(Cover) - EN Showbiz - Jane Lynch is "content" career wise after falling in love.

The actress was recently nominated for an Emmy Award for her role as bullying teacher Sue Sylvester in Glee. Despite the show's huge success Jane has no driving ambition to capitalise on the hit series, admitting she's never been happier than when she is with her spouse, clinical psychologist Lara Embry.

"I had reached a kind of contentment," said Jane to Vogue magazine. "I didn't have that driving kind of fevered ambition, that fear that I gotta take the next thing. And you go years not knowing what the next thing is. Now, when things are presented, they either feel right or they don't. And I don't take parts just to do them anymore."

Jane, 51, only told her parents that she was gay until she was in her thirties, and admitted it was a struggle coming to terms with her sexuality when she was growing up.

"Just like in Glee, you had to be what they considered normal' or you got a Slushee in your face. I didn't want to be too tall. I didn't want to be too loud. I didn't want to be gay," she explained.

Jane also joked that her mother only approved of Lara, when she found out she was a psychologist. Jane married Lara in 2010. (C) Cover Media