Nathan Lane is is an American stage, film, and television actor and writer, best known as Max Bialystock in The Producers, Ernie Smuntz in Mousehunt, Albert in The Birdcage, Snowbell in Stuart Little, and Timon, the Meerkat, in The Lion King. Nathan has received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and was inducted into the American Theatre Hall of Fame.

Television credits include F. Lee Bailey on FOX’s American Crime Story, Pepper Saltzman on ABC’s Modern Family, and Clarke Hayden on CBS’ The Good Wife.

Other notable Broadway credits include Gomez Addams in The Addams Family (Lunt-Fontanne Theatre); Oscar Madison in The Odd Couple (Brooks Atkinson Theatre); Prologus/Pseudolus in A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (St. James Theatre); Max Prince in Laughter on the Twenty-Third Floor (Richard Rodgers Theatre); and Nathan Detroit in Guys And Dolls (Martin Beck Theatre).