Jane Lynch

Her favorite films are The Crossing Guard (1995), Ninotchka (1939), The Big Lebowski (1998), Zoolander (2001), and Private Benjamin (1980).

Performed all her own singing and guitar playing in A Mighty Wind (2003).

Lynch's wife, Dr. Lara Embry, is a clinical psychologist in west central Florida and a professor of psychology at New College in Sarasota, Florida. Embry made Florida headlines in 2009 when a Florida court ruled that she had the right to share custody of a child she had adopted with her ex-girlfriend, and, more widely, that the State of Florida had to accept the validity of other states' gay-parent adoptions.

For her role on "Glee" (2009), she was named one of the "Eight Actors Who Turn Television into Art", in cover story of The New York Times Magazine (9/11/11).

Started dating wife Laura Embry in May 2009. They go engaged on October the same year.

Hosts the 'Do Something' Awards on Vh1 - the nation's largest awards show honoring celebrities and young people's efforts to create social change. Glee won the 2010 award in the TV Show category for promoting diversity.

Hosted the 63rd Emmy Awards broadcast on Fox, Sept. 19, 2011.