Felicity Huffman, Transamerica

One of America's favorite smart funny women, the Emmy-winning Desperate Housewives star Felicity Huffman is enjoying an unexpected triumph playing a man in the final stages of transgender surgery to become a woman. Transamerica has already brought Huffman several acting awards as well as put her in the Best Actress nominee ranks for the Academy Award. Huffman talks about the "lucky" aspects of getting to play Bree in Transamerica, a casting coup that coincided with the beginning of filming for the first season of Desperate Housewives, the series that permanently changed her career profile.

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