Felicity Huffman's Real Name: Felicity Huffman

Quick answer: The actress is known professionally as Felicity Huffman. Biography.com dates her birth to December 9, 1962, in Bedford, New York. The Associated Press later reported her 2019 guilty plea and sentence in a college admissions case.

Real name and early life

Independent publishers identify her under the professional name Felicity Huffman. Biography.com dates the birth to December 9, 1962, in Bedford, New York, says she studied at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London after graduating from high school in 1981, later went to New York University, and later became a founding member of the Atlantic Theater Company, and made her Broadway debut in 1988 in David Mamet's Speed-the-Plow.

Career highlights

Biography.com says she later earned a prominent role on Sports Night, a Golden Globe nomination in 2000 for that series, a leading role as Lynette Scavo on Desperate Housewives, and an Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series in 2005, and later received an Academy Award nomination for Transamerica (2005). The Associated Press independently identifies her as a Desperate Housewives star, records the 2005 Emmy, and says she was nominated for an Oscar for Transamerica. Biography.com also records later work including Georgia Rule (2007), Cake (2014), and American Crime, for which it says she received Emmy and Golden Globe nominations.

Conviction in college admissions case

The Associated Press reported that Huffman pleaded guilty on May 13, 2019, in federal court in Boston. A later Associated Press report on her sentencing said she pleaded guilty in May to a single count of conspiracy and fraud, and that on September 13, 2019, U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani sentenced her to 14 days in prison for paying $15,000 to rig her daughter's SAT scores. That report said she also had to pay a $30,000 fine and perform 250 hours of community service. Biography.com independently records the September 13 sentence as 14 days in prison, a $30,000 fine, 250 hours of community service, and a year of probation.

Name notes for searchers

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