Felicity Huffman is returning to acting following her 11-day prison sentence for her role in the college admissions scandal. The "Desperate Housewives" star was released early from prison last year and in October completed her full sentence, which included a year of supervised release. Now she has landed a role in an upcoming ABC comedy based on the life of Susan Savage, the woman who became the sole majority owner of the Sacramento River Cats following the death of her husband in 2009, Fox News reported.
Huffman will appear alongside "The Peanut Butter Falcon" star Zack Gottsagen, who plays her baseball-loving son with Down syndrome. The currently untitled series will be written by Becky Hartman Edwards.
Last year Huffman pleaded guilty to paying William Singer, the college admissions consultant at the center of the scandal, $15,000 for someone to proctor and revise her daughter's college board test. Huffman was sentenced to 14 days in prison, given a $30,000 fine, and ordered to perform 250 hours of community service by U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani. She was released early from prison last October.
Shortly before her sentencing, Huffman said she had "a deep and abiding shame" for her actions.
"In my desperation to be a good mother, I talked myself into believing that all I was doing was giving my daughter a fair shot," Huffman wrote to Talwani in a three-page letter filed with the federal court in Boston that is handling the bribery scandal. "I see the irony in that statement now because what I have done is the opposite of fair. I have broken the law, deceived the educational community, betrayed my daughter, and failed my family."
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