who plays lynette on desperate housewives?
Felicity Huffman
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 Reindl and Maher based their script on their research into the role of women in the Bible , and compared the pairing of Lara Means and Catherine Black to that of the lead roles in The X @-@ Files , Millennium 's sister show . " Anamnesis " earned an audience of approximately 5 @.@ 2 million households in its initial broadcast , and received mixed responses from television critics . 

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 Lynette interviews for a job in an advertisement firm . Her interviewer , an irritable woman named Nina Fletcher ( Joely Fisher ) , is skeptical of Lynette 's competence after learning that she has four children , but asks her to come back for a final interview with her boss anyway . After Tom throws out his back , Lynette is forced to bring Penny , her toddler , to the second interview . Despite these unusual circumstances , Lynette manages to impress Nina 's boss , Ed Ferrara ( Currie Graham ) , who hires her on the spot . 

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 The series was commissioned by Warner Bros. Television in 2007 as a presentation lasting 14 – 20 minutes . Alex O 'Loughlin , Shannon Lucio , Rade Šerbedžija and Amber Valletta were cast in the lead roles , and Rod Holcomb was hired as director . David Greenwalt joined the staff in May 2007 as showrunner and executive producer with Joel Silver ; however , health reasons forced Greenwalt to leave the series . All of the original actors , apart from the male lead role , were recast in June 2007 , and Sophia Myles , Jason Dohring and Shannyn Sossamon replaced them . With an almost entirely different cast , a retooled , full @-@ length pilot for television audiences was re @-@ shot . 

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 Cole 's first leading role as an actress was as Valentina in the 2009 film The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus . Her other film work includes Passages , a short directed by Shekhar Kapur and There Be Dragons , directed by Roland Joffé . In 2013 Cole founded impossible.com , a website that hosts wishes and requests for assistance . 

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 Desperate Housewives focuses on the lives of several residents of the fictitious street of Wisteria Lane . The suburban neighborhood is shocked by the suicide of Mary Alice Young ( Brenda Strong ) , who seems to have led an ideal domestic life . Mary Alice 's close friends , Susan Mayer ( Teri Hatcher ) , Lynette Scavo ( Felicity Huffman ) , Bree Van de Kamp ( Marcia Cross ) , and Gabrielle Solis ( Eva Longoria ) , struggle to come to terms with the news . Later , Mary Alice 's son , Zach ( Cody Kasch ) , awakens in the middle of the night to find his father , Paul ( Mark Moses ) , unearthing a mysterious chest from the drained swimming pool in their backyard . 
