Lauren Lane Biography

Fast Facts

• She is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Theatre and Dance at Texas State University, and she has previously taught at the American Conservatory Theatre and the University of Texas
• Graduated from the University of Texas at Arlington with a Bachelor of Fine Arts and earned her Master's in the Advanced Training Program at the American Conservatory Theatre
• Her interest in acting started when she was a child, fascinated by "Lost in Space" and "Star Trek," and her mother explained that the people on screen were actors
• Worked as a waitress throughout high school and college, which she says made her "pretty good at thinking in five places at once․"
• Quote: "I love teaching and I love my students․ We are making artists as opposed to teaching students to go out and do just one thing, to be the funny gal on some sit-com or be a commercial actor․"
• Quote: "(On leaving Los Angeles after "The Nanny"): "I didn't want to fight that fight․ I had seen the struggle other actresses had faced - the pressures, the humiliations - and I didn't want to spend the next chapter of my life like that․""
• Best known for her role as C․C․ Babcock on the '90s TV series "The Nanny․"
• Often appears on stage at the ZACH Theater in Austin, Texas in plays like "The Vagina Monologues" and "August: Osage County․"