Present Laughter

…Broadway debut, in Noël Coward’s Present Laughter. She then acted in a highly praised revival of Arthur Miller’s A View from the Bridge (1997–98), for which she earned her first Tony Award nomination. She also received a Tony nod for her performance in the musical 9 to 5 (2009), which…

…a revival of Noël Coward’s Present Laughter. He joined a star-studded cast in The Investigation: A Search for the Truth in Ten Acts (2019), playing Robert Mueller in a dramatic reading of the special counsel’s report to the Department of Justice regarding the investigation of possible Russian interference in the…

…of the Noël Coward play Present Laughter. Such plays as Love and She Stoops to Conquer (both in 1984) followed, and in 1987 Lane made his motion picture debut in Ironweed. An Off-Broadway role in Terrence McNally’s The Lisbon Traviata (1989) attracted critical praise, as did his

…lead character in Noël Coward’s Present Laughter at the Old Vic. He also began playing the mysterious Col. John Parry/Jobari/Stanislaus Grumman in the HBO adaptation (2019–22) of Philip Pullman’s fantasy trilogy His Dark Materials.