Claim: Felicity Huffman is a television actress.

Lynette Scavo -LRB- née Lindquist -RRB- 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 .