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Brenda Strong Bio
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Brenda Strong
Actress Brenda Strong is currently focused on her television role of playing a dead woman who narrates the lives of her best friends from beyond the grave. But aside from her unique role on the hit primetime soap opera like drama Desperate Housewives, she has led a wide and varied career in show business—mostly as a guest star—since she got her very first break in the Billy Crystal music video “You Look Marvelous” in 1984.
Strong was born on March 25, 1980, in Brightwood, Oregon , grew up in Portland, Oregon , and then moved to Arizona where she attended and graduated from Arizona State University . In 1980, when she was only twenty, Strong was crowned Miss Arizona .
After “You Look Marvelous,” Strong soon made a name for herself in the 1980s and 1990s by guest starring in dozens of popular television series. She first managed to land one-time guest appearing roles in television, beginning with St. Elsewhere, MacGyver, starring Richard Dean Anderson, and the ever-popular Cheers, which starred Ted Danson, Kelsey Grammar, Woody Harrelson, Rhea Perlman, Kirstie Alley, John Ratzenberger, and George Wendt.
She also made appearances and landed recurring roles on Matlock, featuring Andy Griffith; the short-lived cult drama Twin Peaks ; Blossom; Michael Crichton’s medical drama ER; Murphy Brown, with Candice Bergen; and 3rd Rock From the Sun; among many others.
By the 1990s Strong had become quite a prominent figure after regularly guest starring on a multitude of popular television series, with fairly major recurring roles on both Party of Five, starring Neve Campbell, Matthew Fox, Jennifer Love Hewitt, and Scott Wolf; Seinfeld, starring Jerry Seinfeld, George Alexander, Michael Richards, and Julia Louis-Dreyfus, in which she played the “bra-less wonder,” Elaine’s rival Sue Ellen Mischke; and Sports Night.
By the next decade, Strong continued to guest star in many prominent series including Ally McBeal, CSI, Gilmore Girls, Dawson’s Creek, 7th Heaven, Malcolm in the Middle, Nip/Tuck, and Everwood, in which she played a dead wife appearing in various flashback sequences. Finally, in 2004, she landed a leading role as the recently deceased Mary Alice Young in Desperate Housewives, alongside Teri Hatcher, Eva Longoria, Marcia Cross, and Felicity Huffman.
Strong has been married to Tom Henri since July 1989, and besides a television star, is also a certified yoga instructor and expert in fertility. She is currently writing her first book, about yoga.
Is Strong finished with her decades of guest starring on television shows? It’s not likely, but for now she seems quite content to be a dead narrator. |
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Brenda Strong - Has appeared in Desperate Houswives with Marcia Cross |
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Brenda Strong - Appeared in Desperate Housewives with Eva Longoria |
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Brenda Strong - Appeared in Desperate Housewives with Teri Hatcher |
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