Felicity Huffman trivia: 65 exciting facts about the actress!

Felicity Huffman is a film, stage and tv actress who came to prominence with her role in teh tv series Desperate Housewives!

Her career has been through many faces! So let’s find out more things about her!

1. Her full name is Felicity Kendall Huffman
2. She was born on December 9, 1962
3. She is an American film, stage, and television actress
4. She is best known for her role as Lynette Scavo on the ABC TV series Desperate Housewives
5. Felicity Huffman began her acting career in theatre and in the 1990s
6. She has also made many supporting roles in film and television
7. She starred as Dana Whitaker in the ABC comedy-drama Sports Night from 1998 to 2000
8. The show earned her a Golden Globe Award nomination
9. For Desperate Housewives she earned the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series
10. For the debut season of the series
11. And three Screen Actors Guild Awards
12. And three consecutive Golden Globe nominations
13. Felicity Huffman drew critical praise for her performance as a transgender woman in the independent film Transamerica
14. The role earned her a Golden Globe Award, Independent Spirit Award, National Board of Review
15. And an Academy Award nomination for Best Actress
16. Felicity Huffman has also starred in such films as Reversal of Fortune (1990), The Spanish Prisoner (1997), Magnolia (1999), Path to War (2002), Georgia Rule (2007), Phoebe in Wonderland (2008), Rudderless (2014), and Cake (2014)
17. From 2015 to 2017, she starred in a third ABC series
18. The anthology crime drama American Crime
19. For which she received critical acclaim
20. Including three Primetime Emmy Award nominations, two Golden Globe nominations and a Screen Actors Guild nomination
21. On March 12, 2019, Felicity Huffman was arrested in connection with an alleged nationwide college entrance exam cheating scandal
22. She was charged with conspiracy to commit mail fraud and honest services mail fraud
23. She was released on $250,000 bail
24. Felicity Huffman was born in Bedford, New York, into a wealthy family
25. She was the daughter of Grace Valle and Moore Peters Huffman
26. Her father was a banker and partner at Morgan Stanley
27. Her parents divorced a year after her birth
28. She was raised by both of them
29. When she was a young teenager, she discovered that her biological father was Roger Tallman Maher
30. He was a family friend
31. She has six sisters, Mariah, Betsy, Grace, Isabel, Jessie, Jane and a brother, Moore Jr.
32. In the 1970s her mother left New York
33. She bought property in Snowmass, Colorado
34. There Felicity and her siblings spent their youth
35. Her great-grandfather was Gershom Moore Peters
36. She was a founder of the Peters Cartridge Company
37. Also, she was a prominent Baptist minister, author of The Master
38. Another great-grandfather, Frederick Berthold Ewing, graduated from Yale University and became a prominent St. Louis businessman
39. Her great-great-grandfather was Joseph Warren King
40. She was founder of the King Mills Powder Company
41. She has German, English, Scots-Irish, Scottish, French-Canadian, and Irish ancestry
42. Felicity Huffman attended The Putney School
43. It is a private boarding high school in Putney, Vermont
44. She graduated from Interlochen Arts Academy in Michigan in 1981
45. She attended New York University, Circle in the Square Theatre School
46. And the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London, England
47. Felicity Huffman made her debut on stage in 1982
48. In the 1980s and 1990s she worked as a rule on stage productions
49. In 1988, she debuted on Broadway in the role as Karen in David Mamet’s play Speed the Plow
50. In 1995, Huffman won Obie Award for her performance in the play The Cryptogram by David Mamet
51. In 1999 she starred in the premiere of David Mamet’s play Boston Marriage
52. It was about the daringly intimate relationship between two turn-of-the-century women
53. She took part in many more major theatrical productions
54. Felicity Huffman dated actor William H. Macy on-and-off for 15 years
55. Before they married on September 6, 1997
56. They have two daughters, Sophia and a younger daughter
57. She has appeared on television, in movies, and on stage many times with her husband
58. The couple each received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on March 7, 2012
59. Felicity Huffman identifies as pro-choice
60. She has campaigned for women’s rights on behalf of NARAL
61. In 2005, Felicity Huffman revealed that she had suffered from both anorexia and bulimia in her late teens and twenties
62. Felicity Huffman is the co-author of the self-help book A Practical Handbook for the Boyfriend
63. On March 1, 2012, Felicity Huffman launched What The Flicka
64. It is a website dedicated to women and mothers where she is a regular contributor
65. Her biggest success was the show Desperate Housewives