1. Felicity Kendall Huffman was born on December 9,1962 and is an American actress.
46 Facts About Felicity Huffman
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Felicity Huffman 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.
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Felicity Huffman 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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Felicity Huffman starred as Dana Whitaker in the ABC comedy-drama Sports Night from 1998 to 2000, which earned her a Golden Globe Award nomination.
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Felicity Huffman drew critical praise for her performance in Transamerica which earned her a Golden Globe Award, Independent Spirit Award, National Board of Review, Satellite Award, and an Academy Award nomination for Best Actress.
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Felicity Huffman has starred in films including Reversal of Fortune, The Spanish Prisoner, Magnolia, Path to War, Georgia Rule, Phoebe in Wonderland, Rudderless, and Cake.
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Felicity Huffman was arrested for her involvement with a 2019 nationwide college entrance exam cheating scandal.
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Felicity Huffman was born in Bedford, New York, into a wealthy family, the daughter of Grace Valle and Moore Peters Felicity Huffman, a banker and partner at Morgan Stanley.
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Felicity Huffman's parents divorced a year after her birth, and she was raised by both of them.
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When Felicity Huffman was a young teenager, she discovered that her biological father was Roger Tallman Maher, who was a family friend.
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Felicity Huffman's great-grandfather was Gershom Moore Peters, founder of the Peters Cartridge Company and prominent Baptist minister, author of The Master.
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Felicity Huffman's great-great-grandfather was Joseph Warren King, founder of the King Mills Powder Company.
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Felicity Huffman has German, English, Scots-Irish, Scottish, French-Canadian, and Irish ancestry.
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Felicity Huffman attended The Putney School, a private boarding high school in Putney, Vermont, and graduated from Interlochen Arts Academy in Michigan in 1981.
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Felicity Huffman attended New York University, Circle in the Square Theatre School and the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London, England.
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Felicity Huffman made her debut on stage in 1982 and in the 1980s and 1990s worked as a rule on stage productions.
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In 1995, Felicity Huffman won Obie Award for her performance in the play The Cryptogram by David Mamet.
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Felicity Huffman debuted on the big screen in 1988 with a small role in Mamet's film Things Change.
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Felicity Huffman starred on the television mini-series Golden Years, based on the novel by Stephen King in 1991.
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Felicity Huffman starred in Snap Decision with Mare Winningham, Raising Helen as Kate Hudson's character's older sister, and Christmas with the Kranks, as the best friend of Jamie Lee Curtis's character.
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Felicity Huffman won an Emmy Award for her work on Desperate Housewives in 2005, as well as two 2006 Screen Actors Guild Awards in 2006 and received several other awards.
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In 2005, Felicity Huffman starred in the independent drama Transamerica, playing Bree, a pre-operative transgender woman who, on the brink of her transforming surgery, discovered that in her youth she had fathered a son - who is a troubled teen hustler on the run.
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Felicity Huffman is a voting member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
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In 2007, Felicity 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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Felicity Huffman made a film, Lesster, as a writer, director and actress in 2010.
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Felicity Huffman said that after seeing her as Lynette Scavo on Housewives for eight years it was difficult for audiences to think of her as anything else.
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Felicity Huffman said that's why she was eager for a role that's a distinctive departure.
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On February 15,2013, Felicity Huffman signed on for the lead role of the Fox drama pilot Boomerang, directed by Craig Brewer.
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In 2013, Huffman starred in the independent drama Rudderless, and in the adventure film Big Game opposite Samuel L Jackson.
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Felicity Huffman starred in another independent drama Stealing Cars, and was cast in the comedy film Zendog.
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In 2014, Felicity Huffman was cast as the lead in the ABC anthology legal drama pilot American Crime created by John Ridley.
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On October 2,2014, it was announced that Felicity Huffman would be star and executive producer alongside Carol Mendelsohn in her untitled drama about a special agent who is the fearless leader of a team of young agents on the New York City Joint Terrorism Task Force.
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American Crime debuted on ABC in March, 2015 and Felicity Huffman received critical acclaim for her performance as an antagonistic character.
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In 2017, Felicity Huffman voiced a parody of herself in two episodes of the Netflix animated series BoJack Horseman.
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In 2018, Felicity Huffman starred in the second season of the Epix comedy-drama Get Shorty.
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In 2019, Felicity 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-drama film Otherhood based on the novel Whatever Makes You Happy by William Sutcliffe, She starred in the drama film Tammy's Always Dying directed by Amy Jo Johnson.
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In March 2023, Felicity Huffman appeared in an episode of The Good Doctor, in which she portrayed distinguished attorney Janet Stewart.
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Felicity Huffman was meant to reprise the role in a spin-off titled The Good Lawyer; however, this spin-off was cancelled due to the 2023 Writers Guild of America strike.
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Felicity Huffman has appeared on television, in movies and on stage many times with her husband.
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In 2005, Felicity Huffman revealed that she had suffered from both anorexia and bulimia in her late teens and twenties.
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Felicity Huffman is the co-author of the self-help book A Practical Handbook for the Boyfriend.
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On March 1,2012, Felicity Huffman launched What The Flicka, a website dedicated to women and mothers where she was a regular contributor.
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In 2016, Felicity Huffman voiced support for Hillary Rodham Clinton in the 2016 US presidential election.
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In 2019, Felicity Huffman donated $400 to Kamala Harris's campaign in the 2020 US presidential election.
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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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Felicity Huffman was among dozens charged by the US Attorney's Office on March 12,2019, in a nationwide college entrance exam cheating scandal.