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ACTOR

Connie Britton

Known for
Zero Day (2025), Luckiest Girl Alive (2022), Professor Marston and the Wonder Women (2017), Dirty John (2018)

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Connie Britton is an actor best known for Zero Day, Luckiest Girl Alive and Professor Marston and the Wonder Women.

  1. #001

    Connie Britton lives in a house in the Hollywood Hills, beneath the "D" of the Hollywood sign.

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  2. #002

    Connie Britton is Lauren Graham's former roommate.

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  3. #003

    Connie Britton has an adopted son from Ethiopia named Eyob Britton, who was born on January 25, 2011, and adopted in November 2011.

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  4. #004

    Connie Britton plays the wife of the head coach in both the film Friday Night Lights (2004) and its TV adaptation Friday Night Lights (2006), though her character has a different name in each.

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  5. #005

    Connie Britton is friends with Sheryl Crow.

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  6. #006

    Connie Britton was considered for the role of Olivia Pope in Scandal (2012), for which a white woman had been planned as the lead. Kerry Washington was ultimately cast, making her the first black woman to lead a network drama in 37 years, and she was later nominated for a Golden Globe for her performance.

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  7. #007

    While at Dartmouth, Connie Britton met John Britton at the Alpha Delta house, and they later married.

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  8. #008

    Connie Britton taught aerobics classes in college and, after arriving in New York, while waiting to land any acting work.

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  9. #009

    Connie Britton was nominated for the 2019 Golden Globe for Best Performance by an Actress in a Limited Series or Motion Picture Made for Television for her role as Debra Newell in Dirty John (2018), but lost to Patricia Arquette for Escape at Dannemora (2018).

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  10. #010

    In a February 2013 New York Times Magazine profile, Connie Britton said she nearly took the role of "Dorothy Boyd" in Jerry Maguire (1996). She went through many auditions, but right after her screen test with Tom Cruise, she was told that they had to choose between her and one other actress for the single screen test they still needed to do: Renée Zellweger, who ultimately played the role.

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  11. #011

    Connie Britton has a pit bull mix dog named Lucy.

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  12. #012

    Connie Britton was a theater star in high school.

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