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Emmys 2024: Connie Britton Shares What Project She Wants to Work On Next
Connie Britton’s romance is a real-life Hallmark movie.
The Friday Night Lights alum stepped out with her boyfriend David E. Windsor for a press luncheon to promote her upcoming Hallmark Channel reality series The Motherhood, and the couple shared an adorable PDA moment together at the May 1 event at Glasshouse on the Park in New York City.
During their rare outing together, they shared a kiss at the daytime event, to which Connie wore a blue and white dress and white heels and David wore a blue sweater and salmon colored pants.
Connie is set to host The Motherhood, which premieres May 5 and focuses on helping single mothers "create more balanced and fulfilling lives for themselves and their families," according to the show's website. She will be joined by Angela Rose, Destini Ann and Taryn Hicks, who are experts in parenting, style and home.
As for Connie, 58, and David, the couple last stepped out together to attend the 2025 Vanity Fair Oscar Party, over five years after they first met at a friend’s birthday party. For the Nashville actress, the moment they were introduced is one she will "never forget."
"I walked into his party and I was like, 'Oh my gosh, I don't know a single soul," she recalled during a January 2023 appearance on SiriusXM's Radio Andy. "I'm talking to my friend and he looks past me and he sees David across the room and he is like, 'There's someone here you have to meet.'"
However, after being sat at separate tables, they didn't get a chance to speak. So, Connie's friend—who was determined to set them up—coordinated to have the pair exchange emails.
Indeed, David reached out to her the next day, and since then, the producer has become a paternal figure to her son, Eyob, now 14, who she adopted from Ethiopia in 2011 as a single mom.
She told host Andy Cohen, "I have an amazing man in my life now and he is definitely stepping into that more paternal role."
Photo by Jamie McCarthy/Getty Images for Hallmark Media
The actress also provided insight into why their relationship works so well.
"What I was really looking for was a partnership where there's constant growth, on both sides, and a sort of deepening of each other,” she told Parade in their March 2025 cover story. "And therefore [a] deepening of who I am—and for him, who he is. So it makes me a better mom and a better actor, and just a better person in the world, and the same for him and for what he does. It's not just, like, 'Oh, I found true love.' It's that I found somebody who I can walk on a journey with that is going to be constantly ever-changing, but also ever-deepening."
For more of Connie Britton, read on.
DreamWorks Television
Spin City
As accountant Nikki Faber, Connie Britton spent four seasons on Spin City. She developed an on/off relationship with Michael J. Fox's character, but departed after season four.
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The Fighting Fitzgeralds
Britton played daughter-in-law Sophie to Mr. Fitzgerald (Brian Dennehy), a retired New York City fire fighter on this one-season comedy. Sophie, her husband and her daughter (as well as Mr. Fitz's two other sons) move back into his house and bring chaos in what was supposed to be his time alone, and hilarity ensues.
NBC
The West Wing
Back in 2001, she starred in four episodes of The West Wing as Connie Tate, a campaign consultant working for President Bartlet (Martin Sheen) during his re-election campaign.
ABC
Lost at Home
Britton's Rachel Davis gives her ad agency addicted husband Michael (Mitch Rouse) an ultimatum of spending more time with his family or losing her altogether in this short-lived series, making him re-evaluate his priorities and put more effort into his home life, even if he doesn't know how anything in the kitchen works.
20th Century Fox Television
24
One of the few 24 love interests to survive, Diane Huxley (Britton) was Jack's landlady-turned-girlfriend in season five on the hit Fox series.
Fox
Family Guy
Yes, that's Britton in bed with Peter Griffin on Family Guy. She voiced herself for a gag when Peter compares his wife's cookies to Britton's hair.
Bill Records/NBC
Friday Night Lights
Tami Taylor forever! Tami (Britton) was much more than the wife of the football coach. She played mother figure to the high school students, developing her career along the way, going from guidance counselor to principal to dean of admissions at a college.
FX
American Horror Story: Murder House
American Horror Story: Murder House featured Britton as Vivien Harmon...who eventually became the mother of the Antichrist. At the start of the series, she and her family buy the infamous murder house as an attempt to keep their family together after an affair. The house lives up to its name and by the end of the season, they're all dead. Britton reprised the role on AHS: Apocalypse.
ABC
Nashville
For five and a half seasons across two networks, Britton starred on Nashville as Rayna Jaymes, a country music star. The series saw Rayna's star start to wane, the character overcome heartaches and physical setbacks and the character eventually move into producing. Nashville ended with its sixth season, but Britton was already gone—her character died in season five after a car accident. She appeared in the series finale.
YouTube
The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story
The Boston native had a recurring role on the first season of FX's American Crime Story, The People v. O.J. Simpson, as real person (and recurring Real Housewives of Beverly Hills star) Faye Resnick.
Showtime
SMILF
On SMILF, Britton plays Ally, Bridgette's (Frankie Shaw) boss. Ally is an over-sharing mother of three, who needs her household staff to get by. She considers her staff to be her best friends...but the feeling isn't always mutual.
Fox
9-1-1
9-1-1 season one featured Britton in the role of Abby Clark, an emergency dispatcher caring for her mother who was suffering from Alzheimer's. The part was always intended to be a one-season role, with the character leaving the U.S. to travel the world after the death of her mother.
Bravo
Dirty John
The 52-year-old actress's most recent TV role was playing Debra Newell on Bravo's limited true-crime drama Dirty John. After Debra, a successful interior designer, meets John Meehan (Eric Bana) she thinks her life is complete and her perfect man will make her happy forever. That is not the case however in the series based on the hit podcast and Los Angeles Times article of the same name, and their relationship ends up including love, lies, danger and death.
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