A compact, balding character actor with expressive brown eyes and chiseled features, Paul McCrane first garnered attention as the red-haired openly gay aspiring actor Montgomery McNeill in Alan Parker's "Fame" (1980). The Philadelphia native had begun appearing in school plays and turned pro in 1977 when he made his New York stage debut as Shirley Knight's son in John Guare's "Landscape of the Body". McCrane went on to make his musical stage debut alongside Diane Lane in the award-winning "Runaways" (1978) and has continued to work in the theater. He co-starred in a 1985 Broadway revival of
