Frank Woodley

Frank Woodley (born Frank Wood; 29 February 1968) is an Australian comedian, author and musician, best known for his work alongside Colin Lane as part of the comedic duo Lano and Woodley. The two performed together for almost 20 years in live shows, a television series and an album of comedic songs, before deciding to pursue individual careers in 2006. They announced their reformation in November 2017. Woodley was born in suburban Melbourne, the youngest of seven children, where his family ran a milk bar in Glen Waverley. He adopted the stage name "Frank Woodley" from a childhood nickname when he began performing in 1993, and in 2000 changed his name by deed poll.

Woodley first met Colin Lane through theatresports in the mid-1980s, and they first performed together at an open mike night at the Prince Patrick Hotel in Collingwood, Victoria, in 1987. As Lano and Woodley, Woodley played a "goofy innocent" frequently bullied by Lane's pompous, controlling character. Their first show as a duo, Fence, debuted in 1993, won the Moosehead Award at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival, and went on to win the Perrier Comedy Award at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 1994. Their television series The Adventures of Lano and Woodley premiered on the ABC in 1997 and became the first Australian show to be sold to the BBC, airing in 38 other countries.

Woodley made his solo debut in 2003 at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival with The Happy Dickwi. In 2008 he debuted a one-man play, Possessed, directed by Kate Denborough and featuring music from Paul Mac, telling the story of Louie, a lonely recluse possessed by the ghost of a 19th-century shipwreck victim. In 2018, the duo reprised their roles in a show titled Fly, which won the 2018 Melbourne Comedy Festival People's Choice Award. Woodley is married with a son and daughter and lives in Melbourne's inner north.