Biography
Diane Colleen Lane (born January 22, 1965) is an American actress and producer. Born and raised in New York City, Lane made her screen debut at age 14 in George Roy Hill's 1979 film A Little Romance. Laurence Olivier, who played a major supporting role in the film, called her "the new Grace Kelly". The two films that could have catapulted her to star status, Streets of Fire and The Cotton Club, were both commercial and critical failures, and her career languished as a result. After taking a bre...
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Complete Filmography

Anniversary
2025
as Ellen
A close-knit family is torn apart as a new movement known as "The Change" envelops the country.

Inside Out 2
2024
as Mom (voice)
Teenager Riley's mind headquarters is undergoing a sudden demolition to make room for something entirely unexpected: new Emotions! Joy, Sadness, Anger...

Zack Snyder's Justice League
2021
as Martha Kent
Determined to ensure Superman's ultimate sacrifice was not in vain, Bruce Wayne aligns forces with Diana Prince with plans to recruit a team of metahu...

Let Him Go
2020
as Margaret Blackledge
Following the loss of their son, a retired sheriff and his wife leave their Montana ranch to rescue their young grandson from the clutches of a danger...

Ocean Paradise
2019
as Narrator
OCEAN PARADISE unveils the secrets of the Pacific Ocean’s most remote islands and marine national monuments, immersing viewers in the pristine beauty ...

Serenity
2019
as Constance
The quiet life of Baker Dill, a fishing boat captain who lives on the isolated Plymouth Island, where he spends his days obsessed with capturing an el...

Justice League
2017
as Martha Kent
Fuelled by his restored faith in humanity and inspired by Superman's selfless act, Bruce Wayne and Diana Prince assemble a team of metahumans consisti...

Mark Felt: The Man Who Brought Down the White House
2017
as Audrey Felt
The story of Mark Felt, who under the name "Deep Throat" helped journalists Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein uncover the Watergate scandal in 1974.

Paris Can Wait
2016
as Anne Lockwood
Anne is at a crossroads in her life. Long married to a successful, driven but inattentive movie producer, she unexpectedly finds herself taking a car ...

Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice
2016
as Martha Kent
Fearing the actions of a god-like Super Hero left unchecked, Gotham City’s own formidable, forceful vigilante takes on Metropolis’s most revered, mode...

Riley's First Date?
2015
as Mom (voice)
Riley, now 12, who is hanging out with her parents at home when potential trouble comes knocking. Mom's and Dad's Emotions find themselves forced to d...

Trumbo
2015
as Cleo Trumbo
The career of screenwriter Dalton Trumbo is halted by a witch hunt in the late 1940s when he defies the anti-communist HUAC committee and is blacklist...

Inside Out
2015
as Mom (voice)
When 11-year-old Riley moves to a new city, her Emotions team up to help her through the transition. Joy, Fear, Anger, Disgust and Sadness work togeth...

Every Secret Thing
2014
as Helen Manning
One clear summer day in a Baltimore suburb, a baby goes missing from her front porch. Two young girls serve seven years for the crime and are released...

And the Oscar Goes To...
2014
as Self (archive footage)
The story of the gold-plated statuette that became the film industry's most coveted prize, AND THE OSCAR GOES TO... traces the history of the Academy ...

James Gandolfini: Tribute to a Friend
2013
as Self
In the half-hour tribute, friends and colleagues remember the three-time Emmy winner, who died June 19 at age 51. The special features clips of Gandol...

Man of Steel
2013
as Martha Kent
A young boy learns that he has extraordinary powers and is not of this earth. As a young man, he journeys to discover where he came from and what he w...

Casting By
2012
as Self
This essential new documentary pays tribute to the legacy of the late, legendary casting director Marion Dougherty and shines a light on one of the mo...

Half the Sky: Turning Oppression Into Opportunity for Women Worldwide
2012
as Self
PBS series documentary based on a book of the same name that argues the oppression of women worldwide is the "paramount moral challenge" of our time.

Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen
2012
as (archive footage)
A film where anything can happen - the hero and the heroine changes their faces, age, look, names, and so on. The only same thing: The love between ma...

Cinema Verite
2011
as Pat Loud
In 1973, the Loud family became a television sensation of a new kind. It was long before a metal rock star showed his eccentric family on the small sc...

Secretariat
2010
as Penny Chenery
Housewife and mother Penny Chenery agrees to take over her ailing father's Virginia-based Meadow Stables, despite her lack of horse-racing knowledge. ...

Killshot
2008
as Carmen Colson
Beautiful Carmen Colson and her ironworker husband Wayne are placed in the Federal Witness Protection program after witnessing an "incident". Thinking...

Nights in Rodanthe
2008
as Adrienne
Adrienne is trying to decide whether to stay in her unhappy marriage or not, and her life changes when Paul, a doctor who is travelling to reconcile w...

Jumper
2008
as Mary Rice
David Rice is a man who knows no boundaries, a Jumper, born with the uncanny ability to teleport instantly to anywhere on Earth. When he discovers oth...

Untraceable
2008
as Agent Jennifer Marsh
Special Agent Jennifer Marsh works in an elite division of the FBI dedicated to fighting cybercrime. She thinks she has seen it all, until a particula...

Why Be Good?: Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema
2007
as Narrator (voice)
Before the G, PG and R ratings system there was the Production Code, and before that there was, well, nothing. This eye-opening documentary examines t...

Fierce People
2006
as Liz Earl
A massage therapist looking to overcome her addictions and reconnect with her son, whose father is an anthropologist in South America studying the Yan...

Hollywoodland
2006
as Toni Mannix
When Hollywood superstar George Reeves dies in his home, private detective Louis Simo is hired to investigate his death and gets caught in a web of li...

Staying Gold: A Look Back at 'The Outsiders'
2005
as Self
Join director Francis Coppola and his remarkable cast as they reminisce about their experiences shooting "The Outsiders" in 1982 in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

Must Love Dogs
2005
as Sarah
Sarah Nolan is a newly divorced woman cautiously rediscovering romance with the enthusiastic but often misguided help of her well-meaning family. As s...

Under the Tuscan Sun
2003
as Frances
After a rough divorce, Frances, a 35-year-old professor and writer from San Francisco takes a tour of Tuscany at the urgings of her friends. On a whim...

Searching for Debra Winger
2002
as Self
Rosanna Arquette talks to various actresses about the pressures they face as women working in the entertainment industry.

Unfaithful
2002
as Constance Sumner
Connie is a wife and mother whose 11-year marriage to Edward has lost its sexual spark. When Connie literally runs into handsome book collector Paul, ...

The Glass House
2001
as Erin Glass
When Ruby and Rhett's parents are killed in a car accident, their carefree teenage lives are suddenly shattered. Moving to an incredible house in Mali...

Hardball
2001
as Elizabeth Wilkes
An aimless young man who is scalping tickets, gambling and drinking, agrees to coach a Little League team from the Cabrini Green housing project in Ch...

The Perfect Storm
2000
as Christina "Chris" Cotter
In October 1991, a confluence of weather conditions combined to form a killer storm in the North Atlantic. Caught in the storm was the sword-fishing b...

My Dog Skip
2000
as Ellen Morris
A shy boy is unable to make friends in Yazoo City, Mississippi in 1942, until his parents give him a terrier puppy for his ninth birthday. The dog, wh...

The Virginian
2000
as Molly Stark
A cowboy finds himself betrayed by his best friend and must choose between bringing him to justice and alienating the pretty schoolteacher he is in lo...

A Walk on the Moon
1999
as Pearl Kantrowitz
The world of a young housewife is turned upside down when she has an affair with a free-spirited blouse salesman.

Grace & Glorie
1998
as Gloria Greenwood
When a lonely ex-New Yorker moves into the home of a rural senior to act as a hospice worker, the two initially couldn't seem to be less alike. Howeve...

Gunshy
1998
as Melissa
When the New York journalist Jake Bridges catches his girlfriend with another guy, he goes to Atlantic City to drink himself to oblivion. He is saved ...

Murder at 1600
1997
as Agent Nina Chance
A secretary is found dead in a White House bathroom during an international crisis, and Detective Harlan Regis is in charge of the investigation. Desp...

The Only Thrill
1997
as Katherine Fritzsimmons
A small-town store owner with a comatose wife shares a long-term relationship with his seamstress.

Mad Dog Time
1996
as Grace Everly
With his boss in the madhouse, a mobster is temporary boss of the criminal empire just as vicious rivals threaten the control of the empire.

Jack
1996
as Karen Powell
Jack Powell suffers from an affliction that makes him grow four times faster than normal, so the 10 year old boy looks like a 40 year old man. After y...

Wild Bill
1995
as Susannah Moore
Biopic about famous gunslinger Wild Bill Hickock. The early career of legendary lawman is telescoped and culminates in his relocation in Deadwood and ...

A Streetcar Named Desire
1995
as Stella Kowalski
A fading Southern Belle moves in with her sister in New Orleans where her ferocious brother-in-law takes stabs at her sanity.

Judge Dredd
1995
as Judge Hershey
In a dystopian future, Dredd, the most famous judge (a cop with instant field judiciary powers) is convicted for a crime he did not commit while his m...
Stallone's Law: The Making of 'Judge Dredd'
1995
as Herself
Documentary on the making of the 1995 film 'Judge Dredd.'

Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All
1994
as Lucy Honicut Marsden
Lucy married at the turn of the last century, when she was fifteen and her husband was fifty. If Colonel William Marsden was a veteran of the "War for...

Indian Summer
1993
as Beth Warden / Clair Everett
A group of childhood friends, now in their thirties, reunite at Camp Tamakwa. Only a few of the original campers show up, but they still have a good t...

Chaplin
1992
as Paulette Goddard
An aged Charlie Chaplin narrates his life to his autobiography's editor, including his rise to wealth and comedic fame from poverty, his turbulent per...

My New Gun
1992
as Debbie Bender
Debbie Bender is a New Jersey housewife whose life is turned upside down when her husband gives her a gun for self-protection. But his plans backfire ...

The Setting Sun
1992
as Lian Hong
A Japanese soldier is forced to question alliances when he meets and falls in love with the leader of the rebel movement.

Knight Moves
1992
as Kathy Sheppard
A chess grandmaster is in a big tournament, and when his lover is found painted up and the blood drained out of her body he becomes a chief suspect. A...

Descending Angel
1990
as Irina Stroia
A recently engaged man getting to know his future father-in-law better unearths clues that the man may have been a Nazi collaborator and a mass murder...

Vital Signs
1990
as Gina Wyler
As they enter their third year of medical school, a group of young students must prepare to decide what they intend to specialize in. Somehow, they mu...

Priceless Beauty
1988
as China
A rock-star who stopped singing after the death of his brother finds a female genie in a vase. She tries to help him live again.

The Big Town
1987
as Lorry Dane
It is 1957. J.C. Cullen is a young man from a small town, with a talent for winning at craps, who leaves for the big city to work as a professional ga...

Lady Beware
1987
as Katya Yarno
Young and good looking Katya, a window dresser for a big department store in Pittsburgh, begins a love story with a journalist, Mac Odell. She is howe...

The Cotton Club
1984
as Vera Cicero
Harlem's legendary Cotton Club becomes a hotbed of passion and violence as the lives and loves of entertainers and gangsters collide.

Streets of Fire
1984
as Ellen Aim
Raven Shaddock and his gang of merciless biker friends kidnap rock singer Ellen Aim. Ellen's former lover, soldier-for-hire Tom Cody, happens to be pa...

Rumble Fish
1983
as Patty
Rusty James, an absent-minded street thug, struggles to live up to his legendary older brother's reputation and longs for the days when gang warfare w...

The Outsiders
1983
as Cherry Valance
When two poor Greasers, Johnny and Ponyboy, are assaulted by a vicious gang, the Socs, and Johnny kills one of the attackers, tension begins to mount ...

Miss All-American Beauty
1982
as Sally Butterfield
After winning a beauty contest in Texas, a teenage girl is unprepared for the demands of travel, press conferences and interviews that go with winning...

Ladies and Gentlemen, the Fabulous Stains
1982
as Corinne Burns
Corrine Burns retreats far into plans for her band, The Fabulous Stains, after her mother's death.

Six Pack
1982
as Breezy
Stopping briefly in a small Texas town, an itinerant race car driver finds that his stock car, on a trailer behind his motor home, has just been quick...

National Lampoon's Movie Madness
1982
as Liza ("Growing Yourself")
A parody of film genres composed of three shorts, spoofing personal growth films, glossy soap operas, and police stories.

Child Bride of Short Creek
1981
as Jessica Rae Jacobs
A dramatization of the true account of a fundamentalist sect in Arizona that practices polygamy, and a returning Korean War veteran's rebellion agains...

Cattle Annie and Little Britches
1981
as Jenny (Little Britches)
In nineteenth century Oklahoma, two teen girls, fans of stories about outlaws, are on a quest to meet and join up with them. They find a shadow of a f...

Touched by Love
1980
as Karen
A teenager with cerebral palsy attempts to become pen pals with her idol, Elvis Presley.

A Little Romance
1979
as Lauren King
Intellectually precocious teenager Lauren King lives in Paris with her somewhat ditzy mother. On a movie set, she strikes up a friendship with teenage...

Queen City
N/A
as dian3