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Renee Perry

Renee Perry

Played by Vanessa Williams

THE SKINNY:

  • The newest Housewife on Wisteria Lane
  • Lynette's roommate from college
  • Divorced from a wealthy professional athlete
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"You know what, Susan? I've just figured out your thing. You aren't the fun one. You're the smart one." - Renee Perry

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  • Tom Scavo to Renee:

    "Sometimes being a friend requires you to lie. I mean, come on, we've all seen McCluskey in those jogging shorts and yelled 'lookin' good.' That's being a friend."

  • Lynette Scavo about Renee:

    "There's something about little people that gives her the heebie jeebies."

  • Gabrielle Solis to Lynette about Renee:

    "I know she's your friend, but isn't she kind of a self-absorbed, narcissistic diva?"

  • Lynette Scavo to Renee:

    "You know when I don't feel like killing you, I think I like having you around."

  • Bree Van de Kamp to Renee:

    "I feel like one of those clichés people make fun of. The desperate, predatory divorcee."

  • Lynette Scavo to Renee:

    "You could invite me over for turkey and a punch in the face. If it gets me out of cooking, I'm there."

  • Lynette Scavo to Renee:

    "We are gonna leave everything to you in our will. Keep in mind we're poor, so it's really more of a symbolic gesture."

  • Renee Perry

    "There's gotta be some poor schlub out there who's trustworthy and desperate for money."

  • Renee Perry

    "Oh, please, you're telling me you never pretended to like football? Or laughed at a Three Stooges movie? Or faked an orgasm just to make him stop."

  • Lynette Scavo to Gaby about Renee:

    "Good point. We already have one of those."

  • Lynette Scavo about Renee:

    "She once slept with a rodeo clown, but he's a senator now."

  • Lynette Scavo to Renee:

    "Yes, I hate you. A lot. But I do foresee a day far in the future when I might only hate you a little."

  • Lynette Scavo about Renee:

    "Renee comes off a little stuck-up when you first meet her. Which is a real time-saver."

  • Renee Perry

    "She's obviously flat-broke. No one lives downwind from a pet store by choice."

  • Bree Van de Kamp about Renee:

    "A voracious libido and unlimited funds. A deadly combination."

  • Lynette Scavo to Renee:

    "Did I or did I not tell you to butt the hell out of my marriage?"

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Character Bio

Renee Perry moved to Wisteria Lane after her marriage to professional baseball player Doug Perry ended and she wanted to reconnect with her best friend from college, Lynette.

Despite trying to keep a secret Renee had held for years, it came out that Renee slept with Tom twenty years ago. Lynette and Tom were engaged, but it was during a brief period when they had broken up. The news tested the friendship with Lynette, but the two worked through it and even opened an interior design business together.

Her razor-sharp tongue and prickly demeanor can ruffle feathers, but Renee is someone you'd want on your side in any argument.

Actor Bio

Vanessa Williams is one of the most respected and multi-faceted performers in entertainment today, conquering musical charts, Broadway, music videos, television and motion pictures. She has sold millions of albums worldwide and achieved critical acclaim as an actress on stage, film and TV. Recently she co-starred in Disney's feature Hannah Montana: The Movie, and her latest album, "The Real Thing," was released by Concord Records. She received a Drama League nomination for her recent run in Stephen Sondheim & James Lapine's new original Broadway musical, Sondheim on Sondheim.

Williams starred for four seasons as Wilhelmina Slater on ABC's critically-acclaimed hit series, Ugly Betty, for which she won or was nominated for numerous individual and ensemble awards, including the Emmy, SAG Award, Golden Globe and NAACP Image Awards.

Her albums "The Right Stuff," "The Comfort Zone and "The Sweetest Days" earned multiple Grammy nominations and have yielded such classic hits as "Save the Best for Last," "Dreamin," "Work to Do" and "Love Is," and the Academy Award-winning single "Colors of the Wind," from Disney's Pocahontas, among many others. Her recordings also include two holiday albums, "Star Bright" and "Silver & Gold," "Vanessa Williams Greatest Hits: The First Ten Years" and "Everlasting Love," a romantic collection of love songs from the 1970's.

In 1994 Williams took Broadway by storm when she replaced Chita Rivera in Kiss of the Spider Woman, winning the hearts of critics and becoming a box-office sensation. She garnered rave reviews and was nominated for a Tony Award for the 2002 revival of Into the Woods. She also headlined a limited special engagement of the classic, Carmen Jones, at the Kennedy Center and starred in the Encore! Series staged concert production of St. Louis Woman.

She made her film debut in 1986 in Under the Gun, and went on to star in Eraser, Hoodlum, Soul Food, Dance With Me, Light It Up, Shaft and Johnson Family Vacation. She recently starred in the independent features My Brother and Somebody Like You, and co-starred in Disney's Hannah Montana: The Movie. On television Williams has starred in such movies and miniseries as Stompin' at the Savoy, The Boy Who Loved Christmas, The Jacksons: An American Dream, ABC's revival of Bye, Bye Birdie, Nothing Lasts Forever, The Odyssey, Don Quixote and Keep the Faith, Baby, and she executive-produced and starred in Lifetime's The Courage to Love and the VH1 Original Movie, A Diva's Christmas Carol.

In 2007 Williams achieved a career pinnacle with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for her accomplishments as a performer. Her charitable endeavors are many and varied, embracing and supporting such organizations as Special Olympics and many others.

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