Connie Britton

Birthplace: Boston, Massachusetts
Birthday: March 6, 1968

This stauesque red-haired actress is best known as Nikki, the hyper-efficient office accountant with a chaotic personal life, on the ABC sitcom "Spin City" (1996- ). Connie Britton studied Chinese in college and was trained by acting guru Sanford Meisner at the Neighborhood Playhouse. She won her role in the Michael J Fox-starrer after appearing as Molly, the wife of the philandering husband, in Edward Burns' independent hit "The Brothers McMullen" (1995). Britton also won notice as Heather, the all-too-perfect sister of Joely Fisher's Paige on…more

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Lost At Home
Rachel Davis
Child Star: The Shirley Temple Story
Gertrude Temple
Escape Clause
Leslie Bullard
Friday Night Lights
Tami Taylor
Friday Night Lights
Tami Taylor

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2007
Cast in the indie feature, "The Last Winter"
2006
Cast as Tami Taylor in the NBC series "Friday Night Lights," which is inspired by the film of the same name, in which she played the same character
2006
Once again teamed with director, Edward Burns in "Looking for Kitty"
2005
Joined the cast of Fox's "24" as Diane Huxley, the landlady of protagonist Jack Bauer (Kiefer Sutherland)
2004
Co-starred with Billy Bob Thornton in "Friday Night Lights" based on H.G. Bissinger's book, which profiled the economically depressed town of Odessa, Texas and their heroic high school football team