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Diane Lane
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Born: Jan 22, 1965
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When this precociously beautiful teenager was selected to costar with Laurence Olivier in A Little Romance (1979) she landed on the cover of "Time" magazine. Her winning performance in that paean to puppy love launched a career that endured through adolescence and has flowered in adulthood. Good parts in Cattle Annie and Lit- tle Britches and Touched by Love (both 1980) alternated with projects like Six Pack (1981) and Ladies and Gentlemen, The Fabulous Stains (1982). She was sullen in a trio of Francis Coppola films-The Outsiders, Rumble Fish (both 1983), and The Cotton Club (1984)-but as the decade progressed she began to take on increasingly offbeat and challenging parts. She was a rock star in Streets of Fire (1984), a stripper in The Big Town and a psycho's victim in Lady Beware (both 1987). She brought warmth and a wry sense of humor to her part as a hooker in the outstanding TV miniseries "Lonesome Dove" (1989). Recent credits include Vital Signs (1990), Chaplin (1992, as Paulette Goddard), the deadpan lead in the undernourished black comedy My New Gun (also 1992), Indian Summer (1993, as a young widow who blossoms during a summer camp reunion), Wild Bill (as Savannah Moore), and Judge Dredd (both 1995). Lane returned to TV in the 1994 miniseries "Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All" and a 1995 production of A Streetcar Named Desire (as Stella). She was married to actor Christopher Lambert, with whom she has costarred in Priceless Beauty (1988, as a genie who emerges from a lamp) and Knight Moves (1993).
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