Felicity Huffman

Character: Lynette Scavo

She earned an Academy Award nomination for her stunning performance in Transamerica, as well as a Golden Globe Award and Independent Spirit Award for the same role. She has also been honored with an Emmy and a Screen Actors Guild Award for Best Lead Actress in a Comedy Series for her role on Desperate Housewives.

On the small screen Huffman was seen in 2004 in the television movie Reversible Errors, with William H. Macy, Tom Selleck and Monica Potter.

Huffman is a founding member of the Atlantic Theater Company, an off-Broadway theater company where she has been featured in numerous plays, including Dangerous Corner, Shaker Heights and The Joy of Definitely Going Somewhere.

Huffman resides in Los Angeles with her husband, actor/director William H. Macy.

Marcia Cross

Character: Bree Hodge

In 2005 and 2006 she was nominated for a Golden Globe Award in the Best Actress category. She was also nominated for an Emmy in the Best Actress in a Comedy Series category in 2005.

Prior to her role on Desperate Housewives, she starred as Dr. Linda Abbott on The WB's critically-acclaimed series, Everwood. She is also well known for her role as Dr. Kimberly Shaw on the hit drama Melrose Place.

On stage, Cross performed in The Merchant of Venice at the Folger Theatre, La Ronde at the Williamstown Theater Festival, Twelfth Night at the Hartford Stage Company, and in The Two Gentlemen of Verona at the Old Globe Theatre.

Aside from her successful career as an actress, Cross has also made time to continue her education, earning a master's degree in psychology.

Vanessa Williams

Character: Renee Perry

She has sold millions of albums worldwide and achieved critical acclaim as an actress on stage, film and TV.

Williams starred for four seasons as Wilhelmina Slater on the critically-acclaimed hit series, Ugly Betty, for which she won or was nominated for numerous individual and ensemble awards, including the Emmy, SAG Award, Golden Globe and NAACP Image Awards.

Her albums The Right Stuff, The Comfort Zone and The Sweetest Days earned multiple Grammy nominations and have yielded such classic hits as Save the Best for Last, Dreamin, Work to Do and Love Is, and the Academy Award-winning single Colors of the Wind, from Pocahontas, among many others.

In 1994 Williams took Broadway by storm when she replaced Chita Rivera in Kiss of the Spider Woman, winning the hearts of critics and becoming a box-office sensation. She garnered rave reviews and was nominated for a Tony Award for the 2002 revival of Into the Woods.

In 2007 Williams achieved a career pinnacle with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for her accomplishments as a performer. Her charitable endeavors are many and varied, embracing and supporting such organizations as Special Olympics and many others.

Ricardo Antonio Chavira

Character: Carlos Solis

A native of South Texas, Ricardo Antonio Chavira was born in Austin and raised in San Antonio, where he graduated from Robert E. Lee High School, now the Performing Arts School, and Incarnate Word College.

He received his MFA from the highly regarded UC San Diego's Professional Actor Training Program in 2000, and moved to Los Angeles shortly thereafter. Since then he has worked consistently in all areas of the entertainment industry - film, television and theatre.

Doug Savant

Character: Tom Scavo

Savant is no stranger to “appointment television,” having gained his first major success on Melrose Place as Matt Fielding, one of television’s first openly gay characters.

On the big screen Savant has starred in such films as Masquerade, opposite Rob Lowe, Hanoi Hilton and Red Surf, opposite George Clooney.

His other television appearances include such hit shows as 24, According to Jim and CSI: Crime Scene Investigation.

James Denton

Character: Mike Delfino

He landed the role of George Gibbs in a Nashville production of Our Town, got fine reviews, but thought there was a more solid career in selling advertising. He did that in Tennessee and then in North Carolina for four years before taking off for Chicago to risk everything to become a professional actor.

He soon was accepted as one of Chicago's brightest stars. After earning a key casting when the Untouchables series came to town to film, Denton was drawn to Los Angeles, where his strong theatre reputation had preceded him, and he was locked in with choice turns in film, on TV and on the stage.