Felicity Huffman RETURNS to TV for first time since college admissions scandal ... trends now
Felicity Huffman is making her return to TV for the first time since the college admissions scandal which saw her jailed in 2019.
The Desperate Housewives star, 61, who served 11 days in prison for fraud in 2019, will star in the second season of Criminal Minds spin-off Evolution.
Huffman will guest star as 'Dr. Jill Gideon, a brilliant biological psychiatrist, who agrees to help the FBI’s Behavioral Analysis Unit investigate a murderous conspiracy theory.
Per a synopsis: 'Jill is reluctant to return to the bureau’s elite team given her complicated history with David Rossi (Joe Mantegna) and her dead ex-husband, Jason Gideon (previously played by original series star Mandy Patinkin), but soon realizes her specific skill set could help them uncover another clue to the elusive Gold Star mystery.'
She also recently starred in a revival of the Taylor Mac comedy play titled Hir at London's Park Theatre.
Felicity Huffman is making her return to TV for the first time since the college admissions scandal which saw her jailed in 2019 (pictured 2023)
Huffman will guest star as 'Dr. Jill Gideon, a brilliant biological psychiatrist, who agrees to help the FBI’s Behavioral Analysis Unit investigate a murderous conspiracy theory'
'I did a pilot for ABC recently that didn't get picked up. It's been hard,' she told The Guardian.
'Sort of like your old life died and you died with it. I'm lucky enough to have a family and love and means, so I had a place to land.'
She was nominated for an Academy Award in 2006 for playing a trans woman in the drama Transamerica, a role she said she 'wouldn't be able to do now' amid the debate around authentic casting.
'I think we should reflect the audience and that's got to include everybody. There has been such inequity for so long and now the pendulum must swing the other way. But I hope it leads to a situation where anyone can play anything,' she said.
Felicity added in a statement to West End Theatre: 'I’m honoured to get to work with Steve Kunis and to perform at the Park Theatre.
'As an ardent fan of Taylor Mac I’m so thrilled I get to act in one of Taylor’s brilliant plays.
'I studied in London back in the palaeolithic era and it has been a dream of mine to come back here and work someday. I’m a lucky gal.'
Hir will run at the Park Theatre from February 15 until March 16.
In December last year, Felicity finally broke her silence on the scandal, saying she felt she had 'no option' but to break the law.
Felicity paid $30,000 in fines and spent 11 days in jail after being charged with fraud.
The Desperate Housewives star said she is 'still processing' after serving 11 days in prison for fraud in 2019, but recently starred in a revival of the Taylor Mac comedy play Hir (pictured at federal court in Boston in 2019)
The star played Lynette Scavo in Desperate Housewives which ran from 2004-2012
She had paid Rick Singer $15,000 to alter her daughter Sophia's SAT scores in order to land her a place at college and was
