School. She received her bachelor's degree in theatre from Illinois State University and her
MFA from Cornell University, also in theatre. She lived in Chelsea for a year and a half.
Judging Amy, The West Wing, 7th Heaven, Friends, Felicity, Arrested Development, the cult
hit Lovespring International, Two and a Half Men, Weeds, Boston Legal, The L Word, Help
Me Help You, Gilmore Girls, The New Adventures of Old Christine, Psych, Monk and Party
Down, among others. She also appeared in the crime drama Criminal Minds as Spencer Reid's
schizophrenic mother.
glee club) called "New Directions," at the fi ctional William McKinley High School in Lima,
Ohio. Lynch has won glowing reviews for her role as the aggressive cheerleading coach Sue
Sylvester. Sue is part of the William McKinley High School staff and is the coach of the
cheerleading squad, the Cheerios. She detests the glee club and their teacher, and attempts to
bring them down at any cost. She is jealous of the glee club's talent and also holds grudges to
unhealthy, almost super-villain levels, particularly her desire to destroy the glee club for getting
money that had once been promised to her Cheerios.
for her sister caused Sue to donate money to the school to help disabled kids, and to allow a
student with Down Syndrome to join the Cheerios.
Comedy Series.
amazing honor, she also compared the experience to seeing herself in a coffi n.