Jane Lynch

Bio:

Lynch was born and raised in Dolton, Illinois, the daughter of a homemaker mother and a banker father.[3] She was raised in an Irish Catholic family and attended Thornridge High School.[3] She received her bachelor's degree in theatre from Illinois State University and her MFA in theatre from Cornell University.

Lynch, who is openly lesbian, married clinical psychologist Dr. Lara Embry on May 31, 2010 at the Blue Heron Restaurant in Sunderland, Massachusetts.Embry herself received publicity surrounding a custody battle over two children with her former partner.

Trivia:

• Performed all her own singing and guitar playing in A Mighty Wind (2003).
• Penned and starred in the award winning play "Oh, Sister, My Sister!".
• She has performed in a lot of commercials; she is usually cast as an office professional.
• Lynch's wife, Dr. Lara Embry, is a clinical psychologist in west central Florida and a professor of psychology at New College in Sarasota, Florida. Embry made Florida headlines in 2009 when a Florida court ruled that she had the right to share custody of a child she had adopted with her ex-girlfriend, and, more widely, that the State of Florida had to accept the validity of other states' gay-parent adoptions.
• Has a fear of elevators.
• Fan of Olivia Newton-John and childhood fan of John Travolta.
• Carol Burnett is a fan.
• Deaf in one ear.
• Married Lara Embry at the Blue Heron Restaurant in Sunderland, Massachusetts.
• Step-mother of Laura Embry's daughter Haden.
• Started dating wife Laura Embry in May 2009. They go engaged on October the same year.
• Her favorite films are The Crossing Guard (1995), Ninotchka (1939), The Big Lebowski (1998), Zoolander (2001), and Private Benjamin (1980).

Personal Quotes:

• On her first Golden Globe nomination: I slept through (the nominations announcement). But, I got up to six messages and went, 'Ah! I wonder if there is some good news for us?' And there was. My agent called me three times and said, 'Why aren't you up?' So, yeah. I called my mom, and she said, 'The golden what?'
• [In an Interview with the UK Mirror on why she didn't tell her parents she is a lesbian until she was 31 years old] I didn't want to be gay. I wanted to be...I wanted an easy life. And you know what? I am gay and I still have an easy life.
• [On being a stepmother to her partner's daughter, Haden Ryan-Embry] I'm almost 50, and I thought that possibility was behind me, so this is a real delight. I never went through a biological clock experience. I never even heard it ticking.