Lynette Scavo
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| Desperate Housewives character | |||||||||||||
| Portrayed by | Felicity Huffman | ||||||||||||
| Duration | 2004–12 | ||||||||||||
| First appearance | "Pilot" 1x01, October 3, 2004 |
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| Last appearance | "Finishing the Hat" 8x23, May 13, 2012 |
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| Created by | Marc Cherry | ||||||||||||
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Desperate Housewives: The Game (2006) | ||||||||||||
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| Other names | Lynette Lindquist (maiden name) | ||||||||||||
| Occupation | CEO Former Interior Designer Advertising Executing Restaurant Manager |
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| Residence |
Upper East Side, New York, New York Former 4355 Wisteria Lane Fairview, Eagle State Chicago, Illinois (before Season 1) |
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| Parents | Stella Lindquist |
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| Siblings |
Lucy Lindquist Lydia Lindquist |
| Spouse | Tom Scavo |
| Children |
Porter Scavo Preston Scavo Parker Scavo Penny Lynn Scavo Paige Scavo Patrick Scavo (miscarriage) |
| Grandchildren |
Sophie Mayer-Scavo (via Porter with Julie) Six other grandchildren |
| Other relatives | Polly (aunt) |
Lynette Scavo is a fictional character and one of the four protagonists on the series Desperate Housewives. The character is played by actress Felicity Huffman, who won the Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series for the role in 2005, and was nominated for Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Television Series Musical or Comedy for 2005 to 2007.
While show creator Marc Cherry based Bree Van de Kamp's family on his teenage years, he based Lynette's on his childhood life. Other actresses who claim to have auditioned for the show include Alex Kingston, who was apparently turned down for being too curvy.
Lynette Marie Lindquist was the eldest of three daughters born to Stella Lindquist and her first husband. After their father's death, their mother had a series of unpleasant and unstable boyfriends, but finally married Glenn Wingfield, whom Lynette adored. After a short time, Glenn left, and Lynette blamed her mother for driving him away for a long time. Stella finally remarries in season seven but is widowed about a week after their wedding.
She graduated from Northwestern University. In season one it is learned that she met Tom when they worked together in Advertising. They married and moved to Wisteria Lane. Lynette has six children with Tom, with the last pregnancy there was a difficulty and one of the twins had died and not to mention the love child Tom had with a one-night stand twelve years before he met Lynette, which resulted to Tom having a child with Nora Huntington. After Nora's death, Kayla moved in full-time from season three to the end of season four. Lynette is always willing to do what is best for her family.
As the series begins, Lynette is near to breaking point - stuck at home alone with four kids. Her husband is always away on business trips or at work. Lynette struggled to cope with her four children until Preston and Porter were prescribed medication for ADD (attention deficiency disorder). Lynette decided not to medicate them and started taking the medication herself so she could make the costumes for a school play. Realising she was addicted, Lynette managed to stop taking the pills after she and Tom hired a nanny. Unfortunately the nanny didn't stay long as she caught Tom's eye a little too much. Her problems got worse when Tom told her that he was offered a lucrative promotion that would take him away from home more often, which he refused to discuss with her, so she made sure that his boss didn't offer him the promotion. When Tom found out what Lynette had done, he quit his job, and in the season finale informs her that she will be going back to work. Lynette also has trouble with Tom's ex-girlfriend, Annabel Foster. So, she talks to an executive of her old firm, and Tom's firm, to hire his ex as the VP of the firm, which she willingly does. When Tom finds out what Lynette had done, he forgives her, and decides to be a stay-at-home dad, where she has to go back to work, and earn the money.
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