FrameThrower · Actors · Nathan Lane
Nathan Lane
4 films · 255 frames · top-billed in 2 · 1994–2023
Born 3 February 1956 · 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 professional theatre debut in 1978 in an off-Broadway production of "A Midsummer Night's Dream". He gained widespread recognition for his roles in Broadway productions such as "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum," "The Producers," and "Angels in America".…
Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 4 films · 255 frames · top-billed in 2 · 1994–2023
- Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical2001
- Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical1996
- Drama League Award2013
- Drama League Award2010
- Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Lead Actor1991
- Daytime Emmy Award
- Laurence Olivier Awards
- Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actor in a Musical
- star on Hollywood Walk of Fame
How their films are shot
Measured across 255 frames from the 4 films we hold. This is the look of the work Nathan takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 4 films we hold, 43% of their frames are night, 42% natural — the look of the work Nathan takes.
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Films in the library
Every poster opens that film — stills, cinematography notes and colour palette.
A reference database for filmmakers
FrameThrower is a fully machine-searchable film database and visual reference library — all 255 frames from Nathan Lane's 4 films, and 5,000+ films besides, indexed frame by frame and readable by AI. Search it in plain language, from a reference image, or by colour; call it from an API, an MCP server or an SDK. It's the reference layer for making the next movie.