Nathan Lane

Nathan Lane (born Joseph Lane; February 3, 1956) is an American actor. Since 1975, he has been seen on stage and screen in both comedic and dramatic roles. Lane has received numerous awards, including three Tony Awards, six Drama Desk Awards, two Obie Awards, the Olivier Award, three Emmy Awards, and a 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. In 2010, ''The New York Times'' hailed Lane as "the greatest stage entertainer of the decade".

Lane made his professional theatre debut in 1978 in an off-Broadway production of ''A Midsummer Night's Dream''. During this time 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'' directed by and starring George C. Scott. This led to an extensive career onstage, where he had a long friendship and fruitful collaboration with the playwright Terrence McNally which started in 1989 with the Manhattan Theater Club production of ''The Lisbon Traviata''.

A six-time Tony Award nominee, he has won three times, for Best Actor in a Musical for Pseudolus in Stephen Sondheim's ''A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum'' (1996) and Max Bialystock in Mel Brooks' ''The Producers'' (2001), and Best Featured Actor in a Play for Roy Cohn in Tony Kushner's ''Angels in America'' (2018). His other Tony-nominated roles were in ''Guys and Dolls'' (1992), ''The Nance'' (2013), and ''The Front Page'' (2016). Amongst his 25 Broadway credits are ''The Man Who Came To Dinner'' (2000), ''The Odd Couple'' (2005), ''Butley'' (2006), ''Waiting For Godot'' (2009), ''The Addams Family'' (2010), ''It's Only a Play'' (2014), ''Gary: A Sequel to Titus Andronicus'' (2019), and ''Pictures from Home'' (2023).

Lane has appeared in over 35 films, including ''The Lion King'' (1994), ''The Birdcage'' (1996), ''Mouse Hunt'' (1997), ''The Producers'' (2005), and ''Beau is Afraid'' (2023). He received the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series for the Hulu mystery comedy series ''Only Murders in the Building'' in 2022. His other Emmy-nominated roles were for ''Frasier'', ''Mad About You'', ''Modern Family'', and ''The Good Wife''. He has also appeared in ''The People v. O. J. Simpson: American Crime Story'' (2016), ''Penny Dreadful: City of Angels'' (2020), and ''The Gilded Age'' (2022–). Provided by Wikipedia