Jane Lynch

American actress, voice actress, author and comedian, best known for her role as Sue Sylvester in the musical television series Glee (2009-2015). The role won her numerous awards, including the Primetime Emmy Award, Golden Globe Award, and Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series.

She also gained fame in Christopher Guest's improv mockumentary pictures such as Best in Show (2000). On 4 September 2013, Lynch received the 2,505th star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in the category of television.

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 The 40-Year-Old Virgin (2005), Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby (2006), Role Models (2008) and The Three Stooges (2012).

Lynch has lent her voice to multiple animated films, including Space Chimps (2008), Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs (2009), Shrek Forever After (2010) and Wreck-It Ralph (2013).

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.

In 2005, Lynch was named one of Power Up's "10 Amazing Lesbian Women in Showbiz". On 31 May 2010, in Sunderland, Massachusetts, Lynch married clinical psychologist Lara Embry, whom she met a year earlier at a fundraiser in San Francisco. In June 2013, Lynch announced that she and Embry were divorcing; the divorce was finalized in January 2014.

Her 2011 autobiography, Happy Accidents, includes detail about her years as an alcoholic and her success in battling this addiction.