Connie Britton is one of those actors that just seems to be in everything.
Born in Boston, Massachusetts and raised in Virginia, perIMDb,Brittongrew up with a passion for performing.
However, there’s still a lot you might not know about the seasoned actor.
The show follows several musicians in the famous country music capital of America.
In the show, Britton plays Rayna Jaymes, a country singing superstar.
Most fans of the show can probably agree that Britton completely nailed all of her musical scenes.
“I grew up singing,” Britton toldEntertainment Weekly.
“My mother was a music teacher and I trained for [musicals] in drama school.”
“I’m a perfectionist, so I let that go by the wayside,” she said.
At first, Britton was “terrified” to record her songs for the show’s soundtrack.
As she explained toGarden & Gun, she also loves to write.
“I used to write poetry,” she said.
“I have journals filled with poetry that I hope no one will ever read.
For some reason, I just stopped writing.”
“I guess I’m trying to shake up some poetry again.
You know, let my voice be freer and freer.”
“Then I studied abroad in Beijing.”
Moving to Beijing was a big “culture shock” for the young Britton.
“It was the ’80s, preTiananmen Square,” she said.
“We relied on each other and bonded in a very deep way,” Britton said.
“It was a big leap to go from Lynchburg, Virginia to Beijing, China in 1986.
So we held onto each other for dear life.”
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But it seems Britton doesn’t quite understand all the hype.
“I don’t have the attachment to it that others do.”
In fact, it turns out Britton doesn’t even spend much time on her hair at all.
“Like I am so not talented with a round brush or a curling iron …
I go for several days without washing my hair.”
We’re impressed that Britton hasn’t let her hair’s fame go to her head pun intended!
However, there was a time when her career could have gone very differently.
Britton auditioned for the part and the writer/director, Cameron Crowe, was blown away.
“Then there was talk about them casting a bigger name.”
Eventually, Britton discovered that it was down to her andRenee Zellweger.
“Needless to say, it was one of the great heartbreaks of my life,” she concluded.
As a child, Britton explained, she learned a lot from the movie.
In 2011, she traveled to Ethiopia to film a documentary.
“I really bumped up against that idea of the white savior,” she explained to theIndependent.
“And in fact, I couldn’t really get past that.
“We just all really have to wake up.
Apparently, when she isn’t working, she spends her time much like the rest of us.
Her average Sunday morning consists of hiking and going out for brunch.
She also spends much of her free time online shopping.
“I have a serious shopping problem,” she confessed.
“I mean, a great everyone movie.”
Britton also enjoys getaways to a special destination in the Mayan Riviera.
“The whole place is beautiful and authentic.
I’ve probably been 10 times in the past 10 years.”
During her five years on the show, Britton developed a strong friendship with Chandler.
In a banter-filled interview withEntertainment Weekly, Britton and Chandler revealed a little more about their relationship.
Added Britton jokingly, “Obviously, he’s thrilled about our separation.”
However, the pair admitted that being apart was strange.
“I feel like it’s been a roller coaster,” Britton confessed.
“We actually haven’t really talked much.
I feel like we were ripped from each other by circumstance.”
Even though Britton was pleased with the show, as she confessed toE!
Insider, she struggled to watch it at first.
“I have not watched past episode 2,” she said.
“I don’t know, I think I get too nervous.”
Britton added that she planned to watch it once the entire series had aired.
But in recent years, she’s changed her tune.
These days, Britton is passionate about voicing her political opinions for the whole world to hear.
In 2018, she made a video called “Connie Britton on Why Midterms Matter.”
“Getting political felt like a necessity this year,” she explained toEllein 2018.
I’m just going to keep going with that work.”
“Meditation has been a big part of my adult life,” she said.
“Meditation, breathing, and connecting to whatever is my own version of my center.”
“It’s about going deeper than the external noise,” she explained.
“To me, that’s a really important tool.
And I really believe it helps with wrinkles.
We can change our body chemistry through meditation.”
However, her experiences with him weren’t always pleasant.
“He was very mean, especially to ladies,” she said to theArchive of American Television.
As she recalled, Meisner would ask each student to perform a piece they had prepared.
At the end, he often asked them who their regular teacher was and expressed his disappointment.
Performing for him at the school was, as Britton put it, “a nightmarish experience.”
