On paper, the movie seemed destined
for failure: "a mermaid out of water story" starring an
unknown TV actor. Sadly for Diane, the movie was the
blockbuster success Splash and the actor she passed on was
Tom Hanks. The movies she did accept were Streets of Fire
(1984) and The Cotton Club (1984), both high-budget,
high-profile failures.
Diane spent the next three years in a self-imposed exile
from acting, making her return in the little-known picture,
The Big Town (1987). The film served as the formal beginning
of her comeback, but it wasn't until 1989's Lonesome Dove
that America welcomed her back as a star.
Her role as Lorena Wood, the whore with a heart of gold, in
that epic mini-series garnered her an Emmy nomination, and
yet another stint as a hot commodity among film producers,
although this time she was wanted as a supporting actress
rather than a leading lady.
Desperate to avoid falling from grace again, Diane carefully
selected smaller roles in "safe" films like 1992's Chaplin
and 1993's Indian Summer. Since 1995, Diane began working in
a series of big budget, high-profile films, such as Judge
Dredd (1995), the Robin Williams vehicle Jack (in 1996, and
incidentally directed by Francis Ford Coppola), and Murder
at 1600 (1997). Though the films were all reasonably
successful, none of them turned Diane into a household name.
The string of films that has helped turn Diane into a major
star began with her Spirit Award winning performance of a
frustrated and adulterous 1960s housewife in A Walk on the
Moon (1999). That role may have won her the industry
acclaim, but it was her role in the $600 million plus
grossing blockbuster A Perfect Storm, which brought her back
to the public eye.
Since the runaway success of that film, Diane has put forth
starring efforts in The Glass House (2001) and the
box-office hit Hardball, which both opened on the same day,
in 2001. Despite the success of those two films, it has been
her role in the sexy thriller Unfaithful (2002) that looks
to be the defining moment of her career.
The film was tops at the box office and there are rumblings
about a possible Oscar nomination for Lane's turn as Richard
Gere's cheating wife. It seems that after twenty years of
stop-and-go success, Diane Lane is finally fulfilling the
starry prophecy that Time laid out for her back in August of
1979.
As for her personal life, she has a daughter, Eleanor, with
her ex-husband, actor Christopher Lambert. |
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Other
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Daughter of acting coach Burt Lane and Playboy centerfold
Colleen Farrington (Miss October 1957).
Admitted in Esquire Magazine in February 2000 that she had
an affair with both Timothy Hutton and Christopher Atkins.
Dated rocker/actor Jon Bon Jovi in the mid-80s.
Was a multi-millionaire by the time she was 18 years old.
One of Francis Ford Coppola's favourite actresses - she has
starred in no less than four of his films.
She enjoys music and movies and has a large home-theater in
her home.
Collects antique furniture and has a strange fetish - she
admitted in Playboy (1995) that she has "a thing for really
high thigh-boots. I have a cool collection! I love high
heels."
In her off time, she likes to travel, ride her horses and go
walking. She also enjoys keeping fit and does Yoga. She
especially loves to spend as much time as possible with her
daughter, Eleanor, whom she had with ex-husband and fellow
actor, Christopher Lambert of Highlander fame.
Was on the cover of Time Magazine (August 1979) at the age
of 14.
Attended the 2003 Oscars with Josh Brolin.
Her father passed away shortly before Unfaithful (2002), in
which Diane Lane gave an Academy Award nominated
performance, was released. He did see a rough cut of the
film three weeks before his death.
Voted one of People Magazine's "Most Beautiful People in the
World" (2003).
July 2003: Engaged to actor Josh Brolin.
Measurements: 35C-25-34 (Source: Celebrity Sleuth magazine)
Once pursued professional modeling as a teen but was told by
Eileen Ford (of the Ford Modeling Agency) that her neck was
"too short" to be a model.
Two of her movies - Hard Ball (2001) and The Glass House
(2001) - opened in theaters in the US on the same day. [14
September 2001]
Voted one of the "World's Most Desirable Women" (2004)
Has said that some of her biggest acting influences have
been Jane Fonda, Shirley MacLaine, Jessica Lange, and Susan
Sarandon.
When she was 13, George Roy Hill wanted her to star opposite
Laurence Olivier in his 1979 film, A Little Romance (1979).
At the time, she was working on Broadway for Joseph Papp at
the Public Theatre in the original production of The
Runaways. Both George Roy Hill and Joseph Papp wanted her,
and a series of telegrams between Papp, Hill, Laurence
Olivier, and Diane's father transpired, with Hill, Olivier,
and Diane's father wanting her in the film, and Papp wanting
to keep her in the play. She ended up doing the film.
Daughter Eleonora Lambert (b. 1993) with ex-husband
Christopher Lambert
Her mother, Colleen Farrington, was the October 1957
Playmate of the Month.
Daughter-in-law of James Brolin.
Best friend of Elizabeth Perkins.
Daughter-in-law of Barbra Streisand
Stepmother of Josh Brolin's children Eden and Trevor from
Brolin's first marriage to Alice Adair
Born on the same day as actor Mads Koudal.
One of the "later" members of the Brat Pack, along with John
Cusack.
There is a street in Ashland, Massachusetts named "Diane
Lane."
Was considered for the role of Ana in the 2004 remake of
Dawn of the Dead (2004). The part eventually went to Sarah
Polley.
Was number 79 on vh1's "100 Greatest Kid Stars" (2005)
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