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    It's all phone calls and emergencies as Connie Britton reteams with Ryan Murphy for Fox's '9-1-1'

    by Yvonne Villarreal, Los Angeles Times Jan 03, 2018 6 minutes

    Not all superheroes wear capes. Some sport telephone headsets - as Connie Britton can attest.

    The actress, who warmed hearts as "y'all"-prone Tami Taylor on "Friday Night Lights" and made folks croon as country music icon Rayna Jaymes on "Nashville," is adding some dimension to a life-saving job that often gets overlooked: the 911 dispatcher.

    In the new Fox procedural, "9-1-1," which zigs and zags across the high-intensity world of first responders while also giving attention to the personal drama that awaits them at home, Britton plays 911 operator Abby Clark. When she's not fielding critical calls - along with the occasional trivial ones - on the job, she's tending to her ailing mother.

    Britton stars alongside Angela Bassett and Peter Krause, who play a police officer and firefighter, respectively.

    The role brings Britton back under the Ryan Murphy-Brad Falchuk umbrella. She was part of the inaugural cast of the producing duo's "American Horror

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