Lynette Scavo Lynette Scavo Lynette Scavo (née Lindquist) is a fictional character and one of the four protagonists on the series "Desperate Housewives". The character is played by actress Felicity Huffman, who won the Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series for the role in 2005, and was nominated for Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Television Series Musical or Comedy for 2005 to 2007. While show creator Marc Cherry based Bree Van de Kamp's family on his teenage years, he based Lynette's on his childhood life. Other actresses who claim to have auditioned for the show include
She Needs Me (Desperate Housewives) 0.9 rating in the week following the original broadcast due to DVR recordings. She Needs Me (Desperate Housewives) "She Needs Me" is the 172nd episode of the ABC television series, "Desperate Housewives". It is the fifteenth episode of the show's eighth season and first aired on March 4, 2012. After Lynette refuses to help raise Porter and Julie's baby, Susan offers to assist by setting up a nursery; Orson tries to get Bree to go to Maine with him; Ben's loan shark sets out to destroy Renee; Karen swears Gabrielle to secrecy; Orson, who knows what happened to Alejandro Perez,