Connie Britton

Cast in the indie feature, The Last Winter

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

Once again teamed with director, Edward Burns in Looking for Kitty

Joined the cast of Fox s 24 as Diane Huxley, the landlady of protagonist Jack Bauer (Kiefer Sutherland)

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

Co-starred in The Fighting Fitzgeralds , an NBC sitcom executive produced by Burns and his brother Brian

Played the mother of the title character in the ABC biopic Child Star: The Shirley Temple Story

Had recurring role on the CBS drama series The Fugitive

Reteamed with Burns for No Looking Back

Co-starred as as the office accountant Nikki on the ABC sitcom Spin City

TV-movie debut in Escape Clause (Showtime)

Made feature film debut in Edward Burns directorial debut, The Brothers McMullen

TV debut in episode of Ellen (ABC)

Appeared in two unsold series pilots, The Precinct and Pins and Needles

Performed Off-Broadway and in regional theaters

Raised in Lynchburg, Virginia, from age seven

Spent a semester studying in Beijing while in college