Constance Elaine Britton is a Boston, Massachusetts-born American actress, singer as well as a producer perhaps best known for her role in the ABC sitcom “Spin City” as Nikki Faber. Born on 6 March, 1967, Connie is also a critically acclaimed actress known for her role as Tami Taylor in the NBC drama series “Friday Nights Lights”. Connie has been active in the field of entertainment as an actress since 1995.
One of the well regarded actresses in Hollywood, one may wonder how rich is Connie Britton? As estimated by authoritative sources, Connie counts her net worth at an amount of $10 million in mid-2017, having managed to amass her wealth being a successful actress in Hollywood as well as on American television for more than two decades now.
Connie Britton Net Worth $10 million
Raised in Boston, Maryland and Virginia, Connie was educated at E.C. Glass High School. She later joined Dartmouth College to study Asian Studies, majoring in Chinese. She continued her studies at Beijing Normal University where her classmate was Kirsten Gillibrand, now a US Senator for New York. In 1995, Connie started her acting career by debuting in the play “The Early Girl”. Her performances at New York theatres were well received, and Connie went on to star in her first feature film “The Brothers McMullen”, which was critically acclaimed, and Connie became more popular in Hollywood.
Eventually, Connie was cast in the ABC sitcom “Ellen” in which she worked alongside Ellen DeGeneres, David Anthony Higgins and others. However, she got her breakthrough on television when she was cast as a series regular in the television series “Spin City”. In the series that aired from 1996 until 2000, Connie played the role of Nikki Faber and shared the screen with popular actors Michael J. Fox, Charlie Sheen and Carla Gugino among others. Later, she added to her fame as she starred as Tami Taylor in the series “Friday Night Lights”. Subsequently she worked with Hayden Panettiere and Clare Bowen in the serial drama “Nashville”, which has been airing since 2012.
Apart from being a popular name on American television, Connie has also managed to make quite an impression in Hollywood with her acting. To date, she has appeared in over 20 movies, including “A Nightmare On Elm Street” and “Me And Earl And The Dying Girl”. In addition, Connie has released seven music albums including “Christmas With Nashville”, and in a double, starred with Harry Connick, Jr., Willie Nelson, Lyle Lovett and Kris Kristofferson in “Angels Sing”, a Christmas family drama. More recently, she starred with RJ Cyler, Thomas Mann and Olivia Cooke in “Me and Earl and the Dying Girl”, based on Jesse Andrews‘ 2012 novel and directed by Alfonso Gomez-Rejon, and also in 2015 starred in the action comedy “American Ultra” opposite Jesse Eisenberg and Kristen Stewart. She then collaborated with “American Horror Story” creator Ryan Murphy on his new TV miniseries “American Crime Story: The People v. O. J. Simpson” as Faye Resnick. All her activities have contributed to her net worth.
During her career, Connie has been nominated for and won several prestigious awards. In 2010, she won the Satellite Award for Best Actress in a Drama Series for her role in “Friday Night Lights”. She has also been nominated thrice for Primetime Emmy Awards, and has been inducted into the Texas Film Hall of Fame.
As for her personal life, 49 years-old Connie now lives life as a divorcee. She was previously married to John Britton between 1991 and 1995 and she still keeps her married name. She adopted her son Eyob Britton from Ethiopia in 2011. Connie is also an active philanthropist, working as the 10th Goodwill Ambassador of the United Nations Development Program since 2014.
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