was born on January 22, 1965. Lane was born and raised in New York City, where soon her acting career would begin.

Lane was raised by her parents which were Colleen Farrington, also known as Colleen Price, a night club singer and a Playboy Centerfold for October 1957. Her father, Burton Eugene Lane, who was a drama coach in Manhattan. Lane’s parents later divorced when she was only 13 months old. Her mother was then awarded custody of her daughter up until the age of six, where Lane’s father later fought for custody of his daughter and won. Lane then went to live with her father, where she found herself moving in and out of hotels around the city.

At the age of 15, Lane wanted to become independent and decided to runaway from home. Leaving her father behind. She ran away to Los Angeles with the actor and also close friend, Christopher Atkins. She later believed that what she had done, was reckless behavior.

After knowing the faults of running away, Lane moved back to Los Angeles and decided to stay with a friend’s family.

Once returning back to Los Angeles, Lane decided to correspondence courses. During this time, Lane was kidnapped by her mother. Later her father went to court fighting her mother for kidnapping charges. He fought this for 6 weeks.

For three years, Lane could not bring herself to speak to her mother, then she finally felt that it was not worth the trouble and decided to reconcile with her mother.

Because of Lane’s maternal grandmother’s awesome sermons, Lane begin to grow a passion for acting. Where Lane begin acting at the age of six years old, in the La MaMa Experimental Theater Club in New York. Where she first begin acting in a production of Medea.

At the age of 12 years old, Lane received another assignment where she picked up the role in a Joseph Pappi’s production of The Cherry Orchard with the actor Meryl Streep. Around the time of her playing this role, Lane was also apart of an accelerated program at Hunter College High School. Which was later known that her grades turned into worse and she was left on notice to improve her grades.

The role in Runaways was later offered to her at the age of 13, she later turned down. Lane felt that she had too much already on her plate and she felt that she needed to stay more focused on her grades.

At the age of 14, Lane was placed on the Times Magazine cover, where she was given the title of one of Hollywood’s Whizz Kids.

of the few child actors to bypass just being a child actor and carrying it on in their adult life. Later Lane had landed a role in the Outsiders.

Lane also felt the need to turn down a few roles that were offered to her, although a few critics felt that she would be perfect for the role. The names of the two movies that she turned down where Splash and Risky Business. The two roles that she decided to take on but turned out to be a complete failure were the movies Streets of Fire and The Cotton Club. Because of these failures, her career begin to dwindle slowly down the ladder.

Once finishing up her role on The Cotton Club, Lane decided to put her career on hold and decided to move back to Georgia and live with her mother. Lane felt that she hadn’t spent much time with her mother lately and that her relationship with her mother definitely needed some repairing.

Later on in life while Lane was still repairing her relationship with her mother, she decided to return back to the business of acting she landed a few roles in The Big Town and Lady Beware.

Later in 1989, Lane landed a role in the popular television mini series, Lonesome Dove and it definitely turned out to be a really good job. She impressed many of her fans.

In 1999, Lane landed a role in, A Walk on the Moon.

In 2002, Lane landed another role on a drama film, Unfaithful. Where she played the role of a housewife, who cheated on her husband who was played by the actor Richard Gere.

In 2008, she landed another role in the movie Nights in Rodanthe where Richard Gere once again appeared in the movie with her.
-Also she starred in the movies, Jumper and Untraceable.
-Her last film for the year was Killshot who also starred the actor Mickey Rourke.

In 2009, Lane landed a role in the Disney movie Secretariat where she falls in love with a 1973 Triple Crown racehorse and his owner. Her character’s name was Penny Chenery.

In July 2003, Lane soon became engaged to the actor Josh Brolin and they later married August 15, 2004. In the same year, December 20th, Lane found herself pressing charges against her husband for domestic violence. Later she changed her mind and decided not to press charges. Besides that altercation, Lane and her husband are still married as of today.

Lane does have one child from her divorce with Christopher Lambert. They were married in 1988 and later divorced in 1994.