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Felicity Huffman
Felicity Kendall Huffman is an American actress. She is known for her role as Lynette Scavo in the ABC comedy-drama Desperate Housewives and her role as Sabrina "Bree" Osbourne, a transgender woman, in the film Transamerica (2005). She has received numerous accolades including a Primetime Emmy Award and a Golden Globe Award as well as a nomination for an Academy Award.
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Born 9 December 1962 · Q190519
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t deserve to spend time behind bars, noting that it is her first offense. Instead, they asked for one year of probation, 250 hours of community service and a $20,000 fine. The case has resurfaced questions about college access, race and privilege, and Huffman
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2026· 2 entries
“t deserve to spend time behind bars, noting that it is her first offense. Instead, they asked for one year of probation, 250 hours of community service and a $20,000 fine. The case has resurfaced questions about college access, race and privilege, and Huffman”
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2025· 1 entry
Portrayed Rena Chynoweth, a former Mormon fundamentalist, in The Thirteenth Wife: Escaping Polygamy, a limited series on Lifetime
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2019· 4 entries
Snopes rated the claim “Did Tanya McDowell get five years in prison for sending her son to a better school, while actress Felicity Huffman got 14 days in prison for paying to have her daughter's SAT scores inflated in what has become known as the college-admissions cheating scandal.” Mixture.
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In a nationwide college entrance exam cheating scandal
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Huffman donated $400 to Kamala Harris's campaign in the 2020 U
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Huffman starred in two Netflix projects: the Ava DuVernay miniseries When They See Us about the famous Central Park jogger case from 1989 in which a jogger was attacked in Central Park in New York City and in the comedy-
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2018· 1 entry
Huffman starred in the second season of the Epix comedy-drama Get Shorty
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2017· 1 entry
Huffman voiced a parody of herself in two episodes of the Netflix animated series BoJack Horseman
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2016· 1 entry
Huffman voiced support for Hillary Rodham Clinton in the 2016 U
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2014· 2 entries
It was announced that Huffman would be star and executive producer alongside Carol Mendelsohn in her untitled drama about a special agent (Huffman) who is the fearless leader of a team of young agents on the New York Cit
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Huffman was cast as the lead in the ABC anthology legal drama pilot American Crime created by John Ridley
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2013· 2 entries
Huffman signed on for the lead role of the Fox drama pilot Boomerang, directed by Craig Brewer
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Huffman starred in the independent drama Rudderless, and in the adventure film Big Game opposite Samuel L
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2012· 2 entries
Huffman launched What The Flicka, a website dedicated to women and mothers where she was a regular contributor
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Also appeared in the ensemble cast independent movie, Trust Me, opposite Clark Gregg
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2007· 1 entry
Huffman starred in Garry Marshall's Georgia Rule with Jane Fonda and Lindsay Lohan, and 2008 on independent drama Phoebe in Wonderland
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2006· 2 entries
Won Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Drama for Transamerica (2006).
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Felicity Huffman has been a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in the Actors Branch since 2006.
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2005· 5 entries
Awarded Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series for Desperate Housewives (2005).
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In 2005, Huffman revealed that she had had both anorexia and bulimia in her late teens and twenties.
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Huffman revealed that she had had both anorexia and bulimia in her late teens and twenties
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Huffman starred in the independent drama Transamerica, playing Bree, a transgender woman who discovers that she had fathered a son who is now a troubled teen hustler on the run
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As well as two 2006 Screen Actors Guild Awards (Best Actress - Comedy Series and part of Best Ensemble - Comedy Series) in 2006 and received several other awards
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2002· 1 entry
Played Lady Bird Johnson in the HBO award-winning movie Path to War and made a cameo appearance in Door to Door, which starred, and was written by, her husband
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2001· 1 entry
Starred on the not picked up CBS pilot Heart Department In 2003, she starred in Showtime's miniseries Out of Order
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1999· 2 entries
Appeared in Paul Thomas Anderson's ensemble drama Magnolia and television adaptation of 1938 movie A Slight Case of Murder along with William H
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Starred in the premiere of David Mamet's play Boston Marriage, about the daringly intimate relationship between two turn-of-the-century women, as well as in several other major theatrical productions
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1997· 1 entry
Starred in Mamet's film The Spanish Prisoner
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1995· 1 entry
Huffman won Obie Award for her performance in the play The Cryptogram by David Mamet
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1994· 1 entry
Starred in the ABC pilot Thunder Alley as Ed Asner's daughter, but was replaced in subsequent episodes by Diane Venora when the series began
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1988· 2 entries
With a small role in Mamet's film Things Change
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Debuted on Broadway in the role as Karen in David Mamet's play Speed the Plow
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1982· 1 entry
And in the 1980s and 1990s worked as a rule on stage productions
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1962· 1 entry
Born 1962-12-09.
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