I’ve never watched an episode of Glee in my life, so my main exposure to Jane Lynch is due to her movie roles: The Forty-Year Old Virgin and Role Models, primarily. I’m also a huge fan of Party Down, where Lynch’s Constance remains upbeat despite setback after setback. So while I haven’t see everything she’s ever done, I’ve seen enough to know that Lynch is a very talented woman. Due to that, it amazes me that she didn’t have her first well-known role until 2000, when she appeared in Best […]
Happy Accidents
Jane Lynch is one of those actors that didn’t get a big break until her late 30s, the first thing I remember her being in was Best in Show (when she was 40) even though I’ve seen her actual first movie role- The Fugitive- a dozen times. This whole book is basically the story of her growing up and hustling her way into pop culture permanence as Sue Sylvester from Glee. Lynch was brought up in a suburb of Chicago as the middle child of […]