Felicity Huffman

TV Actress

Felicity Huffman was born in Bedford, New York, United States on December 9th, 1962 and is the TV Actress. At the age of 61, Felicity Huffman biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, movies, TV shows, and networth are available.

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Other Names / Nick Names
Felicity Kendall Huffman, Flicka
Date of Birth
December 9, 1962
Nationality
United States
Place of Birth
Bedford, New York, United States
Age
61 years old
Zodiac Sign
Sagittarius
Networth
$20 Million
Profession
Film Actor, Stage Actor, Television Actor
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Felicity Huffman Height, Weight, Eye Color and Hair Color

At 61 years old, Felicity Huffman has this physical status:

Height
165cm
Weight
53kg
Hair Color
Blonde
Eye Color
Blue
Build
Slim
Measurements
Not Available
Felicity Huffman Religion, Education, and Hobbies
Religion
Christianity
Hobbies
Not Available
Education
The Putney School, Interlochen Arts Academy
Felicity Huffman Spouse(s), Children, Affair, Parents, and Family
Spouse(s)
William H. Macy
Children
2
Dating / Affair
William H. Macy (1997-Present)
Parents
Moore Peters Huffman, Grace née Ewing Valle
Siblings
Mariah Huffman (Older Sister), Betsy Huffman (Older Sister), Grace Huffman (Older Sister), Isabel Huffman (Older Sister), Jessie Huffman (Older Sister), Jane Huffman (1949–2013) (Older Sister), Moore Jr. Huffman (Older Brother)
Other Family
Otto Von Huffman (Paternal Grandfather), Betsy/Betsey King Peters (Paternal Grandmother), William Huffman (Paternal Grand-Grandfather), Emily/Emilie Hivling Huston (Paternal Grand-Grandmother), Gershom Moore Peters, Jr. (Paternal Grand-Grandfather) (Reverend, Baptist Minister), Mary Elizabeth King (Paternal Grand-Grandmother), William Lane/J./C. Ewing (Maternal Grandfather) (Banker), Maria/Marie von Phul Taylor (Maternal Grandmother), Frederick/Frederic Berthold Ewing (Maternal Grand-Grandfather), Jessie Adeline Vallé (Maternal Grand-Grandmother), Henry von Phul Taylor (Maternal Grand-Grandfather), Martha Newton “Mattie” Lindsay (Maternal Grand-Grandmother), Francis Herbert “Frank” Maher (Biological Paternal Grandfather), Grace Brown (Biological Paternal Grandmother), John Maher (Biological Paternal Grand-Grandfather), Anna/Annie M. Tallman (Biological Paternal Grand-Grandmother), Frederick/Fred Solyman Brown (Biological Paternal Grand-Grandfather), Effie Grace Wooster (Biological Paternal Grand-Grandmother)
Felicity Huffman Career

Huffman made her debut on stage in 1982 and in the 1980s and 1990s worked as a rule on stage productions. In 1988, she debuted on Broadway in the role as Karen in David Mamet's play Speed the Plow. In 1995, Huffman won Obie Award for her performance in the play The Cryptogram by David Mamet. In 1999 she 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.

Huffman debuted on the big screen in 1988 with a small role in Mamet's film Things Change. Two years later, she appeared as Minnie, a Harvard law school student in the courtroom drama Reversal of Fortune. Her other credits include 1992 thriller Quicksand: No Escape with Donald Sutherland and Tim Matheson, The Water Engine opposite William H. Macy, and supporting roles on The Heart of Justice (1992), Hackers (1995), Harrison: Cry of the City (1996) and The Underworld (1997).

Huffman starred on the television mini-series Golden Years, based on the novel by Stephen King in 1991. In 1994, she 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. During the 1990s, she appeared mostly in guest roles on such shows as The X-Files, Early Edition, Chicago Hope and Law & Order. In 1997, she starred in Mamet's film The Spanish Prisoner.

From 1998 to 2000, she portrayed Dana Whitaker in the series Sports Night, for which she received several awards and nominations, including a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Television Series Musical or Comedy. After the completion of Sports Night, she gave birth to her first child and soon returned to work. In 2001, she starred on the not picked up CBS pilot Heart Department In 2003, she starred in Showtime's miniseries Out of Order.

In 1999, she appeared in the Paul Thomas Anderson's ensemble drama Magnolia and television adaptation of 1938 movie A Slight Case of Murder along with William H. Macy. In 2002 she 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. She also starred in Snap Decision (2001) with Mare Winningham, Raising Helen (2004) as Kate Hudson's character's older sister, and Christmas with the Kranks (2004), as the best friend of Jamie Lee Curtis's character.

After a recurring role on the NBC sitcom Frasier, Huffman landed a leading role in an ABC comedy series Desperate Housewives, co-starring with Marcia Cross, Teri Hatcher, and Eva Longoria. Huffman won an Emmy Award for her work on Desperate Housewives (Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series) in 2005, 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. A report in November 2010 suggested that Huffman, along with co-star Teri Hatcher, would be quitting Desperate Housewives, but ABC denied the claim. The series ended in May 2012, after eight seasons.

In 2005, 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 now a troubled teen hustler on the run. Huffman's performance in Transamerica was praised by many critics and garnered her a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress, as well as nominations for Best Actress (Screen Actors Guild) and Best Actress (Academy Awards), and several other awards and nominations. Huffman is now a voting member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

In 2007, Huffman starred in Garry Marshall's Georgia Rule with Jane Fonda and Lindsay Lohan, and 2008 on independent drama Phoebe in Wonderland. She made a film, Lesster, as a writer, director and actress in 2010.

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. She said that's why she was eager for a role that's a distinctive departure. After Desperate Housewives finale, Huffman reunited with playwright David Mamet in the comedy play November. The play debuted on September 26 and ended on November 4, 2012. In 2012, she also appeared in the ensemble cast independent movie, Trust Me, opposite Clark Gregg.

On February 15, 2013, Huffman signed on for the lead role of the Fox drama pilot Boomerang, directed by Craig Brewer. The show centers on Margie Hamilton, a spy and master of disguise, who is the matriarch of the Hamilton clan, a "briskly professional assassin who can kill and dispose of a suspected terrorist in the afternoon – then switch to wife and mother mode without a hitch". However, Fox did not pick up Boomerang as a new series.

In 2013, Huffman starred in the independent drama Rudderless, and in the adventure film Big Game opposite Samuel L. Jackson. She also starred in another independent drama Stealing Cars, and was cast in the comedy film Zendog. In April 2014 she appeared in the independent film Cake opposite Jennifer Aniston.

In 2014, Huffman was cast as the lead in the ABC anthology legal drama pilot American Crime created by John Ridley. The pilot was picked up to series in May 2014. On October 2, 2014, 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 City Joint Terrorism Task Force. The project was developed for ABC, but was not green-lighted for 2015–16 television season. American Crime debuted on ABC in March, 2015 and Huffman received critical acclaim for her performance as an antagonistic character. Robert Bianco from USA Today said in his review "A triumph for Oscar winner John Ridley, who created, produced and directed American Crime, and a reconfirmation that Felicity Huffman is one of the best actors we have... In no case is that truer than with Huffman's Barb, who is the morally questionable center of the story. Barb is a Lifetime movie heroine: a tough, divorced mother who raised her children alone, and is fighting now to bring her son's murderer to justice. Except this isn't that kind of show, and Barb's battles have not just made her stronger; they've made her hate all the people she's felt she had to fight. Which is why Huffman's gut-wrenching performance is so startling. A bundle of barely concealed fury, Huffman forces us to invest in a woman who thinks her bigotry makes her not just right, but noble."

In 2018, Huffman starred in the second season of the Epix comedy-drama Get Shorty.

In 2019, 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 also starred in the drama film Tammy's Always Dying directed by Amy Jo Johnson. which had its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival in September 2019.

In November 2020, it was reported that Huffman would star in an ABC comedy television series pertaining to minor league baseball.

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Felicity Huffman set to make her acting comeback after college scandal

www.dailymail.co.uk, February 6, 2024
Felicity Huffman will make her UK debut as she begins her acting debut after being arrested for a college admissions fiasco.

'It's like your old life died and you died with it': Felicity Huffman says it has 'been hard' after 'barely working' following her Varsity Blues scandal imprisonment

www.dailymail.co.uk, February 6, 2024
In a recent interview, Felicity Huffman discussed how the Varsity Blues scandal has impacted her, acknowledging that it seems like her 'old life has died'. With The Guardian, the Desperate Housewives actress, 61, who is about to appear in Hir in London's West End as the radical and liberated mother of a transgender boy. Felicity's return to acting after she was banned for 111 days in 2019 after bribing college officials $15,000 to fudge her daughter's SAT ratings.

Felicity Huffman's making her UK debut after an 11-day prison term for the Varsity Blues scandal

www.dailymail.co.uk, February 6, 2024
Felicity Huffman's making her acting debut after being arrested for a college admissions fiasco. After serving 11 days in prison for fraud in 2019, the Desperate Housewives actress, 61, is'still processing,' but she's set to appear in a revival of the Taylor Mac comedy play titled Hir at London's Park Theatre. Felicity will play Paige, the radical and liberated mother of a transgender boy, in one of her first acting roles since the Varsity Blues scandal.
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