1. Nathan Lane was born on Joseph Lane; February 3,1956 and is an American actor.
57 Facts About Nathan Lane
1. 2.
Nathan Lane's awards include three Tony Awards, seven Drama Desk Awards, a Laurence Olivier Award, three Emmy Awards, two Golden Globe nominations and a Screen Actors Guild Award.
3.
In 2010, The New York Times hailed Nathan Lane as being "the greatest stage entertainer of the decade".
4.
Nathan Lane made his professional theatre debut in 1978 in an off-Broadway production of A Midsummer Night's Dream.
5.
Nathan Lane has acted in films such as The Lion King, The Birdcage, Mouse Hunt, Nicholas Nickleby, The Producers, and Beau Is Afraid.
6.
Nathan Lane received the Primetime Emmy Award for his role in the Hulu mystery comedy series Only Murders in the Building in 2022.
7.
Nathan Lane was Emmy-nominated for his guest roles in Frasier, Mad About You, Modern Family, and The Good Wife.
8.
Nathan Lane portrayed F Lee Bailey in the FX miniseries The People v O J Simpson: American Crime Story and Dominick Dunne in the Netflix anthology series Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story.
9.
Nathan Lane starred in Penny Dreadful: City of Angels for Showtime and The Gilded Age for HBO.
10.
Nathan Lane was born Joseph Nathan Lane in Jersey City, New Jersey on February 3,1956.
11.
Nathan Lane's father Daniel Joseph Lane was a truck driver and an aspiring tenor who died in 1967 from alcoholism when Nathan was eleven.
12.
Nathan Lane's mother Nora Veronica was a housewife and secretary who suffered from bipolar disorder and died in 2000.
13.
Nathan Lane was named Joseph after his uncle, a Jesuit priest.
14.
Nathan Lane attended Catholic schools in Jersey City, including Jesuit-run St Peter's Preparatory School, where he was voted Best Actor in 1974, and in 2011 received the Prep Hall of Fame Professional Achievement Award.
15.
Nathan Lane moved to New York City 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 Roundabout Theatre, and the Manhattan Theatre Club.
16.
Nathan Lane made his Broadway debut in a 1982 revival of Noel Coward's Present Laughter as Roland Maule with George C Scott, Kate Burton, Dana Ivey, Bette Henritze, Elizabeth Hubbard, Jim Piddock, and Christine Lahti.
17.
Nathan Lane appeared at the Williamstown Theatre Festival in The School for Scandal and John Guare's Moon Over Miami.
18.
Nathan Lane appeared in the television shows Miami Vice and The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd as Bing Shalimar.
19.
In 1991, Lane appeared with George C Scott again in a revival of Paul Osborne's On Borrowed Time at the Circle in the Square Theatre on Broadway.
20.
In 1996 Nathan Lane appeared in the film The Birdcage, for which he received his first Golden Globe nomination.
21.
Nathan Lane appeared in the 1997 dark comedy Mouse Hunt, one of the first films to come out of the newly formed DreamWorks Studios, in which he co-starred with British comedian Lee Evans and Christopher Walken.
22.
Nathan Lane hosted Saturday Night Live in 1997, and the Tony Awards.
23.
Nathan Lane still won the People's Choice Award that year for Favorite New Actor in a Comedy.
24.
Nathan Lane received Emmy Award nominations for his guest appearances on Frasier and Mad About You in 1995 and 1998, respectively.
25.
Nathan Lane starred in the Roundabout revival of The Man Who Came to Dinner as Sheridan Whiteside, with Jean Smart and Harriet Harris in 2000.
26.
Charles Isherwood of Variety liked his performance, "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".
27.
Nathan Lane then appeared as Vincent Crummles in a film adaptation of Nicholas Nickleby and the cast received the Ensemble Acting award from the National Board of Review.
28.
In 2004, Nathan 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.
29.
Nathan Lane went on to win the Olivier Award as Best Actor in a Musical.
30.
In 2005, Nathan Lane rejoined Broderick for a successful limited run of The Odd Couple.
31.
Nathan Lane was a 2008 American Theatre Hall of Fame inductee.
32.
In 2009, Nathan 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.
33.
From 2010 to 2019, Nathan 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.
34.
David Rooney of The Hollywood Reporter praised his performance writing, "Nathan 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 Nathan Lane".
35.
Nathan Lane 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.
36.
Nathan Lane later returned to the Broadway run of It's Only a Play.
37.
Nathan Lane played the ruthless editor Walter Burns opposite John Slattery as Hildy Johnson and John Goodman as Sheriff Hartman, for which he received a nomination for the Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play.
38.
Nathan Lane received nominations for Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle Awards.
39.
Nathan Lane reprised his acclaimed portrayal on Broadway at the Neil Simon Theatre, and won the Tony, Drama Desk, and Outer Critics Circle Awards for Best Featured Actor in a Play.
40.
In March 2019, Lane starred in Taylor Mac's absurdist black comedy Gary: A Sequel to Titus Andronicus at the Booth Theatre directed by George C Wolfe.
41.
Nathan 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.
42.
Nathan Lane 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.
43.
Nathan Lane 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 Outstanding Ensemble in a Drama Series and a 2024 Emmy nomination for Best Drama.
44.
In 2023, Nathan 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.
45.
Nathan 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.
46.
Also in 2023, Nathan Lane co-starred in Ari Aster's new A24 film, Beau Is Afraid alongside Joaquin Phoenix, Amy Ryan, and Patti LuPone.
47.
Nathan Lane was part of the voice cast for Spellbound, a new animated film from Skydance for Netflix, with Rachel Zegler, Nicole Kidman, Javier Bardem, Jenifer Lewis and John Lithgow, as well as the Ryan Murphy miniseries, Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story, as Dominick Dunne.
48.
Nathan Lane has made several critical statements about Republican Party figures.
49.
Nathan Lane jokingly compared Paul Ryan to the Wicked Witch of the West, due to Ryan's lack of support for Medicaid.
50.
Nathan Lane has had an extensive career in film, television, and in theater.
51.
Nathan Lane has appeared in such films as The Lion King, The Birdcage, Mouse Hunt, Nicholas Nickleby, and the film adaptation of the Broadway musical The Producers.
52.
Nathan Lane is known for numerous guest roles including Frasier, Mad About You, 30 Rock, Absolutely Fabulous, Curb Your Enthusiasm, The Blacklist and recurring roles on Modern Family and The Good Wife.
53.
Nathan Lane has received critical praise for his roles as F Lee Bailey in the limited series The People v OJ.
54.
Nathan Lane has received six Tony Award nominations for his work on Broadway, winning three times for A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, The Producers, and Angels in America.
55.
In 2024 Lane received the Stephen Sondheim Award from the Signature Theatre Company and the Harold S Prince Award for Lifetime Achievement from the Drama Desk Awards.
56.
Nathan Lane has received two Golden Globe Award nominations for The Birdcage and The Producers, the National Board of Review Award for Ensemble Acting for Nicholas Nickleby, and two Screen Actors Guild Award nominations for Best Supporting Actor and for Best Performance by a Cast for The Birdcage, winning the latter.
57.
Nathan Lane has received the People's Choice Award for Favorite New Actor in a Comedy and an American Comedy Award for The Birdcage as well as a nomination for Jeffrey.