Trivia:

• Enjoys hiking, biking, running and doing volunteer work.

• Studied Chinese in Beijing for a summer during university

• Has played three characters which all share her first name - Emotional Rescue (2012), The Life Coach (2005) and a guest role in "The West Wing" (1999).

• Former roommate of Lauren Graham.

• Plays the wife of the main coach character in both the movie Friday Night Lights (2004) and its TV adaptation, "Friday Night Lights" (2006), even though her characters have different names in the two.

• Grew up in Lynchburg, Virginia.

• Was a theater star in high school.

• Started acting at the age of seven when she, her twin sister and their cousin put on plays with names like "Murder on the Sunshine".

• Became a vegan in 2008.

• Lives in a home in the Hollywood Hills (beneath the "D" of the Hollywood sign).

• Has a pit-mix dog named Lucy.

• Was a sister in Sigma Delta sorority at Dartmouth College, graduating in 1989.

• While at Dartmouth she met John Britton at Alpha Delta house, and they later married.

• Taught aerobics in college and, after arriving in New York City, while waiting to get any acting jobs.

• Adopted a 9-month-old boy from Ethiopia, to be named Yoby (nickname for Eyob) [November 16, 2011].

Quotes:

About the character: Rayna James

Rayna remembers a time when it didn’t used to be this hard. In the early days, she and Deacon would write together, and within months those songs would ring out on radios across America. Those days seem distant now but she's not giving up. Rayna Jaymes has still got something to say.

About the actor: Connie Britton

Britton most recently starred as the female lead in “American Horror Story,” Ryan Murphy and Brad Falchuk's Golden Globe-nominated series. She completed production on the film “The Hand-Job,” alongside Andy Samberg, and appeared in the film “Seeking a Friend for the End of the World,” with Steve Carell and Keira Knightley. Her other film credits include Michael Bay’s “A Nightmare on Elm Street” and “Women in Trouble,” with Carla Gugino and Josh Brolin.

Britton received two individual nominations from the Television Critics Association, and “Friday Night Lights” was that organization’s most-nominated show in its first season, winning Outstanding New Program of the year in 2007, the award for Program of the Year in 2011, a prestigious George Foster Peabody Award, as well as accolades from the American Film Institute, which ranked it among the ten best shows of 2006-07, and Teen Choice Award nominations two years in a row. Britton was nominated for a Women’s Image Network Award (WIN), which honors work that features female protagonists.

Britton received praise for her starring role in Edward Burns’ “The Brothers McMullen,” which won the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival. She had nearly canceled her audition with Burns… As it was, that last meeting of the day turned into the role that would launch her career. Other feature credits include Burns’ “No Looking Back,” “Looking for Kitty,” “The Lather Effect” and the critically acclaimed feature “The Last Winter,” opposite Ron Perlman, which received a Gotham Award nomination for Best Ensemble Cast.

Born in Boston, Britton moved to Lynchburg, VA at the age of seven with her family, including her fraternal twin sister. She attended Dartmouth College, where she majored in Asian studies, spending a term in Beijing, China. Upon graduation she moved to New York, where she spent two years at the Neighborhood Playhouse studying with Sanford Meisner, and then performed in regional theater and off-Broadway productions.

In her free time, Britton, enjoys hiking and yoga. She is currently finalizing a documentary which she produced and directed on the orphans of Ethiopia.

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