Biography
Brenda Strong, also credited as Brenda Lee Strong, is an American actress. She was born on 25 March 1960 in Brightwood, Oregon, and graduated with a Bachelor of Music in musical theatre from Arizona State University. She was crowned Miss Arizona in 1980.
Strong began her career with guest roles in series including Twin Peaks (1990) and Seinfeld. She is best known for voicing and occasionally appearing as Mary Alice Young, the narrator of Desperate Housewives (2004–2012). For the role she received two Primetime Emmy Award nominations for Outstanding Voice-Over Performance and shared in two Screen Actors Guild Awards for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series.
Her other credits include Captain Deladier in Starship Troopers (1997), Ilene Stowe in Fear the Walking Dead (2015), Lillian Luthor in Supergirl (2015) and Nora Walker in 13 Reasons Why (2017).
