A withering bully called Sue Sylvester has put the actress Jane Lynch exactly where she belongs – in the spotlight.

Jane Lynch is a morning person. She’s been up for hours by the time she arrives at a clamorous little café in the thick of Los Angeles, around the corner from her home. Six-feet tall, she walks up to the place with purpose, in her plum-coloured velour jogging bottoms, her shoulders back and chin up. At the table, she whips off her sunglasses and flashes a high-beam smile, offers a firm handshake, puts her BlackBerry within texting distance and summons a waiter.

It is a week before she returns to the set of Fox’s hit musical comedy drama Glee to reprise her role as the nasty cheerleading coach Sue Sylvester for the second season. Just behind Lynch’s penetrating blue eyes it seems a clock is ticking. Life is moving very fast for her these days.
In the span of a few months last year, the gay actress married her partner, psychologist Lara Embry, and made the chat show rounds explaining that the couple were raising Embry’s eight-year-old daughter. She earned two Emmy nominations, eventually winning the award for Best Supporting Actress in a Comedy and a Television Critics Association award. She was mobbed like a rock star during Glee’s live concerts around the United States last spring.
And at the August unveiling of Lynch’s her very own Madame Tussauds wax figure, Glee co-creator Ian Brennan declared her 'a woman of such national importance that everywhere she poops should be made into a national park’. Lynch, 50, takes it all like a pro. Albeit a pro who has been eagerly awaiting her turn in the spotlight for decades.

'I’ve been in the business a long time,’ she says, matter-of-factly. 'And I’ll be in it a long time after all the hoopla has died down. So there’s a certain equanimity about it.’ She adds: 'At the same time, I’m really enjoying it!

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