Felicity Huffman
born December 9, 1962
Academy Award nominated American film and tv actress.
She became known to the general public after starring as Lynette Scavo on the ABC hit show Desperate Housewives in 2004. A year later, her role as a transwoman in the independent film Transamerica was praised by many critics and earned her a Golden Globe Award.
Biography
Early life
Huffman was born in New York to Grace Huffman. Her parents divorced
a year after her birth, and she was raised mostly by her mother. She has six sisters
and a brother. She graduated from Interlochen Arts Academy in Michigan. After
high school she went on to New York University where she graduated in 1988 from
the Tisch School of the Arts, with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Drama.
Career
Huffman
is best known for her leading role as Lynette Scavo in the tv series Desperate
Housewives and her starring role in the 2005 film Transamerica. Huffman also starred
in the television dramedy Sports Night, and has had guest starring roles on Frasier,
The West Wing and Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip. Huffman has also appeared in
the films Raising Helen and Christmas with the Kranks.
Huffman won an Emmy for her work on Desperate Housewives (Outstanding Actress in a Comedy Series), as well as two 2005 Screen Actors Guild Awards (Best Actress, Comedy Series and part of Best Ensemble, Comedy Series). Huffman's role as transsexual woman in Transamerica was praised by critics and garnered her a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress as well as nominations for the Best Actress (Screen Actors Guild) and Best Actress (Academy Awards). Huffman is now a voting member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
Huffman is also the co author of the self help book, A Practical Handbook for the Boyfriend. She is the only actor or actress to have appeared in all three television shows created by Aaron Sorkin (Sports Night, The West Wing, and Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip.
Personal
life
Huffman is married to actor William H. Macy, with whom she has two daughters,
Sofia Grace and Georgia Grace. They married on September 6, 1997. She has also
appeared on tv, in movies, and on stage many times with her husband, such as on
the TV show Sports Night and in the movie Magnolia. The couple have become the
subject of a running gag on the satirical news show The Colbert Report, in which
the couple are regularly referenced as representing the greatest of today's celebrity
couples in a culture obsessed with celebs. Colbert refers to the couple as "Filliam
H. Muffman", a play on the current trend by media types to combine the names
of major celebrity couples, in the mold of "Bennifer", "Brangelina"
and "TomKat." The segment is a fan favourite, especially because Colbert
often breaks character by bursting into laughter.
In 2005, Huffman revealed she suffered from both anorexia and bulimia in her late teens and twenties. At the height of her bulimia she would purge up to six times a day. Her weight dropped to 98 lbs, her periods stopped, and she was too weak to go jogging. However, with therapy and upon meeting Macy she managed to overcome those conditions.
Filmography
1988:
Things Change as The Wheel of Fortune Girl
1990: Reversal of Fortune as Minnie,
Dershowitz's Student Staff
1991: Golden Years as Terry Spann
1993: The
X-Files - "Ice" as Dr. Nancy Da Silva
1995: Hackers as Prosecuting
Attorney
1997: The Spanish Prisoner as Pat McCune
1999: Magnolia as Cynthia
2003: House Hunting as Sheila
2004: Raising Helen as Lindsay Davis
2004:
Christmas with the Kranks as Merry
2005: Transamerica as Sabrina 'Bree' Osbourne
2007: Georgia Rule as Lilly
2008: The Politician's Wife
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