Diane Lane (born January 22, 1965) is an American film actress. She has been nominated for an Academy Award, two Golden Globe Awards, a Screen Actors Guild Award, and an Emmy Award.

In the early 1980s, Lane dated actors Timothy Hutton, Christopher Atkins, Matt Dillon, and later rock star Jon Bon Jovi. After the commercial and critical failure of The Cotton Club, Lane dropped out of the movie business and lived with her mother in Georgia. Lane met actor Christopher Lambert in Paris while promoting Coppola's film. They had a brief affair and split up. They met again two years Read more...

Lane's maternal grandmother, Agnes Scott, was a three-times married Pentecostal preacher, and Lane was influenced by the theatricality of her grandmother's sermons. Lane began acting professionally at the age of six at the La MaMa Experimental Theater Club in New York, where she appeared in an acclaimed production of Medea and at 12 she had a role in Joseph Papp's production of The Cherry Orchard Read more...