Diane Lane (born January 22, 1965) is an American actress born in New York, New York, the daughter of acting coach Burt Lane and Playboy centerfold Colleen Farrington. She has successfully made the transition from child (and teenage) actor to adult actor. She was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress for her work in Unfaithful (2002).
Lane made a hit with audiences in the back to back cult hits The Outsiders and Rumble Fish and for a time was a leading member of the brat pack group of actors. However the two films that should have catapulted her to star status, Streets of Fire and The Cotton Club, were both box office flops and her career languished as a result until A Walk on the Moon when she started to gain attention in more mature roles.
She was married to the actor Christopher Lambert from 1988 to 1994. They had one child, Eleanor Jasmine Lambert, born September 5, 1993. Lane married actor Josh Brolin on August 14, 2004. On December 20 of that year she called police after a disagreement and he was arrested for spousal battery. Lane later claimed she had never wanted him to be arrested and it was all a misunderstanding.
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