Nathan Lane

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Nathan Lane
Lane after a performance of Angels in America in 2018
Born
Joseph Lane

(1956-02-03) February 3, 1956 (age 68)
OccupationActor
Years active1975–present
WorksFull list
Spouse
Devlin Elliott
(m. 2015)
AwardsFull list

Nathan Lane (born Joseph Lane; February 3, 1956) is an American actor. Since 1975, he has been seen

Screen Actors Guild Award. Lane received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2006 and was inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame in 2008.[1][2] In 2010, The New York Times hailed Lane as "the greatest stage entertainer of the decade".[3]

Lane made his professional theatre debut in 1978 in an off-Broadway production of

.

A six-time

(2023).

Lane has appeared in over 35 films, including

(2022–).

Early life and education

Lane was born Joseph Lane in Jersey City, New Jersey on February 3, 1956.[4] His father Daniel Joseph Lane was a truck driver and an aspiring tenor who died in 1967 from alcoholism when Lane was eleven.[5] His mother Nora Veronica (Finnerty) was a housewife and secretary who suffered from bipolar disorder and died in 2000.[6][7][8] He has two older brothers Daniel Jr. and Robert.[9] Lane's parents were Catholics and all of his grandparents were Irish immigrants.[5][10] He is named after his uncle, a Jesuit priest.[11] Lane attended Catholic schools in Jersey City, including Jesuit-run St. Peter's Preparatory School, where he was voted Best Actor in 1974, and years later received the 2011 Prep Hall of Fame Professional Achievement Award.[12]

Career

1978–1993: Rise to prominence

Lane at the 1998 Primetime Emmy Awards

Accepted to Saint Joseph's University in Philadelphia on a drama scholarship, Lane was accompanied on what was supposed to be his first day there by his older brother Dan. Discovering that the scholarship would not cover enough of his expenses, he decided to leave, and work for a year to earn some money. His brother said, "I remember him saying to me, 'College is for people who don't know what they want to do.'"[9]

Because there already was a Joseph Lane registered with

Second Stage Theatre, the Roundabout Theatre, and the Manhattan Theatre Club.[citation needed] He made his Broadway debut in a 1982 revival of Noël Coward's Present Laughter as Roland Maule (Drama Desk nomination) with George C. Scott, Kate Burton, Dana Ivey, Bette Henritze, Elizabeth Hubbard, Jim Piddock, and Christine Lahti.[16]

His second Broadway appearance was in the 1983 musical

Lincoln Center, and the national tour of Neil Simon's Broadway Bound.[17]

Off-Broadway productions included Love (the musical version of Murray Schisgal's Luv),[18] Measure for Measure directed by Joseph Papp in Central Park, for which he received the St. Clair Bayfield Award,[19] The Common Pursuit, The Film Society, In a Pig's Valise, She Stoops to Conquer,[20] The Merry Wives of Windsor and A Midsummer Night's Dream. He also appeared at the Williamstown Theatre Festival in The School for Scandal and John Guare's Moon Over Miami.[21] His association with Stephen Sondheim began with the workshop reading of Assassins in 1989 where he played Samuel Byck, the would be murderer of Richard Nixon. Lane also appeared in the television shows Miami Vice and The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd.

Lane had a long friendship with Terrence McNally

In 1991, Lane appeared with

Outer Critics Circle Awards.[26] In 1992, he won an Obie Award for Sustained Excellence of Performance.[27] His professional association with his close friend the playwright Terrence McNally, whom he met in 1987,[28] includes roles in The Lisbon Traviata (Drama Desk and Lucille Lortel Awards, and Outer Critics Circle nomination),[29][30] Bad Habits, Lips Together, Teeth Apart, Love! Valour! Compassion! (Obie, Drama Desk, and Outer Critics Circle Awards),[29][31][32] Dedication or the Stuff of Dreams, which opened in 2005 (Drama Desk nomination),[33][34] The Last Mile on PBS' Great Performances, and the film version of Frankie and Johnny
.

The early 1990s began a stretch of successful Broadway shows for Lane. In 1993, he portrayed Sid Caesar-like Max Prince in Neil Simon's Laughter on the 23rd Floor, inspired by Simon's early career writing sketches for Your Show of Shows.[35] In 1996, he starred in the hit revival of Stephen Sondheim's A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum. For his performance he won the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical as well as the Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle Awards.[17] In 1998, he appeared Off-Broadway in Jon Robin Baitz's revised 1984 comedy, Mizlansky/Zilinsky or 'Schmucks'.[36][37]

1994–2009: Breakthrough and acclaim

In 1994, Lane voiced

The Wizard of Oz in Concert at Lincoln Center to benefit the Children's Defense Fund.[39] The performance was originally broadcast on Turner Network Television (TNT).[40]

Lane collaborated with Stephen Sondheim in several of his projects

In 1996 Lane appeared in the film

Golden Globe nomination.[41] The film, an American remake of the classic French farce La Cage aux Folles, was directed by Mike Nichols with a screenplay by Elaine May, and starred Robin Williams, Lane, and Gene Hackman, and went on to be a big success. The Stephen Sondheim song "Little Dream"[42] in The Birdcage was supposedly written especially for him. In 1999, he appeared with Victor Garber in the workshop of the Sondheim musical Wise Guys (later retitled Road Show).[43] His collaboration with Sondheim would continue when Lane revised the original book for and starred in the Broadway debut of the composer's The Frogs at Lincoln Center in 2004.[44]

Lane appeared in the 1997 dark comedy

.

He is known for his voice work in two Disney animated series, Teacher's Pet and Timon & Pumbaa, as well as George and Martha on HBO. He received Daytime Emmy Awards for his voice performances in Teacher's Pet and Timon & Pumbaa, as well as a nomination for George and Martha. He hosted Saturday Night Live in 1997,[47] and the Tony Awards (once as host for the 50th anniversary telecast, and three times as co-host, with Glenn Close and Gregory Hines; Rosie O'Donnell; and Matthew Broderick respectively).[48][49][50][51] From 1998 to 1999 he starred in the NBC sitcom Encore! Encore! alongside Joan Plowright and Glenne Headly. The New York Times gave a very positive review to the show's debut, writing it possessed the "most accomplished, high-powered cast on television."[52] Despite the positive reviews the series was cancelled. Lane also received Emmy Award nominations for his guest appearances on Frasier and Mad About You in 1995 and 1998, respectively.

Lane starred in Mel Brooks' The Producers (2001)

Lane starred in the Roundabout revival of The Man Who Came to Dinner as Sheridan Whiteside, with Jean Smart and Harriet Harris in 2000.[53] Charles Isherwood of Variety praised Lane's performance writing, "Nathan Lane, an actor who makes virtually every role he plays seem like a role he was born to play, is the splendidly seething, delightfully acerbic center of Jerry Zaks' splashy production of the 1939 comedy".[54] The production was taped and shown on PBS. That same year he starred in Kenneth Branagh's film adaptation of William Shakespeare's Love's Labour's Lost (2000). He also acted in the comedy Isn't She Great (2000) opposite Bette Midler, the crime drama Trixie (2000), and voiced a character in the animated science fiction film Titan A.E. (2000).

In 2001, he starred as

Max Bialystock in the blockbuster musical version of Mel Brooks's The Producers. He acted alongside Matthew Broderick. Chris Jones of Variety wrote "Lane's greatest contribution, though, is this performer's innate sense of pace. He's constantly propelling the show forward and giving all this nonsense a necessary sense of urgency."[55] Ben Brantley of The New York Times praised Lane's performance describing it as his "most delicious performance". He also complimented Lane's and Broderick's chemistry adding "Mr. Lane and Mr. Broderick, have the most dynamic stage chemistry since Natasha Richardson met Liam Neeson in Anna Christie.[56] The role earned him his second Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical as well as Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle Awards.[57]

The following year he would go on to reprise his role as Snowbell in

In 2005, Lane rejoined Broderick for a successful limited run of

American Theatre Hall of Fame inductee.[70] In the 2000s Lane also made guest appearances on Sex and the City, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Absolutely Fabulous, and 30 Rock
.

2010–2019: Established actor

In 2009, Lane starred in the musical version of The Addams Family as Gomez in Chicago, a role he reprised on Broadway the following year, receiving Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle nominations.[71] That year he also received a Drama League Award for Distinguished Achievement in Musical Theater. Committed to starring in a revival of the Eugene O'Neill play The Iceman Cometh at Chicago's Goodman Theatre in 2012, Lane assumed the role of Hickey, with Brian Dennehy playing the role of Larry Slade in a production directed by the Goodman's Artistic Director, Robert Falls.[14] Receiving rave reviews,[72][73] it won six Jeff Awards, including Best Ensemble, Director, and Production,[74] and is the most successful play to date in the theater's history.[75]

(L-R) Rupert Grint, Stockard Channing, Matthew Broderick, Megan Mullally, Lane, F. Murray Abraham, Micah Stock in It's Only a Play in 2014

From 2010 to 2019, Lane portrayed Pepper Saltzman in the ABC sitcom Modern Family for which he received three Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series nominations. From 2012 to 2014 he played Clarke Hayden in the legal series The Good Wife receiving a nomination for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series. In the spring of 2013, Lane returned to Broadway in The Nance, a Lincoln Center production of a new play by Douglas Carter Beane that was directed by Jack O'Brien. David Rooney of The Hollywood Reporter praised his performance writing, "Lane is masterful, finding new depths in a well-worn sad clown persona" adding, "[The production] at the very least it provides a tremendous vehicle for Lane".[76] He went on to receive Tony and Drama Desk Award nominations and won the Outer Critics Circle Award and the 2013 Drama League Award for Distinguished Performance.[77][78] The play aired on PBS Live From Lincoln Center in 2014.[79]

In autumn 2014, he appeared in an all-star ensemble of Terrence McNally's revised and updated

White Rabbit, Red Rabbit
Off-Broadway.

Lane portrayed Roy Cohn in the revival of Angels in America in 2018

Lane played F. Lee Bailey in The People v. O. J. Simpson: American Crime Story, the first season of American Crime Story, which premiered on the FX channel in February 2016. Daniel Feinberg of The Hollywood Reporter described his performance as "understatedly Machiavellian".[85] Emily St. Jones of Vox declared Lane as "hugely enjoyable" in the series.[86] It received 22 Emmy nominations and went on to win the

Outstanding Limited Series.[87] In fall of 2016, he returned to Broadway to rave reviews in an all-star revival of Hecht and MacArthur's The Front Page, directed by Jack O'Brien and produced by Scott Rudin.[88] He played the ruthless editor Walter Burns opposite John Slattery as Hildy Johnson and John Goodman as Sheriff Hartman,[88] for which he received a nomination for the Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play. He also received nominations for Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle Awards.[89] During this time he also guest starred on series such as Difficult People (2016) and The Blacklist
(2018).

Following that he played

Tony Award nominations, including Best Play.[90]

2020–present

Lane played the role of Lewis Michener on Showtime's Penny Dreadful: City of Angels which premiered April 26, 2020 and ran for one season. He has a recurring role in the Hulu series Only Murders in the Building, starring Steve Martin, Martin Short and Selena Gomez, for which he received a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series. This was Lane's first Primetime Emmy Award after a record-breaking seven nominations in the guest actor categories, making him the most nominated guest actor in Emmy history, a record he still holds after receiving his eighth nomination in 2023 in the same category.[91] He also plays the recurring role of Ward McAllister in the HBO period series, The Gilded Age, written by Julian Fellowes, which received a 2024 Screen Actors Guild Award nomination for Best Ensemble. He will next be seen as Dominick Dunne in the Ryan Murphy Netflix miniseries Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story.

In 2023, Lane returned to the

Broadway show, in Pictures from Home, a play adapted from the photo memoir by Larry Sultan. Lane portrayed the father and former razor blade salesman to his son a photographer, played by Danny Burstein, who's remembering his visits with his family. Lane's wife in the play was portrayed by Zoë Wanamaker. The production was directed by Bartlett Sher and was helmed at the Studio 54 theatre.[92] The play received mixed reviews but praise for Lane's performance with Marilyn Stasio of Variety writing, "Lane and Burstein are consummate pros, and there are considerable sparks of familial communication between the father and son they play with such warmth and understanding."[93]
That same year Lane co-starred in Ari Aster's new A24 film, Beau Is Afraid alongside Joaquin Phoenix, Amy Ryan and Patti LuPone.[94] Max Ceo of Esquire praised Aster on the casting of Lane writing, "There's a palpable sense that the director had seasoned character actors such as Nathan Lane in his mind while writing. He milks every dad-ish 'My dude' the script hands him".[95]

He co-starred in another A24 film,

Skydance for Netflix..[99]

Personal life

Lane says that when he told his mother at age 21 that he was gay, she said, "I'd rather you were dead," to which he replied, "I knew you'd understand." He then joked that "Once I got her head out of the oven, everything went fine."[6][100]

Lane came out publicly in 1999 after the killing of Matthew Shepard,[6] and has been a long-time board member of and fundraiser for Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS.[101] He was honored with the Human Rights Campaign Equality Award,[102] the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation Vito Russo Award,[103] The Trevor Project Hero Award,[104] and the Matthew Shepard Foundation Making A Difference Award for his work in the LGBT community in 2015.[105]

Lane has made several critical statements against Republican Party figures. He jokingly compared Paul Ryan to the Wicked Witch of the West, due to Ryan's lack of support for Medicaid.[106] In a 2018 interview about playing Roy Cohn in the Broadway revival of Angels in America, Lane pointed out that Donald Trump is a liar, stating: "Really, what you learn is what [Trump] learned from Roy Cohn: There are certain tactics that are very familiar, that Trump picked up from him. You know, always go on the attack. The counterattack. Hit the accuser ten times harder and deflect. Never admit defeat. And outright lying if all else fails."[107] Lane was an active supporter of Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, hosting fundraisers for the Democratic Party.[108][109]

On November 17, 2015, he married his partner of 18 years, theater producer and writer Devlin Elliott.

East Hampton, New York.[112]

Acting credits

Lane has had an extensive career in film, television and the theatre. He has appeared in such films as

Pictures From Home
(2023).

Awards and honors

Lane has received six

Laurence Olivier Award
.

Lane has received two

American Comedy Award
for The Birdcage and a nomination for Jeffrey.

See also

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