Felicity Huffman joins ‘Criminal Minds: Evolution’ Season 2

Felicity Huffman is joining “Criminal Minds: Evolution” as a brilliant doctor.

Variety reports that the “Desperate Housewives” actress is joining the Season 2 cast of Paramount+’s serialized revival of the long-running CBS crime procedural. 

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Huffman will guest star as Dr. Jill Gideon. Gideon is described as “a brilliant biological psychiatrist.” She’s the ex-wife of Jason Gideon (Mandy Patinkin), the former leader of the FBI’s Behavioral Analysis Unit. She has a complicated history with her late ex-husband and his BAU successor David Rossi (Joe Mantegna), which makes her reluctant to get involved with the team’s investigation into the murderous and mysterious Gold Star conspiracy. But her skills could be the key to cracking the case, so she agrees to help. 

Season 2 of “Criminal Minds: Evolution” is currently in production. The cast includes A.J. Cook, Kirsten Vangsness, Aisha Tyler, Zach Gilford, Ryan-James Hatanaka, Adam Rodriguez, and Paget Brewster.

Huffman is best known for playing Lynnette Scavo on “Desperate Housewives.” She won an Emmy for Best Comedy Actress in 2005 for her performance on the ABC series. She was also nominated for an Oscar in 2006 for her performance in the film “Transamerica.” 

Her role in “Criminal Minds: Evolution” will be her largest since she was convicted of fraud and served a brief prison sentence in 2020 as part of the Operation Varsity Blues college admission cheating scandal. Last year she appeared on an episode of the ABC medical drama “The Good Doctor” that was intended as a backdoor pilot for a spinoff called “The Good Lawyer” in which she would have starred, but the series was not picked up. 

“It’s been hard,” Huffman recently told The Guardian of her career post-scandal. “Sort of like your old life died and you died with it. I’m lucky enough to have a family and love and means, so I had a place to land.”

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