Andrew
Bree
Carlos
Gabrielle
Katherine
Lynette
Mary Alice
Mike
Orson
Susan
Tom
Katherine Mayfair
DANA DELANY
THE SKINNY:
- Formerly engaged to Mike Delfino
- Mother of Dylan
- Former friend of Susan Mayer
- Recently fired by Bree Hodge
Katherine SAYS
Previous Quote
Oh my, having sex in the kitchen where food is prepared. What kind of demented slut would do that?
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Mike Delfino
to Katherine:"I don't care enough about you to kill you."
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Mike Delfino
to Katherine:"The whole time I was with you, all I was thinking was, 'God I wish you were Susan.'"
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Susan Mayer
to Katherine:"We both know that Mike didn't do this."
CHARACTER BIO
Katherine Mayfair, an old friend of Susan Mayer's, returned to Wisteria Lane with her younger second husband, Adam, and teenage daughter, Dylan. Katherine was close-lipped about her past, including the fate of her first husband, Wayne Davis, and why Dylan didn't remember anything about growing up in Fairview, such as former best friend Julie Mayer.
Katherine's flair for baking and gardening began a heated rivalry with the neighborhood's resident homemaker extraordinare, Bree, until the two teamed up to create a successful catering company.
Her ex, Wayne, an abusive policeman, was not dead as many believed, but alive and well. He wanted to get to know his daughter Dylan better, but Katherine was dead-set against it. The big secret Katherine has been hiding: the real Dylan died in a tragic accident as a little girl and rather than deal with Wayne, Katherine adopted a lookalike from a Romanian orphanage. Wayne, demanding answers, held Katherine hostage, but Katherine shot and killed him. The residents of Wisteria Lane insisted the shooting was in self-defense, proving they considered Katherine one of their own.
Her marriage with Adam ended after revelations of an affair proved to be true. Katherine then found an unexpected romance with Mike Delfino, which put a strain on her relationship with Susan, who'd never gotten over her ex.
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Her ex, Wayne, an abusive policeman, was not dead as many believed, but alive and well. He wanted to get to know his daughter Dylan better, but Katherine was dead-set against it. The big secret Katherine has been hiding: the real Dylan died in a tragic accident as a little girl and rather than deal with Wayne, Katherine adopted a lookalike from a Romanian orphanage. Wayne, demanding answers, held Katherine hostage, but Katherine shot and killed him. The residents of Wisteria Lane insisted the shooting was in self-defense, proving they considered Katherine one of their own.
Her marriage with Adam ended after revelations of an affair proved to be true. Katherine then found an unexpected romance with Mike Delfino, which put a strain on her relationship with Susan, who'd never gotten over her ex.
ACTOR BIO
Tuning in to Dana Delany’s on-screen sparring has grown into one of our favorite weekend pastimes. The actress stars as Katherine Mayfair on Desperate Housewives. Delany made her mark as Army nurse Colleen McMurphy on ABC-TV's critically acclaimed series China Beach, for which she received two Emmy Awards and four nominations for Best Dramatic Actress.
Since 1996 Delany has provided voice-over work as Lois Lane on the WB's animated series Superman, The Batman/Superman Adventures, Justice League and, most recently, The Batman. Also since the mid-90s, she has served on the board of the Scleroderma Research Foundation.
Following her graduation from Wesleyan University, Delany, a Stamford, Connecticut native, went to New York where she honed her skills in daytime television and theatre. She starred on Broadway in A Life and received critical acclaim in a number of off-Broadway productions, including Nicholas Kazan's Blood Moon, which led to her arrival in Los Angeles for the west coast production of the controversial drama. She was soon cast in many popular television shows, including Moonlighting and Magnum, P.I.
Delany has appeared in numerous films including Tombstone, Housesitter, Fly Away Home, Exit to Eden, Light Sleeper, Moon Over Parador, Masquerade, Patty Hearst, Where the River Runs Black and Almost You.
Television miniseries include Shake, Rattle & Roll, True Women and Wild Palms. Some of the movies for television in which she has starred include Resurrection and The Patron Saint of Liars, both directed by Stephen Gyllenhaal; For Hope, in which she played a woman suffering from Scleroderma, directed by Bob Saget; Lifetime's Choices of the Heart: The Margaret Sanger Story; Showtime's Sirens; Rescuers: Stories of Courage; Conviction, with Omar Epps, and The Right Temptation for HBO. She produced and starred in the ABC telefilm Final Jeopardy, based on New York sex-crimes prosecutor Linda Fairstein's novel. More recent television series credits include CBS' Presidio Med, Fox's Pasadena and NBC's Kidnapped, opposite Timothy Hutton. Episodic work includes Family Law, for which she received an Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series.
Delany's theatre credits include Translations, Much Ado About Nothing, opposite Billy Campbell at the Old Globe Theatre in San Diego, and the Pulitzer prize-winning play Dinner with Friends, alternating roles in New York, Los Angeles and Boston. Last year she appeared in Neil Labute's Things We Said Today at the EST marathon in New York.
Since 1996 Delany has provided voice-over work as Lois Lane on the WB's animated series Superman, The Batman/Superman Adventures, Justice League and, most recently, The Batman. Also since the mid-90s, she has served on the board of the Scleroderma Research Foundation.
Following her graduation from Wesleyan University, Delany, a Stamford, Connecticut native, went to New York where she honed her skills in daytime television and theatre. She starred on Broadway in A Life and received critical acclaim in a number of off-Broadway productions, including Nicholas Kazan's Blood Moon, which led to her arrival in Los Angeles for the west coast production of the controversial drama. She was soon cast in many popular television shows, including Moonlighting and Magnum, P.I.
Delany has appeared in numerous films including Tombstone, Housesitter, Fly Away Home, Exit to Eden, Light Sleeper, Moon Over Parador, Masquerade, Patty Hearst, Where the River Runs Black and Almost You.
Television miniseries include Shake, Rattle & Roll, True Women and Wild Palms. Some of the movies for television in which she has starred include Resurrection and The Patron Saint of Liars, both directed by Stephen Gyllenhaal; For Hope, in which she played a woman suffering from Scleroderma, directed by Bob Saget; Lifetime's Choices of the Heart: The Margaret Sanger Story; Showtime's Sirens; Rescuers: Stories of Courage; Conviction, with Omar Epps, and The Right Temptation for HBO. She produced and starred in the ABC telefilm Final Jeopardy, based on New York sex-crimes prosecutor Linda Fairstein's novel. More recent television series credits include CBS' Presidio Med, Fox's Pasadena and NBC's Kidnapped, opposite Timothy Hutton. Episodic work includes Family Law, for which she received an Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series.
Delany's theatre credits include Translations, Much Ado About Nothing, opposite Billy Campbell at the Old Globe Theatre in San Diego, and the Pulitzer prize-winning play Dinner with Friends, alternating roles in New York, Los Angeles and Boston. Last year she appeared in Neil Labute's Things We Said Today at the EST marathon in New York.
