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Shaking Up The Housewives


Published Tuesday, March 10, 2009, 4:10 PM
Updated Thursday, July 23, 2009, 6:09 PM

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In Desperate Housewives Dana Delany plays Katherine Mayfair, the impeccably groomed hurricane that blows through Wisteria Lane bringing sweeping change and soaring ratings. She talks to CAHIR O'DOHERTY about the show, her career and why she thinks she's becoming an Irish female bachelor.

IRISH American actress Dana Delany grew up in Stamford, Connecticut in the 1960s in a neighborhood where elegant French widows kept a tight lid on all the secrets within. So she knows better than most how to disguise raging passions and soaring ambition with a genteel gloss. Better yet, she knows how to have some fun in the process, too.

As Katherine Mayfair, the secretive but show stopping diva you love to hate in Desperate Housewives, Delany has delighted viewers and critics by playing a woman who's been described as a cross between J.R. Ewing and Melrose Place's Amanda Woodward.

Filming of final episodes this season has concluded, and this week Delany is in Santa Monica, where she talked to the Irish Voice by telephone before heading back into the studio for some pick up shots.

Word from the set is that there are some very dramatic new developments in the final episode. Whatever fate - and the show's writers - have in store for Delany's Katherine, there's no doubt that career wise, these are golden days for an actress who used to absolutely hate television.

"When I was growing up there was a certain path you followed to become an actor. You went to New York and you honed your craft on the stage," says Delany.

"Maybe then you would do film but you would never do television. Everyone looked down on television."

But celebrity snootiness about being on the box has long since ended. Nowadays Delany often finds herself at the center of ratings powerhouses like The View, which she has co-hosted.

"I got one bit of advice from the producer before going on. He said you're going to have to jump in because if you don't you won't get a word in edgewise," she says.

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