By StephanieLee Elliott
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Connie Britton (born Constance Elaine Womack; March 6, 1967) is an American actress. Britton made her feature film debut in the independent comedy-drama film The Brothers McMullen (1995), and the following year, she was cast as Nikki Faber on the ABC sitcom Spin City. She later starred in the short-lived sitcoms The Fighting Fitzgeralds (2001) and Lost at Home (2003), and appeared in several films, most notably the sports drama film Friday Night Lights (2004) and the thriller film The Last Winter (2006).
Britton starred as Tami Taylor on the NBC/DirecTV drama series Friday Night Lights from 2006 to 2011. For this role, she received positive reviews from critics and was nominated for two Emmy Awards for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series.
In 2011, she starred as Vivien Harmon in the first season of FX horror-drama series American Horror Story, for which she was nominated for the Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie. She reprised her role for the eighth season of the show, Apocalypse. Britton starred as country singer Rayna Jaymes in the ABC/CMT musical drama series Nashville from 2012 to 2018, for which she was nominated for another Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series and a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Television Series Drama.
In 2016, Britton had a recurring role as socialite Faye Resnick in the first season of FX true crime anthology series American Crime Story. In 2018, she starred as Abby Clark in the Fox procedural drama series 9-1-1 as a main role in the first season and a guest in the third season, and received a Golden Globe Award nomination for Best Actress – Miniseries or Television Film for her performance as Debra Newell in the Bravo true crime anthology series Dirty John. In 2021, Britton starred in the HBO satire comedy-drama series The White Lotus alongside Jennifer Coolidge and Steve Zahn, for which she was nominated for an Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie.
In feature films, Britton starred in the romantic comedy-drama Seeking a Friend for the End of the World (2012), the romantic comedy The To Do List (2013), the comedy-dramas This Is Where I Leave You (2014) and Me and Earl and the Dying Girl (2015), the action comedy American Ultra (2015), the period drama Professor Marston and the Wonder Women (2017), the comedy-drama The Land of Steady Habits (2018), the drama Bombshell (2019) and the thriller Promising Young Woman (2020).
Britton uses her married name as her stage name. She met investment banker John Britton at Alpha Delta House at Dartmouth College. They moved to Manhattan together in 1989, married on October 5, 1991, and divorced in 1995.
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Born
- Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni (painter & sculptor) –
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning (poet) –
- Oscar Straus (composer) –
- Lou Costello (comedian) –
- Ed McMahon (TV personality) –
- Sarah Caldwell (conductor) –
- Gabriel Garcia-Marquez (author) –
- Marion Barry (politician) –
- Valentina Tereshkova (cosmonaut) –
- David Gilmour (musician) –
- Rob Reiner (actor & director) –
- Connie Britton (actress) –
- Moira Kelly (actress) –
- Shaquille O’Neal (basketball player) –
Died
- Davy Crockett and James Bowie (died defending the Alamo) –
- Louisa May Alcott (author) –
- John Philip Sousa (band leader, conductor, & composer) –
- Georgia O’Keeffe (painter) –
- Frances Dee (film star of the 1930s and 40s) –
- Hans Bethe (nuclear physicist whose calculations explained how stars shine and laid the foundation for development of both the atomic and hydrogen bombs) –
- Kirby Puckett (baseball player) –
- Nancy Reagan (U.S. First Lady) –
Events
- Ferdinand Magellan’s fleet reached Guam –
- First machine patent issued in North America was granted to Joseph Jenckes of Massachusetts –
- U.S. Supreme Court handed down landmark McCulloch v. Maryland decision –
- The city of Toronto, Canada, incorporated; William Lyon Mackenzie was its first mayor –
- After a 13-day siege, the Texas fort, the Alamo, was recaptured by Mexican general Santa Anna –
- Verdi’s opera La Traviata premiered in Venice, Italy –
- First U.S. magazine for nurses published –
- Charles Brady King drove the first automobile on the streets of Detroit, Michigan –
- Aspirin was patented on behalf of Friedrich Bayer & Co. –
- Congress established a permanent Census Office (later, U.S. Bureau of the Census) –
- Nora Stanton Blatch became the first woman to be elected to the American Society of Civil Engineers –
- The first use of dirigibles in warfare took place in an Italian action against the Turks in Tripoli –
- Clarence Birdseye’s first frozen food appeared in grocery stores in Springfield, MA –
- A nationwide bank holiday declared by President Franklin Roosevelt went into effect to help save the nation’s faltering banking system –
- In an Allied air offensive, over 600 planes bombed Berlin (WW II) –
- Comedienne Phyllis Diller made her debut in San Francisco at the Purple Onion nightclub –
- Ghana declared an independent nation –
- Notre Dame star Austin Carr scored single-game NCAA basketball playoff record 61 points as the Irish beat Ohio University 112-82 in an NCAA tournament game –
- CBS Evening News anchorman Walter Cronkite retired after 19 years. His final words: I’ll be away on assignment, and Dan Rather will be sitting in here for the next few years. Good night! –
- The U.S. Football League began its first season –
- Soviet spacecraft, Vega I, entered the atmosphere of Halley’s Comet and sent back pictures of the comet’s icy nucleus –
- A 5.4 earthquake shook Riviere-du-Loup, 250 miles northeast of Montreal –
- A 6.3 magnitude earthquake struck Indonesia –
- NASA launched a spacecraft as part of the Kepler Mission project in order to find habitable planets in the Milky Way galaxy –
Weather
- Sixteen tornadoes in Illinois and Indiana –
- Twenty-eight cities in the north-central United States reported record high temperatures. Pickstown, South Dakota, led the country with 83F, and Saint Cloud, Minnesota, registered 71F, beating its previous record by 21 degrees. –
- More than 90% of Lake Superior was covered with ice due to long stretches of unusually cold weather. –
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