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Nathan Lane
Nathan Lane is an American actor. Known for his versatile roles on stage and screen, he has received numerous accolades including three Tony Awards, seven Drama Desk Awards, a Laurence Olivier Award, three Emmy Awards, and a Screen Actors Guild Actor Award. Lane was awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2006 and was inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame in 2008. In 2010, The Ne…
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Born 3 February 1956 · Q491264
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2026· 2 entries
Returned to the Broadway stage portraying Willy Loman in the critically acclaimed revival of the Arthur Miller play Death of a Salesman opposite Laurie Metcalf, Christopher Abbott, and Ben Ahlers
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2024· 1 entry
Lane received the Stephen Sondheim Award from the Signature Theatre Company and the Harold S
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2023· 2 entries
Lane co-starred in Ari Aster's new A24 film, Beau Is Afraid alongside Joaquin Phoenix, Amy Ryan, and Patti LuPone
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Lane returned to the Broadway stage, marking his 25th Broadway show, in Pictures from Home, a play adapted from the photo memoir by Larry Sultan
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2015· 2 entries
Married his partner of 18 years, theater producer and writer Devlin Elliott
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Received the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center Monte Cristo Award for his body of work
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2013· 1 entry
Won Drama League Award (2013).
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2012· 1 entry
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
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2010· 2 entries
Won Drama League Award (2010).
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The New York Times hailed Lane as being "the greatest stage entertainer of the decade"
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2009· 1 entry
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
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2008· 1 entry
Played the President of the United States in the David Mamet political satire, November, directed by Joe Mantello
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2006· 3 entries
And were immortalized in wax as Max and Leo at Madame Tussauds Museum in New York City on January 16, 2009
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And was inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame in 2008
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Took on a primarily dramatic role in a revival of Simon Gray's dark comedy Butley, having played the role to great success at The Huntington Theater Company in Boston in 2003
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2005· 2 entries
(Drama Desk nomination), The Last Mile on PBS' Great Performances, and the film version of Frankie and Johnny
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Lane rejoined Broderick for a successful limited run of The Odd Couple
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2004· 1 entry
Lane revised the libretto and portrayed Dionysus in the revival of Stephen Sondheim's musical The Frogs which opened at the Vivian Beaumont Theater at Lincoln Center on Broadway
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2003· 1 entry
Starred off Broadway in Trumbo: Red, White, and Blacklisted
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2001· 2 entries
Awarded Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical (2001).
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Starred as Max Bialystock in the blockbuster musical version of Mel Brooks's The Producers
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1999· 2 entries
Appeared with Victor Garber in the workshop of the Sondheim musical Wise Guys (later retitled Road Show)
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After the killing of Matthew Shepard and has been a long-time board member of and fundraiser for Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS
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1998· 1 entry
Appeared off Broadway in Jon Robin Baitz's revised 1984 comedy, Mizlansky/Zilinsky or 'Schmucks'
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1997· 1 entry
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)
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1996· 3 entries
Awarded Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical (1996).
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Lane appeared in the film The Birdcage, for which he received his first Golden Globe nomination
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Starred in the hit revival of Stephen Sondheim's A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
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1995· 2 entries
Lane was the voice of the meerkat in the early episodes of Timon & Pumbaa
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Played the Cowardly Lion in The Wizard of Oz in Concert at Lincoln Center to benefit the Children's Defense Fund
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1994· 1 entry
Lane voiced Timon, the meerkat, in Disney's blockbuster animated film The Lion King and reprised the role in its sequel The Lion King II: Simba's Pride and midquel The Lion King 1½
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1993· 1 entry
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
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1992· 2 entries
Won an Obie Award for Sustained Excellence of Performance
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Starred in the hit revival of Guys and Dolls, playing Nathan Detroit, the character who lent him his name, opposite Peter Gallagher and Faith Prince
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1991· 2 entries
Awarded Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Lead Actor (1991).
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Lane appeared with George C
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1989· 2 entries
With a workshop reading of Assassins, where he played Samuel Byck, the would-be murderer of Richard Nixon
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With the Manhattan Theater Club production of The Lisbon Traviata
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1987· 1 entry
Includes roles in The Lisbon Traviata (Drama Desk and Lucille Lortel Awards, and Outer Critics Circle nomination), Bad Habits, Lips Together, Teeth Apart, Love
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1978· 2 entries
Appeared in a production of A Midsummer Night's Dream alongside John Goodman at the Equity Library Theatre
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In an off-Broadway production of A Midsummer Night's Dream
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1975· 1 entry
Where after a long struggle, his career began to take off, first with some brief success in the world of stand-up comedy with partner Patrick Stack and later with off-Broadway productions at Second Stage Theatre, the Rou
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1974· 1 entry
And in 2011 received the Prep Hall of Fame Professional Achievement Award
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1956· 1 entry
Born 1956-02-03.
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