Jane Lynch

At 63 years old, Jane Lynch has this physical status:

Jane Marie Lynch (born July 14, 1960) is an American actress, voice actress, author, singer and comedian.

She is best known for her role as Sue Sylvester in the musical television series Glee.

She also gained fame in Christopher Guest's improv mockumentary pictures such as Best in Show.A native of Dolton, Illinois, Lynch's television cameos include an appearance in the Nickelodeon situation comedy iCarly and the Showtime dark comedy series Weeds.

Lynch had a recurring role in the Warner Bros.

situation comedy Two and a Half Men from 2004 to 2014 and was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for her performance in 2010.

She has also had other notable roles in numerous mainstream comedies, such as Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby, The 40-Year-Old Virgin, Role Models and The Three Stooges. On September 4, 2013, Lynch received the 2,505th star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in the category of television located at 6640 Hollywood Blvd.

Lynch has lent her voice to multiple animated films, including Space Chimps, Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs, Shrek Forever After and Wreck-It Ralph.

Since 2013, she has hosted the NBC game show Hollywood Game Night, for which she has won two Emmy Awards.

She has also hosted Earth Live for National Geographic.

Early life

Jane Marie Lynch was born on July 14, 1960 in Evergreen Park, Illinois, and raised in Dolton, Illinois, the daughter of a banker father, Frank Joseph Lynch, and a homemaker-secretary mother, Eileen Lynch (née Carney). Her father was of Irish descent, his parents having come from Sonnagh, near Charlestown and Culduff, Killasser, near Swinford both in County Mayo respectively, and her mother was of Irish and Swedish ancestry. She was raised in a Catholic family and attended Thornridge High School. Lynch graduated from Illinois State University in 1982 with a theater degree.

Personal life

Jane married Lara Embry, on May 31, 2010, in Sunderland, Massachusetts. In June 2013, Lynch announced that they were divorcing. Their divorce was finalized in January 2014.

In 2021, Jane married longtime partner Jennifer Cheyne in Santa Barbara, California.

Lynch is deaf in her right ear. She speculated to Craig Ferguson on a July 19, 2013 broadcast of The Late Late Show that the deafness was most likely caused by having had a high fever as an infant.

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Career

Lynch spent 15 years in Chicago, appearing in the Steppenwolf Theatre Company, and was one of only two women selected to attend The Second City comedy troupe at the time of her audition. In the theater's The Real Live Brady Bunch, she continued to hone her comedy and improvisational abilities. In the New York shows, Andy Richter played Mike Brady. He and Lynch became a good friend.

Lynch got her start in films in 1988, appearing in a small role in the film Vice Versa. In 1993, she served as a doctor alongside Harrison Ford in The Fugitive. In Fatal Instinct, she appeared in the same year as a reporter.

She made several television commercials during the 1990s, including one for Frosted Flakes for an adult audience directed by Christopher Guest. A few years later, the guest would recall Lynch as he selected actors for his 2000 dog show ridicumentary, Best in Show. Lynch portrayed Christy Cummings, a lesbian personal dog handler to trophy bride Sheri Ann Cabot (Jennifer Coolidge). From there, she became a staple in Gast's scripts, appearing in A Mighty Wind (2003) as porn actress-turned-folk singer Laurie Bohner and in For Your Consideration (2006) as an entertainment reporter.

Lynch appeared in Judd Apatow's The 40-Year Virgin, catching Audiences and critics. Terry Gross of Fresh Air told Terry Gross that the job was originally intended for a man, but that she later learned that Lynch instead of Steve Carell's wife Nancy Walls, who was urging him to Lynch. Maggie Walter is a film actress who appeared in films including Role Models, Talladega Nights, The Ballad of Ricky Bobby, Alvin and the Chipmunks, The Ballad of Ricky Bobby, The Dewey Cox Story, The Rocker, Another Cinderella Novel, The Dawn of the Dinosaurs, Wreck-It Ralph, and Spring Breakdown.

Lynch reunites with Michael McKean, her former co-star from For Your Consideration, in the role of Aunt Joanie and starring Ari Gold, Adrian Grenier, Chiu Chi Ling, and Shoshannah Stern in Adventures of Power, a comedy about air-drumming released in 2008. Lynch's role as the niece Joanie to Power, a young musician who plays the air drums because he never had access to musical equipment, promotes music education in a way similar to her role as Sue Sylvester on the Fox musical comedy-drama series Glee.

Dorothy McWilliams, Julia Child's sister, was portrayed by Julia Child in Julie and Julia. Entertainment Weekly published an article on its website about the possibility of her appearance for an Academy Award nomination. Nonetheless, she was not nominated.

Lynch has appeared in many television shows including The X-Files, Los Angeles' Judging Amy, The West Wing, Live and Learn, For Children, Bentley's Creek, The King of Queens and Frasier, 3rd Rock From The Sun, 3rd Rock From The Sun, Veronica Mars, Glee, The Unconserved World, Dawson's Creek, Arrested Growth, Julia, The Prince of Queens, Jetting Amy, Glee, Desperate She appeared with John Hannah and William Fichtner in 2002's MDs, and in the crime drama Criminal Minds as Spencer Reid's schizophrenic mother.

Out & Proud, a documentary that explores LGBT life in Chicago from the Civil War to 2008, told the lives of 20 everyday Chicagoans from age 30 to age 80.

Lynch appeared on Fox's Glee as a regular cast member beginning in 2009. The role resembled previous guest appearances in The X-Files and Veronica Mars, as this was her third time as a stern high school teacher. Sue Sylvester, the vivacious cheerleading coach, received raves for her role as the vivacious cheerleading coach. "Lynch alone makes Glee worth watching," Los Angeles Times writer Mary McNamara wrote. She appeared on the Starz comedy Party Down before her time with Glee. Lynch will not be returning to work on Glee if the series was revived for a second season.

Lynch continued to pursue other interests even as early as Glee's days. Lynch hosted Saturday Night Live on October 9, 2010; her Glee boss, Ryan Murphy, mistakenly broke her hosting by text message. In the episode "iSam's Mom," Lynch appeared on the Nickelodeon comedy iCarly as Pam Puckett's mother.

Lynch hosted the NBC game show Hollywood Game Night from July 11, 2013. With a chance for the civilians to earn up to $25,000, the two teams were made up of members of the public (civilians) and celebrities competing in various party tournaments.

Lynch co-host of the NBC special New Year's Eve with Carson Daly on December 31, 2013, as co-host of The Voice's Carson Daly.

Lynch appeared in the television series "Girl Meets Farkle's Choice" in 2015.

Lynch appeared on The Price Is Right as a celebrity Charity Week contestant on February 21, 2017.

Lynch was announced in March 2013 as the executive producer of a comedy web series Dropping the Soap. Lynch appeared in the film and was nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Actress in a Short Form Comedy or Drama Series. The series premiered on Dekkoo and was also available on streaming services, including Amazon Video.

Janet Reno was the subject of the Discovery Channel television series Manhunt: Unabomber, which was released in 2017.

Lynch appeared in Episode 7 of Marvelous Mrs Maisel as a well-known but dislikeable comic Sophie Lennon. Lynch appeared in two episodes at the end of the second season.

Lynch, A.V.A., the A.I., was the main cast of Final Space in 2019. The Crimson Lighthouse in New York City.

Lynch would appear on the Netflix comedy film Space Force in May 2020, it was announced.

Lynch will host a revival of The Weakest Link on NBC on July 8, 2020, according to Vulture. On September 29, 2020, the show debuted.

Lynch narrated Ole Golley in the Apple TV+ animated series Harriet the Spy in November 2021.

Lynch wrote and appeared in the award-winning play Oh Sister, My Sister. The play was first performed in 1998 and opened the Lesbians in the Los Angeles Gay and Lesbian Center's Theater program in 2004.

She appeared in Comcast's XFinity ads, mainly with two separate laptops and two distinct colored Persian cats. She also stars in LG Corp.'s Text Ed campaign to warn drivers of the risks of texting while driving.

Lynch's first appearance at an awards show was in 2010 as she hosted the 2010 VH1 DoSomething Awards. It was revealed that she would host the 2011 VH1 DoSomething Awards, which will be broadcast on VH1 on August 18. Lynch hosted the 63rd Primetime Emmy Awards on September 18, 2011, the third woman in Emmy history to host the awards show solo. According to the version of September 19 of The Hollywood Reporter, Lynch, the Emmys' host, did not help with numbers, as year after year and eight million fewer people watched Michael Vick's return to Atlanta on Sunday Night Football on NBC (11.5 million for the Emmys).

Hyperion Voice, a Lynch autobiography titled Happy Accidents, was published in the fall of 2011. Lynch was inspired to write the book after reflecting on the successes of her previous year and wishing she had told her younger, less anxious self not to be concerned as much. The memoir also includes information about her time as an addict and her triumph over heroin use. Lynch is openly lesbian and married Lara Embry in 2010. Lynch, a self-proclaimed animal lover, owns four rescue dogs. She has won a PSA for PETA's promotion of shelter animals, as well as a yearly adoption event at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena. She was the commencement speaker for Smith College's class of 2012, where she received an honorary Doctorate in Fine Arts.

Lynch appeared in a performance of Dustin Lance Black's "8," a staged re-enactment of California's Pro 8 ban on same-sex marriages, as Maggie Gallagher. To raise funds for the American Foundation for Equal Rights, the performance was staged at the Wilshire Ebell Theatre and streamed on YouTube.

Lynch made her Broadway debut in Annie as Miss Hannigan for a limited engagement that lasted from May 15 to July 14, 2013. Katie Finneran took their place.

Lynch spent 2014 as a spokesperson for girls in Ban Bossy's campaign.

Lynch debuted See Jane Sing, a cabaret performance in which she performs with Kate Flannery from ABC's Boy Band and Tim Davis from ABC's Boy Band, accompanied by the Tony Guerrero Quintet. The show is currently touring around the country. Lynch released A Swingin' Little Christmas, a nostalgic Christmas collection starring the See Jane Sing ensemble, in 2016, and Lynch's own KitschTone Records label was released. The album received extensive airplay around the country and debuted on the Billboard AC Chart's Top 10. Lynch released actor Dick Van Dyke on Christmas Eve in 2017. Tony Guerrero's album was written and produced by him and was released by KitschTone Records.

Lynch produced her first two TV commercials for the production company STORY in 2020 and expanded the company's roster of commercial directors.

Rosie Brice appeared in the Broadway revival of Funny Girl in October 2021. Her tenure went from April 24, 2022, to an anticipated end on August 14, 2022.

Lynch was named honorary "mayor of Funner" in 2022, the putative location of Harrah's Resort Southern California. Lynch advocates for the resort, as Lynch does not consume animal products nor drink alcohol, in this role.

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