Nathan Lane

Nathan Lane has won three Tony Awards, seven Drama Desk Awards, a Laurence Olivier Award, three Emmy Awards, and a Screen Actors Guild Award. He also received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2006 and was inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame in 2008.

Nathan Lane’s professional theatre debut was in 1978 in an off-Broadway production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream. He also briefly appeared as one half of the comedy team of Stack and Lane until he was cast in the 1982 Broadway revival of Noël Coward’s Present Laughter.

Some of Nathan Lane’s notable Broadway roles include Pseudolus in Stephen Sondheim’s A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, Max Bialystock in Mel Brooks’ The Producers, Roy Cohn in Tony Kushner’s Angels in America, and roles in Guys and Dolls, The Nance, The Front Page, The Man Who Came To Dinner, The Odd Couple, Butley, Waiting for Godot, The Addams Family, It’s Only a Play, Gary: A Sequel to Titus Andronicus, and Pictures from Home.

Nathan Lane has appeared in over 35 films, including The Lion King, The Birdcage, Mouse Hunt, The Producers, and the upcoming film Beau is Afraid.

Nathan Lane has received Emmy nominations for his roles in the TV shows Frasier, Mad About You, Modern Family, and The Good Wife. He won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series for his role in the Hulu series Only Murders in the Building in 2022.

In addition to his Emmy-nominated roles, Nathan Lane has also appeared in The People v. O. J. Simpson: American Crime Story, Penny Dreadful: City of Angels, The Gilded Age, and Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story.

Early in his career, Nathan Lane briefly appeared as one half of the comedy team of Stack and Lane, before going on to have an extensive career on stage and screen in both comedic and dramatic roles.