Donna Lynne Champlin Biography
Donna Lynne Champlin is a New York City-based actress, dancer, and singer. She is best recognized for her role as Paula Proctor on The CW’s comedy-drama Crazy Ex-Girlfriend.
Donna Lynne Champlin Age
Lynne was born on January 21, 1971, in Rochester, New York, United States of America. She is 52 years old as of January 2023.
Donna Lynne Champlin Education
Champlin went on to pursue musical theatre at Carnegie Mellon University, graduating with a BFA in 1993 and studied Shakespeare and Chekhov at the University of Oxford as a 1992 Advanced Acting Scholar.
Donna Lynne Champlin Family- Parents
Champlin was born and raised in Rochester, New York, the daughter of a technical writer mother and a scientist father.
Donna Lynne Champlin Husband- Son
Champlin is happily married to actor Andrew Arrow since 2010 and they have one child, the family lives in New York City.
Lynne Champlin Career
She made her Broadway debut in James Joyce’s The Dead in May, followed by By Jeeves, Hollywood Arms, Sweeney Todd, Billy Elliot the Musical, and The Dark at the Top of the Stairs, for which she earned the 2007 Obie Award. No, No Nanette, Very Good Eddie, First Lady Suite, Harold and Maude, My Life with Albertine, Bloomer Girl, and Jolson are among her other credits. She also appeared alongside Len Cariou in the inaugural Simply Sondheim performance, which commemorated the opening of the Sondheim Centre for the Performing Arts. The Dark Half, the 2000 and 2006 Annual Tony Awards, The View, Law & Order, The Good Wife, The Good Fight, and The Good Doctor are among Champlin’s film and television credits.
The Dark Half, the 2000 and 2006 Annual Tony Awards, The View, Law & Order, The Good Wife, The Good Fight, The Good Doctor, and Live with Regis and Kelly are among Champlin’s film and television credits. From 2015 through 2019, she played Paula Proctor on The CW’s comedy-drama series Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, Hortense on Another Period, and Barb on Netflix’s Feel the Beat. She starred in the Showtime series The First Lady in 2022. Champlin has a solo record called Old Friends, a one-woman play called Finishing the Hat, and she teaches acting at Carnegie Mellon, the University of Hartford, and New York University. In her spare time, she writes and raises funds for JDRF, BCEFA, and The Actors Fund.
Lynne Champlin’s Net Worth
Donna has an estimated net worth of $600 thousand dollars.
Donna Lynne Champlin Movies
2022 The First Lady
2021 Centaurworld
2021 The Blacklist
2020 The Good Fight
2018 Another Period Hortense
2015–2019 Crazy Ex-Girlfriend
2015 Younger
2014 The Good Wife
2011–2014 Submissions Only
2008–2010 Law & Order
2001 By Jeeves
2020 Feel the Beat
2019 Yes, God, Yes
2017 Downsizing
2014 Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
2009 My Father’s Will
2008 The Audition Monitor
1993 The Dark Half