Diane Lane-American film actress
At fourteen, Lane was featured on the cover of Time declaring her one of Hollywood’s “Whiz Kids”.[4][5]
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, starring with future movie stars Matt Dillon, Tom Cruise, Rob Lowe, and Patrick Swayze, and Rumble Fish, starring Dillon, Mickey Rourke, and Nicolas Cage.[1] However, the two films that could have catapulted her to star status, Streets of Fire (she turned down Splash for this film)[6] and The Cotton Club, were both commercial and critical failures and her career languished as a result.
She returned to the business to make The Big Town and Lady Beware but did not garner serious acclaim until 1989’s popular and critically acclaimed TV mini-series Lonesome Dove that Lane made another big impression on a sizable audience.[7] She was nominated for an Emmy Award for the Read the rest of this entry »
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