Leading Actresses of Desperate Housewives Episodes

Marcia Cross

Prior to starting the role of the prim and proper Bree Van De Kamp Hodge on ABC's Desperate Housewives, Marcia Cross played a wide variety of roles in several daytime and primetime dramas. Throughout her career, the Julliard graduate has demonstrated amazing versatility. Other than her role on Desperate HousewivesCross is most well known for playing the psychotic Dr. Kimberly Shaw on Melrose Place

Dana Delany

Dana Delaney began her acting career in the world of daytime soaps, playing roles on Love of Life and As the World Turns. Prior to joining the Desperate Housewives cast as new neighbor Katherine Mayfair, Delaney's most popular role was as a strong, brave Army nurse on the popular primetime program China Beach.

Felicity Huffman

Actress Felicity Huffman plays the role of multi-tasking mom, wife, and entrepreneur Lynette Scavo to perfection. In this role, Scavo deals with whatever life hands her with grace and aplomb, including a personal battle with cancer, opening her home to her husband's motherless love child, and a troubled relationship with her own mother. Prior to joining the cast of Desperate Housewives, Huffman played the role of a plucky television producer on Sports Night. The actress also received a Golden Globe and Oscar for her role as a transsexual seeking a surgical gender change in the film Transamerica.

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Teri Hatcher

Before Desperate Housewives, Teri Hatcher was most widely recognized for her role as Lois in the long-running prime time drama Lois and Clark. In her role as Susan Mayer Delfino, Hatcher plays a devoted mom to teenage daughter Julie, loving and supportive wife to new husband Mike, and loving mom to new baby.

Eva Longoria Parker

Actress Eva Longoria Parker started out on daytime drama The Young and the Restless. You can see clips of her performances on YouTube. She also appeared on General Hospital and the Bold and the Beautiful before joining the cast of Desperate Housewives. Longoria Parker plays the plucky and determined Gabrielle Solis to perfection, giving depth and charm to a character who could easily come across as shallow and calculating by a lesser actress.

Nicollette Sheridan

Nicolette Sheridan made her television debut in the early 1980s on the short lived prime time drama Paper Dolls. She became a star on Knots Landing, one of the most popular prime time dramas of all time. She plays the role of cynical and sexy divorcee Edie Britt to perfection on Desperate Housewives.