Rịba ama amaokwu a dị n'okpuru ma zaa ajụjụ ahụ mgbe e mesịrị n'otu asụsụ ahụ dị ka amaokwu ahụ:  Nkọwa: Nne nne Lane, Eleanor Scott, bụ onye ụkọchukwu Pentikọstal nke ụka Apostolic, na Lane na-emetụta ihe nkiri site na ngosipụta nke okwuchukwu nne nne ya. Lane bidoro ịrụ ọrụ n'oge ọ dị afọ isii na La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club na New York, ebe ọ pụtara na mmepụta nke Medea. Mgbe Lane dị afọ iri na abụọ, o nwere ọrụ na Joseph Papp nke The Cherry Orchard na Meryl Streep na Irene Worth. N'oge a, Lane debanyere aha na mmemme ngwangwa na Hunter College High School; agbanyeghị, akara ya tara ahụhụ n'ihi oge ọrụ ya. Mgbe Lane dị afọ iri na atọ, ọ jụrụ ọrụ na Runaways na Broadway iji mee ihe nkiri mbụ ya na Laurence Olivier na A Little Romance. Lane nwetara otuto dị ukwuu site n'aka Olivier, onye kwupụtara ya "The New Grace Kelly". N'otu oge ahụ, e gosipụtara Lane na mkpuchi nke Oge, nke kwupụtara ya dịka otu n'ime "Whiz Kids" nke Hollywood. Ná mmalite afọ 1980, Lane mere mgbanwe nke ọma site na nwata na-eme ihe nkiri na ọrụ ndị okenye. A họpụtara ya dị ka nwa agbọghọ dị afọ iri na ụma na-emebi iwu Little Britches na fim Lamont Johnson nke 1981, Cattle Annie na Little Britches, ya na Amanda Plummer na ọrụ mbụ ya dị ka Cattle Annie. Egwuregwu Lane na-abịa na ntụgharị azụ na azụ nke akwụkwọ akụkọ ndị na-eto eto nke S. E. Hinton, nke Francis Ford Coppola na-emegharị ma na-eduzi: Ndị Ọpụpụ na Rumble Fish, ma na 1983. Ihe nkiri abụọ ahụ gosikwara arụmọrụ ndị a na-echefu echefu site n'aka ọtụtụ ụmụ nwoke na-eto eto ndị ga-aga n'ihu ịghọ ndị isi na afọ iri na-esote (yana ndị otu a na-akpọ "Brat Pack"), gụnyere Tom Cruise, Rob Lowe, Judd Nelson, C. Thomas Howell, Emilio Estevez, Patrick Swayze, Mickey Rourke, Nicolas Cage, na Matt Dillon. Ọdịiche nke Lane n'etiti ndị nwoke a na-atụ egwu na-eme ka ọrụ ya gaa n'ihu mgbe ọ na-ejikọta ya na ọgbọ a na-eto eto nke ndị na-eme ihe nkiri nwoke. Andy Warhol kwupụtara ya, "onye na-eduga nwanyị na-enweghị mgbagha nke Hollywood ọhụrụ oke mkpọ".Otú ọ dị, ihe nkiri abụọ nke gaara eme ka ọ bụrụ kpakpando, Streets of Fire (ọ...  Ajụjụ: Ego ole ka Lane nwetara?
Nhọpụta Independent Spirit Award maka Best Female Lead