Felicity Huffman showed off a fresh new look as she stepped out in New York City on Wednesday.
The actress, aged 62 and known for her role in Desperate Housewives, displayed a radiant complexion as she prepared to appear on Good Morning America, exuding a refreshed look.
She has been diligently working on reviving her acting career, particularly in the wake of her involvement in the Varsity Blues college admissions scandal six years ago. For the occasion, she chose an elegant ensemble consisting of a flowing white coat paired with a white button-up shirt and navy pants.
Her platinum blonde hair was elegantly swept into an updo, with a few strands softly framing her radiant face.Â
Her youthful appearance led to speculation about whether she’s undergone any recent facial cosmetic enhancements.Â
DailyMail.com has reached out to Huffman’s representative for comment.
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Huffman added height to her outfit with a pair of black peep-toe heels. She accessorized with large gold hoops.
The actress appeared on GMA to discuss her role in ‘The Thirteenth Wife: Escaping Polygamy’, a two-part Lifetime movie set to premiere May 31 and June 1.Â
Directed by Michael Nankin, it tells the true story of Rena Chynoweth, an American woman who was involved with a polygamist fundamentalist Mormon group known as the Church of the Lamb of God, led by Ervil LeBaron.
Chynoweth is known for her involvement in the 1977 murder of Rulon C. Allred, the leader of another polygamist group.
Six years after the Varsity Blues scandal led to her imprisonment, Huffman has been actively working to rebuild her career.Â
Last year Huffman opened up about how the scandal has affected her, admitting it feels like her ‘old life has died.’
Huffman, who was at the time preparing to star in Hir in London’s West End as the radical and liberated mother of a transgender son, discussed her comeback with The Guardian.
The play marked Felicity’s comeback to acting after she was imprisoned for 11 days in 2019, after bribing college officials $15,000 to fudge her daughter’s SAT scores.
Discussing how she feels about everyone in the audience knowing the guilty verdict of her trial, Felicity said: ‘I walk into the room with it. I did it. It’s black and white.’
Felicity said she is ‘still processing’ how she is doing after the ordeal, but added that she feels ‘grateful to be here’ and is happy as long as her family are doing well.
The publication reported that Felicity has ‘barely worked’ since she was jailed and reflecting on the change to her career, she said: ‘I did a pilot for ABC recently that didn’t get picked up. It’s been hard.’
‘Sort of like your old life died and you died with it. I’m lucky enough to have a family and love and means, so I had a place to land.’Â
Discussing the reaction she has had since the news of the scandal broke, Felicity said that while some people have been kind to her, others have not.
One person who has supported her is American playwright David Mamet, who wrote an open letter about her incarceration.
David suggested that Felicity should have received the Texas Verdict, which essentially means: not guilty, but don’t do it again.
Felicity said that is was ‘kind and brave’ of David to defend her, but she didn’t admit whether she agreed with his verdict or not.
In December 2023, Felicity finally broke her silence on the scandal, saying she felt she had ‘no option’ but to break the law.
Felicity paid $30,000 in fines and spent 11 days in jail after being charged with fraud.
She had paid Rick Singer $15,000 to alter her daughter Sophia’s SAT scores in order to land her a place at college and was among a group of wealthy, famous parents swept up in the scandal.
Actress Lori Loughlin was also jailed for paying for both her daughters to be accepted into USC.
Lori and husband Mossimo Giuliani had their daughters masquerade as sports stars, propping them up on rowing machines to fudge applications that presented them as athletes.Â
In her first public remarks outside of the courtroom, Felicity told ABC that she thought it was ‘a joke’ when FBI agents turned up at her mansion to arrest her.
‘They came into my home, they woke my daughters up at gunpoint – again, nothing new to the black and brown community – then they put my hands behind my back and handcuffed me.
‘I asked if I could get dressed. I thought it was a hoax. I literally turned to one of the FBI people in a flak jacket and a gun and I go “is this a joke?”‘
Felicity said she regretted the scheme but felt she had no choice at the time because Sophia, who she previously said has a learning disability, would not have been accepted otherwise.
Sophia went on to study drama at Carnegie Mellon.
‘It felt like I had to give my daughter a chance at a future. And so it was sort of like my daughter’s future, which meant I had to break the law,’ she said.
‘I think I feel the people I owe a debt and an apology to is the academic community and to the students and the families that sacrifice and work really hard to get to where they are going legitimately.’
Felicity and her husband William H. Macy hired Singer to help Sophia improve her scores in order to get into college.
She claims the scheme was not obvious at first, but became plain when Singer told them Sophia would not be accepted into any schools without greasing the wheels.
‘After a year, he started to say your daughter is not going to get into any of the colleges that she wants to.’
‘And I believed him. And so when he slowly started to present the criminal scheme, it seems like – and I know this seems crazy at the time – but that was my only option to give my daughter a future.’
‘And I know hindsight is 20/20 but it felt like I would be a bad mother if I didn’t do it.’
‘So – I did it,’ she said.
Sophia was unaware that her parents had paid for someone to alter her test answers after she completed the SATS.
The scheme involved Singer paying off a handful of discreet SAT test supervisors who would inflate students’ scores once they had completed the exam.Â
Singer, the mastermind, was sentenced to three and a half years in prison in January 2023. After 16 months in federal prison, he was released in August 2024.
