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Constance "Connie" Britton (née Womack) (born March 6, 1967) is an American actress. She is best known for the roles of Nikki Faber on Spin City and Tami Taylor on the Friday Night Lights television series. Her most notable films are Friday Night Lights and A Nightmare on Elm Street. Britton currently stars in the FX drama series American Horror Story as Vivien Harmon. Britton was born Constance Womack in Boston, Massachusetts, the daughter of Linda and Allen Womack, who was a physicist. When she was seven years old, she moved with her parents and twin sister Cynthia to Lynchburg,... MORE

Constance "Connie" Britton (née Womack) (born March 6, 1967) is an American actress. She is best known for the roles of Nikki Faber on Spin City and Tami Taylor on the Friday Night Lights television series. Her most notable films are Friday Night Lights and A Nightmare on Elm Street. Britton currently stars in the FX drama series American Horror Story as Vivien Harmon. Britton was born Constance Womack in Boston, Massachusetts, the daughter of Linda and Allen Womack, who was a physicist. When she was seven years old, she moved with her parents and twin sister Cynthia to Lynchburg, Virginia where she attended E.C. Glass High School. She majored in Asian studies at Dartmouth College. After graduating in 1989, she moved to New York City, where she spent two years at the Neighborhood Playhouse studying with Sanford Meisner. Britton uses her married name as her stage name, though she is now divorced from her husband John Britton. In November 2011, she adopted a son, Eyob "Yoby" Britton, from Ethiopia. While studying at the Neighborhood Playhouse, Britton (then Womack) made her New York theatrical debut in Caroline Kava's The Early Girl at The Courtyard Playhouse. Britton played LESS