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EspañolLIST OF DESPERATE HOUSEWIVES CHARACTERS
Following is a comprehensive list of every recurring character in the ABC television series '''Desperate Housewives'''. Every relative of the main families who has appeared in at least one episode is also included.
The article covers episodes 1 to 69.
Susan lives at 4353 Wisteria Lane.
'Susan Mayer' (Teri Hatcher)
'Mike Delfino' (James Denton)
'Karl Mayer' (Richard Burgi)
'Julie Mayer' (Andrea Bowen)
'Sophie Bremmer' (Lesley Ann Warren): Susan's mother, with a taste for men and a very dramatic emotional life. After having Susan believing that her father had died a war hero, she admitted to her daughter - on her 39th birthday - that he in fact was a married working man, Addison Prudy.
Sophie was first seen in the series when she came to stay with Susan after having left her longtime boyfriend Morty, claiming that he was abusing her. Susan eventually managed to make the two reconcile as she didn't want to have her mother living with her. In the episode ''Sunday In the Park With George'' they got engaged and Morty later became Sophie's fourth husband in her fifth marriage.
'Morty Flickman' (Bob Newhart): Sophie Bremmer's current husband - formerly known as her long time boyfriend - and Susan's latest step-father. He owns an expanding pancake diner.
Morty first appears in ''Children Will Listen'' when Sophie makes Susan help her with the conflict between the two of them. It fails and the two end up fighting with Susan having to break it up. He appears once again in ''Sunday in the Park with George'', where he proposes to Sophie, and two decide to marry shortly after.
'Addison Prudy' (Paul Dooley): Susan's biological father, he works at a feed supply store in town. After years of not knowing his daughter, he finally is approached by Susan, and has a heart attack when she informs him about their relationship. While in the hospital he asks her to leave because he does not want his wife Carol to know since he has cheated on her many times. Later, Carol finds out about them and Addison tells Susan they'll have more time to bond after he's sorted out his marriage.
'Carol Prudy' (Joyce Van Patten): The jealous wife of Addison Prudy. When she came to believe that Susan and Addison had an affair, she found out the truth of Addison's and Susan's relationship.
'Dana Taylor' (Cody Kasch) - see Zach Young
'Deirdre Taylor (deceased)' (Jolie Jenkins): Mike Delfino's deceased ex-fiancé and mother of his son Dana (aka. Zach Young). She gave birth to her son while addicted to heroine, and gave up her son to be raised by Mary Alice and Paul Young (then known as Angela and Todd Forrest). When she years later came to get her son back, she was stabbed to death by Mary Alice, and chopped up and stuffed into a toy chest.
'Noah Taylor (deceased)' (Bob Gunton)
'Kendra Taylor' (Heather Stephens): The older sister of Deirdre Taylor, and the oldest daughter of Noah Taylor. Kendra first appeared in episode 7 ''Anything You Can Do'', where she came to check up on Mike's investigation and the progress of his work, making Susan and Edie think she was an ex-girlfriend in the act. Susan expected to come into conflict with Kendra over Mike, but it never happened. Edie would have been rooting for Susan, as she thought it would be easier to steal Mike from her than from the glamorous Kendra. After settling in at Mike's place, Kendra made it very clear that she cared for Noah's inheritance money, and only herself when she told Mike to stop looking for her own sister.
'Bongo' (uncredited dog): Mike's late wife's dog. Before his wife died, she asked him to take good care of Bongo. He choked on Susan's earring after licking gravy off her ear. His most recent appearance is episode 2-8, ''The Sun Won't Set'' when he senses Caleb Applewhite about to make another break-in. His reaction caused Mike to investigate his strange behavior. He tackled Caleb and got him arrested thanks to Bongo's senses.
'Detective Copeland' (Conor O'Farrell): The investigator of Mrs. Huber's murder who strongly believed Mike was the culprit. He questions Susan twice about Mike and she becomes his alibi by saying they slept together the night Mrs. Huber was killed. He mentioned to her that people do stupid things when they're in love and that he'd know because he's been married 4 times.
'Detective Sullivan' (Nick Chinlund): a corrupt police officer in charge of the Martha Huber murder case and an underling on the Deirdre Taylor murder case. He is actually a puppet and confidante of Noah Taylor. The eyes and ears of the notorious criminal underworld Taylor family inside the Fairview police. He first appears in ''Impossible'' where Noah pushes him to reveal Mike Delfino's case file to Susan at her interrogation for the Martha Huber murder. They are successful, she takes the bait, and they break up. This was arranged solely to eliminate a "time distortion" in order to find Deirdre more quickly. He appears once more in episode 19, ''Live Alone and Like It''. Noah bribes Sullivan to get Deirdre's case file to Mike and to get Mike off the Martha Huber murder case. The two meet in an underground parking garage where the two exchange the case file. Sullivan has a bitter attitude towards Mike. Sullivan makes a comment about how it is wrong for him to get off with a short prison time for 5 and a half years since he was a "cop-killer". Mike strikes back attacking him for being hypocritical since Sullivan was participating in it, and getting himself off the Huber murder case. Sullivan repays his backlash with a gun and two fists to the face, giving Mike a black eye. Sullivan makes a comment, "this file was misplaced" understand, if even a whisper of this gets traced back to me, there will be one less cop-killer on the street." Sullivan slams down the case file and walks off. Mike gets it and drives home, seeing Paul Young on a purchase list for the Toy Chest setting him to his target.
'Ruth Ann Heisel' (Dagney Kerr): A nurse at the Sacred Heart Hospital who never passed her nurse exam. It was mentioned by Mary Alice through narrating that she dreamt of one day leaving her husband. It was never determined if she did or not. Ruth first appears in the Solis storyline on ''There Won't Be Trumpets'' when she finds Juanita tumbling down the stairs in the hospital. Ruth lies to Gabrielle by saying Juanita died in her coma but felt guilty about it. She disappears until ''There's Something About a War'' she tells Susan that her splenectomy will be Dr. Ron's first one operating. Her most recent appearance is ''There Is No Other Way'' when she finds out about Susan's marriage and tells Ron.
'Dr. Ron McCready' (Jay Harrington): A surgeon at Sacred Heart Hospital, Ron has become Susan's love interest midway through the second season, despite a somewhat clumsy beginning to their relationship. A difference in age between the two has been shown as a possible issue. (In reality, Jay Harrington, the actor portraying the character, is slightly less than 7 years younger than Teri Hatcher.) They date anyway. When he begins to perform Susan's splenectomy, he tells her that he loves her. Susan responds by saying "Aww, that's so sweet. I love Mike." At that moment, Nurse Heisel tells him about her marriage with Karl. Susan tells Ron she was probably just hallucinating about a guy that didn't exist, and that she just married Karl for health insurance. The second part was true. Their relationship goes smoothly until Karl makes a clog and tells Mike to come over, as a plan to break up Susan and Ron. After Ron finds out she was lying, he broke up with her and told Edie about their marriage.
'Dr. Cunningham' (Tim Monsion): Dr. Ron's colleague. Was originally going to proceed Susan's splenectomy, but as he had his arm broken, he instead came to assist Ron.
'Ian Hainsworth' (Dougray Scott)
'Jane Hainsworth (deceased)' (Cecily Gambrell, uncredited): Ian's first wife who was put into a coma after falling off a horse. Susan accidentally spilled a strawberry smoothie all over her. Jane died after her blood pressure dropped while she was suffering from a fever.
'Jeff and Renee' (Peter Jason and Mary Margaret Lewis): Jane's parents. A date between Susan and Ian became awkward when they ran into them at a fancy restaurant. They also appeared at Jane's funeral.
'Detective Ridley' (Ernie Hudson): The detective who's investigating the murder of Monique Polier. When Mike's phone number turns up on Monique's hand Ridley's eyes turns to him, and he manages to get a search warrant for his house. However, he doesn't manage to find anything to build a case on, but later he catches Mike while he's burying his tool box, and arrests him for Monique's murder.
Susan then temporarily have him suspect Orson, but as Alma Hodge later is found dead with a suicide note, the case is considered solved. Mike and Ridley part ways with a handshake.
'Jerry' (Rick Fitts): A coroner. He first appeared on episode 3-2, ''It Takes Two'' when he informed Detective Ridley that it would be impossible to look up dental records on the corpse they found (Monique) because her teeth were pulled out. His next and most recent appearance was episode 3-5, ''Nice She Ain't'' when he informed Detective Ridley that there was a phone number on Monique's hand, none other than Mike Delfino's.
'Detective Collins' (David Fabrizio): Ridley's co-worker at the Monique Polier case.
'Nurse Marcy' (Felice Heather Monteith): A nurse at the Fairview Memorial Hospital. Mike became one of her patients.
'Nurse Parker' (Wendy Worthington): A new nurse at the Fairview Memorial Hospital who was tricked into believing that Edie was Mike's girlfriend. After the death of Jane Hainesworth she also returned her belongings to Ian.
'Dr. Maggie Berman' (Miriam Flynn): Mike's hypnotherapist after suffering from amnesia.
Lynette lives at 4355 Wisteria Lane.
'Lynette Scavo' (Felicity Huffman)
'Tom Scavo' (Doug Savant)
'Preston and Porter Scavo' (Brent and Shane Kinsman)
'Parker Scavo' (Zane Huett)
'Penny Scavo' (Dylan and Jordan Cline (Season 1), Darien and Kerstin Pinkerton (Season 2 and 3) - all uncredited): Lynette and Tom's daughter and youngest child. She has her first line in season three episode ''God, That's Good''. Lynette wanted Penny to be Gabrielle's flower girl at her wedding, but due to her having "zero charisma", Gabrielle chose Victors housekeeper's daughter who resembled herself.
'Kayla Huntington' (Rachel Fox)
'Stella Wingfield' (Polly Bergen): Lynette's mother, with a history of heavy drinking and a troubled relationship with Lynette, who claims Stella was violent with her and her two younger sisters. When Stella had breast cancer, it was Lynette, then 13 years old, who took care of the household and her sisters, and she told her mother that the cancer was God's punishment for her actions.
'Rodney Scavo' (Ryan O'Neal): Tom's father, married to his mother Allison. Rodney comes for a visit to see the family and Lynette winds up walking in on him with a woman who is not his wife. His visit spurs a frank conversation between the Scavos about commitment and fidelity. Tom confided in him that he has a secret, one that Lynette doesn't know about, revealing that he may not be the perfect husband - later it turns out to be the fact that during the last months he'd been working with his old girlfriend, Annabel Foster.
'Nora Huntington (deceased)' (Kiersten Warren)
'Natalie "Nat" Klein' (Nike Doukas): Lynette's old boss at her former job. Nat first appeared on the pilot episode when Lynette runs into her at the supermarket. She asked Lynette how she likes being a mother. Lynette almost told her "no," but she instead told her that it's the best job she's ever had. Her most recent appearance is ''Goodbye for Now'' when she has lunch with Lynette. Lynette, trying to get Tom and Annabel apart, told her that she should consider hiring Tom. Nat declines the suggestion and instead tells Lynette that she needs someone like her; a shark. Lynette then tells her she could get a shark for her and tells her about Annabel. Annabel gets a call from the company offering her a job, but she instead takes Peterson's offer of taking Duggen's old job.
'Headmaster Lentz' (Harry S. Murphy): The headmaster of Barcliff Academy the well reputed school of the Scavo twins, and later Parker as well.
'Mrs. Truesdale' (Shannon O'Hurley): One of the teachers at Barcliff. Was involved in the in the planning of school's stage version of Little Red Riding Hood, and later had problems with Parker and his imaginary friend Mrs. Mulberry.
'Jordana Geist' (Stacey Travis): Lynette's friend who has kids with ADD. She is able to work her incredibly busy life by taking their ADD medication. She tells Lynette her little secret and Lynette starts doing the same thing. When she runs out of pills, she asks Jordana for more, but Jordana says no because her sister is coming to visit and she needs all the energy she can get. Lynette gets mad and storms away. In season three she is seen gossiping and participating in Traver McLain's birthday party.
'Dan Peterson' (Edward Edwards): The boss of Tom's old firm. He didn't give Tom a promotion because Lynette begged that he wouldn't because he would be away too much and her family would be hurt. During Tom's final confrontation with him, he is openly rude to him and tells him he makes crappy decisions on a daily basis. Tom quits after that.
'Janie Peterson' (Elizabeth Storm): Dan's wife who has a lot to do with the firm. During a dinner party at the Scavos' she liked Lynette's idea of advertising better than Tom. When Lynette realized Tom's promotion meant that he would be home less often, she begged her to tell Dan that Annabel should get the promotion instead. Tom finds this out and quits. Neither one of the Petersons have been heard from since.
'Claire' (Marla Sokoloff): a nanny who was hired by Lynette to help her take care of her kids. One night, however, she saw a baby-puke stain on the robe she was wearing, so she took it off and threw it into the wash with the rest of the clothes, thus leaving her completely naked. Unfortunately, Tom comes down and catches her as she's trying to get back to her room and talks to her embarrassingly, then goes back up and takes out his arousal of her on Lynette by making love to her. Unfortunately, Claire tells Lynette about it, and Lynette later makes Tom admit he has the hots for her. Eventually, Claire had to be let go when it was apparent that her appearance was continuing to be a distraction.
'Mona Clark' (Maria Cominis): The mother of Joey, a classmate of Porter and Preston. She is seen in the neighborhood at times, and took part in the protest against Art Shephard.
'Annabel Foster' (Melinda McGraw): Tom Scavo's ex-girlfriend. Lynette is extremely jealous of her and has been doing anything she can to break her up from Tom. She gets the promotion of Vice President which Tom was eyeing. No relation with Melanie Foster as far as we know, except that they both lived in Chicago.
'Ed Ferrara' (Currie Graham): The "big boss" of Parcher & Murphy. He first appeared on ''Next'' when he hired Lynette because he liked her. He fires the majority people at the company on ''That's Good, That's Bad'' due to a sexual harassment lawsuit against them. He hires Tom on ''There's Something About a War''. In the following episode, ''Silly People'', he and Tom place bets that Tom could do certain tricks, one of them being eating a donut out of the toilet. Tom became known as "Toilet Boy". Lynette tries to stop all of these games, so Ed tells her if she could eat a package of raw meat, they'll stop. Lynette succeeds and Ed and Tom have had a business-like relationship since. But after having marital problems with his wife Fran, he asks Lynette to send instant messages to her to help him with his sex life. When Fran figures out it wasn't Ed, she tells him to fire the person who wrote the IMs or she'll leave him. He tells her it was Tom, and fires Tom instead.
'Nina Fletcher' (Joely Fisher): Lynette's boss at the Parcher & Murphy ad agency. Nina makes it clear to Lynette on her interview that she despises mothers who put their children above everything else. When Lynette brings Penny to work after Tom has a back problem, Lynette hides the baby with the receptionist. However, this does not go as planned. Lynette then brings baby Penny in and multitasks by changing a diaper and delivering a business plan at the same time. Nina's boss is very impressed and welcomes her aboard. Nina is less welcoming and wants Lynette to be dedicated to her work and not her children. One night, Nina is caught in an affair with Stu (see below) by Lynette and offers to keep silent about it if Nina would be a little nicer on the job. Unfortunately, Nina fires Stu, and Lynette talks to him and ends up uttering something about a lawsuit. 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, forcing people to lose their jobs, including Nina. Nina then explains to Lynette that being nice was one of many luxuries she gave up to keep the firm afloat, and told her that if she thought she wasn't seeing her kids enough before, then she'll see them even less now.
'Stu' (Charlie Babcock): The secretary of Parcher & Murphy. He had an office romance with Nina Fletcher, he then filed a sexual harassment suit against his former employer after Nina fired him so that he wouldn't tell the boss about their affair.
'Pat Ziegler' (Carol Mansell): Stu's replacement as the Partcher & Murphy secretary.
'Jerry' (Mitch Silpa): Ed's assistant at Parcher & Murphy. When he helps Tom carry the sleeping twins outside, Ed thinks that Jerry has a kid when he's carrying Parker.
'Neighborhood man' (Lenny Schmidt): A neighborhood man who never painted his door - thus Karen McCluskey finally painted it for him. Later he participated in the protests against Art Shephard.
'Kim' and 'Tucker' (Kylie Sparks and John Bobek): Teens working at the Scavo Pizzeria.
'Rick Coletti' (Jason Gedrick): A professional chef, hired by Lynette to work at the Scavo Pizzeria. He previously had a cocaine addiction, something that he developed in order to cope with the stress at his former job. From the very beginning Tom is sceptic towards Rick, and as the Scavo's marriage starts to shake, Lynette and Rick get closer.
Rick and Lynette start to have dinners before leaving work at nights, and as this is discovered by Tom from the surveillance tapes following a robbery at the restaurant, Tom confronts Rick. After telling him that Lynette would never leave her family he tells him to quit at the pizzeria.
Inflected by the discussion Rick later tells Lynette that he has fallen in love with her. Lynette effectively fires him, but later cries heavily. Eventually she confesses to Tom that she had fallen for Rick as well, and that she is angry with him for causing Rick's firing.
Bree lives at 4354 Wisteria Lane.
'Bree Hodge' (Marcia Cross)
'Orson Hodge' (Kyle MacLachlan)
'Rex Van De Kamp (deceased)' (Steven Culp)
'Andrew Van De Kamp' (Shawn Pyfrom)
'Danielle Van De Kamp' (Joy Lauren)
'Henry Mason' (Ronny Cox): Bree's father, who was a prosecutor, said the simplest explanation was always the best one. He and his second wife, Eleanor, come for a visit in the second season.
'Eleanor Mason' (Carol Burnett): Bree's stepmother who is a very uptight and proper lady for whom appearances mean everything. A lot of what Bree says comes from this woman. She and her husband, Henry, come for a visit in the second season to mediate between Andrew and Bree. She can be rather critical of Bree, making a comment about her peanut butter cookies. Bree responds by saying, "Those were kick-ass peanut butter cookies".
'Phyllis Van De Kamp' (Shirley Knight): Rex's mother who has a very cold relationship with Bree.
'Gloria Hodge' (Dixie Carter)
'Edwin Hodge (deceased)' (Carl Mueller): Orson's father. Just like his wife Edwin was a deeply religious man. However - after he was exposed to have had an affair with another woman he became depressed and turned to alcohol. One night Orson found him dead in the bathtub with his wrists cut. Everyone thought of it as suicide, and Orson was eventually forced to be put into a mental institution to get rid of his feelings of guilt. Years later, as Orson caught his mother attempting to kill Bree, he came to understand that it was Gloria who had killed his father as well.
'Aunt Fern' (Fiona Hale): Bree mentioned her Aunt Fern who lives in Philadelphia. She also told Bree that even during hard times, the best was always yet to come. She makes an appearance in season 3 when she makes a toast at Orson & Bree's wedding.
'Alma Hodge (deceased)' (Valerie Mahaffey)
'Dr. Albert Goldfine' (Sam Lloyd): Dr. Albert Goldfine is supposedly known as the "number one" marriage counselor in Fairview. He first appears in the second episode: ''Ah, But Underneath'', when Rex and Bree have their first appointment with him. Throughout the whole time, Bree talks "small talk" with Dr. Goldfine and focuses on his jacket the entire time due to her obsessive-compulsive ways. She then returns later, fixes his jacket, and actually goes through with a private session. Goldfine, slightly seduced by her domestic ways, asks Rex the following session, "Regardless of her flaws, have you ever stopped and said thank you for all she does for you around the house?" Dr. Goldfine appears again in the next episode, ''Pretty Little Picture'', where Bree sees a session recording tape labeled with Mary Alice's name. Bree steals it and puts it in her purse, and later shares it with the other housewives. Dr. Goldfine makes an appearance in the fourteenth episode, ''Love is in the Air'', where he encourages Bree to finally ask Rex about his true sexual feelings on domination. He returned in season two to give Bree advice in the aftermath of Rex's death and also to give her advice on George Williams. However, George found out about that the Doctor had been giving Bree advice to take their relationship slowly and promptly stalked him on his exercise path. George then beat up Dr. Goldfine and threw him over a bridge; it was found out later that he had survived. Dr. Goldfine mentioned to Bree that his attacker had a blue bike -- Bree had just seen George with a blue bike earlier that day. This prompts Bree to connect everything together, and she discovers the depths of George's mad obsession.
'Maisy Gibbons' (Sharon Lawrence): A married mother, and respectable member of the Fairview society. Maisy first appears in Lynette's storyline, as the head of Barcliff Academy's acting activities. The two squares off immediately, arguing over political correctness of the play. After an intense power struggle, Lynette finally is able to tell Maisy off, gaining the respect of the mom-clique and becoming one of the head members.
Later on it is revealed that Maisy is the neighborhood prostitute of Fairview. Among her customers is Rex Van De Kamp, whom she helps out with his need of sexual domination. During a sexual act, Rex suffers from a heart attack, and is taken to the hospital by Maisy, resulting in Bree's finding out of their affair. Soon thereafter Maisy is arrested for solicitation, and as her book of customers turns public, so does her relationship with Rex, resulting in the Van De Kamp family temporarily being alienated from the Fairview society.
'Justin' (Ryan Carnes)
'George Williams (deceased)' (Roger Bart)
'Tish Atherton' (Jill Brennan): Tish Atherton is member of the Fairview Country Club. She likes to gossip, especially about Maisy Gibbons, she likes dinner parties at Bree Van De Kamp's house and she enjoys dropping her child off at playdates, while she is at the salon. She was recently mentioned in conversation. She is also a close friend of Carolyn Bigsby.
'Dr. Lee Craig' (Terry Bozeman): Dr. Craig was a friend of Rex's, as well as his doctor. He informed Rex that Bree was probably the one to poison him. He was the one who informed Bree of Rex's death. He informed Detective Barton of the likely chance that Bree murdered Rex. He appeared in season 3 as Mike's doctor. He told Susan that Mike will probably not wake up from his coma. He is proved wrong when Mike does wake up. He tells Edie that he has lost his memory of the past 2 years. He is the nephew of Ida Greenberg.
'Reverend Sikes' (Dakin Matthews): Reverend at the local Protestant church. He first appeared on ''Live Alone and Like It'' when he met with Andrew about his sexual orientation. Andrew tells him he plans on getting revenge by "rocking" Bree's world (which Sikes cannot warn Bree about due to the rules of confession). Sikes presides over Rex's funeral and is the celebrant at Bree and Orson's marriage in season 3.
'Detective Barton' (Kurt Fuller): A detective who accused Bree of murdering Rex on ''You Could Drive a Person Crazy''. He continues suspecting her on ''You'll Never Get Away from Me''. He even digs up Rex's body. He found her innocent on ''They Asked Me Why I Believe In You''. On ''That's Good, That's Bad'', he discovers that George is the culprit. On ''Coming Home'', he informs Bree that his men found George dead in his hotel room. Bree pretends to be surprised. His most recent appearance is ''We're Gonna Be All Right'' when he arrests Bree for driving under the influence of alcohol. He feels bad about this later, so he makes it up to Bree by giving her information on Curtis Monroe, the dead guy they found in front of the Applewhites' house. He also flirts with her on that same episode.
'Detective Sloan' (Scott Allan Campbell). Police detective and Barton's partner on the case of Rex' death.
'Samuel "Sam" Bormanis' (Bruce Jarchow): Andrew's lawyer whom he gets to emancipate him. Bree is polite and civil with him, as always, despite his role as Andrew's lawyer. Noting her consummate civility, he tells Andrew that presentation is paramount in open court, and that if Bree knows anything it is presentation. He advises Andrew that if he really wants to be free of his mother, his best chance is to convince her that she is better off without him. This leads Andrew to tell Bree that he will accuse her of sexual molestation if he doesn't get his way.
'Peter McMillian' (Lee Tergesen): Bree's AA supervisor who has a romantic relationship with her. He also suffers from sexual addiction. Andrew found this out and used this knowledge to his advantage when he seduced Peter into sleeping with him to get back at Bree.
'Carolyn Bigsby (deceased)' (Laurie Metcalf): The former neighbor of Orson and Alma, who, after Alma's disappearance became positive that Orson had killed his wife. As Bree and Orson announced their wedding, she, ineffectively, warned Bree about marrying him. Even after their marriage she wouldn't leave them alone, and eventually Bree told Carolyn about her husband Harvey's affair with Monique Polier.
This information had Carolyn snap, and she went to Harvey's store to kill him with a handgun. The situation quickly got out of hand, and Carolyn but soon had several hostages that she threatened to kill if Harvey didn't surrender. Among the hostages were Lynette and Nora, and as Carolyn heard Lynette accusing Nora of trying to seduce her husband, she pointed the gun on Nora and shot her dead. When a shocked Lynette started screaming at Carolyn, she tried to kill her as well, shooting her in the arm. In the following chaos Carolyn lost her gun, and was shot by another hostage, Maya.
'Monique Polier (deceased)' (Kathleen York): A woman who Orson had an affair with while married to Alma. His mother Gloria would kill her, telling Orson it was in self-defense and convincing her to help him dispose of the body.
'Robert Falati' (Anthony Azizi): Danielle's married 35 year old history teacher, with whom she had an affair. He left her after Bree payed him a visit.
'Harvey Bigsby' (Brian Kerwin): Carolyn's husband and Orson's old friend who makes her apologize to Bree about telling her all that stuff about Orson. He confides in Orson that he had an affair with Monique Polier, the same woman who was dug up. When Carolyn learns of this, she goes to his supermarket to kill him. This backfires as Carolyn herself is killed.
Gabrielle lives at 4349 Wisteria Lane.
'Gabrielle Solis' (Eva Longoria)
'Victor Lang' (John Slattery)
'Carlos Solis' (Ricardo Antonio Chavira)
'Lucia Marquez' (Maria Conchita Alonso): Gabrielle's mother. She offered to be their surrogate mother when Gabrielle realizes she can't get pregnant due to injuries sustained from the fall down the stairs. The plan did not hatch however when Carlos came to know her accusatory character. Like Susan's mother, she has been married at least four times.
'Juanita Solis (deceased)' (Lupe Ontiveros): The deceased nosy mother of Carlos, who was convinced that Gabrielle was cheating on him with another man, she had obtained photographic evidence of the affair moments before being accidentally run over by Andrew Van De Kamp. She remained in a coma for five months before awakening, only to fall to her death down a flight of stairs at the hospital. Before dying Juanita told a nurse of Gabrielle's infidelity; however, the nurse couldn't hear her because she was wearing headphones and listening to loud music.
'Milton Lang' (Mike Farrell): Victor's father who has big expectations in his son's political career.
'Samantha Lang' (Challen Cates): Victor's ex-wife, with a similar taste in clothes as Gabrielle's.
'Jonathan "John" Rowland' (Jesse Metcalfe)
'Yao Lin' (Lucille Soong): Gabrielle and Carlos' Chinese housekeeper, who was constantly on Gabrielle's case due to having to keep lying to Carlos from revealing her affair and not doing a very good job when it came to housekeeping. She was eventually fired in ''Love is in the Air'' when Gabrielle came to the final straw with Yao Lin and admitted that they were having financial problems. After this, Yao Lin runs into Gabrielle when she is working at the cosmetic counter and demands a makeover, the perfect humiliation.
'Ashley Bukowski' (Emily Christine): A 9-year-old homeschooled girl who catches Gabrielle and John kissing. She instinctively knows how to blackmail, as she is able to get Gabrielle to buy her expensive gifts. Her first demand is for Gabrielle to buy her a new bike and then teach her how to ride it properly. She lives with her mother Sheila Bukowski.
'Jonathan Lithgow' (John Haymes Newton): Jonathan Lithgow was the gay cable guy of the Solis family. He was mistaken by Carlos to have an affair with Gaby, and due to this he was heavy beaten by him - he later turned up as a witness when Carlos was prosecuted for gay bashing.
'Father Crowley' (Jeff Doucette): Priest at the local Catholic church. Gabrielle is openly rude to him. He first appeared on ''Guilty'' when he prayed for Juanita, who was in a coma at the time. John told him about the affair, so Gabrielle wanted to straighten things out with him. Crowley tells her that if she doesn't repent, she will go to Hell. Gabrielle responds by saying, "Aren't you just a ball of fun?" His next appearance was ''There Won't Be Trumpets'' when he was at Juanita's funeral. He looked back when Carlos & Gabrielle were fighting. Gabrielle says to him, "Eyes front, Padre!" He appeared on ''Fear No More'' when Gabrielle confessed her pregnancy and her unawareness of who the father is. He tells her to be thankful since children are a blessing. Gabrielle scoffs and walks away. He appeared on ''There's Something About a War'' when Gabrielle asked him to transfer Sister Mary. His most recent appearance is ''Silly People'' when he informs Gabrielle that Xiao-Mei will be staying with them briefly.
'Helen Rowland' (Kathryn Harrold): The mother of John Rowland. Helen first appears in episode 9 when she finds out that a woman of Wisteria Lane is having an affair with her son, John. She suspects it is Susan after seeing them together, and slaps her and rips her dress up at Gabrielle's fashion show. Susan knows Gabrielle is the true person who slept with John which ruptures their friendship throughout the episode. Gabrielle eventually confesses to Helen, shortly afterwards the police show up, but they came for Carlos, not Gabrielle. Susan holds Gabrielle in her arms, consoling her as Gabrielle wept over what she has lost. Helen appears again, this time together with her husband Bob, to make Gabrielle send John to college and stop his gardening business. Gabrielle tries to stop him but John only proposes to her with his grandmother's engagement ring. Gabrielle refuses and convinces John to not be with her. John rebels anyway and keeps going at his gardening business. When Gabrielle fails to help, Helen still threatens to reveal her secret. Helen gets her revenge on the Solis' because she works at the adoption agency where Carlos and Gabrielle try to adopt a baby, but are unsuccessful.
'FBI Agent' (Nigel Gibbs): The agent who arrested Carlos for involvement in slave labor.
'Mr. Hartley' (Shawn Doyle): Carlos' lawyer in the prosecution concerning his involvement in slave labor.
'Mr. Steinberg' (Mark L. Taylor): One of the top persons of Sacred Heart Hospital. He offered $1,600,000 to Gaby in order for the Solis not to press any charges towards the hospital concerning their neglections in the death of Juanita. Gaby accepted, but didn't tell Carlos. Carlos, however, did found out, as Mr. Steinberg later showed up at the Solis house.
'Ralph (deceased)' (Alejandro Patino): One of Gabrielle's gardeners. Found a naked picture of Gabrielle on the internet. Was run over and killed, while cleaning up a highway.
'David Bradley' (Adrian Pasdar): The sleazy Solis family lawyer who tries to convince Gabrielle that her marriage is a complete disaster and that she should divorce her husband. He is a known womanizer. He was shot at by a crazy client.
'Vern' (Alec Mapa): Gabrielle's personal shopper. She takes a job with him coaching girls for the Snowflake Pageant.
'Luis' (Albert Garcia): One of Gabrielle's gardeners. Had his finger accidentally chopped off when the other gardener was watching Gabrielle naked.
'Sister Mary Bernard' (Melinda Page Hamilton): The blonde Catholic nun who helped getting Carlos released from prison without doing full time. She and Gabrielle instantly clashed, because not only is Mary pretty, she also blames Carlos' problems on Gabrielle's excessive materialism. As the Sister grew up on the South Side of Chicago, she came to be a tough rival for Gabrielle, regarding Carlos' affection.
The Sister and Carlos later became involved with the church's relief effort to Botswana. Initially, the church did not have enough money to afford to send the Sister, but as it changed the Sister went there in charge of the operation. Upon her return from from Africa, Gabrielle further maneuvered to distance the Sister from Carlos, resulting in a reassignment to a parish in Fairbanks, Alaska.
'Xiao-Mei' (Gwendoline Yeo)
'Eugene Beale' (John Kapelos): Shady owner of an adoption agency - the only one who was willing to try to find a children for Gaby and Carlos; but only after they offered a huge sum of money. After for a long time having trouble to find someone who was good enough for Gaby he finally introduced her and Carlos to Libby Collins.
'Libby Collins' (Nichole Hiltz): A pole-dancer in a strip club who offers to give her baby to Carlos & Gabrielle, but changed her mind when she found out they were Mexican. However, she changed her mind yet again after they bribe her with gifts (in reality she didn't care that they were Mexican but had pretended to in order to receive a bribe). In the end, she changed her mind once again and took the baby back.
'Frank Helm' (Eddie McClintock): Libby's boyfriend. He now raises Lily with Libby, although Lily's biological father is Frank's brother Dale.
'Cecile' (Jennifer Lyons): Stripper who worked on the same strip bar as Libby. She offered Carlos a lap dance.
'Baby Lily' (Faith and Hope Dever, uncredited): The baby Gabrielle and Carlos adopted for a short while in season 2, from stripper Libby. The baby was taken away when her birth parents changed their mind about the adoption. This left Gabrielle heartbroken.
'Xiao-Mei's doctor' (Dougald Park): The doctor in charge of the insemination of Carlo's and Gabrielle's supposed baby. Gabrielle also asked him to check if Xiao-Mei still was a virgin, which she wasn't - thereby she came to understand that Carlos and Xiao-Mei had an affair.
'Myron Katzburg' (Michael Durrell): Gabrielle's divorce lawyer.
'Kenny Stevens' (Michael Bofshever): Carlos' divorce lawyer.
'Amy Pearce' (Juliette Goglia): One of the girls Gabrielle and Vern trained for the Little Miss Snowflake Contest. Bill's daughter. She made plans for her best friend's mother to marry Bill, but when Gabrielle breaks her and her friend, Sheri, apart, she can continue seeing Bill.
'Bill Pearce' (Mark Deklin): Bill met Gabrielle Solis through his daughter, Amy, who's in Gabrielle's beauty class. He and Gabrielle begin a relationship. When Bill finds out that Gabrielle locked Peggy up into a room, he think Gabrielle is crazy and breaks up with her. He lets Peggy out of the room, and she tells him she's free to date.
'Sheri Maltby' (Chloe Moretz): Amy's best friend. They made plans for their parents to be married so they could become sisters, but that changes after Gabrielle breaks them apart. She won the Miss Snowflake Beauty Pageant, but that's because Zach bribed the judges.
'Clyde' (Wayne Lopez): Victor's chauffeur.
'Jerome' (Jeffrey Stubblefield): The man in charge of Victor's election campaign, and later one of his closest co-worker as Fairview Mayor.
Edie lives at 4362 Wisteria Lane.
'Edie Britt' (Nicollette Sheridan)
'Charles McLain' (Greg Evigan): Edie's first husband (out of two), and Travers' dad. He's a doctor, who's been working with Médecins Sans Frontières. He and Edie got divorced when Travers was two years old, and the parents decided let Travers grow up with his dad, giving Charles full custody.
'Travers McLain' (Jake Cherry)
'Ilene Britt (deceased)' (K Callan): Edie's dead mother. She appeared in one of Edie's dreams, blaming her for tricking Carlos into a relationship, warning her that she will die alone, just like she had done.
'Austin McCann' (Josh Henderson)
'Oliver Weston' (John Mariano): Described as "the most successful private investigator in Fairview" by Mary Alice, Oliver Weston was hired by Edie to found out who Karl had left her for. When it turned out to be Susan, Susan tried to bribe him not to tell Edie, but Weston didn't accept it, so Mike paid him $15,000 to not tell Edie, Weston then accepted the money.
Betty lived at 4351 Wisteria Lane.
' Betty Applewhite' (Alfre Woodard)
'Matthew Applewhite (deceased)' (Mehcad Brooks)
'Caleb Applewhite' (Page Kennedy and NaShawn Kearse)
'Detective Morgan' (James Shanklin): Detective at the Chicago Police Department, and the man in charge for the Melanie Foster murder case.
'Curtis "Curt" Monroe (deceased)' (Michael Ironside): A private detective from Chicago who lost his licence a couple of years ago. He was hired by someone in the Foster family (of which deceased teenager Melanie Foster was a member; Caleb is the only one who really knows what happened to her) to look for Caleb, since he is suspected of being Melanie's murderer. After finding Caleb, Monroe accidentally shot himself while in the Applewhite basement. Betty and Matthew hide the body in Monroe's own car, intending to dump the car far away from Wisteria Lane; however, they are unable to drive the car because Betty accidentally shut the keys in the trunk with the body. His body was discovered when Susan crashed into his car.
Mary Alice lived at 4352 Wisteria Lane.
'Mary Alice Young a.k.a. Angela Forrest (deceased)' (Brenda Strong)
'Paul Young a.k.a. Todd Forrest' (Mark Moses)
'Zachary "Zach" Young a.k.a. Dana Taylor' (Cody Kasch)
'Jerry Shaw' (Richard Roundtree): A private investigator and hitman of Fairview. Mr. Shaw first appears in ''Who's That Woman?'' where Paul hires him to find out who sent Mary Alice the blackmail note. He appears again in the episode ''Anything You Can Do'' after Paul finds out that Edie used the same type of stationery that the blackmail note was written on. Jerry Shaw tracks down Edie at the same Saddle Ranch Bar Deirdre was last seen before she proceeded to the Young residence only to find a watery grave. Edie traveled there with Susan who both teamed up to spy on Kendra and Mike. He confronts Edie, masquerading as a partner in real estate and makes a smooth deal with her. In episode 8, ''Guilty'', Mr. Shaw confronts Edie at an abandoned site in the middle of a rural highway. He finds out that the paper came from Martha Huber just before he was about to shoot her. Shaw then proceeds to tell Paul that Mrs. Huber was the writer of the note. Paul decides to take it upon himself to kill Mary Alice's blackmailer. Jerry Shaw disappears until episode 20, ''Fear No More'' when Susan hires Mr. Shaw himself, of all PIs, to investigate the Young Family after Zach set fire to her kitchen. His last appearance being in episode 21, ''Sunday in the Park with George'' where he delivers falsified information regarding the Young Family. Susan finally asks him to run a complete background check on Mike Delfino. Susan finds out that Mike had killed a cop, and sees Noah and Kendra in a photo, recognizing Kendra instantly setting her straight to getting back with Mike.
'Dr. Sicher' (Gregg Daniel): Doctor at Silvercrest Juvenile Rehabilitation Center, who was in charge of Zach, when Paul had him checked in there. Didn't like the fact that Paul wouldn't agree on giving Zach any other help than drugs.
'Detective Burnett' (Brett Cullen): One of the police detectives in charge of the Deirdre Taylor murder - he questioned Paul about the toy chest with Deirdre's body.
'Detective Beckerman' (John Lacy): Detective Burnett's partner on the Deirdre Taylor case.
'Martha Huber (deceased)' (Christine Estabrook): Mrs. Huber lived at 4350 Wisteria Lane.
'Ida Greenberg' (Pat Crawford Brown): Ida Greenberg lives at 4347 Wisteria Lane.
'Alberta Fromme' (Betty Murphy): Alberta Fromme lives on Wisteria Lane. It hasn't been determined on which address.
Mrs. Fromme is a single woman. It is unknown whether she has been divorced or widowed. Alberta owns a cat, Mr. Whiskers who always needs to be watched when she goes out of town. Therefore she must rely on her neighbor friends to take responsibility. When Susan watches Mr. Whiskers, Alberta's house is broken into by Mike however the cat was unharmed. Like Ida Greenberg, Alberta continues to be a recurring character who is mostly seen during neighborhood gatherings and when one of the housewives needs something or vice versa.
'Felicia Tilman' (Harriet Sansom Harris): Felicia Tilman lived at 4350 Wisteria Lane.
'Karen McCluskey' (Kathryn Joosten): Karen McCluskey lives at 4358 Wisteria Lane.
'Gilbert McCluskey (deceased)' (John Harnagel, uncredited): Karens dead husband, whose corpse she kept in her freezer.
'Edwin Mullins' (Cheyenne Wilbur): Mr. Mullins and his wife lived at 4351 Wisteria Lane.
Mr Mullins was a taxidermist, and keeps a lot of stuffed animals in his home, as revealed by Susan, who also states that he often invites people in, and then introduces them to all his "pets". They also had a problem with teenagers spreading toilet paper across their yard, and kept a spare key to Mrs. McCluskey's house. They also trusted Bree by giving her a key to their home. They left Wisteria Lane because of all the action happening there: murder, suicide, blackmail, violence, and arson. It was never determined where they went. Mr. Mullins' brother was Susan's divorce attorney.
'Arthur "Art" Shephard' (Matt Roth): Art and his ill sister Rebecca lived at 4352 Wisteria Lane.
He moved to Wisteria Lane in season three, and was introduced in the episode ''Bang'', where he saves Lynette from being killed by Carolyn Bigsby during the supermarket hostage situation. By doing so he became a hero of Parker's.
However, while bringing over a cake to Art, Lynette found his basement full of toys, and filled from floor to ceiling with polaroids of half-naked boys. Convinced that Art's a pedophile, she asked Karen McCluskey of advice and soon there were massive demonstrations outside the Shephard's house. After Rebecca died, Lynette came to rethink what she had seen, and begged for Art's forgiveness. He responded by saying that he had to hide his pedophilia from his sister, but now he was free of those restrictions. He then ominously stated that he's going to be moving to a new neighborhood.
'Rebecca Shephard (deceased)' (Jennifer Dundas): Art's ill sister who lived with him. She was in a wheel chair, and was taken care of by Art. When the accusations towards Art grew stronger, Rebecca came to her brother's defense, claiming that his love for boys was completely pure, only being that of a swimming coach's pride of his students. As the protests didn't stop Rebecca died of cardiac arrest.
Several minor characters have appeared in two or more episodes, without being tied to one specific storyline, and generally not having their names revealed. They are of very limited importance to the events of the show, but are listed here for the purpose of including every character appearing in more than one episode.
'Patrolling Police Officer' (Mark Brady): The officer who arrested Juanita for shoplifting in season one episode ''Come In, Stranger'', and whom Bree had arresting Peter McMillan's sexual addiction sponsor in season two episode ''It Wasn't Meant to Happen''.
'Hospital Nurse' (Roz Witt): A nurse who took care of Juanita Solis during her coma, and cared for Mike as he was shot during one of his break-ins.
'Nurse' (Carlease Burke): The nurse who spoke with Bree after Rex' heart attack during his sexual act with Maisy Gibbons. Later she was one of the nurses caring for Mike after he was shot during one of his break ins.
'Chez Naomi Waiter' (David Pevsner): A waiter working at Chez Naomi, where Gabrielle is seen eating in season one episode ''Live Alone and Like It'', and Edie and Karl share a dinner en season two episode ''Thank You So Much''.
'Policemen' (Scott Atkinson and Richard Jenik): The two policemen who arrested Carlos for beating up Justin, and later were called by Susan to arrest Paul Young for the murder of Martha Huber. The officer played by Jenik also arrested the man blackmailing Victor Lang with the photos of him and Gabrielle having sex, and the one played by Atkinson investigated the break-in at the Scavo Pizzeria.
'Danny Farrell' (Ridge Canipe): The paper boy on Wisteria Lane, appearing in season two episode ''You Could Drive a Person Crazy'' and the season three finale, ''Getting Married Today''. The Wisteria Lane women concider him an enemy for throwing the papers on their flowers and in puddles.
'Reporter' (Christine Clayburg): The reporter who interviewed Andrew while he lived on the street. Later she also covered the story of Carolyn Bigsby's hostage situation at the Fairview Mall. She interviewed Victor Lang about the photos of him and Gabrielle Solis having sex, and was seen announcing his victory on the television news.
'Night Nurse' (Dale Waddington Horowitz): The Fairview Memorial Hospital nurse who returned Mike's belongings to him, after he woke up from his coma. She was also seen working the night Bree was taken in for falling off a ladder.
The article covers episodes 1 to 69.
Susan's family
Susan lives at 4353 Wisteria Lane.
Immediate family
'Susan Mayer' (Teri Hatcher)
'Mike Delfino' (James Denton)
'Karl Mayer' (Richard Burgi)
'Julie Mayer' (Andrea Bowen)
Extended family
'Sophie Bremmer' (Lesley Ann Warren): Susan's mother, with a taste for men and a very dramatic emotional life. After having Susan believing that her father had died a war hero, she admitted to her daughter - on her 39th birthday - that he in fact was a married working man, Addison Prudy.
Sophie was first seen in the series when she came to stay with Susan after having left her longtime boyfriend Morty, claiming that he was abusing her. Susan eventually managed to make the two reconcile as she didn't want to have her mother living with her. In the episode ''Sunday In the Park With George'' they got engaged and Morty later became Sophie's fourth husband in her fifth marriage.
'Morty Flickman' (Bob Newhart): Sophie Bremmer's current husband - formerly known as her long time boyfriend - and Susan's latest step-father. He owns an expanding pancake diner.
Morty first appears in ''Children Will Listen'' when Sophie makes Susan help her with the conflict between the two of them. It fails and the two end up fighting with Susan having to break it up. He appears once again in ''Sunday in the Park with George'', where he proposes to Sophie, and two decide to marry shortly after.
'Addison Prudy' (Paul Dooley): Susan's biological father, he works at a feed supply store in town. After years of not knowing his daughter, he finally is approached by Susan, and has a heart attack when she informs him about their relationship. While in the hospital he asks her to leave because he does not want his wife Carol to know since he has cheated on her many times. Later, Carol finds out about them and Addison tells Susan they'll have more time to bond after he's sorted out his marriage.
'Carol Prudy' (Joyce Van Patten): The jealous wife of Addison Prudy. When she came to believe that Susan and Addison had an affair, she found out the truth of Addison's and Susan's relationship.
'Dana Taylor' (Cody Kasch) - see Zach Young
'Deirdre Taylor (deceased)' (Jolie Jenkins): Mike Delfino's deceased ex-fiancé and mother of his son Dana (aka. Zach Young). She gave birth to her son while addicted to heroine, and gave up her son to be raised by Mary Alice and Paul Young (then known as Angela and Todd Forrest). When she years later came to get her son back, she was stabbed to death by Mary Alice, and chopped up and stuffed into a toy chest.
'Noah Taylor (deceased)' (Bob Gunton)
'Kendra Taylor' (Heather Stephens): The older sister of Deirdre Taylor, and the oldest daughter of Noah Taylor. Kendra first appeared in episode 7 ''Anything You Can Do'', where she came to check up on Mike's investigation and the progress of his work, making Susan and Edie think she was an ex-girlfriend in the act. Susan expected to come into conflict with Kendra over Mike, but it never happened. Edie would have been rooting for Susan, as she thought it would be easier to steal Mike from her than from the glamorous Kendra. After settling in at Mike's place, Kendra made it very clear that she cared for Noah's inheritance money, and only herself when she told Mike to stop looking for her own sister.
Season 1 introduced acquaintances
'Bongo' (uncredited dog): Mike's late wife's dog. Before his wife died, she asked him to take good care of Bongo. He choked on Susan's earring after licking gravy off her ear. His most recent appearance is episode 2-8, ''The Sun Won't Set'' when he senses Caleb Applewhite about to make another break-in. His reaction caused Mike to investigate his strange behavior. He tackled Caleb and got him arrested thanks to Bongo's senses.
'Detective Copeland' (Conor O'Farrell): The investigator of Mrs. Huber's murder who strongly believed Mike was the culprit. He questions Susan twice about Mike and she becomes his alibi by saying they slept together the night Mrs. Huber was killed. He mentioned to her that people do stupid things when they're in love and that he'd know because he's been married 4 times.
'Detective Sullivan' (Nick Chinlund): a corrupt police officer in charge of the Martha Huber murder case and an underling on the Deirdre Taylor murder case. He is actually a puppet and confidante of Noah Taylor. The eyes and ears of the notorious criminal underworld Taylor family inside the Fairview police. He first appears in ''Impossible'' where Noah pushes him to reveal Mike Delfino's case file to Susan at her interrogation for the Martha Huber murder. They are successful, she takes the bait, and they break up. This was arranged solely to eliminate a "time distortion" in order to find Deirdre more quickly. He appears once more in episode 19, ''Live Alone and Like It''. Noah bribes Sullivan to get Deirdre's case file to Mike and to get Mike off the Martha Huber murder case. The two meet in an underground parking garage where the two exchange the case file. Sullivan has a bitter attitude towards Mike. Sullivan makes a comment about how it is wrong for him to get off with a short prison time for 5 and a half years since he was a "cop-killer". Mike strikes back attacking him for being hypocritical since Sullivan was participating in it, and getting himself off the Huber murder case. Sullivan repays his backlash with a gun and two fists to the face, giving Mike a black eye. Sullivan makes a comment, "this file was misplaced" understand, if even a whisper of this gets traced back to me, there will be one less cop-killer on the street." Sullivan slams down the case file and walks off. Mike gets it and drives home, seeing Paul Young on a purchase list for the Toy Chest setting him to his target.
'Ruth Ann Heisel' (Dagney Kerr): A nurse at the Sacred Heart Hospital who never passed her nurse exam. It was mentioned by Mary Alice through narrating that she dreamt of one day leaving her husband. It was never determined if she did or not. Ruth first appears in the Solis storyline on ''There Won't Be Trumpets'' when she finds Juanita tumbling down the stairs in the hospital. Ruth lies to Gabrielle by saying Juanita died in her coma but felt guilty about it. She disappears until ''There's Something About a War'' she tells Susan that her splenectomy will be Dr. Ron's first one operating. Her most recent appearance is ''There Is No Other Way'' when she finds out about Susan's marriage and tells Ron.
Season 2 introduced acquaintances
'Dr. Ron McCready' (Jay Harrington): A surgeon at Sacred Heart Hospital, Ron has become Susan's love interest midway through the second season, despite a somewhat clumsy beginning to their relationship. A difference in age between the two has been shown as a possible issue. (In reality, Jay Harrington, the actor portraying the character, is slightly less than 7 years younger than Teri Hatcher.) They date anyway. When he begins to perform Susan's splenectomy, he tells her that he loves her. Susan responds by saying "Aww, that's so sweet. I love Mike." At that moment, Nurse Heisel tells him about her marriage with Karl. Susan tells Ron she was probably just hallucinating about a guy that didn't exist, and that she just married Karl for health insurance. The second part was true. Their relationship goes smoothly until Karl makes a clog and tells Mike to come over, as a plan to break up Susan and Ron. After Ron finds out she was lying, he broke up with her and told Edie about their marriage.
'Dr. Cunningham' (Tim Monsion): Dr. Ron's colleague. Was originally going to proceed Susan's splenectomy, but as he had his arm broken, he instead came to assist Ron.
Season 3 introduced acquaintances
'Ian Hainsworth' (Dougray Scott)
'Jane Hainsworth (deceased)' (Cecily Gambrell, uncredited): Ian's first wife who was put into a coma after falling off a horse. Susan accidentally spilled a strawberry smoothie all over her. Jane died after her blood pressure dropped while she was suffering from a fever.
'Jeff and Renee' (Peter Jason and Mary Margaret Lewis): Jane's parents. A date between Susan and Ian became awkward when they ran into them at a fancy restaurant. They also appeared at Jane's funeral.
'Detective Ridley' (Ernie Hudson): The detective who's investigating the murder of Monique Polier. When Mike's phone number turns up on Monique's hand Ridley's eyes turns to him, and he manages to get a search warrant for his house. However, he doesn't manage to find anything to build a case on, but later he catches Mike while he's burying his tool box, and arrests him for Monique's murder.
Susan then temporarily have him suspect Orson, but as Alma Hodge later is found dead with a suicide note, the case is considered solved. Mike and Ridley part ways with a handshake.
'Jerry' (Rick Fitts): A coroner. He first appeared on episode 3-2, ''It Takes Two'' when he informed Detective Ridley that it would be impossible to look up dental records on the corpse they found (Monique) because her teeth were pulled out. His next and most recent appearance was episode 3-5, ''Nice She Ain't'' when he informed Detective Ridley that there was a phone number on Monique's hand, none other than Mike Delfino's.
'Detective Collins' (David Fabrizio): Ridley's co-worker at the Monique Polier case.
'Nurse Marcy' (Felice Heather Monteith): A nurse at the Fairview Memorial Hospital. Mike became one of her patients.
'Nurse Parker' (Wendy Worthington): A new nurse at the Fairview Memorial Hospital who was tricked into believing that Edie was Mike's girlfriend. After the death of Jane Hainesworth she also returned her belongings to Ian.
'Dr. Maggie Berman' (Miriam Flynn): Mike's hypnotherapist after suffering from amnesia.
Lynette's family
Lynette lives at 4355 Wisteria Lane.
Immediate family
'Lynette Scavo' (Felicity Huffman)
'Tom Scavo' (Doug Savant)
'Preston and Porter Scavo' (Brent and Shane Kinsman)
'Parker Scavo' (Zane Huett)
'Penny Scavo' (Dylan and Jordan Cline (Season 1), Darien and Kerstin Pinkerton (Season 2 and 3) - all uncredited): Lynette and Tom's daughter and youngest child. She has her first line in season three episode ''God, That's Good''. Lynette wanted Penny to be Gabrielle's flower girl at her wedding, but due to her having "zero charisma", Gabrielle chose Victors housekeeper's daughter who resembled herself.
'Kayla Huntington' (Rachel Fox)
Extended family
'Stella Wingfield' (Polly Bergen): Lynette's mother, with a history of heavy drinking and a troubled relationship with Lynette, who claims Stella was violent with her and her two younger sisters. When Stella had breast cancer, it was Lynette, then 13 years old, who took care of the household and her sisters, and she told her mother that the cancer was God's punishment for her actions.
'Rodney Scavo' (Ryan O'Neal): Tom's father, married to his mother Allison. Rodney comes for a visit to see the family and Lynette winds up walking in on him with a woman who is not his wife. His visit spurs a frank conversation between the Scavos about commitment and fidelity. Tom confided in him that he has a secret, one that Lynette doesn't know about, revealing that he may not be the perfect husband - later it turns out to be the fact that during the last months he'd been working with his old girlfriend, Annabel Foster.
'Nora Huntington (deceased)' (Kiersten Warren)
Season 1 introduced acquaintances
'Natalie "Nat" Klein' (Nike Doukas): Lynette's old boss at her former job. Nat first appeared on the pilot episode when Lynette runs into her at the supermarket. She asked Lynette how she likes being a mother. Lynette almost told her "no," but she instead told her that it's the best job she's ever had. Her most recent appearance is ''Goodbye for Now'' when she has lunch with Lynette. Lynette, trying to get Tom and Annabel apart, told her that she should consider hiring Tom. Nat declines the suggestion and instead tells Lynette that she needs someone like her; a shark. Lynette then tells her she could get a shark for her and tells her about Annabel. Annabel gets a call from the company offering her a job, but she instead takes Peterson's offer of taking Duggen's old job.
'Headmaster Lentz' (Harry S. Murphy): The headmaster of Barcliff Academy the well reputed school of the Scavo twins, and later Parker as well.
'Mrs. Truesdale' (Shannon O'Hurley): One of the teachers at Barcliff. Was involved in the in the planning of school's stage version of Little Red Riding Hood, and later had problems with Parker and his imaginary friend Mrs. Mulberry.
'Jordana Geist' (Stacey Travis): Lynette's friend who has kids with ADD. She is able to work her incredibly busy life by taking their ADD medication. She tells Lynette her little secret and Lynette starts doing the same thing. When she runs out of pills, she asks Jordana for more, but Jordana says no because her sister is coming to visit and she needs all the energy she can get. Lynette gets mad and storms away. In season three she is seen gossiping and participating in Traver McLain's birthday party.
'Dan Peterson' (Edward Edwards): The boss of Tom's old firm. He didn't give Tom a promotion because Lynette begged that he wouldn't because he would be away too much and her family would be hurt. During Tom's final confrontation with him, he is openly rude to him and tells him he makes crappy decisions on a daily basis. Tom quits after that.
'Janie Peterson' (Elizabeth Storm): Dan's wife who has a lot to do with the firm. During a dinner party at the Scavos' she liked Lynette's idea of advertising better than Tom. When Lynette realized Tom's promotion meant that he would be home less often, she begged her to tell Dan that Annabel should get the promotion instead. Tom finds this out and quits. Neither one of the Petersons have been heard from since.
'Claire' (Marla Sokoloff): a nanny who was hired by Lynette to help her take care of her kids. One night, however, she saw a baby-puke stain on the robe she was wearing, so she took it off and threw it into the wash with the rest of the clothes, thus leaving her completely naked. Unfortunately, Tom comes down and catches her as she's trying to get back to her room and talks to her embarrassingly, then goes back up and takes out his arousal of her on Lynette by making love to her. Unfortunately, Claire tells Lynette about it, and Lynette later makes Tom admit he has the hots for her. Eventually, Claire had to be let go when it was apparent that her appearance was continuing to be a distraction.
'Mona Clark' (Maria Cominis): The mother of Joey, a classmate of Porter and Preston. She is seen in the neighborhood at times, and took part in the protest against Art Shephard.
'Annabel Foster' (Melinda McGraw): Tom Scavo's ex-girlfriend. Lynette is extremely jealous of her and has been doing anything she can to break her up from Tom. She gets the promotion of Vice President which Tom was eyeing. No relation with Melanie Foster as far as we know, except that they both lived in Chicago.
Season 2 introduced acquaintances
'Ed Ferrara' (Currie Graham): The "big boss" of Parcher & Murphy. He first appeared on ''Next'' when he hired Lynette because he liked her. He fires the majority people at the company on ''That's Good, That's Bad'' due to a sexual harassment lawsuit against them. He hires Tom on ''There's Something About a War''. In the following episode, ''Silly People'', he and Tom place bets that Tom could do certain tricks, one of them being eating a donut out of the toilet. Tom became known as "Toilet Boy". Lynette tries to stop all of these games, so Ed tells her if she could eat a package of raw meat, they'll stop. Lynette succeeds and Ed and Tom have had a business-like relationship since. But after having marital problems with his wife Fran, he asks Lynette to send instant messages to her to help him with his sex life. When Fran figures out it wasn't Ed, she tells him to fire the person who wrote the IMs or she'll leave him. He tells her it was Tom, and fires Tom instead.
'Nina Fletcher' (Joely Fisher): Lynette's boss at the Parcher & Murphy ad agency. Nina makes it clear to Lynette on her interview that she despises mothers who put their children above everything else. When Lynette brings Penny to work after Tom has a back problem, Lynette hides the baby with the receptionist. However, this does not go as planned. Lynette then brings baby Penny in and multitasks by changing a diaper and delivering a business plan at the same time. Nina's boss is very impressed and welcomes her aboard. Nina is less welcoming and wants Lynette to be dedicated to her work and not her children. One night, Nina is caught in an affair with Stu (see below) by Lynette and offers to keep silent about it if Nina would be a little nicer on the job. Unfortunately, Nina fires Stu, and Lynette talks to him and ends up uttering something about a lawsuit. 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, forcing people to lose their jobs, including Nina. Nina then explains to Lynette that being nice was one of many luxuries she gave up to keep the firm afloat, and told her that if she thought she wasn't seeing her kids enough before, then she'll see them even less now.
'Stu' (Charlie Babcock): The secretary of Parcher & Murphy. He had an office romance with Nina Fletcher, he then filed a sexual harassment suit against his former employer after Nina fired him so that he wouldn't tell the boss about their affair.
'Pat Ziegler' (Carol Mansell): Stu's replacement as the Partcher & Murphy secretary.
'Jerry' (Mitch Silpa): Ed's assistant at Parcher & Murphy. When he helps Tom carry the sleeping twins outside, Ed thinks that Jerry has a kid when he's carrying Parker.
Season 3 introduced acquaintances
'Neighborhood man' (Lenny Schmidt): A neighborhood man who never painted his door - thus Karen McCluskey finally painted it for him. Later he participated in the protests against Art Shephard.
'Kim' and 'Tucker' (Kylie Sparks and John Bobek): Teens working at the Scavo Pizzeria.
'Rick Coletti' (Jason Gedrick): A professional chef, hired by Lynette to work at the Scavo Pizzeria. He previously had a cocaine addiction, something that he developed in order to cope with the stress at his former job. From the very beginning Tom is sceptic towards Rick, and as the Scavo's marriage starts to shake, Lynette and Rick get closer.
Rick and Lynette start to have dinners before leaving work at nights, and as this is discovered by Tom from the surveillance tapes following a robbery at the restaurant, Tom confronts Rick. After telling him that Lynette would never leave her family he tells him to quit at the pizzeria.
Inflected by the discussion Rick later tells Lynette that he has fallen in love with her. Lynette effectively fires him, but later cries heavily. Eventually she confesses to Tom that she had fallen for Rick as well, and that she is angry with him for causing Rick's firing.
Bree's family
Bree lives at 4354 Wisteria Lane.
Immediate family
'Bree Hodge' (Marcia Cross)
'Orson Hodge' (Kyle MacLachlan)
'Rex Van De Kamp (deceased)' (Steven Culp)
'Andrew Van De Kamp' (Shawn Pyfrom)
'Danielle Van De Kamp' (Joy Lauren)
Extended family
'Henry Mason' (Ronny Cox): Bree's father, who was a prosecutor, said the simplest explanation was always the best one. He and his second wife, Eleanor, come for a visit in the second season.
'Eleanor Mason' (Carol Burnett): Bree's stepmother who is a very uptight and proper lady for whom appearances mean everything. A lot of what Bree says comes from this woman. She and her husband, Henry, come for a visit in the second season to mediate between Andrew and Bree. She can be rather critical of Bree, making a comment about her peanut butter cookies. Bree responds by saying, "Those were kick-ass peanut butter cookies".
'Phyllis Van De Kamp' (Shirley Knight): Rex's mother who has a very cold relationship with Bree.
'Gloria Hodge' (Dixie Carter)
'Edwin Hodge (deceased)' (Carl Mueller): Orson's father. Just like his wife Edwin was a deeply religious man. However - after he was exposed to have had an affair with another woman he became depressed and turned to alcohol. One night Orson found him dead in the bathtub with his wrists cut. Everyone thought of it as suicide, and Orson was eventually forced to be put into a mental institution to get rid of his feelings of guilt. Years later, as Orson caught his mother attempting to kill Bree, he came to understand that it was Gloria who had killed his father as well.
'Aunt Fern' (Fiona Hale): Bree mentioned her Aunt Fern who lives in Philadelphia. She also told Bree that even during hard times, the best was always yet to come. She makes an appearance in season 3 when she makes a toast at Orson & Bree's wedding.
'Alma Hodge (deceased)' (Valerie Mahaffey)
Season 1 introduced acquaintances
'Dr. Albert Goldfine' (Sam Lloyd): Dr. Albert Goldfine is supposedly known as the "number one" marriage counselor in Fairview. He first appears in the second episode: ''Ah, But Underneath'', when Rex and Bree have their first appointment with him. Throughout the whole time, Bree talks "small talk" with Dr. Goldfine and focuses on his jacket the entire time due to her obsessive-compulsive ways. She then returns later, fixes his jacket, and actually goes through with a private session. Goldfine, slightly seduced by her domestic ways, asks Rex the following session, "Regardless of her flaws, have you ever stopped and said thank you for all she does for you around the house?" Dr. Goldfine appears again in the next episode, ''Pretty Little Picture'', where Bree sees a session recording tape labeled with Mary Alice's name. Bree steals it and puts it in her purse, and later shares it with the other housewives. Dr. Goldfine makes an appearance in the fourteenth episode, ''Love is in the Air'', where he encourages Bree to finally ask Rex about his true sexual feelings on domination. He returned in season two to give Bree advice in the aftermath of Rex's death and also to give her advice on George Williams. However, George found out about that the Doctor had been giving Bree advice to take their relationship slowly and promptly stalked him on his exercise path. George then beat up Dr. Goldfine and threw him over a bridge; it was found out later that he had survived. Dr. Goldfine mentioned to Bree that his attacker had a blue bike -- Bree had just seen George with a blue bike earlier that day. This prompts Bree to connect everything together, and she discovers the depths of George's mad obsession.
'Maisy Gibbons' (Sharon Lawrence): A married mother, and respectable member of the Fairview society. Maisy first appears in Lynette's storyline, as the head of Barcliff Academy's acting activities. The two squares off immediately, arguing over political correctness of the play. After an intense power struggle, Lynette finally is able to tell Maisy off, gaining the respect of the mom-clique and becoming one of the head members.
Later on it is revealed that Maisy is the neighborhood prostitute of Fairview. Among her customers is Rex Van De Kamp, whom she helps out with his need of sexual domination. During a sexual act, Rex suffers from a heart attack, and is taken to the hospital by Maisy, resulting in Bree's finding out of their affair. Soon thereafter Maisy is arrested for solicitation, and as her book of customers turns public, so does her relationship with Rex, resulting in the Van De Kamp family temporarily being alienated from the Fairview society.
'Justin' (Ryan Carnes)
'George Williams (deceased)' (Roger Bart)
'Tish Atherton' (Jill Brennan): Tish Atherton is member of the Fairview Country Club. She likes to gossip, especially about Maisy Gibbons, she likes dinner parties at Bree Van De Kamp's house and she enjoys dropping her child off at playdates, while she is at the salon. She was recently mentioned in conversation. She is also a close friend of Carolyn Bigsby.
'Dr. Lee Craig' (Terry Bozeman): Dr. Craig was a friend of Rex's, as well as his doctor. He informed Rex that Bree was probably the one to poison him. He was the one who informed Bree of Rex's death. He informed Detective Barton of the likely chance that Bree murdered Rex. He appeared in season 3 as Mike's doctor. He told Susan that Mike will probably not wake up from his coma. He is proved wrong when Mike does wake up. He tells Edie that he has lost his memory of the past 2 years. He is the nephew of Ida Greenberg.
'Reverend Sikes' (Dakin Matthews): Reverend at the local Protestant church. He first appeared on ''Live Alone and Like It'' when he met with Andrew about his sexual orientation. Andrew tells him he plans on getting revenge by "rocking" Bree's world (which Sikes cannot warn Bree about due to the rules of confession). Sikes presides over Rex's funeral and is the celebrant at Bree and Orson's marriage in season 3.
Season 2 introduced acquaintances
'Detective Barton' (Kurt Fuller): A detective who accused Bree of murdering Rex on ''You Could Drive a Person Crazy''. He continues suspecting her on ''You'll Never Get Away from Me''. He even digs up Rex's body. He found her innocent on ''They Asked Me Why I Believe In You''. On ''That's Good, That's Bad'', he discovers that George is the culprit. On ''Coming Home'', he informs Bree that his men found George dead in his hotel room. Bree pretends to be surprised. His most recent appearance is ''We're Gonna Be All Right'' when he arrests Bree for driving under the influence of alcohol. He feels bad about this later, so he makes it up to Bree by giving her information on Curtis Monroe, the dead guy they found in front of the Applewhites' house. He also flirts with her on that same episode.
'Detective Sloan' (Scott Allan Campbell). Police detective and Barton's partner on the case of Rex' death.
'Samuel "Sam" Bormanis' (Bruce Jarchow): Andrew's lawyer whom he gets to emancipate him. Bree is polite and civil with him, as always, despite his role as Andrew's lawyer. Noting her consummate civility, he tells Andrew that presentation is paramount in open court, and that if Bree knows anything it is presentation. He advises Andrew that if he really wants to be free of his mother, his best chance is to convince her that she is better off without him. This leads Andrew to tell Bree that he will accuse her of sexual molestation if he doesn't get his way.
'Peter McMillian' (Lee Tergesen): Bree's AA supervisor who has a romantic relationship with her. He also suffers from sexual addiction. Andrew found this out and used this knowledge to his advantage when he seduced Peter into sleeping with him to get back at Bree.
Season 3 introduced acquaintances
'Carolyn Bigsby (deceased)' (Laurie Metcalf): The former neighbor of Orson and Alma, who, after Alma's disappearance became positive that Orson had killed his wife. As Bree and Orson announced their wedding, she, ineffectively, warned Bree about marrying him. Even after their marriage she wouldn't leave them alone, and eventually Bree told Carolyn about her husband Harvey's affair with Monique Polier.
This information had Carolyn snap, and she went to Harvey's store to kill him with a handgun. The situation quickly got out of hand, and Carolyn but soon had several hostages that she threatened to kill if Harvey didn't surrender. Among the hostages were Lynette and Nora, and as Carolyn heard Lynette accusing Nora of trying to seduce her husband, she pointed the gun on Nora and shot her dead. When a shocked Lynette started screaming at Carolyn, she tried to kill her as well, shooting her in the arm. In the following chaos Carolyn lost her gun, and was shot by another hostage, Maya.
'Monique Polier (deceased)' (Kathleen York): A woman who Orson had an affair with while married to Alma. His mother Gloria would kill her, telling Orson it was in self-defense and convincing her to help him dispose of the body.
'Robert Falati' (Anthony Azizi): Danielle's married 35 year old history teacher, with whom she had an affair. He left her after Bree payed him a visit.
'Harvey Bigsby' (Brian Kerwin): Carolyn's husband and Orson's old friend who makes her apologize to Bree about telling her all that stuff about Orson. He confides in Orson that he had an affair with Monique Polier, the same woman who was dug up. When Carolyn learns of this, she goes to his supermarket to kill him. This backfires as Carolyn herself is killed.
Gabrielle's family
Gabrielle lives at 4349 Wisteria Lane.
Immediate family
'Gabrielle Solis' (Eva Longoria)
'Victor Lang' (John Slattery)
'Carlos Solis' (Ricardo Antonio Chavira)
Extended family
'Lucia Marquez' (Maria Conchita Alonso): Gabrielle's mother. She offered to be their surrogate mother when Gabrielle realizes she can't get pregnant due to injuries sustained from the fall down the stairs. The plan did not hatch however when Carlos came to know her accusatory character. Like Susan's mother, she has been married at least four times.
'Juanita Solis (deceased)' (Lupe Ontiveros): The deceased nosy mother of Carlos, who was convinced that Gabrielle was cheating on him with another man, she had obtained photographic evidence of the affair moments before being accidentally run over by Andrew Van De Kamp. She remained in a coma for five months before awakening, only to fall to her death down a flight of stairs at the hospital. Before dying Juanita told a nurse of Gabrielle's infidelity; however, the nurse couldn't hear her because she was wearing headphones and listening to loud music.
'Milton Lang' (Mike Farrell): Victor's father who has big expectations in his son's political career.
'Samantha Lang' (Challen Cates): Victor's ex-wife, with a similar taste in clothes as Gabrielle's.
Season 1 introduced acquaintances
'Jonathan "John" Rowland' (Jesse Metcalfe)
'Yao Lin' (Lucille Soong): Gabrielle and Carlos' Chinese housekeeper, who was constantly on Gabrielle's case due to having to keep lying to Carlos from revealing her affair and not doing a very good job when it came to housekeeping. She was eventually fired in ''Love is in the Air'' when Gabrielle came to the final straw with Yao Lin and admitted that they were having financial problems. After this, Yao Lin runs into Gabrielle when she is working at the cosmetic counter and demands a makeover, the perfect humiliation.
'Ashley Bukowski' (Emily Christine): A 9-year-old homeschooled girl who catches Gabrielle and John kissing. She instinctively knows how to blackmail, as she is able to get Gabrielle to buy her expensive gifts. Her first demand is for Gabrielle to buy her a new bike and then teach her how to ride it properly. She lives with her mother Sheila Bukowski.
'Jonathan Lithgow' (John Haymes Newton): Jonathan Lithgow was the gay cable guy of the Solis family. He was mistaken by Carlos to have an affair with Gaby, and due to this he was heavy beaten by him - he later turned up as a witness when Carlos was prosecuted for gay bashing.
'Father Crowley' (Jeff Doucette): Priest at the local Catholic church. Gabrielle is openly rude to him. He first appeared on ''Guilty'' when he prayed for Juanita, who was in a coma at the time. John told him about the affair, so Gabrielle wanted to straighten things out with him. Crowley tells her that if she doesn't repent, she will go to Hell. Gabrielle responds by saying, "Aren't you just a ball of fun?" His next appearance was ''There Won't Be Trumpets'' when he was at Juanita's funeral. He looked back when Carlos & Gabrielle were fighting. Gabrielle says to him, "Eyes front, Padre!" He appeared on ''Fear No More'' when Gabrielle confessed her pregnancy and her unawareness of who the father is. He tells her to be thankful since children are a blessing. Gabrielle scoffs and walks away. He appeared on ''There's Something About a War'' when Gabrielle asked him to transfer Sister Mary. His most recent appearance is ''Silly People'' when he informs Gabrielle that Xiao-Mei will be staying with them briefly.
'Helen Rowland' (Kathryn Harrold): The mother of John Rowland. Helen first appears in episode 9 when she finds out that a woman of Wisteria Lane is having an affair with her son, John. She suspects it is Susan after seeing them together, and slaps her and rips her dress up at Gabrielle's fashion show. Susan knows Gabrielle is the true person who slept with John which ruptures their friendship throughout the episode. Gabrielle eventually confesses to Helen, shortly afterwards the police show up, but they came for Carlos, not Gabrielle. Susan holds Gabrielle in her arms, consoling her as Gabrielle wept over what she has lost. Helen appears again, this time together with her husband Bob, to make Gabrielle send John to college and stop his gardening business. Gabrielle tries to stop him but John only proposes to her with his grandmother's engagement ring. Gabrielle refuses and convinces John to not be with her. John rebels anyway and keeps going at his gardening business. When Gabrielle fails to help, Helen still threatens to reveal her secret. Helen gets her revenge on the Solis' because she works at the adoption agency where Carlos and Gabrielle try to adopt a baby, but are unsuccessful.
'FBI Agent' (Nigel Gibbs): The agent who arrested Carlos for involvement in slave labor.
'Mr. Hartley' (Shawn Doyle): Carlos' lawyer in the prosecution concerning his involvement in slave labor.
'Mr. Steinberg' (Mark L. Taylor): One of the top persons of Sacred Heart Hospital. He offered $1,600,000 to Gaby in order for the Solis not to press any charges towards the hospital concerning their neglections in the death of Juanita. Gaby accepted, but didn't tell Carlos. Carlos, however, did found out, as Mr. Steinberg later showed up at the Solis house.
Season 2 introduced acquaintances
'Ralph (deceased)' (Alejandro Patino): One of Gabrielle's gardeners. Found a naked picture of Gabrielle on the internet. Was run over and killed, while cleaning up a highway.
'David Bradley' (Adrian Pasdar): The sleazy Solis family lawyer who tries to convince Gabrielle that her marriage is a complete disaster and that she should divorce her husband. He is a known womanizer. He was shot at by a crazy client.
'Vern' (Alec Mapa): Gabrielle's personal shopper. She takes a job with him coaching girls for the Snowflake Pageant.
'Luis' (Albert Garcia): One of Gabrielle's gardeners. Had his finger accidentally chopped off when the other gardener was watching Gabrielle naked.
'Sister Mary Bernard' (Melinda Page Hamilton): The blonde Catholic nun who helped getting Carlos released from prison without doing full time. She and Gabrielle instantly clashed, because not only is Mary pretty, she also blames Carlos' problems on Gabrielle's excessive materialism. As the Sister grew up on the South Side of Chicago, she came to be a tough rival for Gabrielle, regarding Carlos' affection.
The Sister and Carlos later became involved with the church's relief effort to Botswana. Initially, the church did not have enough money to afford to send the Sister, but as it changed the Sister went there in charge of the operation. Upon her return from from Africa, Gabrielle further maneuvered to distance the Sister from Carlos, resulting in a reassignment to a parish in Fairbanks, Alaska.
'Xiao-Mei' (Gwendoline Yeo)
'Eugene Beale' (John Kapelos): Shady owner of an adoption agency - the only one who was willing to try to find a children for Gaby and Carlos; but only after they offered a huge sum of money. After for a long time having trouble to find someone who was good enough for Gaby he finally introduced her and Carlos to Libby Collins.
'Libby Collins' (Nichole Hiltz): A pole-dancer in a strip club who offers to give her baby to Carlos & Gabrielle, but changed her mind when she found out they were Mexican. However, she changed her mind yet again after they bribe her with gifts (in reality she didn't care that they were Mexican but had pretended to in order to receive a bribe). In the end, she changed her mind once again and took the baby back.
'Frank Helm' (Eddie McClintock): Libby's boyfriend. He now raises Lily with Libby, although Lily's biological father is Frank's brother Dale.
'Cecile' (Jennifer Lyons): Stripper who worked on the same strip bar as Libby. She offered Carlos a lap dance.
'Baby Lily' (Faith and Hope Dever, uncredited): The baby Gabrielle and Carlos adopted for a short while in season 2, from stripper Libby. The baby was taken away when her birth parents changed their mind about the adoption. This left Gabrielle heartbroken.
'Xiao-Mei's doctor' (Dougald Park): The doctor in charge of the insemination of Carlo's and Gabrielle's supposed baby. Gabrielle also asked him to check if Xiao-Mei still was a virgin, which she wasn't - thereby she came to understand that Carlos and Xiao-Mei had an affair.
Season 3 introduced acquaintances
'Myron Katzburg' (Michael Durrell): Gabrielle's divorce lawyer.
'Kenny Stevens' (Michael Bofshever): Carlos' divorce lawyer.
'Amy Pearce' (Juliette Goglia): One of the girls Gabrielle and Vern trained for the Little Miss Snowflake Contest. Bill's daughter. She made plans for her best friend's mother to marry Bill, but when Gabrielle breaks her and her friend, Sheri, apart, she can continue seeing Bill.
'Bill Pearce' (Mark Deklin): Bill met Gabrielle Solis through his daughter, Amy, who's in Gabrielle's beauty class. He and Gabrielle begin a relationship. When Bill finds out that Gabrielle locked Peggy up into a room, he think Gabrielle is crazy and breaks up with her. He lets Peggy out of the room, and she tells him she's free to date.
'Sheri Maltby' (Chloe Moretz): Amy's best friend. They made plans for their parents to be married so they could become sisters, but that changes after Gabrielle breaks them apart. She won the Miss Snowflake Beauty Pageant, but that's because Zach bribed the judges.
'Clyde' (Wayne Lopez): Victor's chauffeur.
'Jerome' (Jeffrey Stubblefield): The man in charge of Victor's election campaign, and later one of his closest co-worker as Fairview Mayor.
Edie's family
Edie lives at 4362 Wisteria Lane.
Immediate family
'Edie Britt' (Nicollette Sheridan)
'Charles McLain' (Greg Evigan): Edie's first husband (out of two), and Travers' dad. He's a doctor, who's been working with Médecins Sans Frontières. He and Edie got divorced when Travers was two years old, and the parents decided let Travers grow up with his dad, giving Charles full custody.
'Travers McLain' (Jake Cherry)
Extended family
'Ilene Britt (deceased)' (K Callan): Edie's dead mother. She appeared in one of Edie's dreams, blaming her for tricking Carlos into a relationship, warning her that she will die alone, just like she had done.
'Austin McCann' (Josh Henderson)
Season 2 introduced acquaintances
'Oliver Weston' (John Mariano): Described as "the most successful private investigator in Fairview" by Mary Alice, Oliver Weston was hired by Edie to found out who Karl had left her for. When it turned out to be Susan, Susan tried to bribe him not to tell Edie, but Weston didn't accept it, so Mike paid him $15,000 to not tell Edie, Weston then accepted the money.
Betty's family
Betty lived at 4351 Wisteria Lane.
Immediate family
' Betty Applewhite' (Alfre Woodard)
'Matthew Applewhite (deceased)' (Mehcad Brooks)
'Caleb Applewhite' (Page Kennedy and NaShawn Kearse)
Season 2 introduced acquaintances
'Detective Morgan' (James Shanklin): Detective at the Chicago Police Department, and the man in charge for the Melanie Foster murder case.
'Curtis "Curt" Monroe (deceased)' (Michael Ironside): A private detective from Chicago who lost his licence a couple of years ago. He was hired by someone in the Foster family (of which deceased teenager Melanie Foster was a member; Caleb is the only one who really knows what happened to her) to look for Caleb, since he is suspected of being Melanie's murderer. After finding Caleb, Monroe accidentally shot himself while in the Applewhite basement. Betty and Matthew hide the body in Monroe's own car, intending to dump the car far away from Wisteria Lane; however, they are unable to drive the car because Betty accidentally shut the keys in the trunk with the body. His body was discovered when Susan crashed into his car.
Mary Alice's family
Mary Alice lived at 4352 Wisteria Lane.
Immediate family
'Mary Alice Young a.k.a. Angela Forrest (deceased)' (Brenda Strong)
'Paul Young a.k.a. Todd Forrest' (Mark Moses)
'Zachary "Zach" Young a.k.a. Dana Taylor' (Cody Kasch)
Season 1 introduced acquaintances
'Jerry Shaw' (Richard Roundtree): A private investigator and hitman of Fairview. Mr. Shaw first appears in ''Who's That Woman?'' where Paul hires him to find out who sent Mary Alice the blackmail note. He appears again in the episode ''Anything You Can Do'' after Paul finds out that Edie used the same type of stationery that the blackmail note was written on. Jerry Shaw tracks down Edie at the same Saddle Ranch Bar Deirdre was last seen before she proceeded to the Young residence only to find a watery grave. Edie traveled there with Susan who both teamed up to spy on Kendra and Mike. He confronts Edie, masquerading as a partner in real estate and makes a smooth deal with her. In episode 8, ''Guilty'', Mr. Shaw confronts Edie at an abandoned site in the middle of a rural highway. He finds out that the paper came from Martha Huber just before he was about to shoot her. Shaw then proceeds to tell Paul that Mrs. Huber was the writer of the note. Paul decides to take it upon himself to kill Mary Alice's blackmailer. Jerry Shaw disappears until episode 20, ''Fear No More'' when Susan hires Mr. Shaw himself, of all PIs, to investigate the Young Family after Zach set fire to her kitchen. His last appearance being in episode 21, ''Sunday in the Park with George'' where he delivers falsified information regarding the Young Family. Susan finally asks him to run a complete background check on Mike Delfino. Susan finds out that Mike had killed a cop, and sees Noah and Kendra in a photo, recognizing Kendra instantly setting her straight to getting back with Mike.
'Dr. Sicher' (Gregg Daniel): Doctor at Silvercrest Juvenile Rehabilitation Center, who was in charge of Zach, when Paul had him checked in there. Didn't like the fact that Paul wouldn't agree on giving Zach any other help than drugs.
'Detective Burnett' (Brett Cullen): One of the police detectives in charge of the Deirdre Taylor murder - he questioned Paul about the toy chest with Deirdre's body.
'Detective Beckerman' (John Lacy): Detective Burnett's partner on the Deirdre Taylor case.
The other neighbors of Wisteria Lane
'Martha Huber (deceased)' (Christine Estabrook): Mrs. Huber lived at 4350 Wisteria Lane.
'Ida Greenberg' (Pat Crawford Brown): Ida Greenberg lives at 4347 Wisteria Lane.
'Alberta Fromme' (Betty Murphy): Alberta Fromme lives on Wisteria Lane. It hasn't been determined on which address.
Mrs. Fromme is a single woman. It is unknown whether she has been divorced or widowed. Alberta owns a cat, Mr. Whiskers who always needs to be watched when she goes out of town. Therefore she must rely on her neighbor friends to take responsibility. When Susan watches Mr. Whiskers, Alberta's house is broken into by Mike however the cat was unharmed. Like Ida Greenberg, Alberta continues to be a recurring character who is mostly seen during neighborhood gatherings and when one of the housewives needs something or vice versa.
'Felicia Tilman' (Harriet Sansom Harris): Felicia Tilman lived at 4350 Wisteria Lane.
'Karen McCluskey' (Kathryn Joosten): Karen McCluskey lives at 4358 Wisteria Lane.
'Gilbert McCluskey (deceased)' (John Harnagel, uncredited): Karens dead husband, whose corpse she kept in her freezer.
'Edwin Mullins' (Cheyenne Wilbur): Mr. Mullins and his wife lived at 4351 Wisteria Lane.
Mr Mullins was a taxidermist, and keeps a lot of stuffed animals in his home, as revealed by Susan, who also states that he often invites people in, and then introduces them to all his "pets". They also had a problem with teenagers spreading toilet paper across their yard, and kept a spare key to Mrs. McCluskey's house. They also trusted Bree by giving her a key to their home. They left Wisteria Lane because of all the action happening there: murder, suicide, blackmail, violence, and arson. It was never determined where they went. Mr. Mullins' brother was Susan's divorce attorney.
'Arthur "Art" Shephard' (Matt Roth): Art and his ill sister Rebecca lived at 4352 Wisteria Lane.
He moved to Wisteria Lane in season three, and was introduced in the episode ''Bang'', where he saves Lynette from being killed by Carolyn Bigsby during the supermarket hostage situation. By doing so he became a hero of Parker's.
However, while bringing over a cake to Art, Lynette found his basement full of toys, and filled from floor to ceiling with polaroids of half-naked boys. Convinced that Art's a pedophile, she asked Karen McCluskey of advice and soon there were massive demonstrations outside the Shephard's house. After Rebecca died, Lynette came to rethink what she had seen, and begged for Art's forgiveness. He responded by saying that he had to hide his pedophilia from his sister, but now he was free of those restrictions. He then ominously stated that he's going to be moving to a new neighborhood.
'Rebecca Shephard (deceased)' (Jennifer Dundas): Art's ill sister who lived with him. She was in a wheel chair, and was taken care of by Art. When the accusations towards Art grew stronger, Rebecca came to her brother's defense, claiming that his love for boys was completely pure, only being that of a swimming coach's pride of his students. As the protests didn't stop Rebecca died of cardiac arrest.
Minor characters
Several minor characters have appeared in two or more episodes, without being tied to one specific storyline, and generally not having their names revealed. They are of very limited importance to the events of the show, but are listed here for the purpose of including every character appearing in more than one episode.
'Patrolling Police Officer' (Mark Brady): The officer who arrested Juanita for shoplifting in season one episode ''Come In, Stranger'', and whom Bree had arresting Peter McMillan's sexual addiction sponsor in season two episode ''It Wasn't Meant to Happen''.
'Hospital Nurse' (Roz Witt): A nurse who took care of Juanita Solis during her coma, and cared for Mike as he was shot during one of his break-ins.
'Nurse' (Carlease Burke): The nurse who spoke with Bree after Rex' heart attack during his sexual act with Maisy Gibbons. Later she was one of the nurses caring for Mike after he was shot during one of his break ins.
'Chez Naomi Waiter' (David Pevsner): A waiter working at Chez Naomi, where Gabrielle is seen eating in season one episode ''Live Alone and Like It'', and Edie and Karl share a dinner en season two episode ''Thank You So Much''.
'Policemen' (Scott Atkinson and Richard Jenik): The two policemen who arrested Carlos for beating up Justin, and later were called by Susan to arrest Paul Young for the murder of Martha Huber. The officer played by Jenik also arrested the man blackmailing Victor Lang with the photos of him and Gabrielle having sex, and the one played by Atkinson investigated the break-in at the Scavo Pizzeria.
'Danny Farrell' (Ridge Canipe): The paper boy on Wisteria Lane, appearing in season two episode ''You Could Drive a Person Crazy'' and the season three finale, ''Getting Married Today''. The Wisteria Lane women concider him an enemy for throwing the papers on their flowers and in puddles.
'Reporter' (Christine Clayburg): The reporter who interviewed Andrew while he lived on the street. Later she also covered the story of Carolyn Bigsby's hostage situation at the Fairview Mall. She interviewed Victor Lang about the photos of him and Gabrielle Solis having sex, and was seen announcing his victory on the television news.
'Night Nurse' (Dale Waddington Horowitz): The Fairview Memorial Hospital nurse who returned Mike's belongings to him, after he woke up from his coma. She was also seen working the night Bree was taken in for falling off a ladder.
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