Diane Lane - Biography

Last Editor: symasterful				Diane Lane Biography -   Name : Diane Lane Birth Date : January 22, 1965 Birth Place : New York, New York, USA Height : 5' 6 Nationality : American Occupation : Actress Relationship : Josh Brolin (actor; born on February 12, 1968; engaged in July 2003), Jon Bon Jovi (actor, musician; born on March 2, 1962; had relationship in the mi Claim to fame : as Lauren in A Little Romance (1979)

Diane Lane Trivia -

Daughter of acting coach Burt Lane and Playboy centerfold Colleen Farrington (Miss October 1957). February 2000: Admitted in Esquire Magazine that she had had affairs with both Timothy Hutton and Christopher Atkins. She dated rocker/actor Jon Bon Jovi in the mid-'80s. She was a multi-millionaire by the time she was 18 years old. One of Francis Ford Coppola's favorite 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, whose father is her ex-husband Christopher Lambert of Highlander (1986) fame. August 1979: Was on the cover of Time Magazine at the age of 14. 2003: Attended the Oscars with Josh Brolin. Her father passed away shortly before Unfaithful (2002), in which she gave an Academy Award-nominated performance, was released. He did see a rough cut of the film three weeks before his death. 2003: Voted one of People Magazine's "Most Beautiful People in the World". 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. 9/14/01: Two of her movies - Hard Ball (2001) and The Glass House (2001) - opened in theaters in the US on the same day. They were the top two movies at the box office that weekend. 2004: Voted one of the "World's Most Desirable Women". 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 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 Hill and Papp wanted her, and a series of telegrams among Papp, Hill, Olivier' and her 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. [1993] Daughter Eleanor Lambert born. Father is ex-husband Christopher Lambert. 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, MA, 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 #79 on VH1's "100 Greatest Kid Stars" (2005). Was voted #7 in "VH1's Hottest Over 40". She auditioned for the role of Avery Bishop in Jerry Maguire (1996). 1980: She was hit in the eye with a tennis ball, the impact of which caused permanent pupil dilation. There is a street in Larkspur, CA, named "Diane Lane". While filming The Outsiders (1983), co-star Tom Cruise received the script for Risky Business (1983) and asked her to co-star with him in the film as Lana. She stated that her father would "never" let her star as a prostitute and the role went to Rebecca De Mornay. Has starred with Richard Gere in 3 movies to date: The Cotton Club (1984); Unfaithful (2002); and Nights in Rodanthe (2008). Turned down the role of Kathryn Murphy in The Accused (1988). Kelly McGillis got the part.

Diane Lane Detailed 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. 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. 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.