Actress Felicity Huffman will have a regular role in the hit series Criminal Minds: Evolution. American media report this. The former Desperate Housewives star will appear in the upcoming season as Dr Jill Gideon, a brilliant psychiatrist and the ex-wife of Jason Gideon, the character that Mandy Patinkin played in the series years ago.
Criminal Minds: Evolution is about the FBI’s Behavioral Analysis Unit, which tries to solve crimes by analyzing the behavior of perpetrators. Huffman’s character is temporarily added to the team because she can help solve a difficult case.
Criminal Minds aired between 2005 and 2019. The series made a relaunch last season. Patinkin, also known from Homeland, appeared for 47 episodes as the leader of the BAU team. Later in the series, his character was killed off.
It is Huffman’s first role in a major series since the student fraud scandal for which she was convicted in 2019. The actress paid money to get her daughter into the right university and at the time thought that was the only option to give her “a future”. The actress was ultimately only detained for eleven of the fourteen days imposed. Her husband William H. Macy was acquitted.
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