Brenda Strong: (Brenda on her new muse Family In Hiding) It's about a single mother who is trying her best to keep her life together. She has two teenage kids, a son, and a daughter. She ends up in a very difficult situation when she witnesses a murder one day after work. There's a drug lord who decides to kill a district attorney — I'm on my way to my car and I see [the drug lord] kill him in cold blood. I go to the police, and I don't realize that what I'm getting into is a witness protection program. Within 24 hours, my entire life is turned upside down, including my children's lives. We're given new identities, stripped of our old ones, and we're on the road and on the run. That's within the first eight pages [of the script], so basically it's hit the ground running.
Brenda Strong: (Brenda on Season Two of Desperate Housewives) I think it was harder, certainly, to arrest the audience in season 2, because season 1 was so complete of a storyline, with the beginning — my suicide — and then the finale, with the solving of the mystery of why I killed myself. I think it was such a neat package that to then start season 2 with a whole new perspective, it's difficult to keep that momentum. I think it will take a little bit of time to find that, and I think they certainly did, in my opinion, find it. I thought season 2 was terrific, particularly in some of the characters who came forward, like Richard Burgi [who played Susan's loutish ex-husband]. There was some really fun, terrific work being done.
Brenda Strong:My favorite moment was when Julie walked in on Carl and Susan in bed and saw her parents and got so grossed out. She went "ewww" and went running down the hallway and they both came running after her. I thought it was such a great moment. You never see in divorces where the feelings of a child are, "No, don't get back together." It is usually the opposite.(talking about her favourite moment on season two on desperate housewives)
Brenda Strong:I would like to play an assassin in '24.' I think that would be fun because than I could get 24 episodes of one single day. I would get to be on camera for the entire season.(talking about a character she'd like to be one day)
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She has two yoga videos available, Yoga for Fertility and Yoga for Partners.
She appeared in Billy Crystal's "You Look Marvelous" music video.
She has one child.
Both in "Everwood" (2002) and "Desperate Housewives" (2004), she plays a family mother whose death in the pilot of the series sets the events of the show in motion. She reappears throughout the shows in flashback scenes and dream sequences.
She also worked with Felicity Huffman on the short-lived Sports Night program created by Aaron Sorkin of west wing.
Replaced Sheryl Lee who was originally cast as Mary Alice Young for the ABC series Desperate Housewives (2004) in its pilot episode.
She was Miss Arizona 1980 in the 1981 Miss America pageant.
Played a psychiatrist in Get a Job (1998), Terror Tract (2000) and in an episode of "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation" (2000). All three times, her patient was a troubled young boy.
Graduated from Sandy High School in Sandy, Oregon.
Brenda went to Arizona State University and got a bachelor's degree in Musical Theater.
Brenda is a certified yoga instructor and has her own studio in LA.
The producers of Desperate Housewives had their eyes closed during Brenda's audition of Mary Alice. They wanted to see if she had a good comic voice.
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