Biography

Cort Lane is a kids' television VP at Hasbro Entertainment. With 12 years of experience at Marvel/Disney and years at Mattel, Cort has a colorful collection of animation and family entertainment credits and has recently been Executive Producing the new My Little Pony CG series on Netflix. He is also an Exec Producer on the feature length documentary "No Straight Lines: The Rise of Queer Comics", premiering June '21 at the Tribeca Film Festival. Cort has also been serving on GLAAD's Kids & Family Advisory Council, as head judge of the Toronto Animation Arts Festival International, and producing the animated short "The Trouble With Long Prison Terms" for Brave New Films about the need for reforming prison sentencing to combat systemic racism.

Until Jan. 2020, Cort was Marvel's SVP, Animation & Family Entertainment. He led Marvel's expansive slate of family-targeted productions in both animation & live-action while overseeing Marvel Animation Studios - and also consulted on creative for consumer products, live events & Disney parks. More recently he launched a YouTube channel, Marvel HQ, developed & exec produced preschool series "Spidey & His Amazing Friends" (Disney Jr.) and partnered with Disney TVA & Laurence Fishburne on "Moon Girl & Devil Dinosaur". Cort also launched Marvel's 1st girls' franchise "Marvel Rising" and the series "Black Panther's Quest" (twice nominated for NAACP Image Awards).

Other series include "Marvel's Spider-Man," "Avengers Assemble," "Guardians of the Galaxy", 4 seasons of preschool shorts "Marvel Super Hero Adventures" (Disney Jr./Channel & Marvel HQ) and 2 Marvel feature-lengths for Netflix. Cort executive co-produced "Marvel's Ant-Man" shorts, Emmy-nominated "Marvel's Rocket & Groot", five Marvel/LEGO specials, 6 series & 2 movies in anime, and the live-action "Vengadores en Acción" (Disney España). Upon joining Marvel he produced "Iron Man Armored Adventures" (Nicktoons) and was development exec/show runner on "The Super Hero Squad Show" (Cartoon Network), "Ultimate Spider-Man" (Disney XD/Channel) and "Hulk and the Agents of S.M.A.S.H. (XD). Cort also teamed with Marvel CCO Joe Quesada to develop "Big Hero 6" as a concept for Walt Disney Animation Studios. Prior to joining Marvel in 2008, Lane spent 7 years at Mattel developing & producing for Barbie and Fisher-Price preschool brands.
- IMDb mini biography by: Cort Lane