Career: The exposure working with Crystal gained her led to roles in such hit TV series as St Elsewhere, MacGyver and Cheers. Her first film was 1986's Weekend Warriors. Parts in Spaceballs, Star Trek: The Next Generation and Skin Deep followed. In 1991, Strong featured in several episodes of Twin Peaks, alongside her future Desperate Housewives co-star Kyle MacLachlan. Since then she's cropped up in Party of Five, ER, The Craft, Seinfeld and Everwood. The latter, in which she played a dead woman, also featured another Wisteria Lane resident, Marcia Cross. Strong replaced Sheryl Lee, who starred in the pilot, as Mary Alice Young in Desperate Housewives, and although the character committed suicide in the first episode, she appears often in flashback and narrates every edition. More recently, she starred in TNT drama Dallas.