Rangarira ndima iri pasi apa uye ipapo pindura mubvunzo gare gare mumutauro mumwe chetewo sechikamu:  Passage: Ambuya vaLane, Eleanor Scott, aiva muparidzi wePentekosti wechitendero chevaApostora, uye Lane akafuridzirwa nemitambo nemhando yekuratidzira yemharidzo dzaambuya vake. Lane akatanga kuita zvehunyanzvi pazera ramakore matanhatu kuLa MaMa Experimental Theatre Club muNew York, kwaakaonekwa mukugadzirwa kweMedea. Lane paakanga ava nemakore gumi nemaviri, aive nebasa mukugadzirwa kwaJoseph Papp kweThe Cherry Orchard naMeryl Streep naIrene Worth. Panguva ino, Lane akanyoresa muchirongwa chinokurumidza paHunter College High School; zvisinei, mamakisi ake akatambura kubva purogiramu yake yakabatikana. Lane paakanga ava nemakore gumi nematatu, akaramba basa muRunaways paBroadway kuti aite firimu rake rekutanga rakafanana naLaurence Olivier muA Little Romance. Lane akawana kurumbidzwa kukuru kubva kuna Olivier, uyo akamudana kuti "The New Grace Kelly". Panguva imwecheteyo, Lane akaonekwa pabutiro reNguva, iyo yakamuzivisa seimwe yeHollywood's "Whiz Kids". Mukutanga kwema1980, Lane akaita shanduko yakabudirira kubva kumwana mutambi kuenda kune vakuru mabasa. Akakandwa semusikana wechidiki wechikadzi wechidiki muLamont Johnson firimu ra1981, Cattle Annie uye Little Britches, naAmanda Plummer mune rake rekutanga basa saCattle Annie. Zviratidziro zvaLane zvekubuda zvakauya nekudzoka-kwe-kumashure kwekugadziriswa kwenyaya dzevechidiki dzevakuru naSE Hinton, dzakashandurwa uye dzakatungamirwa naFrancis Ford Coppola: The Outsiders uye Rumble Fish, zvese muna 1983. Mafirimu ose ari maviri akaratidzirawo mabasa asingakanganwiki kubva kune vanoverengeka vechidiki varume vatambi avo vaizopfuurira kuva varume vanotungamira mumakore gumi anotevera (pamwe nenhengo dzeanonzi "Brat Pack"), kusanganisira Tom Cruise, Rob Lowe, Judd Nelson, C. Thomas Howell, Emilio Estevez, Patrick Swayze, Mickey Rourke, Nicolas Cage, uye Matt Dillon. Kusiyanisa kwaLane pakati pevarume ava kwakasimudzira basa rake achimubatanidza nechizvarwa ichi chevechidiki chevatambi vechirume. Andy Warhol akamuzivisa, "mutungamiri wechikadzi asingapikiswi weboka idzva remakonzo eHollywood".Zvisinei, mafirimu maviri aigona kunge akamupinza pachinzvimbo chenyeredzi, Migwagwa Yemoto (iye...  Mubvunzo: Lane akawana marii?
Kusarudzwa kweIndependent Spirit Award yeBest Female Lead