Nathan Lane Net Worth: See the Award-Winning Life and Career of the Stage and Movie Actor

Nathan Lane has been in the business for almost 50 years, starting in the mid-1970s. He has made a name on stage and screen, playing dramatic and comedic roles.

With his huge success in the business, take a look at Lane's life, career, and net worth.

Nathan Lane's Career

The 67-year-old debuted his professional theater career in an off-Broadway production of A Midsummer Night's Dream in 1978.

He also briefly appeared as part of the duo Stack and Lane. He then joined the cast of the 1982 Broadway revival of Noël Coward's Present Laughter.

From there, his extensive career onstage began, forming a life-long friendship and several collaborations with the playwright Terence McNally. The two started working together for the Manhattan Theater Club production of The Lisbon Traviata in 1989.

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He got Tony nominations for his roles in A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, The Producers, Angels in America, Guys and Dolls, The Nance, and The Front Page.

Movie-wise, he debuted in Ironweed in 1987, followed by The Birdcage, Mouse Hunt, and The Producers. He lent his voice to Timon in The Lion King and Snowbell in Stuart Little.

Lane's also part of the Hulu series Only Murders in the Building, winning Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series.

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His other Emmy-nominated roles are in Frasier, Mad About You, Modern Family, and The Good Wife. His other projects are The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story, Penny Dreadful: City of Angels, and The Gilded Age.

With these to his name, Lane is now worth $25 million.

Nathan Lane Protected by 'Saint' Robin Williams on Oprah

In an interview on Sunday Today, Lane recalled how the late Robin Williams protected him from coming out as gay against his will on Oprah while promoting their movie The Birdcage.

In the film, the two stars played a gay couple. Given the movie's theme, he still wasn't ready to come out publicly then.

"I was not prepared at all for that," he said via Variety. "And I certainly wasn't ready to go from table to table and tell them all I was gay. I just wanted to talk about finally [getting] a big part in a movie, and I didn't want to make it about my sexuality."

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He knew playing a gay character would open the discussions about his sexuality, and he told Williams he wasn't prepared yet.

"He said, 'Oh, it's alright, don't worry about — we don't have to talk about it. We won't talk about it,'" Lane recalled the comedian telling him.

But fear started to creep in when Oprah Winfrey asked him questions that left the door open for him to come out.

From there, Williams "swooped in and diverted Winfrey, went off on a tangent, and protected" Lane "because he was a saint." "Beautiful, sensitive soul," he continued.

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