Lauren Lane is a
televisionTelevision is a telecommunication medium for transmitting and receiving moving images that can be monochrome or colored, with accompanying sound...
and
stageTheatre is a collaborative form of fine art that uses live performers to present the experience of a real or imagined event before a live audience in a specific place. The performers may communicate this experience to the audience through combinations of gesture, speech, song, music or dance...
actress. She is best known for her role as C. C. Babcock on
The NannyThe Nanny is an American television sitcom co-produced by Sternin & Fraser Ink, Inc., and Fran Drescher in association with TriStar Television for the CBS network...
.
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Lauren Lane is a
televisionTelevision is a telecommunication medium for transmitting and receiving moving images that can be monochrome or colored, with accompanying sound...
and
stageTheatre is a collaborative form of fine art that uses live performers to present the experience of a real or imagined event before a live audience in a specific place. The performers may communicate this experience to the audience through combinations of gesture, speech, song, music or dance...
actress. She is best known for her role as C. C. Babcock on
The NannyThe Nanny is an American television sitcom co-produced by Sternin & Fraser Ink, Inc., and Fran Drescher in association with TriStar Television for the CBS network...
.
Biography
Lane was born in
Oklahoma City, OklahomaOklahoma City is the capital and the largest city in the state of Oklahoma. The county seat of Oklahoma County, the city ranks 31st among United States cities in population. The city's population, from the 2010 census, was 579,999, with a metro-area population of 1,252,987 . In 2010, the Oklahoma...
, and raised in
TexasTexas is the second largest U.S. state by both area and population, and the largest state by area in the contiguous United States.The name, based on the Caddo word "Tejas" meaning "friends" or "allies", was applied by the Spanish to the Caddo themselves and to the region of their settlement in...
.
Lane has a
Bachelor of Fine ArtsIn the United States and Canada, the Bachelor of Fine Arts degree, usually abbreviated BFA, is the standard undergraduate degree for students seeking a professional education in the visual or performing arts. In some countries such a degree is called a Bachelor of Creative Arts or BCA...
degree from the
University of Texas at ArlingtonThe University of Texas at Arlington is a public research university located in Arlington, Texas, United States. The campus is situated southwest of downtown Arlington, and is located in the Dallas–Fort Worth metropolitan area. The university was founded in 1895 and served primarily a military...
. She also earned a
Master's degreeA master's is an academic degree granted to individuals who have undergone study demonstrating a mastery or high-order overview of a specific field of study or area of professional practice...
in the advanced training program at the
American Conservatory TheaterAmerican Conservatory Theater is a large non-profit theater company in San Francisco, California, that offers both classical and contemporary theater productions. A.C.T. was founded in 1965 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in conjunction with the Pittsburgh Playhouse and Carnegie Tech by theatre and...
in San Francisco. She is currently a professor in the Theatre Department at Texas State University in
San Marcos, TexasSan Marcos is a city in the U.S. state of Texas, and is the seat of Hays County. Located within the metropolitan area, the city is located on the Interstate 35 corridor—between Austin and San Antonio....
.
Lane was married to David Wilkins. Lane has a daughter Kate (born February 23, 1998) with Wilkins.
In 2004, she appeared in the reunion of
The Nanny,
The Nanny Reunion: A Nosh to RememberThe Nanny Reunion: A Nosh to Remember is a one-hour special that reunited the cast of The Nanny. It originally aired on Lifetime on December 6, 2004. The cast members reminisce about the show and present exclusive blooper footage never shown on television, as well as an update on their current...
, starring
Fran DrescherFrancine Joy "Fran" Drescher is an American film and television actress, comedian, screenwriter, director, producer, author, singer, talk show host, political lobbyist and health activist...
and much of the original cast.
Since 2000 she has been active mainly in theatre.
In 2010, she guested on
The Fran Drescher ShowThe Fran Drescher Show, also called The Fran Drescher Tawk Show , is a syndicated talk show hosted by actress Fran Drescher and produced by Fox Television Studios and Debmar-Mercury...
.
Filmography
Film
| Year |
Title |
Role |
Notes |
| 1984 |
Interface |
Amy Witherspoon |
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| 1986 |
Positive I.D. |
Dana |
Credited as Laura Lane |
| 1992 |
Nervous Ticks |
Blonde |
|
| 1993 |
Perry Mason Perry Mason is a fictional character, a defense attorney who was the main character in works of detective fiction authored by Erle Stanley Gardner. Perry Mason was featured in more than 80 novels and short stories, most of which had a plot involving his client's murder trial...
: The Case of the Skin-Deep Scandal |
Lauren Kent |
|
| 1999 |
Gen¹³ Gen¹³ is a 1999 animated feature film based on the WildStorm comic book Gen¹³. The film was directed by Kevin Altieri and was distributed by Buena Vista Pictures, and produced by WildStorm Productions...
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Ivana Baiul Ivana Baiul is a comic book character from DC Comics/Wildstorm. She has starred in Gen¹³ and DV8.-History:Ivana Baiul was the head of Sci-Tech, the scientific division of I.O. There she worked on creating a group of genetically enhanced soldiers for the government, a task previously done 12 times...
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Voice onlyVoice acting is the art of providing voices for animated characters and radio and audio dramas and comedy, as well as doing voice-overs in radio and television commercials, audio dramas, dubbed foreign language films, video games, puppet shows, and amusement rides.Performers are called...
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| 2001 |
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Joan Swanson |
|
Television
| Year |
Title |
Role |
Notes |
| 1989–1991 |
Hunter |
Police Sgt. Chris Novak |
11 episodes |
| 1991–1992 |
L.A. LawL.A. Law is a US television legal drama that ran on NBC from September 15, 1986 to May 19, 1994. L.A. Law reflected the social and cultural ideologies of the 1980s and early 1990s and many of the cases featured on the show dealt with hot topic issues such as abortion, racism, gay rights,...
|
Julie Rayburn |
5 episodes |
| 1993 |
South Beach South Beach was an American action/adventure series that aired on NBC during the summer of 1993. The series was created by Dick Wolf and Robert DeLaurentis and starred Yancy Butler, who had been the lead actress a year earlier in another failed Wolf/DeLaurentis series, Mann & Machine.Set in South...
|
Brooke Wyatt |
1 episode |
| |
|
Chastity Claire 'C.C.' Babcock |
143 episodes |
| 1995 |
Burke's LawBurke's Law is a detective series that ran on ABC from 1963 to 1965 and was revived on CBS in the 1990s. The show starred Gene Barry as Amos Burke, millionaire captain of Los Angeles police homicide division, who was chauffeured around to solve crimes in his Rolls-Royce Silver Cloud...
|
Tanya Lovette |
1 episode |
| 1996 |
DuckmanDuckman: Private Dick/Family Man is an American animated sitcom that aired from 1994–1997, created by Everett Peck and developed by Peck. The sitcom is based on characters created by Peck in his Dark Horse comic...
|
Director's Assistant |
Animated series
Voice only
1 episode |
| 1999 |
Partners Partners is an American sitcom that aired on FOX from 1995 to 1996.-Synopsis:The series centered a pair of young architects, Bob and Owen , and Owen's fiancée Alicia . Much of the show's humor derived from Bob's lack of success with women and his competition with Alicia for Owen's attention...
|
Barbara |
1 episode |
| 2004 |
|
Herself |
Reunion of The Nanny cast |
| 2010 |
|
Herself |
Talk show A talk show or chat show is a television program or radio program where one person discuss various topics put forth by a talk show host....
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