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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1956
- Works
- 6
Top works
- The Birdcage
- Naughty Mabel Sees It All
- Naughty Mabel
- Isn't She Great
- Naughty Maaaabell!!! sees it all
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Film & TV
Jersey City, New Jersey, USA
Nathan Lane, born Joseph Lane on February 3, 1956, in Jersey City, New Jersey, is an acclaimed American actor known for his work on stage and screen. He has been active in the entertainment industry since 1975 and has received numerous awards, including three Tony Awards, seven Drama Desk Awards, a Laurence Olivier Award, three Emmy Awards, and a Screen Actors Guild Award. Lane made his…
Known for
- Mel Brooks: The 99 Year Old Man! — Self - Actor2026
- The Lion King at the Hollywood Bowl — Self2025
- Mid-Century Modern — Bunny Schneiderman2025
- Spellbound — Luno - Oracle of the Moon (voice)2024
- Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story — Dominick Dunne2024
- Elsbeth — Phillip Cross2024
- Dicks: The Musical — Harris2023
- Once Upon a Studio — Timon (voice)2023
- Finally Home: Making Beau is Afraid — Self2023
- Beau Is Afraid — Roger2023
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- Germany
- Active from
- 1956
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Listeners · Last.fm
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- 350,568
- Total plays
- 1,540,385
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Nathan Lane (born February 3, 1956) is an award-winning American actor of the stage and screen. Born Joseph Lane to Irish American Catholic parents in Jersey City, New Jersey, he was named after a paternal uncle, a Jesuit priest. His father Daniel was a truck driver and an aspiring tenor who died from alcoholism when Lane was 11; his mother Nora was a manic-depressive housewife. Lane attended Catholic schools in Jersey City, including Jesuit-run St. Peter's Preparatory High School where he was
Key facts
- Born
- Joseph Lane , ( 1956-02-03 ) February 3, 1956 (age 70) , Jersey City, New Jersey , U.S.
- Occupation
- Actor
- Years active
- 1977–present
- Works
- Full list
- Spouse
- Devlin Elliott ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 2015 )
- Awards
- Full list
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Nathan
- Family name
- Lane
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Jersey City
- Occupation
- actor
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Instrument
- voice
- Image
- NathanLane2018 (cropped).jpg
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- Commons category
- Nathan Lane (actor)
- date of birth
- 1956-02-03
- nominated for
- Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical
- pseudonym
- Nathan Lane
- start of work period
- 1975-00-00
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Encyclopedic overview
Nathan Lane (born Joseph Lane; February 3, 1956) 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 New York Times hailed Lane as being "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 that 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. That 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.
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