Mara Lane (born Dorothy Bolton;[1] 1 August 1930 – 2014) was an Austrian-British actress.

Lane was born in Vienna, Austria.

[4] She is the eldest daughter of Russian-born pianist mother Olga Mironova and English father Briton John Bolton, who worked for an American oil firm; he later died in a car crash in the U.S.A.

Her youngest sister is the actress Jocelyn Lane.

[5] Lane's high school education came in New York,[6] and she attended Marguerite Bourgeois College in Montreal, Canada.