List of Desperate Housewives characters
Specifically, the series follows four protagonists and Mary Alice's friends, Susan Mayer (Teri Hatcher), Lynette Scavo (Felicity Huffman), Bree Van de Kamp (Marcia Cross), and Gabrielle Solis (Eva Longoria).
[1][2] Cherry named the characters after ABC journalist Bob Woodruff and his wife, Lee,[1][6] and based them on his own experiences and interactions with neighbors as a gay man.
Chuck Vance (Jonathan Cake) is introduced in the seventh season as the investigator in charge of keeping an eye on Felicia Tilman who has moved back onto the lane.
Bree comes to volunteer at Ben's soup kitchen, and helps him get the right to build his houses for the poor in the woods, but she later finds out that it is the same place that the girls buried Alejandro.
[citation needed] Renee waits for another proposal from Ben and when he finally pops the question, he gets arrested as the police found Alejandro's body at his construction site.
[citation needed] George Williams (Roger Bart) is a pharmacist who begins a relationship with Bree Van de Kamp after she discovers her husband Rex's extramarital affair with the neighborhood prostitute, Maisy Gibbons.
[citation needed] After the five-year jump in the Season 4 finale, Dylan leaves a message for Katherine saying she has just returned from Paris, where her fiancé proposed under the Eiffel Tower.
[17] M.J. becomes the target of a murder scheme when Dave Williams wants revenge for Susan for killing his wife and daughter in a car accident several years earlier.
Noah Taylor (Bob Gunton) is Dierdre's father who holds a vast fortune and heavy influence over several police officers in the city.
When Mike awakes from his coma, Ida's nephew, Dr. Lee Craig (Terry Bozeman), tells her about this, and she starts spreading the news around Wisteria Lane.
[32] Although Jenkins did not appear onscreen until the first-season finale, which was filmed in April 2005, she was cast in the fall of 2004 because earlier episodes required photographs of the Deirdre character.
Justin is heartbroken when he finds out Andrew is planning to move to Rhode Island with his grandparents, and when Bree asks him why, he replies his parents kicked him out when they first heard he was gay.
After revealing that she knows everything, Felicia tells Paul to leave town for good or she will expose Zach's true identity and the fact that he murdered Martha.
Paul breaks free, quickly pushes Felicia off Susan and into the wall, where he begins to strangle her; a scene eerily similar to Martha's death.
"[40] Entertainment Weekly's Ann Hodgman criticized Warren's four-episode storyline in the first season, opining: "Every time she's on screen ... the show devolves into generic sitcom and becomes an old Bewitched episode where Endora drops in uninvited.
Next time she walks in, the place is in chaos, as it is found out Stu threatened a lawsuit against the firm and they paid him off to settle, Ed to fire the majority of staff, including Nina, and promotes Lynette to her position.
Her water breaks at Bree's wedding and she looks quite guilty after giving birth to a black baby boy because Solises' embryo had been accidentally switched during the implant.
[45] When Mike awakens from his coma with a case of retrograde amnesia, he rejects Susan's attempts to rekindle their romance;[46] as a result, she begins dating Ian once more.
[citation needed] In the fourth season, Gabrielle tells Victor that she is not happy and must know where she stands with him, and she suggests they go away for a week together, but he refuses due to his tight schedule.
[citation needed] In "Boom Crunch", Celia is attending the Christmas block party on Wisteria Lane, and is nearly struck by a crashing plane, when Lynette pulls her out of the way, so she is taken to the hospital.
[72] While reviewing the fifth season, TV Guide's Matt Roush commented the introduction of Harold, as well as other new cast members, "make Wisteria Lane once again an irresistible place to revisit.
The surgery does not go as expected, and the baby Lynette was going to name Patrick (Zayne Emory as a teenager and Anthony Traina as an adult in hypothetical flashforwards) does not survive.
Roy plays a vital role in the two hours season finale, by advising Tom on telling Lynette how much he loves her, and later by contacting Trip Weston to ask her to get some music for Karen, which impresses Bree.
On the other hand, since he was a child, Eddie has had a friendly relationship with the women on Wisteria Lane: Mary Alice befriended Barbara after Eddie's father left his family; Gabrielle let him unpack boxes in her house when she first moved in; Bree gave him some love advice, unaware his affections would be towards her daughter Danielle; Lynette tried to include him in the Scavo family's game night to help him fit in; and Susan paid for him to attend an artist's seminar to encourage his artistic ability.
[citation needed] Mitzi Kinsky (Mindy Sterling) is a resident on Wisteria Lane living at 4347, the house formerly owned by Ida Greenberg, who moved in sometime during the five years between the fourth and fifth seasons.
Mitzi also tells Angie that she doesn't care about humanity because she has a dead husband, a son who's "shooting blanks", and an estranged daughter who "likes the ladies".
[citation needed] Robin Gallagher (Julie Benz) is a stripper at Double D's, a strip club left to Susan when her ex-husband, Karl Mayer, is killed in the plane crash.
A friendly, but troubled and sensitive woman, Beth met Paul while writing to him in prison where he was serving time for the apparent murder of Felicia Tilman.
[citation needed] Trip Weston (Scott Bakula) is a criminal lawyer who defends Bree after she is accused of the murder of Alejandro Perez (aka Ramon Sanchez).
Besides that, Trip started to defend his client in court, until Karen McCluskey confirmed to everybody (and lied, because neighbour women agreed to take care of her) that she killed Gabrielle's step-father.
