BFCA Member Profile
Lawrence Toppman
- Primary Outlet:
- Charlotte Observer
- Website:
- http://charlotte.com
- Biography:
- Lawrence Toppman is the movie critic for The Charlotte Observer (since 1987) and WCNC-TV, the NBC affiliate in Charlotte, N.C. (He first worked at the station in the 1990s and resumed that job in 2005.) He has acted in more than 50 stage productions, most of them as a singer with Opera Carolina in Charlotte, and can be seen playing a TV reporter in the movie "Atlantic City." He did not earn one of the film's five Academy Award nominations.