It's sort of like, ‘Well, are you a failure?’” Lane said. “Having to make a brand new life and have people be like, ‘Are you still acting?’ You can’t explain it the way I just spent time explaining it to you. “This is how 30 years will change you: Hell yes, I would do it.” Plus, she's currently two years away from qualifying to retire in academia and feels the time is finally right for her to return to TV and film acting, with or without The Nanny. “If you’d asked me, like, 10 years after we finished, I would be like, ‘No,’” Lane said. There’s also been talk of a TV reboot, and Shaunnessy has said Drescher has a “genius idea” for one. Last year, Lane reunited with the rest of The Nanny cast for a virtual table read of the series pilot, and a Broadway musical of the show is in the works. She also loves that she’s a meme and hopes fans create new GIFs of her now that the series is on HBO Max. She’s active on Instagram and Cameo (where she says most of her requests come from gay couples) and she’s dabbled in making TikToks. She became a tenured professor at Texas State University, and she returned to her first love of theater, including a recent 2021 virtual production with Louisville’s Humana Festival of New American Plays. Lane packed up her life and moved to Austin to raise her daughter, and she's been there ever since. The casting director for The Larry Sanders Show happened to also be in charge of The Nanny and decided Lane would be perfect in the “evil vixen” role on that show instead.Īnd that’s how she became C.C.

“They're just like, ‘Yeah, you have a deep voice. I think it's because I'm tall and I have a deep voice,” she said. “I call my casting category ‘evil vixen,’ whether it's comedy or drama. Her development deal led to multiple episode arcs on the crime drama Hunter and legal series LA Law and, eventually, a dream audition for the HBO sitcom The Larry Sanders Show. But, probably, if I'm honest, I wanted to be Meryl Streep-but I’m not Meryl Streep.” And I knew I loved doing comedy based on theater stuff I'd done.

I was the only one of my class that went to LA,” she said. “I was literally like, ‘Okay!’ because I had $65,000 in graduate debt to be an actor. Soon after graduating, she was performing in a staging of Chekhov’s Uncle Vanya with the ACT when an NBC television scout offered her a development deal with the network.

After getting her bachelor’s degree from The University of Texas at Arlington, she went on to study at the prestigious American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco.

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