Felicity Huffman returns to television for the first time since the college admissions scandal with an appearance on The Good Doctor, which airs in March
Almost four years after serving time behind bars for her involvement in the college admissions scandal, Felicity Huffman is set to return to television.
The 60-year-old actress will guest-star on an episode of The Good Doctor, according to Yahoo Entertainment. The episode serves as an introduction to the new spin-off show The Good Lawyer.
Huffman’s episode will air March 6 and is the first time she has appeared on television since her brief stint in prison in 2019.
TV comeback: Felicity Huffman will soon return to television almost four years after being implicated in the college admissions scandal behind bars
According to Yahoo Entertainment, Huffman was cast as Janet Stewart, an intelligent and dry-headed lawyer.
Her character previously represented Dr. Aaron Glassman played by Richard Schiff.
The upcoming episode will see Huffman’s character work under Joni DeGroot, an attorney with OCD, after they were both hired by doctors on the show.
Huffman has kept a low profile since landing at the center of the college admissions scandal in 2019.
Scandal: Huffman has kept a low profile since landing at the center of the college admissions scandal in 2019
Huffman served 11 days in a lowly jail in Dublin, California, in October 2019 after she was accused along with 30 other parents of paying money to admissions scandal mastermind William “Rick” Singer to help their daughter Sophia to get to college.
Huffman used his services to improve her SAT score and was subsequently caught for paying to have one of Singer’s associates cover her standardized test without her knowledge in order to give her a “fair chance” of getting admitted to the university admit.
“I am deeply ashamed of what I have done. At the end of the day I had to make a decision. I could have said no,” she told the judge.
Litigation: Huffman with her husband, William H. Macy, in a Boston courthouse
She was also ordered to pay a $30,000 fine while serving nearly the entire two-week sentence, which many saw as a mere slap in the face.
Also charged in the scandal was Full House star Lori Loughlin, who was serving a two-month sentence for paying $500,000 to bring daughters Olivia Jade and Isabella to USC.
Rick Singer, who directed the operation, was recently sentenced to three and a half years in prison.
Since the scandal, Huffman has signed on to star in a television series based on the true story of Susan Savage, a woman who became the owner of a minor league baseball team after the death of her husband and begged her not to sell it.
She also starred in Ava DuVernay’s limited series When They See Us, which she shot before her sentencing in 2019. It was one of several projects she appeared in that were released after the controversy came to light.
Back for more: Since the scandal, Huffman has signed on to star in a TV series based on the true story of Susan Savage, a woman who became the owner of a minor league baseball team after the death of her husband and begged her to not to sell them