Jane Lynch
Highest Rated: 96% The Fugitive (1993)
Lowest Rated: 0% Space Chimps 2: Zartog Strikes Back (2010)
Birthday: Jul 14, 1960
Birthplace: Not Available
Writer, actress, and comedian Jane Lynch is a slim six-feet-tall and usually wears her blonde hair cropped in a pixie cut. Born in Illinois, she went to a public university and got her M.F.A. in theater from Cornell. Her extensive theater background involved touring with the Second City comedy troupe and playing Carol Brady in The Real Live Brady Bunch. She also wrote and starred in the award-winning play Oh Sister, My Sister. Originally produced in 1998, the play kicked off the Lesbians in Theater program at the L.A. Gay & Lesbian Center in 2004. Lynch's other stage credits include Tales of the Lost Formicans, Ennui, and Waiting for Iggy. She made her film debut in 1988 with a small role in the body-switching comedy Vice Versa. On television, she was in the Lifetime movie In the Best Interest of the Children and made numerous guest appearances on sitcoms. After some meager roles in Straight Talk, The Fugitive, and Fatal Instinct, she had the good fortune to join Christopher Guest's gang of improvisational comic actors. Her breakthrough role was butch Christy Cummings, the personal dog handler to trophy wife Sheri Ann Cabot (Jennifer Coolidge) in the 2000 mockumentary Best in Show. Over the next two years, she played a government agent in the action movie Collateral Damage, a sarcastic nurse in the ABC medical comedy MDs, and a 1940s-style receptionist in the TNT movie The Big Time. In 2003, she reunited with the cast from Best in Show for the musical spoof A Mighty Wind. She performed her own music in the role of Laurie Bohner, the former porn star and member of the New Main Street Singers. In 2004, Lynch appeared in Sleepover, Little Black Boot, and The Californians. Over the course of the next few years, Lynch remained one of the comedy world's best kept secrets while getting steady work in film and television. But that secret wouldn't be kept for long, because in 2009, after essaying a recurring role on the hit Showtime series The L Word, Lynch made a major impression on television viewers as villainous cheerleading coach Sue Sylvester on the hit musical series Glee -- a role for which she was awarded both an Emmy and a Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actress.
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Highest Rated Movies
Filmography
Movies
| Credit | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 88% | Ralph Breaks the Internet | Calhoun | — | 2018 |
| No Score Yet | Dropping the Soap | Olivia Vanderstein | — | 2018 |
| No Score Yet | Earth Live | Director | — | 2017 |
| 20% | The Late Bloomer | Actor | — | 2016 |
| 49% | Mascots | Gabby Monkhouse | — | 2016 |
| No Score Yet | After The Reality | Doctor | — | 2016 |
| No Score Yet | Jungle Master | Actor | — | 2014 |
| No Score Yet | Birds of Paradise | Actor | — | 2014 |
| No Score Yet | Adventure Planet | Actor | — | 2014 |
| 52% | A.C.O.D. | Dr. Judith | $0.2M | 2013 |
| 67% | Afternoon Delight | Dr. Lenore | $0.2M | 2013 |
| 35% | Escape From Planet Earth | IO | $54.8M | 2013 |
| No Score Yet | Dino Time | Sue | — | 2012 |
| 20% | Delhi Safari | Female Flamingo (English version) | — | 2012 |
| 87% | Wreck-it Ralph | Sergeant Calhoun | $189.5M | 2012 |
| 51% | The Three Stooges | Mother Superior | $41.9M | 2012 |
| No Score Yet | Comedy Central Roast of Roseanne | Actor | — | 2012 |
| No Score Yet | Small Fry | Neptuna | — | 2011 |
| 60% | Glee: The 3D Concert Movie | Sue Sylvester | $11.9M | 2011 |
| 72% | Rio | Alice | $143.7M | 2011 |
| 70% | Paul | Pat Stevens | $37.4M | 2011 |
| 0% | Space Chimps 2: Zartog Strikes Back | Dr. Poole | — | 2010 |
| 58% | Shrek Forever After | Gretched | $238.4M | 2010 |
| No Score Yet | Dino Mom | Sue | — | 2010 |
| 32% | Adventures of Power | Joanie | — | 2009 |
| 8% | Post Grad | Carmella Malby | $6.3M | 2009 |
| 77% | Julie & Julia | Dorothy McWilliams | $94.2M | 2009 |
| 33% | Weather Girl | J.D. | — | 2009 |
| 46% | Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs (Ice Age 3) | Diatryma Mom | $124.7M | 2009 |
| No Score Yet | Mr. Troop Mom | Miss Hulka | — | 2009 |
| 44% | The Toe Tactic | Honey Strumpet | — | 2009 |
| 55% | Spring Breakdown | Senator Kay Bee Hartmann | — | 2009 |
| No Score Yet | Starz Inside | Actor | — | 2009 |
| 77% | Role Models | Gayle Sweeny | $67.4M | 2008 |
| 39% | Tru Loved | Ms. Maple | — | 2008 |
| No Score Yet | Another Cinderella Story | Dominique Blatt | — | 2008 |
| No Score Yet | Disco ormene (Sunshine Barry & the Disco Worms) | Gloria (English Version) | — | 2008 |
| 33% | Space Chimps | Dr. Poole | $30M | 2008 |
| 41% | The Rocker | Fishman's Sister | $6.4M | 2008 |
| No Score Yet | Man Maid | Sabena | — | 2008 |
| 28% | Alvin and the Chipmunks | Gail | $217.2M | 2007 |
| 66% | Smiley Face | Casting Director | — | 2007 |
| No Score Yet | Bam Bam and Celeste | Darlene | — | 2007 |
| 29% | Eye of the Dolphin | Glinton | — | 2007 |
| No Score Yet | The List | Dr. Davina | — | 2007 |
| No Score Yet | I Do & I Don't | Nora Stelmack | — | 2007 |
| No Score Yet | Suffering Man's Charity (Ghost Writer) | Ingrid | — | 2007 |
| 52% | For Your Consideration | Cindy Martin | $5.5M | 2006 |
| 71% | Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby | Lucy Bobby | $148.3M | 2006 |
| No Score Yet | Fifty Pills | Doreen | — | 2006 |
| No Score Yet | The Californians | Sybill Platt | — | 2006 |
| 85% | The 40 Year Old Virgin | Paula | $109.3M | 2005 |
| 15% | Surviving Eden | Maude Silver | — | 2004 |
| 15% | Sleepover | Gabby | $8.1M | 2004 |
| No Score Yet | Exposed | Julie Gross | — | 2003 |
| 87% | A Mighty Wind | Laurie Bohner | $17.5M | 2003 |
| 19% | Collateral Damage | Agent Russo | $40M | 2002 |
| 94% | Best in Show | Christy | $16.6M | 2000 |
| 42% | What Planet Are You From? | Doreen | — | 2000 |
| 18% | Fatal Instinct | Prison Reporter | — | 1993 |
| 96% | The Fugitive | Doctor Kathy Wahlund | — | 1993 |
| 36% | Straight Talk | Gladys | — | 1992 |
| 43% | Vice Versa | Ms. Lindstrom | — | 1988 |
TV
| Credit | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| No Score Yet |
Middle School Moguls 2019 |
Voice |
2019 |
| 89% |
The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel 2017-2019 |
Sophie Lennon |
2019 |
| No Score Yet |
The Talk 2010 |
Guest Host |
2019 2018 2017 2016 2015 2014 |
| No Score Yet |
Hollywood Game Night 2013-2019 |
Host |
2019 2018 2017 2016 2015 2014 2013 |
| No Score Yet |
Inside the Actors Studio 1994 |
Guest Host |
2019 2012 |
| 63% |
Two and a Half Men 2003-2015 |
Dr. Linda Freeman Dr. Freeman |
2019 2014 2011 2010 2009 2008 2007 2006 2004 |
| 85% |
The Simpsons 1989 |
Voice |
2018 2011 |
| 93% |
Manhunt 2017 |
Janet Reno |
2017 |
| No Score Yet |
Talking With Chris Hardwick 2017-2018 |
Guest |
2017 |
| 96% |
The Good Fight 2017-2019 |
2017 |
|
| No Score Yet |
Today 2017 |
Guest |
2017 |
| No Score Yet |
Late Night With Seth Meyers 2014 |
Guest |
2017 2015 |
| No Score Yet |
The Late Late Show With James Corden 2015-2019 |
Guest |
2017 2016 2015 |
| No Score Yet |
Conan 2010 |
Guest |
2017 2016 2013 2011 |
| No Score Yet |
Criminal Minds 2005 |
Diana Reid |
2017 2008 2006 2005 |
| 41% |
Angel From Hell 2016 |
Amy |
2016 |
| 41% |
Chelsea 2016-2017 |
Guest |
2016 |
| No Score Yet |
FABLife 2015-2016 |
Guest |
2016 |
| No Score Yet |
Tavis Smiley 2013-2018 |
Guest |
2016 |
| No Score Yet |
The Chew 2011-2018 |
Guest |
2016 |
| No Score Yet |
The Late Show With Stephen Colbert 2015 |
Guest |
2016 |
| 67% |
The Real O'Neals 2016-2017 |
Herself |
2016 |
| No Score Yet |
Close Up With the Hollywood Reporter 2015 |
Panelist |
2016 2015 |
| No Score Yet |
Rachael Ray 2015 |
Guest |
2016 2015 |
| No Score Yet |
CBS This Morning 2012 |
Guest |
2016 2012 |
| No Score Yet |
Girl Meets World 2014-2017 |
2015 |
|
| 94% |
Portlandia 2011-2018 |
2015 |
|
| No Score Yet |
The Late Late Show With Craig Ferguson 2005-2014 |
Guest |
2015 2013 |
| No Score Yet |
The View 1997 |
Guest |
2015 2014 2013 |
| 71% |
Glee 2009-2015 |
Sue Sylvester |
2015 2014 2013 2012 2011 2010 2009 |
| No Score Yet |
Sunday Morning 2011-2018 |
Appearing |
2014 |
| No Score Yet |
Jimmy Kimmel Live 2003 |
Guest |
2014 2013 2012 |
| No Score Yet |
The Ellen DeGeneres Show 2003 |
Guest |
2014 2013 2012 2011 2010 |
| No Score Yet |
Chelsea Lately 2007-2014 |
Guest |
2014 2012 2011 2009 2008 |
| No Score Yet |
MasterChef 2010-2019 |
Judge |
2013 |
| No Score Yet |
Late Night With Jimmy Fallon 2009-2014 |
Guest |
2013 2010 |
| No Score Yet |
The Tonight Show With Jay Leno 1992-2014 |
Guest |
2013 2012 2011 2010 |
| No Score Yet |
Inside Comedy 2012-2015 |
Guest |
2012 |
| 55% |
Emmys 1998-2019 |
2011 |
|
| No Score Yet |
Phineas and Ferb 2007-2015 |
Voice |
2011 |
| No Score Yet |
Real Time with Bill Maher 2003 |
Guest |
2011 |
| No Score Yet |
The Cleveland Show 2009-2013 |
Voice |
2011 2010 |
| No Score Yet |
iCarly 2007-2012 |
Sam's Mom |
2010 |
| No Score Yet |
Neighbors From Hell 2010 |
Voice |
2010 |
| No Score Yet |
Saturday Night Live 1975 |
Host |
2010 |
| 93% |
Party Down 2009-2010 |
Constance Carmell Constance |
2010 2009 |
| No Score Yet |
Lopez Tonight 2009-2011 |
Guest |
2009 |
| 87% |
Reno 911! 2003-2009 |
Therapist |
2009 |
| No Score Yet |
The Bonnie Hunt Show 2008-2010 |
Guest |
2009 |
| No Score Yet |
American Dad (target for inaccurate feed data) 2005 |
Voice |
2009 2008 2006 |
| 54% |
The L Word 2004-2009 |
Guest Joyce Joyce Wischnia |
2009 2008 2007 2005 |
| 92% |
Psych 2006-2014 |
2008 |
|
| 86% |
Boston Legal 2004-2008 |
Joanna Monroe |
2008 2007 2006 |
| 25% |
Thank God You're Here 2007 |
Performer |
2007 |
| 89% |
The New Adventures of Old Christine 2006-2010 |
Ms. Hammond |
2007 |
| 70% |
Desperate Housewives 2004-2012 |
Maxine Bennett |
2006 |
| 54% |
Help Me Help You 2006 |
Raquel Raquel Janes Raquel James |
2006 |
| 39% |
Blind Justice 2005 |
Dr. Taylor |
2005 |
| No Score Yet |
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation 2000-2015 |
Ranger |
2005 |
| 20% |
Rodney 2004-2006 |
Amy O'Brien |
2005 |
| 70% |
Weeds 2005-2012 |
The Candyman |
2005 |
| 75% |
Arrested Development 2003-2019 |
Cindi Lightballoon Cindi |
2004 |
| No Score Yet |
Las Vegas 2003-2008 |
Helen Pulaski |
2004 |
| 90% |
Monk 2002-2009 |
Dr. Waterford |
2004 |
| No Score Yet |
According to Jim 2001-2009 |
2003 |
|
| No Score Yet |
The Dead Zone 2002-2007 |
Flo McMurtry |
2003 |
| 32% |
Watching Ellie 2002-2003 |
Roman |
2003 2002 |
| No Score Yet |
Felicity 1998-2002 |
Professor Carnes |
2002 |
| 27% |
MDs 2002 |
Nurse Poole |
2002 |
| 71% |
Family Guy 1999 |
Voice |
2002 2000 |
| No Score Yet |
Boston Public 2000-2005 |
Jane Morrell |
2001 |
| 74% |
The X-Files 1993-2018 |
Mrs. Anne T. Lokensgard |
2001 |
| No Score Yet |
Judging Amy 1999-2005 |
ASA Perkins Ms. Perkins |
2000 |
| No Score Yet |
Dharma & Greg 1997-2002 |
Sheryl |
1999 |
| 94% |
Frasier 1993-2004 |
Guest |
1996 |
| 95% |
NewsRadio 1995-1999 |
Carol |
1995 |
| No Score Yet |
Party of Five 1994-2000 |
Dr. Pennant |
1995 1994 |
| No Score Yet |
Married...With Children 1987-1997 |
Greta |
1994 |
| No Score Yet |
Empty Nest 1988-1995 |
Tammy |
1993 |
| No Score Yet |
Murder Police |
Voice | |
| No Score Yet |
Spoilers With Kevin Smith 2012 |
Guest |
QUOTES FROM Jane Lynch CHARACTERS
Paula says: Hey Andy, take a look at your pal.
Andy Stitzer says: Oh my God.
Paula says: Yeah, he's performing a public colonoscopy.
Fix-It Felix Jr. says: You are one dynamite gal!
Sergeant Calhoun says: Aaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhh!
Sergeant Calhoun says: Bull roar!
Vanellope von Schweetz says: Whoever was mean to me will be... executed!
Sergeant Calhoun says: This place is starting to get interesting.
Sergeant Calhoun says: I hope you're happy, junk pile! This game is going down & it's all your fault!
Sergeant Calhoun says: I hope you're happy, junk pile! This game is going down and it's all your fault!
Sergeant Calhoun says: Doomsday & Armageddon just had a baby & it is ugly!
Sergeant Calhoun says: Doomsday and Armageddon just had a baby and it is ugly!
Sergeant Calhoun says: Your face is red, you might want to hit it with your hammer.
Fix-It Felix says: Oh, that's not blood force trauma, ma'am. That's just the honey glow in my cheeks.
Sergeant Calhoun says: Doomsday and Armageddon just had a baby, and it is ugly!
Fix-It Felix Jr. says: Is he in there?
Sergeant Calhoun says: Nope, lucky for him, otherwise i would have slapped his corpse
Sergeant Calhoun says: Nope, lucky for him, otherwise I would have slapped his corpse
Sergeant Calhoun says: Your face is still red, you might want to hit it again with your hammer.
Fix-It Felix Jr. says: You came back!
Sergeant Calhoun says: Can it, Fix-It!
Sergeant Calhoun says: Do you even know what a Cybug is?
Fix-It Felix Jr. says: Can't say that I do ma'am.
Sergeant Calhoun says: O.K, stop it with the goo-goo eyes.
Vanellope von Schweetz says: Of everyone who was ever mean to me, shall be...executed.
Vanellope von Schweetz says: Of everyone who was ever mean to me, shall be executed.
Taffyta Muttonfudge says: What? No!
Fix-It Felix Jr. says: Oh Lord...
Fix-It Felix Jr. says: Oh Lord.
Sergeant Calhoun says: This game just got interesting...
Sergeant Calhoun says: This game just got interesting.
Sergeant Calhoun says: Get out.
Fix-It Felix Jr. says: I only said that you're one Dynamite Gal.
Sergeant Calhoun says: I said GET OUT!
Fix-It Felix Jr. says: I'm going with you
Sergeant Calhoun says: Like fun you are, short stack!
Sergeant Calhoun says: Sugar Rush... Cy-bugs will chew up that game faster than a chicken hawk in a coop of crippled roosters...
Fix-It Felix Jr. says: What was that now?
Sergeant Calhoun says: It's make your momas proud time.
Wreck-It Ralph says: I love my momma!
Sergeant Calhoun says: Flattery don't charge these batteries, civilian.
Sergeant Calhoun says: "Fear" is a four-letter word, ladies! You wanna go peepee in your big-boy slacks, keep it to yourself!
Sergeant Calhoun says: 'Fear' is a four-letter word, ladies! You wanna go peepee in your big-boy slacks, keep it to yourself!
Sergeant Calhoun says: Doomsday and Armageddon just had a baby and it... is... ugly!
Sergeant Calhoun says: It looks like Doomsday and Armageddon just had a baby. And it is ugly.
Sergeant Calhoun says: Markowski!
Wreck-It Ralph says: Who...? [Realizes that he's in Markowski's armor] Oh, yeah, uh, me. I'm-I'm Markowski.
Sergeant Calhoun says: [Cracks Ralph in the head with her helmet] What's the first rule of "Hero's Duty"?
Sergeant Calhoun says: [Cracks Ralph in the head with her helmet] What's the first rule of 'Hero's Duty'?
Wreck-It Ralph says: No cuts, no buts, no coconuts?
Sergeant Calhoun says: [Cracks Ralph again] Never interfere with the first person shooter!
Vanellope von Schweetz says: As your wonderful princess I hereby decree that everyone who was ever mean to me shall be... executed.
Taffyta Muttonfudge says: [And the other racers] WHAT!?! No, no, no, please, please!
Fix-It Felix says: [Along with Ralph staring in shock] Oh, my lands!
Sergeant Calhoun says: Oh, this place just got interesting.
Sergeant Calhoun says: "flattery doesnt charge these batteries"
Sergeant Calhoun says: Flattery won't charge these batteries.
Sergeant Calhoun says: Fear is a four letter word ladies!
Sergeant Calhoun says: Alright ladies, the kitten whisperers and tickle fights stop now!
Sergeant Calhoun says: All right, ladies, the kitten whispers and tickle fights stop now!
Sergeant Calhoun says: It's make your mama's proud time!
Wreck-It Ralph says: I love my mama!
Fix-It Felix says: You're one dynamite gal!
Sergeant Calhoun says: *flashback sequence*
Sergeant Calhoun says: [flashback sequence]
Dorothy McWilliams says: Dad, would have been happy if we had stayed in Pasadena, married Republican's & bred like rabbits !
Dorothy McWilliams says: Dad, would have been happy if we had stayed in Pasadena, married Republican's & bred like rabbits!
Julia Child says: And .....Why didn't we ?
Julia Child says: And why didn't we?
Dorothy McWilliams says: Too tall !
Dorothy McWilliams says: Too tall!
Gayle Sweeny says: and your standing over there, and your standing over there, and I don't which way is up.
Gayle Sweeny says: You're standing over there, and you're standing over there, and I don't know which way is up!
Sue Sylvester says: [from trailer] Concert films can kill you.
Sue Sylvester says: They haven't even done anything yet!
Gayle Sweeny says: I'm not here to service you, I'm here to service these young boys.
Gayle Sweeny says: Did Wheeler ever expose himself to you?
Ronnie Shields says: Hell, no!