Lauren Lane is a television

Television

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 and stage

Theatre

Theatre 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 Nanny

The Nanny (TV series)

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Lane was born in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

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, and raised in Texas

Texas

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Lane has a Bachelor of Fine Arts

Bachelor of Fine Arts

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 degree from the University of Texas at Arlington

University of Texas at Arlington

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. She also earned a Master's degree

Master's degree

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 in the advanced training program at the American Conservatory Theater

American Conservatory Theater

American 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, Texas

San Marcos, Texas

San 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....

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Lane was married to David Wilkins.